Staff Picks

Think Like a Horse

Lessons in Life, Leadership, and Empathy from an Unconventional Cowboy

By: Grant Golliher
Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

In Think Like a Horse, veteran “horse whisperer” and leadership expert Grant Golliher applies his hard-won horse sense to teach invaluable lessons anyone can use to live a fuller, more successful life.

Grant Golliher is what some would call a “horse whisperer,” able to get a wild horse to calmly accept a saddle and a rider without the use of... Read more

James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 3 hours 1 minute

In this very special collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us to both laughter and tears, and Herriot's personal introduction and notes make this tribute by a master storyteller to man's... Read more

James Herriot's Treasury for Children

Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Children have always found a delightful friend in James Herriot. His award-winning stories for young readers bring the farmyard world of Herriot's Yorkshire to vibrant life. Featuring a host of adorable animals and colorful townsfolk, each of the stories is narrated by the country vet himself, with all of the warmth, caring, and good humor that... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express [Movie Tie-in]

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #9

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

“Kenneth Branagh not only reprises his role of Hercule Poirot from his movie adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, he also skillfully performs each of the characters featured in the book, bringing them and the story to life. It's like listening to a one-man play rather than just having someone narrate the book. Highly entertaining! Read more

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

A Miss Marple Mystery

Miss Marple Mysteries: Book #8

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer.One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a... Read more

Basil's War

By: Stephen Hunter
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn't officially... Read more

For All the Tea in China

How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

By: Sarah Rose
Narrated by: Sarah Rose
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory forbidden to foreigners—to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. For All the Tea in China... Read more

Musashi

By: Eiji Yoshikawa
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 53 hours 23 minutes

“This has got to be one of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to (and one of the very few I've re-listened to as well!). Brian Nishii brings all the characters to life, infusing the story with warmth and humor. Musashi is the fictional account of the life of renowned samurai Miyamoto Musashi, who himself authored the influential work on... Read more

Mere Christianity

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

""C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way."" — Anthony Burgess, New York Times Book ReviewOur moral consciousness and moral judgements are proof to the human race that a moral being exists—God.Mere Christianity explores the core beliefs... Read more

Surprised by Joy

The Shape of My Early Life

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

In the closest thing we have to an autobiography, C. S. Lewis, an unfailingly honest and perceptive observer of self, here shares the story of his personal spiritual journey. With characteristic candor and insight, he describes how his “search for joy” led him from the conventional Christianity of his childhood to a youthful atheism, and finally... Read more

The Problem of Pain

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: James Simmons
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Why Must We Suffer?“If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?” And what about the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle these knotty issues. With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C.S. Lewis... Read more

Rogue Heroes

The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
Length: 13 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now a limited series on MGM+!

“Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

ONE... Read more

Walking

One Step At a Time

By: Erling Kagge
Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

“Kagge speaks to the importance of walks not only in his own life but for everyone, and the ways walking in the world is good for our bodies and minds. Each section is a little gem, a seed of thoughtfulness that I admit I took with me when I set out my own front door. So come on, take a walk with this book. It’s good for you, after all. Read more

Silence

In the Age of Noise

By: Erling Kagge
Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

“Kagge's deceptively simple meditation on silence complicates something we all think we understand. Quoting from a wide range of artists and thinkers, Kagge constructs a graceful mosaic of definitions, statements, and paradoxes. We all have a 'primal need for' silence, Kagge states, and in this noisy world, it's 'the new luxury.' Though it's... Read more

The Bright Ages

A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

""Traveling easily through a thousand years of history, The Bright Ages reminds us society never collapsed when the Roman Empire fell, nor did the modern world did wake civilization from a thousand year hibernation. Thoroughly enjoyable, thoughtful and accessible; a fresh look on an age full of light, color, and illumination."" —Mike Duncan,... Read more

Black Flags, Blue Waters

The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

By: Eric Jay Dolin
Narrated by: Paul Brion
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“Avast! This book is a delight, making pirate history engaging and fascinating. Every other page had some tidbit about piratical, world, and particularly American history that I couldn’t wait to talk about with people. The pirates are presented as honestly as possible, in their heroic triumphs and in the brutality and violence they were part of.... Read more

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

By: John "Chick" Donohue & J. T. Molloy
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story.”—Malachy McCourtSoon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book—a wildly entertaining, feel-good... Read more

No Better Friend

One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

By: Robert Weintraub
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.

Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened... Read more

Where the Road Bends

By: Rachel Fordham
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

As Norah King surveys her family land in Iowa in 1880, she is acutely aware that it is all she has left, and she will do everything in her power to save it—even if that means marrying a man she hardly knows. Days before her wedding, Norah discovers an injured man on her property. Her sense of duty compels her to take him in and nurse him back to... Read more

A Lady in Attendance

By: Rachel Fordham
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Five years in a New York state reformatory have left a blemish on Hazel's real name. So when she takes a job as Doctor Gilbert Watts's lady in attendance in 1898, she does so under an alias. In the presence of her quiet and pious employer, Hazel finds more than an income. She finds a friend and a hope that if she can set her tarnished past in... Read more