Christian Living

The Dance of Connection - Abridged

By: Harriet Lerner
Narrated by: Harriet Lerner
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Bestselling author Harriet Lerner focuses on the challenge and the importance of being able to express one's ""authentic voice"" in intimate relationships.The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice. Despite decades of assertiveness training and lots of good advice about communicating with... Read more

Why Good People Do Bad Things - Abridged

By: Debbie Ford
Narrated by: Debbie Ford
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Why Good People Do Bad Things exposes the pervasive and often hidden impulses that influence our everyday decisions. #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford guides us into the heart of the duality that unknowingly operates within each one of us: the force that compels us to live by our values, give and receive love, and be a... Read more

There Is No Good Card for This

What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

By: Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

The creator of the viral hit ""Empathy Cards"" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don’t know what words to use—or... Read more

Reclaiming Conversation

The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

By: Sherry Turkle
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

“In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.” —Aziz Ansari, author of Modern Romance

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation... Read more

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

By: Harold S. Kushner
Narrated by: Harold S. Kushner
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Offers a moving and humane approach to understanding life's windstorms.Raises many questions that will challenge your mind and test your faith regarding the ultimate questions of life and death. Read more

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

“With a message both mournful and life-affirming, When Breath Becomes Air chronicles a young doctor's journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always profound, never sentimental, this important book refuses to take refuge in platitudes,... Read more

Everything Happens for a Reason

And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler
Narrated by: Kate Bowler
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi

“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being... Read more

No-Drama Discipline

The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

By: Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson
Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.
 
“A lot of fascinating insights . . . an eye-opener worth reading.”—Parents

Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior,... Read more

Saving God from Religion

A Minister's Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age

By: Robin R. Meyers
Narrated by: Robin R. Meyers
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

A revelatory manifesto on how we can reclaim faith from abstract doctrines and rigid morals to find God in the joys and ambiguities of everyday life, from the acclaimed author of Saving Jesus from the Church

“In this book of stories from four decades of ministry, Meyers powerfully captures what it means to believe in a God who’s revealed not in... Read more

The Gift of Forgiveness

Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable

By: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
Narrated by: Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

“[The Gift of Forgiveness] will spark conversations across families, across friendships, at workplaces, everywhere.” –Maria Shriver

A fresh, inspiring book on learning how to forgive, with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find peace.

"When we learn to embrace... Read more

Gratitude

Essays

By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 36 minutes

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with... Read more

Broken Open

How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

By: Elizabeth Lesser
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 13 hours 1 minute

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This inspiring guide to healing and growth illuminates the richness and potential of every life, even in the face of loss and adversity.

In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute—now the world’s largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth—Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate... Read more

The Art of Aging

A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being

By: Sherwin B. Nuland
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now, in THE ART OF AGING, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a humanist’s understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has... Read more

Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable... Read more

Ageless Soul

The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy

By: Thomas Moore
Narrated by: Thomas Moore
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

"Moore's message is resonant...he calls on readers to discover, realize and act on their untapped resources for creativity, expression, building community and forging a meaningful legacy for future generations." — The Wall Street Journal

This program is read by the author

Thomas Moore is the renowned author of Care of the Soul, the classic #1 New... Read more

Healing After Loss

Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief

By: Martha Whitmore Hickman
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

After the loss of a loved one, once the services are over and the relatives and friends have gone home, we are left to enter a strange new land, where someone who has given meaning to our life is gone. Drawing on her own experience as well as that of others, author Martha Whitmore Hickman presents a year's worth of meditations for people dealing... Read more

On Living

By: Kerry Egan
Narrated by: Kerry Egan
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love

"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure.” –People Magazine

A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving... Read more

The Year of Magical Thinking

By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack.



This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had... Read more