Captivating Nonfiction

The Accidental Creative

How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice

By: Todd Henry
Narrated by: Todd Henry
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us, regardless of our role, have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand.

Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular... Read more

Big Magic

Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

“A must-read for all creatives (and those desiring more creativity in their lives). A surprisingly grounded, full-hearted guide for opening yourself up to inspiration, dreaming big, and embracing the Big Magic for a creative life. Read more

Burnout

The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

“Working in an industry I’m super passionate about makes it REALLY hard to set healthy boundaries. When I’m not promoting books, I’m reading them. When I’m not on a Zoom call with an author, I’m stalking their #bookstagram profiles online. Books all day every day! The Nagoski siblings are two of my favorite nonfiction authors. They know how to... Read more

Deep Work

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

By: Cal Newport
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

From a New York Times bestselling author, learn to master one of our economy’s rarest skills–the ability to focus–and achieve groundbreaking results.

Deep work is the power to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time–a superpower in... Read more

Do You Talk Funny?

7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker

By: David Nihill
Narrated by: David Nihill
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change.In what doesn’t sound like the best plan ever, David decided to overcome his fears by pretending to be... Read more

INFLUENCE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION

Learn How to Always Be One Step Ahead of Other People by Mastering the Art of Persuasion Through Hypnosis, Emotional Influence, Body Language and Mind Control.

By: James Cooper
Narrated by: PATT MILLER & Chris Jones
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Discover the Secrets of Dark Psychology and Acquire the Power to Read Other People's Minds!Would you like to be able to read other people's minds and know what they want at any given moment?Before you say 'Mind reading is impossible,' just stop and forget about mind-reading you saw on TV; we are not talking about telepathy.Mind reading through... Read more

Locally Laid

How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm—from Scratch

By: Lucie B. Amundsen
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

How a midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm—and discovered why local chicks are betterWhen Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he’d tell her over dinner—that his dream was to quit his office job (with benefits!) and start a... Read more

Side Hustle

From Idea to Income in 27 Days

By: Chris Guillebeau
Narrated by: Chris Guillebeau
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

The author of the New York Times Bestseller THE $100 STARTUP shows how to launch a profitable side hustle in just 27 days.

For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to pursue the entrepreneurial life is exhilarating.  For many others, it’s terrifying. After all, a stable job that delivers a regular paycheck is a blessing. And... Read more

Stories That Stick

How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business

By: Kindra Hall
Narrated by: Kindra Hall
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

What stories do you need to tell, and how do you tell them?Stories That Stick provides a clear framework of ideals and a concise set of actions for you to take complete control of your own story, utilizing the principles behind the world’s most effective business storytelling strategies.Professional storyteller and nationally-known speaker... Read more

Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)

Advice from Dear Sugar (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)

By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

“Before she was known as the author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed was the anonymous Dear Sugar on The Rumpus website – an agony aunt of sorts, if agony aunts were endowed with ruthless compassion, profound honesty, and excellent prose. Tiny Beautiful Things is a collection of these columns. After I listened to Dear Sugar, the podcast she shared with... Read more

The Tipping Point

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person... Read more

The Well-Lived Life

A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age

By: Gladys McGarey
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Dr. Gladys McGarey, the centenarian mother of holistic medicine, reveals “a story that teaches as much as it inspires” (Edith Eger, New York Times bestselling author), filled with life-changing secrets for how to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age.

Dr. Gladys McGarey, cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her... Read more

What the F

What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

By: Benjamin K. Bergen
Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Nearly everyone swears—whether it’s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we’ll mutter in... Read more