Family & Relationships audiobooks

Live Fast Die Hot

By: Jenny Mollen

Narrated by: Jenny Mollen

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

*A NEW YORK TIMES HUMOR BESTSELLER*

By the author of I Like You Just the Way I Am and a frequent Chelsea contributor, an outrageous collection of personal stories about motherhood, responsibility, and other potential disasters

Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York. Until two years ago, her lifewas exciting, sexy, a little... Read more

Self-Reg

By: Dr. Stuart Shanker

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

There’s no such thing as a bad kid. That’s what a lifetime of experience has taught Dr. Stuart Shanker. No matter how difficult, out of control, distracted, or exhausted a child might seem, there’s a way forward: self-regulation. Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, this radical new technique allows children and the adults who care for... Read more

Navigating Life

By: Margaux Bergen

Narrated by: Margaux Bergen

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“I absolutely loved this beautiful book!  It's wise, wry, bracingly honest and so gripping I couldn't put it down. Clearly whip smart, Margaux Bergen has one of those rare voices that pulls you in and makes you want to keep reading.”
— Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

An inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life,... Read more

The Out-of-Sync Child, Third Edition

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

2022 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.

Does your child exhibit...

Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory avoider," withdrawing... Read more

Chancers

By: Susan Stellin & Graham MacIndoe

Narrated by: Susan Stellin & Graham MacIndoe

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In this powerful memoir of addiction, prison, and recovery, a reporter and a photographer tell their gripping story of falling in love, the heroin habit that drove them apart, and the unlikely way a criminal conviction brought them back together.

Books for a Better Life Award Finalist • LitHub Best Book of the Month

When Susan Stellin asked... Read more

Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore

By: Dave Hill

Narrated by: Dave Hill

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about anywhere. It’s your call, really.

These days, Dave... Read more

The Awakened Family

By: Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D.

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." —Oprah Winfrey

As seen on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves, from the New York Times bestselling author of The... Read more

Two Homes, One Childhood

By: Robert E. Emery Ph.D.

Narrated by: Jonathan Coleman

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert.
 
A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation, divorce, cohabitation breakups, and childbearing outside... Read more

Asunto de familia

By: Victor Rivas Rivers

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Asi comiensa Victor Rivas Rivers esta magnifica cronica en que narra su fuga desde la zona de guerra de la violencia domestica-considerada con demasiada frecuencia como -y su trayectoria hacia la independencia, la recuperacion y la renovacion. En Asunto de familia, Victor recuerda su epoca de joven iracundo que vivia bajo la tirania y la colera... Read more

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption

By: Lori Holden

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them! The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.... Read more

What I Told My Daughter

By: Nina Tassler

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby, Janina Edwards, Fiona Hardingha...

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Empower yourself and the latest generation of girls with this collection of inspiring reflections from notable, highly accomplished women in politics, academia, athletics, the arts, and business, including Madeleine Albright, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and more.

In What I Told My Daughter, a powerful, diverse group of women reflect on the best advice... Read more

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By: Matteson Perry

Narrated by: Matteson Perry

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From a breakout storytelling star at The Moth, a real-life romantic comedy about a guy and a girl—and twenty-nine other girls: a memoir about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a “nice guy” survived dating in the twenty-first century.

Matteson Perry is a Nice Guy. He remembers birthdays, politely averts his... Read more

Disrupt Aging

By: Jo Ann Jenkins

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Jo Ann Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

We’ve all seen the ads on TV and in magazines—“50 is the new 30!” or “60 is the new 40!” A nice sentiment to be sure, but CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins disagrees. 50 is 50, and she, for one, likes the look of it.

In Disrupt Aging, Jenkins focuses on three core areas—health, wealth, and self—to show us how to embrace opportunities and change the way... Read more

The Love Code

By: Alexander Loyd, PhD., ND

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

   Did you know that most self-help programs that follow the standard success blueprint have a 97% failure rate? The truth is that the typical personal improvement mantra of tapping into your willpower and using the power of positive thinking is actually a recipe for failure.  In The Love Code (previously published in hardcover as Beyond... Read more

When in French

By: Lauren Collins

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her... Read more

I Love You, Ronnie

By: Nancy Reagan

Narrated by: Leo Burmester & Allison Daugherty

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was--travelling to make movies for G.E., in the California governor's office, at the White House, or on Air Force One, and sometimes even from across the room--Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through letters... Read more

Don't Think Twice

By: Barbara Schoichet

Narrated by: Barbara Schoichet

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don’t Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure.

Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic cancer. Her life stripped bare, and armed with... Read more

Lucky Bastard

By: Joe Buck

Narrated by: Joe Buck

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the announcer of the biggest sporting events in the country—including the 2017 Super Bowl and this century's most-watched, historic, Chicago Cubs–winning World Series—reveals why he is one lucky bastard.

Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week,... Read more

Positive Discipline Parenting Tools

By: Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Mary Nelsen Tamborski & Bra...

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Kathleen McInerney & Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you wish there was a way to raise well-behaved children without punishment? Are you afraid the only alternative is being overly indulgent? With Positive Discipline, an encouragement model based on both kindness and firmness, you don’t have to choose between these two extremes. Using these 49 Positive Discipline tools, honed and perfected... Read more

The Un-Prescription for Autism

By: Janet Lintala

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year, more than 50,000 U.S. families receive an autism diagnosis. On top of turmoil and worry, they share the same urgent question: What can we do to help our child?

The answers parents find can be contradictory…even dangerous. The conventional approach (employed by too many pediatricians) is to medicate difficult behaviors into... Read more

The Vegas Diaries

By: Holly Madison

Narrated by: Holly Madison

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with this candid, humorous, and captivating memoir chronicling her journey toward reinvention and self-acceptance.When you've come out the other side of the bizarre, twisted world of the Playboy mansion, where do you land? If you're Holly Madison . . . there's no place like Las Vegas!After making... Read more

Mars and Venus in the Bedroom

By: John Gray

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you keep the fires of passion burning?Men and women have very different physical needs. But Dr. John Gray explains how both can make small but important adjustments in their attitudes, schedules, and techniques so that their partners are happy in the bedroom—and outside of it. Written with the understanding and unique insight that can come... Read more

What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know

By: John Gray

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The rules of relationships have changed. In our generational movement toward wholeness, women want to be more than mothers and homemakers and men aspire to loving relationships rather than simply being warriors and work machines. The age-old distinctions between male and female roles have blurred, and the rules of relationships have not yet... Read more

The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting

By: Paul Raeburn & Kevin Zollman

Narrated by: Paul Raeburn & Kevin Zollman

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The tools you need to master the toughest negotiations you’ll ever face—those with your kidsAs every parent knows, kids are surprisingly clever negotiators. But how can we avoid those all-too-familiar wails, “That’s not fair!” and “You can’t make me!”? In The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting, journalist Paul Raeburn and game theorist Kevin... Read more