We Are All the Same
By: Jim Wooten
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.
Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all... Read more
Collapse - Abridged
By: Jared Diamond
Narrated by: Christopher Murney
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization.
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all... Read more
Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber - Abridged
By: Richard Restak, M.D.
Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more
View audiobookLearning to Sing - Abridged
By: Clay Aiken & Allison Glock
Narrated by: Clay Aiken
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star.... Read more
Staying Centered in a Busy World
By: Joan Borysenko
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Borysenko shares tools and techniques to help each of us avoid the inevitable burn-out that comes when we cross the line between compassion and codependence. Read more
View audiobookThe Good Body
By: Eve Ensler
Narrated by: Eve Ensler
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. . . . In recent years good... Read more
View audiobookLearning to Sing
By: Clay Aiken & Allison Glock
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star.... Read more
A Year in Provence - Abridged
By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: Peter Mayle
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more
Planet Simpson - Abridged
By: Chris Turner
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Going well beyond a critical discussion of a single television program, this book will use The Simpsons as a window on the culture at large to deliver first-hand reportage of the defining events and trends of our accelerated, confounding era. Read more
View audiobookLearning as if People Really Mattered
By: Debora Hammond, Francisco Vazquez & Tony Mountain
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Our world is facing more problems than we can count, and it's often difficult to see how we'll find the solutions. Many fear our education system is not producing the creative thinkers we'll need in the times ahead. But an innovative approach to education goes beyond traditional courses and classrooms to emphasize creativity and inspiration, so... Read more
View audiobookLost and Found Sound and Beyond
By: Jay Allison & The Kitchen Sisters
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The second volume of the LOST & FOUND SOUND collection explores how recorded sound has shaped and captured the history of the last 100 years. Drawing from the archives and attics of the nation, this historic and intimate collection of radio documentaries presents a compelling array of sonic pioneers and legends, eccentric collectors, and... Read more
View audiobookNavigating Nature Naturally
By: Brenda Peterson
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Brenda Peterson finds her spirituality in the soulfulness, humility, and forgiveness of the natural world. With a voice as gentle as her heart, she shares her first mystical encounter with the spirit of a river, and points the way to a sacredness grounded in the natural world, the wisdom of women, and the love of family. Read more
View audiobookPersecution - Abridged
By: David Limbaugh
Narrated by: David Limbaugh
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
“Limbaugh’s meticulously researched book is a devastating indictment of liberal intolerance-and a call to arms for all true believers of religious liberty to reclaim their rightful place in the public square.”—Michelle Malkin, nationally syndicated columnist and author of InvasionThis New York Times bestseller is that rare phenomenon, a book... Read more
View audiobookNickel and Dimed
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers... Read more
View audiobookJoseph Campbell: A Hero For All Seasons
By: Jonathan Young & David Kudler
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Joseph Campbell had a unique gift for helping us see deep meaning in our everyday struggles. Through his passion and wisdom we can see our lives as part of a vast continuum that connects us with all of humanity. As David Kudler puts it, Campbell taught us "to look up and say, 'This is part of something larger. I'm doing this for something that... Read more
View audiobookRammer Jammer Yellow Hammer - Abridged
By: Warren St. John
Narrated by: Warren St. John
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more
Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber
By: Richard Restak, M.D.
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more
View audiobookThe Bitch in the House - Abridged
By: Cathi Hanauer
Narrated by: Cathi Hanauer
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Despite more power and choices than ever before, women are still angry -- that's not necessarily a bad thing, as anger is what continues to open the door for change. In this collection, 15 women speak boldly and passionately about choices they've made -- about sex, children, love and work -- and explore what's working and what is not. Their... Read more
View audiobookPsychosomatic Wellness
By: Candace Pert & Michael Ruff
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Candace Pert and Mike Ruff are researchers at the forefront of immunology, and their work has led them to explore the measurable relationship between our emotions and the way our bodies heal. They've even discovered a link between the chakras and the presence of chemicals vital to the functioning of the immune system. The implications are exciting. Read more
View audiobookThe Odyssey of Sport
By: Phil Cousineau
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Phil Cousineau has found that as early as 1400 B.C. - and probably much earlier - competitive games anchored communities, created a diversion from violence, and even contributed to the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul. "This desire to shine brightly," says Cousineau, "at least in one moment in your life, either on the battlefield or... Read more
View audiobookStranger Than Fiction - Abridged
By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Chuck Palahniuk
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar... Read more
View audiobookThe Wisdom of Crowds - Abridged
By: James Surowiecki
Narrated by: Erik Singer
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” —H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken was wrong.
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are... Read more
Founding Mothers
By: Cokie Roberts
Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now... Read more
View audiobookMy Life Among the Serial Killers - Abridged
By: Helen Morrison
Narrated by: Helen Morrison
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life... Read more
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