Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Triathlon for the Every Woman

By: Meredith Atwood

Narrated by: Meredith Atwood

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

You Are a Badass for aspiring triathletes: a practical and inspiring guide to getting off the couch and on the trail to race your first -- or 50th -- triathlon

When Meredith Atwood first shared her journey from tired, overworked wife and mom to successful triathlete, her story resonated with women everywhere, online at SwimBikeMom.com and in... Read more

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

By: Dan Epstein

Narrated by: Dan Epstein

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball’s most colorful and controversial decade.The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the ‘70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the... Read more

Darkness to Light

By: Lamar Odom

Narrated by: Chris Palmer

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock-bottom depths. Desperation and elation—sometimes in the same hour. Not to mention power . . . and the struggle for it.The world knows Lamar Odom as a two-time NBA world champion who rocketed to uncharted heights of fame thanks to... Read more

Open Water

By: Mikael Rosén

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive deep into the world of swimming with open water swimmer and coach Mikael Rosén as he explores the sport through eight different perspectives. With topics ranging from the vigorous mental and physical demands of the sport to gender and race politics, no reader will be left treading water. Rosén also provides a look into the lives of... Read more

Alone on the Wall, Expanded Edition

By: Alex Honnold

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden & Will Damron

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National ParkOn June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite’s El Capitan―to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear―completing what was described as “the greatest feat of pure rock... Read more

From Para to Dakar

By: Joey Evans

Narrated by: Joey Evans & Meredith Evans

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"I’ve realised that when things are really tough and there seems no hope for the future, it’s sometimes just Chapter One of a really cool story, and the ending is entirely up to you."

Joey Evans has always loved bikes, from his first second-hand Raleigh Strika at the age of six to the powerful off-road machines that became his passion later on in... Read more

Roger Federer: Portrait of an Artist

By: Christopher Jackson

Narrated by: Simon Johns

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Jackson's new thoughtful and brilliantly written study of Federer as a man, player, and aesthetic and moral figure of our times, outplays even Foster Wallace's magisterial writing on this greatest of all tennis champions.

Updated for its audio release, here is the most profound, insightful and elegant book ever written about the greatest... Read more

Who's Minding the Farm?

By: Patrice Newell

Narrated by: Patrice Newell

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In an era of rapid climate change, this vital account of how agriculture can address major issues is an Australian story with global ramifications. Patrice is at the frontline of enormous challenges, from water scarcity and land stewardship to food security and the rural-urban divide. The devastation of drought and the crises created by... Read more

Tales from the Deadball Era

By: Mark S. Halfon

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Deadball Era (1901–1920) is a baseball fan's dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with... Read more

The Shift

By: Russell A. Carleton

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more evident than in the statistical revolution which has swept through the pastime in recent years, bringing... Read more

Roughhouse Friday

By: Jaed Coffin

Narrated by: Jaed Coffin

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jaed Coffin narrates these personal stories of his encounters..His quiet, calm narration has a steady, honest tone as he describes his upbringing, his relationship with his father, and the low-level fights that take him around Alaska." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

A beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons,... Read more

Unprocessed

By: Megan Kimble

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a twenty-six-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan's extraordinary year, in... Read more

Lethal Passage

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia... Read more

Beating Osteoporosis

By: Diana Moran

Narrated by: Diana Moran

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Beating Osteoporosis written and read by Diana Moran.

Diana Moran, aka The Green Goddess, is here to help spread the word about treatments and preventative measures we can all take to tackle osteoporosis.

As a sufferer of osteopenia herself (an early form of osteoporosis) Diana Moran is a strong advocate for exercise, early... Read more

One More Croissant for the Road

By: Felicity Cloake

Narrated by: Felicity Cloake

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

‘Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it’ – DIANA HENRY ‘Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing – this book will get you hooked’ – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km... Read more

When the Crowd Stops Roaring

By: Neven MacEwan

Narrated by: Ian A. Miller

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

ENTERTAINING AND REVEALING
In this frank and inspiring memoir, Neven talks about his early life, and his extraordinary success as a rugby player. A lock and number eight, Neven represented Wellington at a provincial level, before achieving the ultimate in New Zealand rugby—wearing the revered All Black jersey. His contemporaries included Tiny... Read more

Walk-On Warrior

By: John Willkom

Narrated by: Cameron Sharp

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A season at Marquette. A summer with Rick Majerus. An inspiring quest to stay connected to the game.

Small town. Undersized. Not enough talent. John Willkom heard it all as a young basketball player growing up in rural Wisconsin. Despite the odds, John dedicated his life to the game, an arduous journey that challenged the very core of even the... Read more

Uncultivated

By: Andy Brennan

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here.
 
Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a... Read more

Le Secret De L'Esprit Et Du Corps

By: Oreste Maria Petrillo & Gianluca Pistore

Narrated by: Houria E.

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Histoire de formation et motivation qui accompagne le lecteur par la main à la recherche des dépassements de ses peurs et de l’achèvement de ses rêves. Le livre raconte l’histoire, sous la forme d’un récit de sport et motivation, d’un garçon pauvre des favelas du Brésil qui doit faire face à un défi: échapper de son monde de pauvreté et laideur... Read more

Yoga Beyond Belief

By: Ganga White

Narrated by: Diana Gardiner

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study,... Read more

Here's the Catch

By: Ron Swoboda

Narrated by: Ron Swoboda

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In time for the 50th anniversary of the Mets' miraculous 1969 World Series win, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of that amazing season, the people he played with and against (sometimes at the same time), and what life was like as an Every Man ballplayer.



Ron Swoboda wasn't the greatest player the Mets ever had, but he made the greatest... Read more

An American Angler in Australia

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: William Hope

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Australia brings to mind images of the Great Barrier Reef, great white sharks, huge crocodiles, and friendly people. Zane Grey fished everywhere, but he often found himself lured back to the Pacific especially around Australia and New Zealand.Most of the fish caught in An American Angler in Australia are sharks: great white, tiger, and even a... Read more

Tales of Freshwater Fishing

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: William Hope

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Zane Grey, known and loved primarily for his Western novels, was an avid fisherman. When his writing started paying off, he managed to spend as many as three hundred days a year enjoying the sport. And while he is remembered for his record-breaking catches, such as the 464-pound marlin caught off the coast of Tahiti, Zane Grey also enjoyed... Read more

Breathe GOLF - Abridged

By: Jayne Storey & Kim Wallis

Narrated by: Jayne Storey

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This definitive work, written by a long-term teacher of Eastern philosophy and practice, explores the relationship between breathing, the quiet mind and playing effortless golf, especially when under pressure.Drawing on a lifetime of meditation and Tai Chi, plus 18 years’ research into the perfect golf shot, Breathe GOLF teaches you how to unite... Read more