Family & Relationships audiobooks

Raising Men

By: Eric Davis & Dina Santorelli

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Navy SEAL sniper instructor Eric Davis applies his discipline techniques to raising his son in this incredible audiobook, Raising Men: Lessons Navy SEALs Learned from Their Training and Taught to Their Sons.

After Eric Davis spent over sixteen years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL teams, his family was more than used to his... Read more

Girls & Sex

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it.A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the... Read more

The Second Best Time

By: Lisa April Smith

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The title for The Second Best Time comes from a Chinese proverb: “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” And it suits a story of three people at a crossroads in their lives: Jack Caine (a.k.a. Jack Morgan), former lothario and sometimes con man, now the owner of a successful gallery in the United... Read more

Freak Show Without a Tent

By: Nevin Martell

Narrated by: Benard Setaro Clark

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Nevin Martell's childhood vacations and his family's misadventures where globetrotting took them from the South Pacific to South America and many points nowhere in-between. Read more

Carry On

By: Lisa Fenn

Narrated by: Lisa Fenn

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights comes a tender and profoundly moving memoir about an ESPN producer’s unexpected relationship with two disabled wrestlers from inner city Cleveland, and how these bonds—blossoming, ultimately, into a most unorthodox family—would transform their lives.When award-winning ESPN producer Lisa... Read more

Your Kid’s a Brat and It’s All Your Fault

By: Elaine Rose Glickman

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wise and informative parenting guide, Elaine Rose Glickman shows listeners how loving your kid enough to be the boss will result in happier, healthier, and much easier-to-be-around children.You’ve seen them—kids running wild through restaurants while the parents avert their gaze and order another cappuccino. You’ve heard them—kids... Read more

Blending Families

By: Trevor Crow Mullineaux

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better able to blend two families if you take care of the... Read more

The Danish Way of Parenting

By: Jessica Joelle Alexander & Iben Sandahl

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

International bestseller

As seen in The Wall Street Journal--from free play to cozy together time, discover the parenting secrets of the happiest people in the world

What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical book presents six... Read more

All the Rage

By: Martin Moran

Narrated by: Martin Moran

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and surprisingly funny memoir about finding the right balance between anger and compassion

“Why aren’t you angry?” people often asked Martin Moran after he told his story of how he came to forgive the man who sexually abused him as a boy. At first, the question pissed him off. Then, it began to haunt him. Why didn’t he have more anger?... Read more

I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are back with another audiobook collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman.

This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth... Read more

Enough!

By: L. David Harris

Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you are interested in this book, chances are you know that you are in an abusive relationship and want out. You may be looking for help to decide what to do next. You may be looking for information about what you can do about your situation. You may be ready to leave but are unsure how to go about it. You may not even be sure if you are being... Read more

UnSelfie

By: Michele Borba

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as “an absolute must-read” (Jean Twenge) and a book that “will change your kids’ lives” (Jack Canfield), UnSelfie by Dr. Michele Borba explains what parents and educators MUST do to combat the growing empathy crisis among children today—including a 9-step empathy-building program with tips to guide kids from birth through college, and... Read more

The 5 Love Languages of Children

By: Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

You love your child, but does your child feel loved? Every child has a unique way of feeling loved. When you discover your child’s love language — and how to speak it — you can build a solid foundation for your child to trust you and flourish as they grow. In this audio book for parents, teachers, single parents, and more, Drs. Gary Chapman and... Read more

The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers

By: Gary Chapman

Narrated by: Chris Fabry

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Struggling to connect with your teen?

Never before has raising teens been so perplexing. If you are wondering what on earth you’re doing wrong, you’re not alone. But there is hope. By learning to meaningfully express love amid your teen’s many changes, you can stay connected, maintain influence, and help them grow into a healthy adult.
Dr. Gary... Read more

Napkin Notes

By: W. Garth Callaghan

Narrated by: W. Garth Callaghan & Emma Callaghan

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Garth Callaghan doesn’t know how long he has to live. But he can be certain of one simple thing: No matter his fate, his daughter, Emma, will find a handwritten note inside her lunchbox each day until she graduates from high school.Cancer has given Garth Callaghan a new purpose: to inspire parents to connect more with their children even in... Read more

There Is No Good Card for This

By: Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of the viral hit ""Empathy Cards"" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don’t know what words to use—or... Read more

The Naughty Nineties

By: David Friend

Narrated by: David Friend

Length: 26 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens.

The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our... Read more

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil

By: Lezley McSpadden

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.“I wasn’t there when Mike Mike was shot. I didn’t see him fall or take his last breath, but as his mother, I do know one thing... Read more

He's Not That Interested, He's Just Passing Time: 40 Unmistakable Behaviors of Men Who Avoid Commitment and Play Games with Women

By: Bruce Bryans

Narrated by: Dan Culhane

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Men don't really have "commitment issues". At least, not in the way most women think men do. When a man tells you he has "commitment issues", there's a good chance that what he really means is he's not that interested in you and is just using you to pass time with until he meets someone "better".

But even though men don't really have commitment... Read more

Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

By: Richard Guare PhD, Peg Dawson EdD & Colin Guare

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"I told you, I'll do it later."

"I forgot to turn in the stupid application."

"Could you drive me to school? I missed the bus again."

"I can't walk the dog--I have too much homework!"

If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now... Read more

My Father Before Me

By: Chris Forhan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).

The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a... Read more

Toxic Friendships

By: Suzanne Degges-White

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Good friends and healthy friendships are crucial to women's well-being at every stage of life. But what happens when a friendship turns toxic? When a friend becomes hurtful or mistreats another? When a friend abandons another in a time of need? Here, Suzanne Degges-White and Judy Pochel Van Tieghem explore such toxic friendships and how women... Read more

Making Marriage Work

By: Rob Pascale

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Staying happily married has become a difficult proposition in recent times. Although the institution is still firmly embedded in our culture, divorce rates have steadily climbed since the 1960s. While some marriages are truly divorce-worthy, many other broken marriages can be saved. Recent emphasis on personal needs and greater social acceptance... Read more

Scared Selfless

By: Michelle Stevens, PhD

Narrated by: Michelle Stevens, PhD

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“A riveting memoir that takes readers on a roller coaster ride from the depths of hell to triumphant success.”—Dave Pelzer, author of A Child Called “It”

Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her: She’s only eight years old, posing for her mother’s boyfriend, Gary Lundquist—an elementary school teacher,... Read more