Family & Relationships audiobooks

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

By: Jenny Lawson

Narrated by: Jenny Lawson

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Furiously Happy.

When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and... Read more

Dear Chandler, Dear Scarlett

By: Mike Huckabee

Narrated by: Mike Huckabee

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“I wrote these letters so that long after I’m gone, you’ll know that I loved you, had great hopes for you, and wanted to give you my best advice on living in this tough world. If I can’t be there with you, I hope my letters will act as a sort of reminder of me—as if I’m standing there beside you, whispering in your ear, and putting my arm around... Read more

Women Who Love Too Much

By: Robin Norwood

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships—updated and with a new introduction

If your relationships are unhappy, unfulfilling, even ego destroying… If your yearning for love is frustrated by a partner who is more interested in work, substances, or other women than in you… If being in love means being in... Read more

The Rules of Inheritance

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

Narrated by: Claire Bidwell Smith

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.

At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels Claire to make a series of fraught choices, set against... Read more

Here and Now

By: Paul Auster & J. M. Coetzee

Narrated by: Paul Auster & J. M. Coetzee

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee

Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging... Read more

Someone Could Get Hurt

By: Drew Magary

Narrated by: Drew Magary

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America

No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online. And now he’s finally bringing that unique voice to a... Read more

She Left Me the Gun

By: Emma Brockes

Narrated by: Emma Brockes

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist struggles to unearth the story of her mother’s resilience and secrecy following an unbelievable childhood trauma in South Africa

“One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Despite her mother’s tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London,... Read more

Moms Who Drink and Swear

By: Nicole Knepper

Narrated by: Nicole Knepper

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

If you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place.

Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind-f*?% it can be to try... Read more

The Kid

By: Dan Savage

Narrated by: Dan Savage

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of... Read more

Once Upon a Quinceanera

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Daphne Rubin-Vega

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era. Read more

The Mistress's Daughter

By: A.M. Homes

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and the forthcoming novel The Unfolding

The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man... Read more

Mama Made the Difference

By: T. D. Jakes

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that celebrates motherhood-for-mothers and those who love them.

Beloved pastor and bestselling author T. D. Jakes pays tribute to his mother—and mothers everywhere—with powerful, heartwarming stories and lessons from his own experiences as a son and pastor.

Woven into these vignettes are Biblical stories and... Read more

Final Salute

By: Jim Sheeler

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

Before I Forget

By: B. Smith, Dan Gasby & Michael Shnayerson

Narrated by: B. Smith & Dan Gasby

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“I know where I’m going. I’m still myself. I just can’t remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I’ll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It’s like I’m talking to my other self—the self I used to be. She tells me, This is what we need to buy—not that. I’m conscious of... Read more

Untangled

By: Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An award-winning guide to the sometimes erratic and confusing behavior of teenage girls from the author of Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

Dr. Lisa Damour worked as an expert collaborator on Pixar’s Inside Out 2!

“The most down-to-earth, readable parenting book I’ve come across in a long time.”—The... Read more

Toddlers Are A**holes

By: Bunmi Laditan

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Toddler a**holery is a normal part of human development—not unlike puberty, except this stage involves throwing food on the floor and taking swings at people who pay your way in life. For parents of toddlers, it's a "you better laugh so you don't cry" period.

Bunmi Laditan's hilarious, satirical guide to toddlerhood offers parents instant (and... Read more

Promises I Made My Mother

By: Sam Haskell & David Rensin

Narrated by: Sam Haskell

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself?

What would my mother say?

Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day.

When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the values of character, faith, and honor by setting an... Read more

Thinking in Pictures

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more

The Kids Are All Right

By: Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch & Dan Welch

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Rebecca Lowman, Kathe Mazur & A...

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."—People

Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle... Read more

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

By: Nujood Ali

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.”
 
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells... Read more

ScreamFree Marriage

By: Hal Runkel, LMFT & Jenny Runkel

Narrated by: Hal Runkel, LMFT

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the best-selling ScreamFree Parenting, Hal Runkel showed thousands of parents how keeping their cool can revolutionize their family life. In his groundbreaking new book, ScreamFree Marriage, Runkel now shows couples how learning to stay calm, in the face of common marital conflicts, is the key to creating and enjoying a deep, lifelong... Read more

Click

By: Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
 
In a word, you “click.”
 
From the bestselling authors of Sway,Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever... Read more

Staying True

By: Jenny Sanford

Narrated by: Jenny Sanford

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.

She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American politics’ rising... Read more

Lift

By: Kelly Corrigan

Narrated by: Kelly Corrigan

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan’s Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising... Read more