Family & Relationships audiobooks

The First Love Story

By: Bruce Feiler

Narrated by: Bruce Feiler

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years exploring how Adam and Eve introduced the idea of love into the world, and how they continue to shape our deepest feelings about relationships, family, and togetherness.

Since antiquity, one story has stood... Read more

The Engagement Game

By: Joi-Marie McKenzie

Narrated by: Joi-Marie McKenzie

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a supportive family, great friends, and an apartment in Manhattan. What she doesn't have is a husband.

Ambitious, confident, and successful, Joi-Marie believes she has it all figured out. At 28 years old, she has an enviable job as a producer, covering entertainment in New York City. Her close-knit... Read more

Letters to My Son

By: Kent Nerburn

Narrated by: Kent Nerburn

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential Wisdom for a Life Well Lived At once spiritual and practical, Letters to My Son has been beloved by readers from all walks of life, including single mothers seeking guidance in raising a son, fathers looking to share a voice of clarity about life’s most important issues, and young men wanting an intelligent, sensitive, and streetwise... Read more

Love Warrior

By: Glennon Doyle & Glennon Doyle Melton

Narrated by: Glennon Doyle

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller
An Oprah Book Club Selection

"Riveting…a worthy investment…this book has real wisdom."—New York Times Book Review

"Provocative... I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too."—Oprah Winfrey

The highly anticipated memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton, Love... Read more

Parenting with Presence

By: Susan Stiffelman, MFT

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons — refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests — can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease and enjoyment. Filled with practical advice, powerful... Read more

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

By: Jancee Dunn

Narrated by: Jancee Dunn

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself" (People): a hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice.
Recommended by Nicole Cliffe in Slate Featured in People Picks A Red Tricycle Best Baby and Toddler Parenting Book of the Year One of Mother... Read more

Smart Mom, Rich Mom

By: Kimberly Palmer

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all life’s financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise—not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers’ choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back or seek new opportunities—there are no easy answers, but lots... Read more

How to Be Married

By: Jo Piazza

Narrated by: Jo Piazza

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.

At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more

To Siri with Love

By: Judith Newman

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column ""To Siri with Love"" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apple’s electronic personal assistant, Siri, helped Gus,... Read more

Please Enjoy Your Happiness

By: Paul Brinkley-Rogers

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II—“the most romantic memoir you’re likely to read in a lifetime” (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand).

Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley‑Rogers has lived an... Read more

The Enlightened Marriage

By: Jed Diamond

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and marriage are two of the greatest gifts life has to offer, yet too many marriages fail because couples don’t fully understand the five stages of relationships. Because most of us have had hurtful experiences in past relationships, often going back to childhood, we develop an inaccurate love map that causes us to get off track when the... Read more

Raising Human Beings

By: Ross W. Greene

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.

Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is—his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values,... Read more

The New Single

By: Tamsen Fadal

Narrated by: Tamsen Fadal

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

After the shock of a relationship change it can be tough to get out of bed in the morning, much less be at your best. But it doesn't have to be that way. With a realistic and proven game plan to help you get where you want to be, The New Single is the essential roadmap to:


-Radiating confidence


-Taking better care of yourself inside and out, from... Read more

Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Narrated by: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is officially fed up with the endless mommy fads, trends, studies, findings, and facts about how to raise children. Tiger Mom or Cool Mom? Organic or vegan? "TV is the devil" or "TV is a godsend"?


The mother of three young girls, Stefanie has finally decided to hell with Google—she's going to find out how to be a mom all on... Read more

Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay

By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Narrated by: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they've entered a world of parenting experts. Friends, family, colleagues, the UPS delivery guy—suddenly everybody is a trove of advice, much of it contradictory and confusing. With dire warnings of what will happen if baby is fed on demand and even direr warnings of what... Read more

Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That?

By: Lundy Bancroft

Narrated by: Gary Galone

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Even if you've read Why Does He Do That?, it may be hard to see the truth of what is happening to you. You may feel overwhelmed by confusion, loss, and fear, and find yourself looking away from the truth and falling back into traumatic patterns.


Like a constant friend, this collection of meditations is a source of strength and reassurance... Read more

The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness

By: Edward M. Hallowell, MD

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard about what makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in. Now, in The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, he shares his findings with all of us who care about children.


We don't need statistical studies or complicated expert... Read more

If I Have to Tell You One More Time...

By: Amy McCready

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does it feel sometimes as if our children have special powers that enable them to tune us out completely? You ask your child to do her homework, get ready for school, or go to bed. You think she heard you but . . . no response. You've tried everything—time-outs, nagging, counting to three—and nothing seems to work. In this invaluable book,... Read more

Unrequited

By: Lisa A. Phillips

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The summer Lisa A. Phillips turned thirty, she fell in love with someone who didn't return her feelings. She soon became obsessed. She followed him around, called him compulsively, and talked about him endlessly. One desperate morning, after she snuck into his apartment building, he picked up a baseball bat to protect himself and began to dial... Read more

Autism Breakthrough

By: Raun K. Kaufman

Narrated by: Raun K. Kaufman

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution. Years later, Raun graduated with a degree in biomedical ethics from Brown University and has become a passionate and articulate autism expert and educator with no trace of his former condition.... Read more

My Gentle Barn

By: Ellie Laks

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), The Gentle Barn has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and at-risk teens to... Read more

Strong Mothers, Strong Sons

By: Meg Meeker, MD

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs her simultaneously pushes her away. Calling upon thirty years of experience as a pediatrician, Meg Meeker, MD, a highly sought-after national speaker, assistant professor of clinical medicine, and mother of four,... Read more

The Opposite of Worry

By: Lawrence J. Cohen, PhD

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether it's the monster in the closet or the fear that arises from new social situations, school, or sports, anxiety can be especially challenging and maddening for children. And since anxiety has a mind of its own, logic and reassurance often fail, leaving parents increasingly frustrated about how to help. Now Lawrence J. Cohen, PhD, the... Read more

Dad or Alive

By: Adrian Kulp

Narrated by: Adrian Kulp

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Adrian Kulp first learned that he was about to become a father, he was essentially a teenage boy trapped in the body of a thirty-two-year-old high-powered executive. He did what his wife asked him to do: grow up. He packed away his Phillies baseball memorabilia, hid his GI Joes, and converted their guest bedroom from his private man cave... Read more