Family & Relationships audiobooks

The Straight Talk on Parenting

By: Vicki Hoefle

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Parents these days are under a great deal of pressure to be “perfect.” From psychologists to social scientists, journalists to weekend bloggers, everyone has an opinion about the do’s and don’ts for raising healthy, well-adjusted—and let’s not forget, polite—children in today’s fast-paced world. Where does this leave parents? Too often, lacking... Read more

Home Is Burning

By: Dan Marshall

Narrated by: Dan Marshall

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.

Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls. And he ignores it, as... Read more

How to Raise an Adult

By: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller!

A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood.

"Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our... Read more

Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to, Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?

From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of... Read more

Keep Moving

By: Dick Van Dyke

Narrated by: Dick Van Dyke

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this entertaining and inspirational memoir, Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke shares his secret to staying resilient in old age.Beloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his ninetieth birthday in December 2015. He’s an established legend, having starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. And yet he’s... Read more

An Uncommon Bond

By: Jeff Brown

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate and revealing love story is told through the eyes of Lowen as he experiences the heights and depths that come with meeting his beloved, Sarah. In this remarkably engaging story, we walk beside the lovers as they touch the divine and struggle to ground their love in daily life.From the heights of sacred sexuality to the depths of... Read more

Never Again

By: Richard La Plante

Narrated by: Richard La Plante

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Never again,” Richard La Plante promised after he and his new wife completed building their family home in East Hampton, New York. But he did not keep his promise. Instead he bought twenty acres of raw land on a mountaintop located three-and-a-half thousand miles away in a small town that he had only visited by Internet … and the nightmare... Read more

The Position

By: Meg Wolitzer

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution—and through the thirty-year hangover that followed.In 1975 Paul and Roz Mellow wrote a bestselling Joy of Sex–type book that mortified their four school-aged children and ultimately changed the... Read more

The Natural

By: Richard La Ruina

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s top pick-up artists, Richard La Ruina went from having no women to being a true master of seduction. Now he shows you how to do the same. So move over Mystery, and tell Neil Strauss that The Rules of the Game are about to be rewritten. Every element of the winning pickup is right here, from discovering confidence to exuding... Read more

Push Back

By: Amy Tuteur

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making expose that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.The natural parenting movement praises the virtues of birth... Read more

I Want My Epidural Back

By: Karen Alpert

Narrated by: Karen Alpert

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that I’m a mom, I know the most painful part isn’t getting something giant through your hooha. It’s having a real live child.If you are the kind of mom who shapes your kiddo’s organic quinoa into reproductions of the Mona Lisa, do not read this book. If you stayed up past midnight to create posters for your PTO presidential campaign, do not... Read more

Raising Ryland

By: Hillary Whittington

Narrated by: Hillary Whittington

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother’s first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland’s transition from girl... Read more

Sex with Shakespeare

By: Jillian Keenan

Narrated by: Jillian Keenan

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spankingWhen it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her—until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare’s language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare, she tells the... Read more

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

By: Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

Narrated by: Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their livesThough Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords him little time to spend with her. After she... Read more

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition

By: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.Do you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a... Read more

Through a Man's Eyes

By: Shaunti Feldhahn & Craig Gross

Narrated by: Shaunti Feldhahn

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What Happens When Women See What Men See?

You already know that your husband, boyfriend, or son is wired differently from you, but do you know what that really means? It means, among other things, that he’s been given the gift of a unique visual wiring — and the challenges that come with it.

In Through a Man’s Eyes, Shaunti Feldhahn and Craig... Read more

Building Confidence In Your Child

By: James Dobson

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Proven ways to improve your child’s self-esteem.

A solid sense of self-worth helps your child make good choices, develop healthy relationships, and work to achieve his or her dreams. But what’s the best way to instill self-confidence while still teaching your child to value and care about others?
 Based on a biblical understanding of human worth,... Read more

How to Ruin Your Child in 7 Easy Steps

By: Patrick Quinn & Ken Roach

Narrated by: Tom Hatting

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Will You Give Your Children a Legacy of Life?

In a world where parenting advice shifts faster than fashion trends, this “how not to parent” resource takes a fresh look at how the seven deadly sins are the root of most modern parenting mistakes.
 Through humorous stories and practical biblical wisdom, Patrick M. Quinn and Ken Roach show how... Read more

The Dating Manifesto

By: Lisa Anderson

Narrated by: Jaimee Draper

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s Time to Do a Dating 180

Face it, your attitudes about marriage and the path to marriage are probably wrong. Some you’ve inherited, some you’ve simply bought — hook, line, and sinker — and some you’ve made up yourself. They have translated into bad action (or no action) in dating and relationships. But it’s not too late; you can break the... Read more

A Mother's Reckoning

By: Sue Klebold

Narrated by: Sue Klebold

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four... Read more

Becoming Nicole

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

Narrated by: Amy Ellis Nutt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.

Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl

When Wayne... Read more

Life Reimagined

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Narrated by: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their forties, fifties, and sixties for the better—and for good.

There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the... Read more

Becoming Grandma

By: Lesley Stahl

Narrated by: Lesley Stahl

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller

From one of the country’s most recognizable journalists: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman’s life.
 
After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl’s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It... Read more

She's Not There

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Narrated by: Jennifer Finney Boylan & Deirdre Finney Boylan

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by the author with two afterwords: one written and read by Deirdre Finney Boylan, and one written and read by Richard Russo


The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between... Read more