Sports & Recreation audiobooks

What to Eat

By: Marion Nestle

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 20 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its publication in hardcover, Marion Nestle's What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "radiant with maxims to live by" in the New York Times Book Review and "accessible, reliable and comprehensive" in the Washington Post, What to Eat is an indispensable resource, packed with... Read more

Yoga Facts

By: Dr. King

Narrated by: Dr. King

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Going by the large number of books on Yoga that are published and sold both through printed as well as electronic media, this ancient science seems to be very popular. While various things are propagated in the name of Yoga, there is often mismatch between expectations and achievements.This short set of questions and answers clears some of the... Read more

How to Be a Footballer

By: Peter Crouch

Narrated by: Peter Crouch

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous behaviour of the modern player' - Sunday Times

'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro

**A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted for the National Book Awards**
**Longlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the... Read more

How Football (Nearly) Came Home

By: Barney Ronay

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer of 2018: England sweltered in the most sustained heatwave for 42 years, the government tore itself apart over deals and no deals, and hundreds of miles away, in a taciturn and strange state, the national football team did the unthinkable in the World Cup: they didn’t screw it up. The... Read more

The Barcelona Inheritance

By: Jonathan Wilson

Narrated by: Charlie Anson

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Cruyff's "Total Football" to the epic rivalry between Guardiola and Mourinho, a gripping chronicle of the rise and fall of Barcelona's dominance in world soccer.

Barcelona's style of play -- pressing and possessing -- is the single biggest influence on modern soccer. In The Barcelona Inheritance, Jonathan Wilson reveals how and why this... Read more

World Series Showdown

By: Paul Robert Walker

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite the painful arthritis in his elbow, Sandy Koufax pitched the 1965 Dodgers team to a World Series victory. Read more

Barrio Bravo

By: Roberto Meléndez

Narrated by: Sebastián Castro Saavedra

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Barrio Bravo: el fenómeno futbolístico de las redes sociales
¿Qué tiene que ver la historia del Quisco, un joven futbolista amateur, con los superjugadores Ronaldo o Totti? ¿En qué se relaciona la semifinal entre Universidad Católica de Rinconada de Los Andes y Ferro Llanquihue, con la final de la Copa América? ¿O los pormenores del ... Read more

Icons

By: Bradley Wiggins

Narrated by: Bradley Wiggins & Tom Watt

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

With a foreword by Eddy Merckx The world of professional cycling is fraught with fierce competition, fervent dedication and unerring ambition, and only a handful of competitors reach iconic status. Among them is Sir Bradley Wiggins – a man uniquely placed to reflect on the history of this remarkable... Read more

Driven

By: Kevin Eason

Narrated by: Kevin Eason

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Delve into the murky world of Formula 1 - a world where money, fame and power rules - but for how long?

Formula One is speed, glamour, danger - and eye-watering wealth. Driven: The Men Who Made Formula One tells how a small group of extraordinary men transformed Formula One from a niche sport played out on primitive tracks surrounded by hay bales... Read more

A Language All Their Own

By: Natasha Wing

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This baseball team had a secret weapon--its own language. Read more

The Mindful Runner

By: Gary Dudney

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Runners know there?s a profound truth behind the old joke: Running is fifty percent physical and ninety percent mental. The Mindful Runner focuses on the mental side of running. It thoroughly explores the complex landscape of the runner?s mind, offering fresh perspectives on how to get the most out of yourself while enjoying the journey along... Read more

Looks Don't Mean a Thing

By: Yogi Berra

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Highlights presents Looks Don't Mean a Thing by Yogi Berra: Yankee Baseball Player Read more

Fit & Relaxed on Tour! 2

By: Daniela Geister & Abbas Schirmohammadi

Narrated by: Daniela Geister

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fit & Relaxed on Tour! 2 Fitness 24/7/365: Indoor, Outdoor, Everywhere ... Daniela Geister & Abbas Schirmohammadi Wir alle kennen das: Stress im Alltag, wenig Freizeit, und dann auch noch der Weg zur Arbeit und zurück. Du hast nicht jeden Tag Lust oder Zeit, Dir Ausgleich in einem Fitnessstudio zu verschaffen, verspürst aber das... Read more

The White Mountains You Haven't Seen

By: Matthew Marchon

Narrated by: Matthew Marchon

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The White Mountains are full of secrets. Mountains with no trails. Trails that have been abandoned. Lost waterfalls that we've forgotten over time. Remote cascades that somehow go unnoticed. The places we've been missing out on might just outnumber the list of unforgettable destinations we've already visited and this is only the beginning.
In... Read more

Believe It

By: Nick Foles & Joshua Cooley

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

*New York Times Bestseller* Get ready to defy the odds when everyone’s counting you out. When the Philadelphia Eagles’ starting quarterback went down with a torn ACL in week 14 of the 2017 NFL season, many fans?and commentators?assumed the Eagles’ season was over. Instead, Nick Foles came off the bench and, against all odds, led the Eagles to... Read more

The Truth About Aaron

By: Jonathan Hernandez

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The unvarnished true story of the tragic life and death of Aaron Hernandez, the college All-American and New England Patriots star convicted of murder, told by one of the few people who knew him best, his brother. To football fans, Aaron Hernandez was a superstar in the making. A standout at the University of Florida, he helped the Gators win... Read more

The Incomplete Book of Running

By: Peter Sagal

Narrated by: Peter Sagal

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares “commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you” (Susan Orlean).

On the verge of turning forty, Peter... Read more

Underdogs

By: Zach Berman

Narrated by: Peter Coleman

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a season with incredible highs and heartbreaking lows, the Philadelphia Eagles went on to do what fans had all but written off as impossible: for the first time in the franchise's history, Philly won a Super Bowl.

Philadelphia Inquirer Eagles beat reporter Zach Berman takes fans on a journey through the action-packed season -- from the... Read more

The Year of the Pitcher

By: Sridhar Pappu

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3–1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series.

In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One... Read more

The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL

By: Sean McIndoe

Narrated by: Sean McIndoe

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.

The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the speed, skill and intensity that define the sport,... Read more

A Sporting Chance

By: Titus O'Reily

Narrated by: Titus O'Reily

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In Sport, the term 'good bloke' doesn't mean what it says. Like 'fun run', it in fact often means the exact opposite.

Titus O'Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation's sportspeople can do terrible things yet be so readily forgiven.

In this Great Southern Land, a sportsman can be excused almost any... Read more

Den allvarliga leken

By: Åke Stolt

Narrated by: Dan Bratt

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Idrottshistorien är full av hjältar och stora personligheter, men vad händer egentligen utanför arenans starka strålkastare? I krönikesamlingen "Den allvarliga leken" öppnas dörren till vad som pågår bakom kulisserna i idrottsvärlden. Journalisten och krönikören Åke Stolt berättar om sportens hjältar och stora personligheter men också det... Read more

Saving Lucy

By: Ishbel Rose Holmes World Biker Girl

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ishbel Rose Holmes was adrift and alone when she set out to bicycle across the world. She was pedaling across Turkey when a street dog, Lucy, crossed her path and changed her life forever.



Ishbel did not want anything or anyone to slow her down, but when she witnessed Lucy attacked by other dogs, Ishbel rescued her—forming a deep bond between the... Read more

Among the Thugs

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire... Read more