Nonfiction audiobooks

Anything is Possible

By: Joel Rothschild

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Rothschild has come to believe that science has taken huge leaps forward because of research with AIDS.  His triumphant life story is grounded in a knowing that every moment in life counts.  "When you believe every moment counts, there is acceptance and not resistance." Read more

The Road to Wealth - Abridged

By: Suze Orman

Narrated by: Suze Orman

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Accessible, pragmatic, and comprehensive, The Road to Wealth, read by the author herself, imparts information critical to every stage of listeners' financial lives. Whether one is a novice investor or a veteran of the market, whether laying the building blocks for a rich future or seeking comfort during the retirement years, The Road to Wealth... Read more

The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete soundtrack from the phenomenally popular PBS series whose message about myth, ritual, and spiritual potentialities exhilarated millions of people.

Contents:
Program 1: The Hero's Adventure
Program 2: The Message of the Myth
Program 3: The First Storytellers
Program 4: Sacrifice and Bliss
Program 5: Love and the Goddess
Program 6: Masks... Read more

Guns, Germs and Steel - Abridged

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age... Read more

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Daniel Stashower

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age when he created Sherlock Holmes. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship, to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and... Read more

Lose Those Last Ten Pounds - Abridged

By: Denise Austin

Narrated by: Denise Austin

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fight those last 10 pounds and WIN! America's most popular fitness guru presents a sure-fire weight-loss program that gets results--in just twenty-eight days.

As everyone knows, the last 10 pounds are always the hardest ones to lose. Now, in Lose Those Last 10 Pounds, award-winning fitness expert Denise Austin offers a fat-blasting, foolproof... Read more

Simone Weil

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of an equally complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved sensuous beauty, Simone Weil died at the age of thirty-four prematurely after a long struggle with... Read more

De l'amitié

By: Ciceron

Narrated by: Jean-Pierre Michaël

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Scaevola, vieillard et augure, rapporte à Cicéron une conversation tenue avec Laelius et Fannius sur l'amitié. Cicéron écrit alors un traité où se mêlent dialogues et récits sur le sens que doit avoir l'amitié, et la conduite qu'elle dicte aux hommes qui se réclament d'elle. Ce texte, écrit en 44 avant J.-C., s'inspire de la philosophie... Read more

The Last Empire

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Empire is a collection of provocative, witty, and eloquent essays by Gore Vidal about all things USA. In more than two dozen essays, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects, offering incisive observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, and the... Read more

Inner Peace for Busy People

By: Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D.

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Inner Peace for Busy People is perfect for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the pressures of work, finances, children, and other modern-day stressors. Through stories encompassing spirituality, science, and humor, Joan gives you easy-to-learn skills to help you change your attitude and regain a sense of balance and harmony! Read more

New Perspectives on Negotiating

By: Herb Cohen

Narrated by: Herb Cohen

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Using the metaphor of "the game," master negotiator and New York Times bestselling author Herb Cohen says, "Negotiation is the game of life.” In New Perspectives on Negotiating, Cohen illustrates that conscious inattention ("caring, but not that much") produces heightened awareness, self-confidence, and a sense of greater mastery to convey... Read more

Networking with Millionnaires - Abridged

By: Thomas J. Stanley

Narrated by: Thomas J. Stanley

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Millionaire Next Door, Tom Stanely identified the millionaires around you. In the Millionaire Mind, he told you how they think. Now, he tells you how to get their business.
NETWORKING WITH MILLIONAIRES
The affluent market segment is growing seven times faster than the household population in this country. Dollar for dollar the most... Read more

25 Sales Secrets Of Highly Successful Salespeople - Abridged

By: Stephan Schiffman

Narrated by: Stephan Schiffman

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LEARN THE SALES SECRETS THAT GET RESULTS!
25 Years Secrets of Highly Successful Salespeople is a must-listen for all salespeople. Stephan Schiffman, America's Number One Corporate Sales Strategist and President of D.E.I. Management Group, an international sales training and consulting firm, shares with you the 25 traits that will distinguish... Read more

The Power of Clarity

By: Brian Tracy

Narrated by: Brian Tracy

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Power of Clarity is a synthesis of the best ideas and strategies on personal management ever brought together in one place, in one simple, easy-to-use plan. It shows you to how to organize and simplify your life in seven critical areas essential for balance and peace of mind. You learn how to develop goals and plans in each of the areas that... Read more

Bones of Contention: Kennewick Man

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kennewick Man hearings resume as eight scientists sue the government to study 9,000-year-old bones that Native American tribes claim as an ancestor. Read more

The Innovator's Dilemma - Abridged

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Great companies can fail—not because they do anything wrong, but because they do everything right. Meeting customers' current needs leads firms to reject breakthrough innovations-"disruptive technologies" that create the products and opportunities of the future.

Radical thinking . . . and a wake-up call. Citing examples from many industries... Read more

Fuzzy Math

By: Paul Krugman

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Wielding his widely recognized powers of explanation, Paul Krugman lays bare the hidden facts behind the $2 trillion tax cut.

With huge budget surpluses just ahead, the question of whether to cut taxes has shifted to when? and by how much? With Fuzzy Math, Paul Krugman dissects the Bush tax proposal and shows us who wins, who loses, and how... Read more

Matter Of Perception, A:  Seeing Your World with Clarity

By: Susan Gregg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Gregg tells us that  "life is as it is," and our whole concept of reality is colored by what we tell ourselves about it.  She offers us an ancient Toltec formula for changing our experience of life without changing external situations. Read more

Pete Hamill on Eddie Stanky - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Pete Hamill

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's a cold spring day in 1944. A young Pete Hamill is with his father watching the Brooklyn Dodgers play the Boston Braves. The wartime teams are just dismal - many major league players are serving their country and the teams have been clogged with has-beens and guys that are 4-F. But Pete's father tells him to "watch this little guy." His name... Read more

Death Penalty Debate

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

PBS NewsHour presents the various meanings of Timothy McVeigh's execution as seen by two death penalty proponents and two opponents. Read more

Focusing - Abridged

By: Eugene T. Gendlin

Narrated by: Eugene T. Gendlin

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A breakthrough method of "unlocking the wisdom within your body" to solve specific problems and achieve dramatic personal growth and change

This original, innovative program of self-therapy enables you to tap into your deepest level of wisdom, the "gut-level" knowledge that already exists within your body. By accessing this subliminal body-mind... Read more

Dante

By: R. W. B. Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered exile from the city that would fiercely reclaim him a... Read more

Paradise

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a... Read more

Artful Negotiation in a Global Economy

By: Herb Cohen

Narrated by: Herb Cohen

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As an adviser to U.S. Presidents and intimately involved with several highly publicized international negotiating dramas, Herb Cohen has earned the title of “World's Greatest Negotiator.” Employing a geocentric perspective, Cohen views bargaining as an enriching social exchange akin to an art form. In successful global negotiation, Cohen... Read more