Nonfiction audiobooks
The Best Business Stories of the Year 2001 - Abridged
By: Andrew Leckey
Narrated by: James Lurie & Eliza Floss
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.”–USA Today, on the 2001 edition
Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more
Napalm and Silly Putty - Abridged
By: George Carlin
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
He's the inventor of Past-Tense TV (featuring "Got Smart," "Father Knew Best," and "It Was Left to Beaver"); the tireless crusader for such charities as the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, Children of Parents with Bad Teeth, and the State Hospital for Those Who Felt All Right About a Year Ago; founder of the George Carlin Book Club... Read more
View audiobookWinning the Game of Success
By: Cherie Carter-Scott
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Cherie Carter-Scott is the founding chairperson of the Motivation Management Service Institute and has worked with more than 200,000 people worldwide, leading seminars on self-esteem, communication and leadership skills. "Success is not about collecting or having toys; it is about giving back." Read more
View audiobookRoads - Abridged
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them.
Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town was... Read more
Fast Food Nation - Abridged
By: Eric Schlosser
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Fast Food Nation - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!
Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of... Read more
Prince of Tennesee
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he might have been. The Gore who comes to life in this audiobook is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that... Read more
View audiobookThe Vagina Monologues
By: Eve Ensler
Narrated by: Eve Ensler
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A landmark in women’s empowerment—as relevant as ever after a year marked by unprecedented political protest—that honors female sexuality in all its complexity.
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their... Read more
Men's Health Longevity Program
By: Men's Health Magazine
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From hitting the weights to putting your job in perspective, this audiobook for the Men's Health Longevity Program guides you through a wide-ranging, scientifically proven, 12-week course designed to add a decade or more to your life. Read more
View audiobookEngaging Creativity / Riding Change
By: David La Chapelle
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
David La Chapelle, an environmental writer and leader of over 150 Wilderness Quests, weaves together insights integrating psychology, meditation, storytelling and the creative process in considering the challenges we face today. Read more
View audiobookThe Hacker Ethic - Abridged
By: Pekka Himanen
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms... Read more
View audiobookNe vous noyez pas dans un verre d'eau - Abridged
By: Richard Carlson
Narrated by: Vincent Davy
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Simplifiez-vous la vie ! Vous vous mettez dans tous vos états pour une critique, un retard, un échec ? Votre conjoint ne vous comprend pas, votre patron vous tyrannise, vos collègues vous énervent, vos banquiers vous harcèlent, votre emplois du temps vous étouffe ? Alors ce livre audio est fait pour vous ! Richard Carlson vous apprend à modifier... Read more
View audiobookEleadership - Abridged
By: Susan Annunzio
Narrated by: Susan Annunzio
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
What if the rules that made you successful were the cause of your current problems?
What if the name of the game was personal fulfillment rather than power and wealth?
What if the biggest threat to your company's future was employee dissatisfaction?
What if success in the digital economy depended on refreshing your work environment?
What if you... Read more
Meditation as Medicine - Abridged
By: Cameron Stauth & Guru Dharma Singh Khalsa
Narrated by: Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In medicine, the mind, body, and spirit are one, and miraculous healing only occurs when that powerful triad is united.
Imagine being able to rid yourself of a host of medical or psychological maladies without medication or psychotherapy. You can -- with non-invasive medical meditation. It's proven effective and one of the most overlooked forms... Read more
The Pearl Harbor Collection - Abridged
By: Gordon W. Prange
Narrated by: Tony Roberts
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is no better, more authoritative chronicle of Pearl Harbor and its repercussions than the three Gordon W. Prange titles collected here. Read more
View audiobookWinning With The Market - Abridged
By: Douglas R. Sease
Narrated by: Douglas R. Sease
Length: 2 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Say good-bye to expensive brokers! Forget gambling on their latest "hot stock," or their junk-bond or high-cost mutual funds recommendations. The results can be disastrous. Instead, veteran Wall Street Journal editor and CNBC commentator Douglas R. Sease shows you how to take back control of your money with a simple, safe, yet powerful... Read more
View audiobookGeorgia Stories / Global View
By: Jimmy Carter
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In this wide-ranging dialogue, Jimmy Carter has some surprising things to say about the presidential election of 2000 and the Florida vote count. He also speaks poignantly of his rural, southern roots, which did so much to shape his values and worldview of today. Read more
View audiobookJane Austen
By: Carol Shields
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement,... Read more
View audiobookBest Friends
By: Samantha Glen
Narrated by: Juliette Parker
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the... Read more
View audiobookBuddha
By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. In lucid and compelling prose, Armstrong brings to life the Buddha’s quest, from his renunciation of his privileged life to the discovery of a truth that he believed would utterly transform human beings and enable them to... Read more
View audiobookShackleton's Way
By: Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship Endurance, crushed in the Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. When the ice began to break up, Shackleton set out to save them all on his heroic eight-hundred-mile-trip across the... Read more
View audiobookThe Wonder of Mysticism
By: Wilson Van Dusen
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Van Dusen opens up the realm of mystical experience to all by sharing from his own personal experience in a simple, authentic style. His eloquence and exuberant passion shine through his stories. Read more
View audiobookThe Bhagavad Gita
By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition, one that has been translated into more than two hundred English editions. Stephen Mitchell—the acclaimed translator of Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tao Te Ching—has produced a... Read more
View audiobookJuicy Crones: Wonderful Older Women
By: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
With the help of goddess archetypes that every woman can cultivate within herself – older women can revolutionize the way they live and the way they are seen by society. Bolen suggests specific goddess archetypes that embody compassion, fierceness, humor and wisdom in older women. She points out, “in all cultures the divinity of wisdom is... Read more
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