Education audiobooks

How to Use the Internet to Create Successful Students and Involved Parents

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Narrated by: Dr. Jim Anderson

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in case nobody ever told you, being a principal, teacher, or a parent is a tough job. You are the person who is ultimately responsible for the academic success of one or more students. Your every decision can have an immediate impact on a student, a class, and perhaps even an entire school. Now that we've arrived in the 21st Century you'd... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Curly-Haired Company

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Xiuye Zhang

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Xie was recently hired by the Curly Haired Company. For a significant weekly allowance, he was required to sit in an office and copy articles from a book, while in the meantime his assistant looked after his shop. He had answered an advertisement in the paper and although hundreds of people applied, he was the only one selected because of... Read more

The Country of the Blind

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Xiuye Zhang

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” repeats in Chen Fangyuan’s mind after he finds himself trapped in a valley holding a community of people for whom a disease eliminated their vision many generations before and no longer have a concept of sight. Chen Fangyuan quickly finds that these people have developed their other senses... Read more

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 4

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Mandarin Chinese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Mandarin Chinese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so... Read more

Sa Majesté des Mouches de William Golding (Fiche de lecture)

By: lePetitLitteraire & Florence Hellin

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez Sa Majesté des Mouches de William Golding avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de Sa Majesté des Mouches, le roman psychologique culte de la littérature anglaise ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche : •... Read more

La Nausée de Jean-Paul Sartre (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

By: lePetitLitteraire, Catherine Nelissen & Pauline...

Narrated by: Denise Dubois

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Décryptez La Nausée de Jean-Paul Sartre avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de La Nausée, le roman emblématique de la philosophie existentialiste de l'auteur ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche : • Un résumé complet •... Read more

The Monkey's Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Xiuye Zhang

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang live with their grown son Guisheng who works at a factory. One day an old friend of Mr. Zhang comes to visit the family after having spent years traveling in the mysterious hills of China’s Yunnan Province. He tells the Zhang family of a monkey’s paw that has magical powers to grant three wishes to the holder. Against his... Read more

Ansprechend sprechen

By: Iris Eicher

Narrated by: Iris Eicher

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Schluss mit Nuscheln, Zittern, Piepsen. Jeder kann wundervoll sprechen lernen. Studien haben bewiesen: Eine souveräne, wohltuende Stimme ist wichtig für beruflichen und privaten Erfolg. Wer mitreißende Reden halten, Vertrauen wecken und ankommen will, holt sich Unterstützung vom Sprech-Coach. Schon ein wenig Stimmtraining kann die Karriere... Read more

Samson

By: Shawn Hoffman

Narrated by: Shawn Hoffman

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of 7 International Book Festival Competitions for Best Novel of the Year, including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and San Francisco. The year is 1941, and Samson Abrams makes a life-or-death decision that lands him, and his entire family, in the notorious concentration camp Auschwitz. When Samson is recognized by Dr. Josef Mengele and... Read more

How to Write Short

By: Roy Peter Clark

Narrated by: Roy Peter Clark

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.

In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this... Read more

The Sixty Year Dream

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Xiuye Zhang

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Zhou Xuefa (Rip Van Winkle) is well loved by everyone in his town, everyone except his nagging wife. With his faithful dog Blackie, Zhou Xuefa spends his time playing with kids, helping neighbors, and discussing politics in the teahouse. One day after a bad scolding from his wife, he goes for a walk into the mountains and meets a mysterious old... Read more

Strings Attached

By: Joanne Lipman

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Eliza Foss

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE.

If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend.

For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a... Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Xiuye Zhang

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Li Ye (Marry Lennox) grew up without the love and affection of her parents. After an epidemic leaves her an orphan, Li Ye is sent off to live with her reclusive uncle in his sprawling estate in Nanjing. She learns of a secret garden where no one has set foot in ten years. Li Ye finds the garden and slowly discovers the secrets of the manor. With... Read more

Pimsleur German Level 4

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn German
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in German — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into... Read more

Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students and "B" Students Work for the Government

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki

Narrated by: Tim Wheeler

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Kiyosaki expands on his belief that the school system was created to churn out Es / Employees...those "A Students" who read well, memorize well and test well... and not the creative thinkers, visionaries, and dreamers - entrepreneurs-in-the-making...those "C Students" who grow up to be the innovators and creators of new ideas, businesses,... Read more

The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

By: Ben Foss

Narrated by: Ben Foss

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing—and what you can do so that he or she will thrive

More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic—a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a “learning disability” or “learning difference,” that makes interpreting text and reading... Read more

The Smartest Kids in the World

By: Amanda Ripley

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

How do other countries create "smarter" kids?



In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy.



What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers?



In a global quest... Read more

Teaching That Changes Lives

By: Marilee Adams

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Building on the success of her classic, bestselling book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (over 100,000 copies sold), Marilee Adams shows in this new book how teachers and other education professionals can change their own and their students' lives by developing an active, inquiring mindset and igniting a lifelong love of learning. Read more

Teaching That Changes Lives

By: Marilee Adams

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Gold Metal Winner in Education Commentary/Theory category of the 2014 Independent Publisher Awards

In response to educators who are already fans of her bestseller Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Marilee Adams, the originator of Question Thinking, presents a compelling model for creating a classroom environment infused with curiosity,... Read more

Pimsleur French Level 4

By: Pimsleur

Narrated by: Pimsleur

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn French
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in French — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into... Read more

How to Think

By: Michael Drout

Narrated by: Michael Drout

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In How to Think: The Liberal Arts and Their Enduring Value, Professor Michael D. C. Drout gives an impassioned defense and celebration of the value of the liberal arts. Charting the evolution of the liberal arts from their roots in the educational system of Ancient Rome through the Middle Ages and to the present day, Drout shows how the liberal... Read more

Do More, Spend Less

By: Brad Wilson

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It's tough in the consumer world. The good news? The entire basis for how to best shop, spend, travel, bank--essentially all aspects of being a consumer--is fundamentally changing. The power is now in your hands. Do More, Spend Less is your road map to get off the default path, turn the tables on the banks, airlines, hotels, cell phone... Read more

Student Loan Interest Rates Set to Double

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Effective July 1, subsidized Stafford loan rates doubled from 3.4 to 6.8 percent, increasing costs for lower- to middle-income students. Gwen Ifill talks to New America Foundation's Kevin Carey and Anne Johnson of the Center for American Progress on whether Congress will propose long-term solutions to curb growing college debt. Read more

Game Changer

By: Kirk Cousins

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“This game means a lot to me, and by the grace of God,I’ll never lose sight of the privilege it is to play it.”-Kirk Cousins Here’s a chance to sit down with Kirk Cousins, record-setting formerMichigan State Quaterback and draft pick of the NFL’s Washington Redskins. Get an inside look at high-stakes football and the experiences that helped... Read more