Education audiobooks

The Jesus Storybook Bible

By: Sally Lloyd-Jones

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Trusted and treasured for over a decade,?The Jesus Storybook Bible?has been introducing children to God’s wonderful story, and the Savior at the center of that story.? With over 3 million copies sold,?The Jesus Storybook Bible?is the quintessential book for parents, grandparents, pastors, and anyone else who wants to share God’s??Never Stopping,... Read more

Original Sins

By: Eve L. Ewing

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Eve L. Ewing

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.

“This book will transform... Read more

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and... Read more

What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light?... Read more

The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2

By: Jan Berenstain & Mike Berenstain

Narrated by: Jill Blackwood

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Young readers will enjoy The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2, a four-book treasury of Berenstain Bears Living Lights™ audiobooks. Children will learn biblical values through these classic seasonal stories about the familiar and well-loved Bear family.The Berenstain Bears Seasonal Collection 2—part of the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights... Read more

That Librarian

By: Amanda Jones

Narrated by: Amanda Jones

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.

“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more

Financial Feminist

By: Tori Dunlap

Narrated by: Tori Dunlap, Samantha Tan, Shayna Small, Jaime ...

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollarsTori Dunlap was always good with money. As a kid, she watched her prudent parents balance their checkbook every month and learned to save for... Read more

Brave New Words

By: Salman Khan

Narrated by: Salman Khan

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A timely masterclass for anyone interested in the future of learning in the AI era.”
—Bill Gates

“This book is required reading for everyone who cares about education.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking

“Read this book. It’s the most fascinating and important... Read more

The Coddling of the American Mind

By: Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen?

First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and... Read more

The Berenstain Bears Values and Virtues Treasury

By: Mike Berenstain

Narrated by: Jill Blackwood, Angela Park & Julia Barnett Tracy

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Calling all Berenstain Bears fans! Young readers will enjoy this collection of 8 stories in this addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books. Children will learn about kindness, patience, love, respect, and much more alongside Brother, Sister and Honey Bear.Join the Berenstain Bear cubs as they explore the values of... Read more

The Story of the World, Vol. 2 Audiobook

By: Susan Wise Bauer

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more

Spellbound

By: Phil Hanley

Narrated by: Phil Hanley

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley, who reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.

When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist... Read more

We Want to Do More Than Survive

By: Bettina L. Love

Narrated by: Misty Monroe

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.

Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love... Read more

The Story of the World, Vol. 1 Audiobook

By: Susan Wise Bauer

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more

Visual Thinking

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman

“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds... Read more

Never Enough

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Narrated by: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back

In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented pressure to succeed. They jam-pack their schedules with AP... Read more

Integrated

By: Noliwe Rooks

Narrated by: Noliwe Rooks

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice

"Rooks deftly sketches this lamentable, sobering history."—The Atlantic

On May 17, 1954 the... Read more

The Knowledge Gap

By: Natalie Wexler

Narrated by: Natalie Wexler

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Essential reading for teachers, education administrators, and policymakers alike.” —STARRED Library Journal

The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis

It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it... Read more

The Story for Children, a Storybook Bible

By: Max Lucado, Randy Frazee & Karen Davis Hill

Narrated by: Max Lucado

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With sweeping brushstrokes, God painted his creation across the emptiness. “Let there be light,” he called into the darkness, and a sweep of brightness blazed across the blank canvas. The Story for Children isn’t just another collection of Bible stories—it’s The Story—the big picture of God’s enormous love for his children! Presented by New York... Read more

Education for Critical Consciousness

By: Paulo Freire

Narrated by: Patrick Edison

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the... Read more

What Universities Owe Democracy

By: Ronald J. Daniels

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are... Read more

Complaint!

By: Sara Ahmed

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when... Read more

The Age of Choice

By: Sophia Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. At the same time, we have been warned by everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists... Read more

Cynical Theories

By: Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay

Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are... Read more