Family & Relationships audiobooks

Hope Conquers All

By: Sona Mehring

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1997, Sona Mehring created the first CaringBridge website when a close friend endured a life-threatening pregnancy. CaringBridge is now used by over 500,000 people a day, with 44 million unique visitors over the past year. Through CaringBridge, Mehring has witnessed thousands of stories of hope and connection among people struggling with... Read more

Love Karma

By: Char Margolis

Narrated by: Char Margolis

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally renowned psychic medium Char Margolis reveals her intuitive method to finding love and sustaining fulfilling relationships.

Love seekers will find that Char busts the “one soul mate” myth and that loving relationships extend beyond one lifetime. Char explains that we have many soul mates who take different forms in different... Read more

Friendfluence

By: Carlin Flora

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the unexpected ways friends influence our personalities, choices, emotions, and even physical health in this fun and compelling examination of friendship, based on the latest scientific research and ever-relatable anecdotes.

Why is dinner with friends often more laughter filled and less fraught than a meal with family? Although some say... Read more

Love in the Time Algorithms

By: Dan Slater

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“If online dating can blunt the emotional pain of separation, if adults can afford to be increasingly demanding about what they want from a relationship, the effect of online dating seems positive. But what if it’s also the case that the prospect of finding an ever more compatible mate with the click of a mouse means a future of relationship... Read more

Childless

By: James Dobson & Kurt Bruner

Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment in the riveting new trilogy from Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner transports readers to a not-too-distant future when the young and healthy strain under the burden of a rapidly aging population.

Everyone is nervous about how Judge Victor Santiago will rule. The case involved the tragic demise of a loving mother and her... Read more

Love 2.0

By: Barbara Fredrickson

Narrated by: Barbara Fredrickson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives.

Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but... Read more

Dinner with the Smileys

By: Sarah Smiley

Narrated by: Sarah Smiley

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-two guests take turns filling a military father's chair at his family's dinner table while he serves his yearlong deployment.

The week before Thanksgiving 2011, Dustin Smiley left for a yearlong military deployment. Soon after, his son Ford, eleven, invited Senator Susan Collins to fill his dad's chair at dinner. On January 3, 2012,... Read more

The Mighty Queens of Freeville

By: Amy Dickinson

Narrated by: Amy Dickinson

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This beloved New York Times bestselling memoir from "Ask Amy" is a warm and moving true story of second chances in a tiny upstate New York town.

Dear Amy,
First my husband told me he didn't love me. Then he said he didn't think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by myself. Amy, I don't want to be a single mother. I... Read more

Whom Not to Marry

By: Pat Connor

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The new single woman's Bible that shows how to distinguish Mr. Right from Mr. Right Now

Father Pat Connor knows marriages. Having presided over more than two hundred weddings and conducted pre-marriage and marriage counseling for more than forty years, he's something of an expert. And now he is sharing his wealth of experience with women... Read more

The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle: American Sniper, Navy SEAL

By: Michael J. Mooney

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller: The life story of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper.

A brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband, Chris Kyle led the life of an American hero. His renowned courage and skill in military service earned him two nicknames -- The Devil among insurgents and The Legend among his Navy SEAL brethren -- but his impact... Read more

Another Insane Devotion

By: Peter Trachtenberg

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From “a genuine American Dostoevsky” (The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal.

When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her. The journey takes him 700 miles and many years into his past-- into the history of his relationships... Read more

Love Sense

By: Dr. Sue Johnson

Narrated by: Dr. Sue Johnson

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research.

Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr.... Read more

Baby Knows Best

By: Deborah Carlisle Solomon

Narrated by: Deborah Carlisle Solomon

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.

Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. Baby Knows Best is based on Gerber's belief in babies' natural abilities to... Read more

Love, Nina

By: Nina Stibbe

Narrated by: Nina Stibbe

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: Love, Nina might be the most charming book I've ever read." -- Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described... Read more

Good Talk, Dad

By: Bill Geist & Willie Geist

Narrated by: Bill Geist & Willie Geist

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of the best-selling American Freak Show--have begun an... Read more

Online Dating

By: Gail Kasper

Narrated by: Gail Kasper

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

There are 54 single people in the United States and approximately 40 million of them have tried online dating. If you haven't taken the plunge, it's time to learn how to find and catch the one. Professional speaker and life coach Gail Kasper has helped people improve their image, create a strong personal message, and stand out amongst the crowd.... Read more

Kids

By: Gail Kasper

Narrated by: Gail Kasper

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Parenting in the modern world is no easy task, but with the help of this practical and inspiring guidebook you and your kids will be ready to take on anything.

Parents are perhaps the most important bosses in the world! Not only do you have a career to manage, but the ups and downs of life, and then on top of all of this, you must raise a little... Read more

8 Keys to Building Your Best Relationships

By: Daniel A. Hughes

Narrated by: Tony Craine

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bringing attachment theory essentials to everyday life.

A revolution is under way in how we understand the nature of relationships, how we develop in those relationships, and how our brains function synergistically in connection with others. This field is known as attachment theory, and until now most of the cutting-edge insights have been... Read more

Special Heart

By: Bret Baier

Narrated by: Bret Baier

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier shares the New York Times bestselling story of his son Paul's ongoing battle with heart disease, and how it transformed his own life and family.

This deeply touching personal story is told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces his life's greatest crisis: caring for his critically ill son. With the acute... Read more

Season to Taste

By: Natalie Young

Narrated by: Gemma Whelan

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling debut about the extraordinary end of a marriage and its very strange aftermath.

Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes... Read more

Never Mind Miss Fox

By: Olivia Glazebrook

Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and suspenseful novel about secrets, betrayal, and the power of the past.

Clive and Martha have been a couple since they met at university; they now have a young daughter, Eliza, and on the surface, all seems well in their family. But neither Martha nor young Eliza know that the story of this happy marriage harbors a secret scene: a... Read more

Putting Children First

By: JoAnne Pedro-Carroll

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An internationally renowned authority on children and divorce reveals the latest research-based strategies for helping children survive and thrive before, during, and long after their parents divorce.

The breakup of a family can have an enduring impact on children. But as Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this... Read more

Minimalist Parenting

By: Asha Dornfest & Christine Koh

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

We’re in the midst of a parenting climate that feeds on “more”: more expert advice, more gear, more fear about competition and safety, and more choices to make about education, nutrition, even entertainment. The result? Overwhelmed, confused parents and overscheduled, over-parented kids. In Minimalist Parenting, Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest... Read more

Fortytude

By: Sarah Brokaw

Narrated by: Sarah Brokaw

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Fortytude, therapist Sarah Brokaw presents a new understanding of how women can greet midlife with strength and freedom. Brokaw, who happens to be the daughter of Tom Brokaw and who is herself in her late 30s, will share personal experiences as well as professional wisdom-- in a lively, engaging voice. In her practice, Brokaw specializes in... Read more