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
When Breath Becomes Air
“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, instead facing mortality with honesty and humility. Written in engaging prose and filled with penetrating insights, this story is relevant to everyone and will captivate fans of memoir, literature, philosophy, and popular science alike. Lyrical passages of great beauty and vulnerability are deftly balanced by bright, candid moments of joy and even humor. Come prepared with plenty of tissues; over and over again this exquisite book will break your heart.”
Carmen Tracey, Loganberry Books
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 & Tina Payne Bryson
Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel & 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
By Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 36 minutes
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
—Oliver Sacks
No writer has succeeded in capturing... 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 »