Family & Relationships audiobooks

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

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love

By: Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

Narrated by: Chelsea Bruland & Jeff Prewett

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan and Barbara Pease, the international bestsell­ing authors of Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps, deliver their most exciting book yet.
 
Will men and women ever see eye-to-eye about love and sex? How will relationships ever be rewarding if men only want to rush into bed and women want to rush to the altar? In this practical,... Read more

Spousonomics

By: Paula Szuchman & Jenny Anderson

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you happy in your marriage—except for those weekly spats over who empties the dishwasher more often? Not a single complaint—unless you count the fact that you haven’t had sex since the Bush administration? Prepared to be there in sickness and in health—so long as it doesn’t mean compromising? Be honest: Ever lay awake thinking how much more... Read more

Once Upon a Secret

By: Mimi Alford

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country—and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a... Read more

Be Different

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”
 
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents... Read more

Raising Cubby

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
 
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the... Read more

Chinaberry Sidewalks

By: Rodney Crowell

Narrated by: Rodney Crowell

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.

The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at... Read more

Join the Club

By: Tina Rosenberg

Narrated by: Dana Green

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the style of The Tipping Point or Freakonomics, a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world.

The fearless Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and... Read more

The Autism Revolution

By: Dr. Martha Herbert & Karen Weintraub

Narrated by: Denice Stradling

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . .
 
After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and... Read more

Half a Life

By: Darin Strauss

Narrated by: Darin Strauss

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved in front of his... Read more

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more.
 
As she did in her beloved New York Times columns, and in A Short... Read more

The Perfect Score Project

By: Debbie Stier

Narrated by: Debbie Stier

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Perfect Score Project is an indispensable guide to acing the SAT – as well as the affecting story of a single mom’s quest to light a fire under her teenage son.
 
It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying for the SAT.  Aware that Ethan was a typical teenager (i.e.,... Read more

Making Marriage Simple

By: Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt

Narrated by: Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Change the relationship you have into the one you want.

Welcome to the Relationship Revolution! Making Marriage Simple is the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Bestselling authors Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt distill into ten essential truths what they've learned about how to create a... Read more

With or Without You

By: Domenica Ruta

Narrated by: Domenica Ruta

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation—the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice
 
Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and... Read more

A Spoonful of Sugar

By: Brenda Ashford

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brenda Ashford is the quintessential British nanny. Prim and proper, gentle and kind, she seems to have stepped straight out of Mary Poppins. For more than six decades Nanny Brenda swaddled, diapered, dressed, played with, sang to, cooked for, and looked after more than one hundred children. From the pampered sons and daughters of lords... Read more

Sticks and Stones

By: Emily Bazelon

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.
 
No writer is... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Narrated by: Karen White & Anne-Marie Slaughter

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMIST• “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna Huffington

When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her... Read more

Glitter and Glue

By: Kelly Corrigan

Narrated by: Kelly Corrigan

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.
 
When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly, who left... Read more

Brothers Emanuel

By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrated by: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

For years, people have been asking Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question: What did your mom put in the cereal? Middle brother Rahm is the mayor of Chicago, erstwhile White House chief of staff, and one of the most colorful figures in American... Read more

Data, A Love Story

By: Amy Webb

Narrated by: Amy Webb & Brian Woolf

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively, thought-provoking memoir about how one woman "gamed" online dating sites like JDate, OKCupid and eHarmony – and met her eventual husband.

After yet another online dating disaster, Amy Webb was about to cancel her JDate membership when an epiphany struck: It wasn’t that her standards were too high, as women are often told, but that she... Read more

On My Own

By: Diane Rehm

Narrated by: Diane Rehm

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson’s) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him.

With John gone, Diane was indeed “on her own,” coping with the inevitable practical issues and, more important, with the... Read more

MWF Seeking BFF

By: Rachel Bertsche

Narrated by: Annie Wood

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted... Read more

Bringing Up Bébé

By: Pamela Druckerman

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children.

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special.

Yet, the French... Read more