Nonfiction audiobooks

Which Way Is Up?

By: Susan Gillis Chapman

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and courage—from a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis.



Using personal examples from her own recent bardo crisis—undergoing cancer treatment during the pandemic—and offering contemplative prompts for inner-reflection and a meditation... Read more

Estamos tarde

By: Jaime Saavedra

Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaime Saavedra, exministro de Educación del Perú, nos narra las luchas y desafíos para reformar el sistema educativo en favor los estudiantes. ¿De qué magnitud es el reto de recomponer la Educación en el Perú? ¿Cuán importante es contar con gente comprometida en la función pública? ¿Es posible revertir la situación crítica de los sectores... Read more

The Magdalene Frequency

By: Adele Venneri

Narrated by: Aura Paige

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

• Reveals how Mary Magdalene, Myriam, is not a biblical myth but an ancient frequency of the soul, a reverberation of the alchemy of Feminine and Masculine

• Presents ancestral knowledge embedded with the frequency of Myriam through which you can discover your complete soul

• Reveals new Akashic rooms where you can become aware of your... Read more

An Alternative History of Britain

By: Timothy Venning

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking a similar approach to his successful If Rome Hadn't Fallen, Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken.



Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to be settled by Germanic tribes after the... Read more

Back in the Day

By: Melvyn Bragg

Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

* AN OBSERVER AND DAILY MAIL "BOOKS OF 2022" PICK *

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.

In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he... Read more

Decolonising My Body

By: Afua Hirsch

Narrated by: Afua Hirsch

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard-earned money on our haircare, skincare and makeup; where do they come from, and how can we learn to undo them?

Upon getting her first tattoo at 40 years old, award-winning journalist Afua Hirsch embarked on a journey to... Read more

We're All in This Together

By: Mike Robbins

Narrated by: Mike Robbins

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever been on a team where the talent was strong, but the team wasn't very good? On the flip side, have you ever been on a team where not every single member was a rock star, but something about the team just worked? We've all had these types of experiences. And yet, it can be difficult to understand what makes one team successful and... Read more

The Mediatrician's Guide

By: Michael Rich, MD, MPH

Narrated by: Michael Rich

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.A Whole-Child Approach to Digital Wellness and Healthy Media Use"...a godsend for the parent whose child is glued to their smartphone or laptop." –Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., psychologist, author of Raising CainIn this holistic approach, Dr. Michael Rich empowers you to guide your children toward smart and healthy digital... Read more

Vote!

By: Coral Celeste Frazer

Narrated by: Anne Cross

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

August 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. This book reveals how the seventy-year-long fight for women's suffrage was hard-won by leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice... Read more

A Mind Spread out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ""a mind spread out on the ground."" In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal... Read more

A Different Way to Win

By: Jim Rooney

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Rooney was one of the most influential sports executives of his generation—the man who transformed the Pittsburgh Steelers into one of the National Football League's greatest dynasties and premiere franchises. Some of Dan Rooney’s most important achievements, however, took place off the playing field as he sought to bring about equity in the... Read more

Our Brave Foremothers

By: Rozella Kennedy

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by her own foremothers’ legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women—both famous and little-known—who changed the course of US history.
 
In the beautiful pages of Our Brave Foremothers, discover an intergenerational,... Read more

When Germs Travel

By: Howard Markel

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.



In this riveting account, medical historian Howard Markel takes an... Read more

8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise

By: Christina Hibbert

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring strategies from a wellness expert for keeping fit, relieving stress, and strengthening emotional well-being.



We all know that exercise is good for physical health, but recently, a wealth of data has proven that exercise also contributes to overall mental well-being. Routine exercise alleviates stress and anxiety, moderates depression,... Read more

Female Firebrands

By: Mikaela Kiner

Narrated by: Julie Eickhoff

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Saying NO to the Workplace Status Quo: 13 Women Who Are Rewriting the RulesIf readers are not sure what a firebrand is, they’ll find out in Mikaela Kiner’s powerful first book. Women of all generations will nod in recognition at the stories of 13 professional women from diverse backgrounds and industries as they recount the career challenges... Read more

Design-Driven Growth

By: Molly Norris Walker

Narrated by: Susan Marlowe

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Here’s the cold, hard truth: ideas are cheap. Product follow-through is where the money is spent and made. That’s where heroes are forged, and excellent product design sparks what eventually becomes major growth. Today, products need to grow their user bases… from scratch, again and again. This book is a guide to the vital work of shaping a... Read more

Lucy

By: Donald C. Johanson & Maitland Edey

Narrated by: Donald C. Johanson

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the discovery of “Lucy”—the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues today. Bursting with all the suspense and... Read more

Generations

By: Jean M. Twenge

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.

Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean... Read more

Holidays on Ice

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris, Ann Magnuson & Amy Sedaris

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the... Read more

Underland

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.



In... Read more

Talking as Fast as I Can

By: Lauren Graham

Narrated by: Lauren Graham

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.

In Talking as Fast as... Read more

Likeable Badass

By: Alison Fragale, PhD

Narrated by: Alison Fragale, PhD

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks, and strategies to help secure that elusive corner office.

Over decades of research, speaking engagements, and mentorship, psychologist and professor Alison Fragale encountered recurring questions... Read more

The Day the World Came to Town

By: Jim DeFede

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded... Read more

Somehow

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love

“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is... Read more