Family & Relationships audiobooks

A Bittersweet Season

By: Jane Gross

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In telling the intimate story of caring for her aged and ailing mother, Jane Gross offers indispensable, and often surprising, advice for the rapidly increasing number of adult children responsible for aging parents.



Gross deftly weaves the specifics of her personal experience—a widowed mother with mounting health problems, the attendant... Read more

The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers

By: Meg Meeker, MD

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Friendship. Simplicity. Love. Value. Faith. Solitude. Money. Fear. Hope. Purpose. Dr. Meg Meeker has seen mothers struggle with these ten issues for the past twenty-five years, and she has also learned how to help them live less stressful, happier, more fulfilling lives. The Ten Habits of Happy Mothers will show women how to reduce loneliness,... Read more

How to Raise Your Adult Children

By: Susan Ende & Gail Parent

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many books out there to teach you how to handle your children after they graduate from diapers, but none tells you how to proceed once they graduate from high school. As new patterns emerge in the lives of young adults, parents find that their grown children have bigger problems than they did just a few years ago.



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The Day I Shot Cupid

By: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Narrated by: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For any woman who has ever bought a self-help book and wondered why she bothered. (P.S. Now that I know he's just not that into me, where do I go from there? Yeah, thanks for that advice.)



Jennifer Love Hewitt is a self-proclaimed "love-aholic" and hopeless romantic (her middle name is Love, after all!). She has been lucky and unlucky in love,... Read more

Magnetic Partners

By: Stephen J. Betchen

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen J. Betchen, a therapist in private practice who teaches couples therapy in the clinical doctoral program of the University of Pennsylvania and who writes regularly for the "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" column of the Ladies' Home Journal, has pioneered the remarkably effective "master conflict" method of saving relationships. Through his... Read more

Sex, Love, and Money

By: Gerald Nissenbaum, JD & John Sedgwick

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients—how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn.



From a... Read more

The Husbands and Wives Club

By: Laurie Abraham

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Starting in spring 2006, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage therapy. Published as "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" the resulting article generated intense reader response. While space limitations allowed Abraham to focus only on one couple in her article, this book,... Read more

Imperfect Endings

By: Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoe FitzGerald Carter's mother decided to end her life—and asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision dragged on as her mother changed her methods and schedule, and the negotiations stirred up old memories, sibling rivalries, and questions about family loyalty.... Read more

Mom Still Likes You Best

By: Jane Isay

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a myth out there that good relations between brothers and sisters do not include conflict, annoyance, disagreement, or mixed feelings. Jane Isay believes this is a destructive myth, one that makes people doubt the strength of the connection with their siblings. Brothers and sisters may love and hate, fight and forgive, but they never... Read more

Eternity Soup

By: Greg Critser

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires—the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the... Read more

If the Buddha Dated

By: Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Kasl, bestselling author, spiritual practitioner, and therapist, brings a compassionate understanding to the anxiety and uneasiness of new love, and helps listeners discover their potential for vibrant human connection based on awareness, kindness, and honesty. She approaches the dating process as a means for awakening, reminding us... Read more

If the Buddha Married

By: Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

If the Buddha Married is filled with the same highly practical, spiritually sound guidance that so clearly touched a chord with fans of If the Buddha Dated. Charlotte Kasl is renowned for her ability to speak with depth, wisdom, and humor on important matters of the heart.



In If the Buddha Married, Kasl inspires us to create fulfilling and... Read more

If the Buddha Had Kids

By: Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The wise and insightful "If the Buddha" books have won Charlotte Kasl thousands of devoted fans. In her latest work, she turns her attention to parenthood, a stage of life that leaves most of us searching for answers. If the Buddha Had Kids applies Kasl's signature blend of spiritual guidelines, exercises, and practical advice to help parents... Read more

Not My Boy!

By: Danelle Morton & Rodney Peete

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Like most fathers, I'd dreamt of doing all sorts of things with my son. I had so many plans, but when I was told my son was autistic, those plans seemed more like a fantasy. Well, eight years after that dreadful diagnosis, I am writing this book to let every father know that your plans for you and your son can still be a reality. It's just the... Read more

The Pickup Artist

By: Mystery

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pickup Artist is a salacious book about the continuing adventures of the world's most famous pickup artist, Mystery, who was first introduced as the ringleader of a subculture of pickup artists chronicled in Neil Strauss's 2005 bestseller The Game. After fame, fortune, and reality television, a group of pickup artists live in a gorgeous... Read more

Mercury in Retrograde

By: Paula Froelich

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Penelope Mercury, an intrepid reporter at the New York Telegraph, has pounded the pavement for five years from city borough to borough, carrying out her boss's eccentric orders to break stories that seem inconsequential to everyone but him. Finally, she is inches away from being promoted to her dream job—covering courtroom drama for the... Read more

Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid

By: Jenny Lee & Howard J. Morris

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & John Allen Nelson

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the dawn of time, when the first smitten caveboy tried to woo the object of his affections by shoving her into the mud, men have demonstrated that when it comes to women, they are profoundly stupid. And when it comes to men, women—no matter how intelligent or mature—are completely crazy.



Based on this simple yet groundbreaking insight,... Read more

Live Through This

By: Debra Gwartney

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country, to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other... Read more

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?

By: Jena Pincott

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Cosmopolitan meets Scientific American in this entertaining and informative question-and-answer book on human attraction. Based on the latest studies in science, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? answers more than 100 wild, weird, and very pressing questions, including:



—Why do some men smell better to you than others?



—Are good dancers also... Read more

Feeling Good Together

By: David D. Burns, M.D.

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know people who are hard to get along with. It might be your spouse, mother, neighbor, friend, or colleague. In his new book Feeling Good Together, Dr. David D. Burns describes Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT), a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships with the people you care about.



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Dr. Z on Scoring

By: Dr. Victoria Zdrok

Narrated by: Victoria Zdrok

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Victoria Zdrok, J.D., Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist, and the only woman in history to be named both Playboy Playmate of the Month and Penthouse Pet of the Year. She is the ultimate insider, and this is the comprehensive guide to every male fantasy: that of meeting, hooking up with, and dating attractive and... Read more

Dirty Girls on Top

By: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sucias are back in this sexy showstopper of a novel from the bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club.



In Dirty Girls on Top, the Sucias are five years older, five times as much fun—but, sad to say, maybe not five times wiser. Lauren is at the top of her game as a columnist for the Boston Herald but still hasn't figured out how to... Read more

I'm Looking Through You

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Narrated by: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For Jennifer Finney Boylan, creaking stairs, fleeting images in the mirror, and the remote whisper of human voices were everyday events in the Pennsylvania house in which she grew up in the 1970s. But these weren't the only specters beneath the roof of the mansion known as the "Coffin House." Jenny herself—born James—lived in a haunted body, and... Read more

Best Friends

By: Martha Moody

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Before arriving at Oberlin in 1973, Clare Mann had never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare—and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rose—charismatic, charming, and the owner of a profitable business... Read more