Family & Relationships audiobooks

Desperate Marriages

By: Gary Chapman

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When you said, “I do,” you entered marriage with high hopes. You dreamed that your marriage would be supremely happy. You never intended it to be miserable. Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners... Read more

The Duggars: 20 and Counting!

By: Jim Bob Duggar & Michelle Duggar

Narrated by: Michelle Duggar

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Duggars: 20 and Counting! is a behind-the-scenes look at the supersize family that fascinates millions of television viewers around the world. From Idaho to Istanbul, people want to know how Arkansas parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar efficiently and lovingly manage nineteen happy, homeschooled children without going into debt—or losing... Read more

For Men Only, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Shaunti Feldhahn & Jeff Feldhahn

Narrated by: Jeff Feldhahn

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally, you can understand her! If you’re like most men, you’ve burned up lots of energy trying to figure out what a woman wants, what makes her tick, and how to make her happy. The good news: success is simpler than you thought. In their groundbreaking classic, For Men Only, Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn reveal the eye opening truths and simple... Read more

The Good News About Marriage

By: Shaunti Feldhahn

Narrated by: Shaunti Feldhahn

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Divorce is not the biggest threat to marriage. Discouragement is. You’ve probably heard the grim facts: Half of all marriages end in divorce. The divorce rate inside the church is the same as outside. And, most marriages are just holding on. But what if these “facts” are actually myths?In The Good News About Marriage, best-selling author Shaunti... Read more

Surprised by Motherhood

By: Lisa-Jo Baker

Narrated by: Lisa-Jo Baker

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people who talk about motherhood start out by telling you how much they always wanted to be a mom.Not Lisa-Jo Baker. She was eighteen and growing up in South Africa when her mom died, and she swore she would never have kids. But then she fell in love with an American boy with cowboy-green eyes, married him, and now, a decade and two... Read more

You Are Captivating

By: Stasi Eldredge & John Eldredge

Narrated by: Stasi Eldredge & John Eldredge

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the Beauty of the story. Those desires are far more than child’s play. They are the secret to the feminine heart. And yet-how many women do you... Read more

Bobby Wonderful

By: Bob Morris

Narrated by: Bob Morris

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

His mother's last word was his name. His father's was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story of love and redemption.

Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their lives, he begins to see his relationship to them in a whole new... Read more

8 Keys to Old School Parenting for Modern-Day Families

By: Michael Mascolo

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Raising secure and confident kids using best parenting practices from the past.

Does it ever seem to you like kids these days are in control of their parents?

Having a strong sense of yourself as a parent is key to raising a resilient, independent, thoughtful, and solution-focused child. But over the last several generations, parents have been... Read more

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded... Read more

The Book of Wanderings

By: Kimberly Meyer

Narrated by: Kimberly Meyer

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

To a mother and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this is what the desert said: Carry only what you need. Burn what can't be saved. Leave the remnants as an offering.

When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost... Read more

The Light of the World

By: Elizabeth Alexander

Narrated by: Elizabeth Alexander

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.

In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid price, Alexander tells a love... Read more

The Allergy Book

By: Robert W. Sears & William Sears

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From America's most trusted name in pediatrics, a comprehensive guide to treating and preventing nasal allergies, asthma, food allergies and intolerances, and more.

Allergies are one of the most common ailments, causing children to miss school and parents to miss work. Left untreated or unresolved, stuffy noses, itchy skin, and irritated bellies... Read more

True and Constant Friends

By: Kelley Paul

Narrated by: Kelley Paul

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Kelley Paul, wife of Senator Rand Paul, celebrates lifelong friendships in a beautifully illustrated book about the female bond.When Kelley Paul arrived on the Rhodes College campus in 1981, she immediately bonded with six women. Three decades of intimate friendship later, Kelley celebrates these relationships and the women who inspired them... Read more

The Book of Lost and Found

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From London to Corsica to Paris — as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List. 

Kate Darling's enigmatic mother — a once-famous ballerina — has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When... Read more

Mate

By: Geoffrey Miller & Tucker Max

Narrated by: Geoffrey Miller

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys.

Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what women really want from their men, why they want it, and how men can deliver... Read more

The Spiritual Child

By: Dr. Lisa Miller

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. She explains the clear, scientific link between spirituality and health and shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality:

* are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances
* are 60%... Read more

Unforgettable

By: Scott Simon

Narrated by: Scott Simon

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"I'm getting a life's lesson about grace from my mother in the ICU.
We never stop learning from our mothers, do we?"

UNFORGETTABLE is a son's spirited, affecting, and inspiring tribute to his remarkable mother and the love between parent and child.

When NPR's Scott Simon began tweeting from his mother's hospital room in July 2013, he didn't know... Read more

Red Flags

By: Wendy L. Patrick, PhD

Narrated by: Wendy L. Patrick, PhD

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

We all need emotional blinders: the etiquette that keeps society smoothly moving depends on it. But when you absolutely must rely on another person, you have to be able to assess them objectively. In RED FLAGS, author Wendy L. Patrick shares simple strategies anyone can use to spot deceptive or downright dangerous people who use ingratiation and... Read more

New Skills for Frazzled Parents, Revised Edition

By: Daniel G. Amen

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Parenting a child is one of the most important responsibilities any of us ever undertakes. Yet it does not require any special training period or prior experience.Parenting difficult children requires "superior" skills. This program is designed to give you the best parenting skills in a fun and practical way. It will give you clear, quick, and... Read more

ADD in Intimate Relationships

By: Daniel G. Amen

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Attention deficit disorder causes intense unhappiness. Men and women who truly desire a close relationship often find that their day-to-day behaviors interfere with the very intimacy they seek. Understanding ADD can provide hope. In this book Dr. Amen shares both a professional and personal knowledge of the disorder. ADD in Intimate... Read more

Dead White Guys

By: Matt Burriesci

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Matt Burriesci set out to write a book about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the great books in this series of tender and candid... Read more

The Boy Who Played with Fusion

By: Tom Clynes

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of how an American teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor.By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother’s cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by fourteen, Wilson had built a... Read more

The Wife

By: Meg Wolitzer

Narrated by: Dawn Harvey

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Meg Wolitzer brings her characteristic wit and intelligence to a provocative story about the evolution of a marriage, the nature of partnership, the question of a male or female sensibility, and the place for an ambitious woman in a man’s world.The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above the... Read more

Sex After…

By: Iris Krasnow

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly honest look at how to enjoy a long, satisfying sex life no matter what life throws at you.Hooking up, marriage, childbirth, infidelity, divorce, menopause, widowhood—women's lives have many stages, changes, and challenges. A prevailing question on women's minds as they age... Read more