Family & Relationships audiobooks

The Big Disconnect

By: Catherine Steiner-Adair & Teresa H. Barker

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your child's Facebook friend?As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive... Read more

Bloom

By: Kelle Hampton

Narrated by: Kelle Hampton

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

There is us. Our Family. We will hold our precious gift and know that we are lucky . . .From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a thriving photography career. When she learned she was pregnant with their second child, they were ecstatic. But when their new daughter... Read more

Sexual Intelligence

By: Marty Klein

Narrated by: Alan Winter

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoyable sex: it’s not about technique or a perfect body or being hopelessly, passionately in love. It’s about Sexual Intelligence.In his three decades of working with couples and individuals as a sex therapist and marriage counselor, Dr. Marty Klein has continually seen that although most people say what they want from sex is pleasure and... Read more

All Joy and No Fun

By: Jennifer Senior

Narrated by: Jennifer Senior

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom…[an] excellent book.” —Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review""[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny book.” —The Washington PostThousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children.... Read more

You Are Not Special

By: David McCullough, Jr.

Narrated by: David McCullough, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

David McCullough, Jr.'s high school commencement address of 2012, dubbed "You Are Not Special," was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech—taking a hard look at hovering parents,... Read more

Etched in Sand

By: Regina Calcaterra

Narrated by: Regina Calcaterra

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 International BestsellerRegina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.
 
Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, former New York State official, and foster youth activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive... Read more

The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match

By: Sonya Rhodes & Susan Schneider

Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Relationship therapist Sonya Rhodes's liberating, straight-talking guide convincingly argues that successful modern women—the audience who embraced Lean In—can find the right guy without having to change or settle, and tells them how to do it.In the twenty-first century, women are outpacing men in education and career advancement. Yet amazingly,... Read more

The Zimzum of Love

By: Rob Bell & Kristen Bell

Narrated by: Rob Bell & Kristen Bell

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

As he revolutionized traditional teaching on hell in the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love Wins, Rob Bell now transforms how we understand and practice marriage in The Zimzum of Love, co-written with his wife, Kristen.Despite the divorce statistics, people are still committing to each other, instinctively believing and hoping that theirs... Read more

I Heart My Little A-Holes

By: Karen Alpert

Narrated by: Karen Alpert

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of Go the F**k to Sleep, Confessions of a Scary Mommy, and Ketchup Is a Vegetable, a collection of funny, warm, and charmingly profane tales from the frontlines of parenthood by the author of the popular Baby Sideburns blog.Once upon a time you and your partner had a perfect life: dinners out, weekend mornings cuddling in... Read more

Thinking Differently

By: David Flink

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently, David Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye—a national mentoring... Read more

The Wild Truth

By: Carine McCandless

Narrated by: Carine McCandless, Matt Gardner & Shelly McCand...

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild, became an international bestseller, translated into... Read more

Hints on Child Training

By: H. Clay Trumbull

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Fortified with common sense and Biblical wisdom, Trumbull's straightforward guide has established its place as a classic work in the field of child rearing. Written over 100 years ago, it is completely free of modernist influence. After all, Freud had not yet developed his theories of the subconscious; Pavlov and Skinner had not yet introduced... Read more

Children, Parents, Lollipops

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Children universally take it for granted that their parents love them and will never abandon them. Not by bread alone—children need not only food, water, and shelter but also a loving family to provide these things to them. Dealing with a child not only as a patient but also as a person helps a pediatrician become a part of the flowing river of... Read more

All in the Family, Doctor Included

By: Vladimir A. Tsesis

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

All in the Family, Doctor Included is a work of love and dedication that honors the human spirit at all ages. Vladimir Tsesis once again brings us poignant moments, cozy chuckles and sage advice from his busy pediatrics practice.Dr. Tsesis speaks about the importance and the beauty of the American family and its glorious triumphs over the... Read more

The War against Parents

By: Sylvia Ann Hewlett & Cornel West

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin & Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the best-kept secrets of the last thirty years is that big business, government, and the wider culture have waged a silent war against parents, undermining the work that they do…parents have been left twisting in the wind by a society intent on other agendas.”—from the bookIn The War against Parents, two different parents from diverse... Read more

Surviving Ophelia

By: Cheryl Dellasega

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Insightful, heartfelt, and hopeful,Surviving Opheliais a must-read for any mother of a teenage daughter who has ever felt disappointed, alone, or afraid.Raising a teenage girl can be overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics,... Read more

The House on Beartown Road

By: Elizabeth Cohen

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family.Elizabeth is a member of the "sandwich generation"—people caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents. She is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and she's responsible for both... Read more

A Grief Observed

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: “Nothing will shake a man—or at any rate a man like me—out of his... Read more

Every Mother Is a Daughter

By: Perri Klass & Sheila Solomon Klass

Narrated by: Anna Fields & Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Oh no, I’m turning into my mother! Every woman is familiar with the poignant, funny, baffling, or horrifying echoes that resonate at that moment when she first hears her own mother’s voice coming out of her mouth. But this moment of recognition is more than ironic: it’s at the root of how we see ourselves, and how we plot and follow the arc that... Read more

The Blessing of a Skinned Knee

By: Wendy Mogel

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. In a world where material abundance abounds, parents want so badly to raise self-disciplined, appreciative, and resourceful children who are not spoiled by the plentitude around them. But how to accomplish this feat? The answer has... Read more

What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage

By: Amy Sutherland

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life?The next time her husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin... Read more

The Middle Place

By: Kelly Corrigan

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place—“that sliver of time... Read more

Boys Should Be Boys

By: Meg Meeker

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today's boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow. Boys will always be boys—rambunctious, adventurous, and curious, climbing trees, building forts, playing tackle football, and pushing their growing... Read more

Epilogue

By: Anne Roiphe

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Anne Roiphe offers a poignant memoir of a journey that no one is prepared for: widowhood. Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her... Read more