Nonfiction audiobooks

Living The Creative Life

By: M.C. Richards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A teacher, poet, painter, writer and potter, Richards has never lacked imagination, which she defines as "singing to a wide invisible audience."  Her wisdom flows from an intensity, an honesty and a tenderness we don't often find in this world. Read more

Roger Kahn: Memories of Summer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Interview between David Gergen and Roger Kahn, author of the book Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing About It a Game. Read more

The Art Of Mindfulness

By: Philip Toshio Sudo

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you were to think of integrating the principles of  Zen Buddhism into music, punk rock would probably not be part of the equation.  Philip Toshio Sudo, a musician and longtime practitioner of Zen, chose to play punk rock  because "the technique is secondary to the passion and intensity of the performance."  The type of music you prefer is... Read more

Consciousness: What's It All About?

By: Charles Tart

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The science of consciousness and how it is changing, is explored in this dialogue with Charles Tart, a scientist and pioneer in the fields of psychology, parapsychology, dreams and meditation.  He discusses Eastern wisdom in a way the Western mind readily comprehends.  The nature of consciousness lies at the heart of it all, for "if we don't... Read more

Death Is Not The Enemy

By: Christine Longaker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Since suffering is an inescapable fact of life, Longaker says, "what we need to learn is how to go through suffering, how to bring the experiences of suffering into our spiritual path and purpose, because that is how we can transform it." Facing death--either our own or that of our loved ones--is a part of life; eventually, we are all touched. Read more

John Wayne's America - Abridged

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Garry Wills

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality—the biography of an idea—Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and... Read more

How To Win Customers And Keep Them For Life - Abridged

By: Michael Leboeuf

Narrated by: Michael Leboeuf

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Michael LeBoeuf, the bestselling author of Working Smart and the audio programs Working Smarter, Imagineering and The Perfect Business, comes How To Win Customers and Keep Them For Life -- the ultimate guide to building a successful business through customer satisfaction.

The success of any business depends on knowing the answers to these... Read more

And the Waters Turned to Blood - Abridged

By: Rodney Barker

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this account, Rodney Barker tells the full and terrifying story of a microorganism popping up along the Eastern seaboard—far closer to home than the Ebola virus and equally frightening. In the coastal waters of North Carolina—and now extending as far north as the Chesapeake Bay area—a mysterious and deadly aquatic organism named Pfiesteria... Read more

Deadly Feasts - Abridged

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Richard Rhodes

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France—and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new... Read more

Charles Kuralt's Spring - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Throughout his almost four decades of life on the road, Charles Kuralt has introduced us to people and places that have warmed our hearts. Now in Charles Kuralt's Spring, he disposes with winter's chill by recounting some of the most miraculous rites of spring he has witnessed over the years.

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The Naturalists

By: Diane Ackerman, Gerald Lordhal, Sharon Matola, ...

Narrated by: Diane Ackerman

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of nine performance pieces reflects the inspirational words of Margaret Mead, who said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Together, these performances memorialize the diversity, beauty, and fragility of our planet. Poet Terry Tempest... Read more

Ruby Bridges

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school. Thirty-seven years later, Ruby Bridges Hall discusses her memories of the first day she entered her new school in New Orleans, her first year when she was in a class of one, and her efforts to improve education. She spoke with Charlayne... Read more

Synchronicity

By: Vic Mansfield

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Even though synchronicity, the term coined by Carl Jung for meaningful coincidences, has attained some renown, according to Mansfield it is badly misconstrued. Here he discusses what synchronicity is, its parallels with quantum mechanics and perhaps why it shows up in our lives. He draws on his studies in physics and Buddhism, as well as his own... Read more

Authentic Work

By: James Autry

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The world of big business is changing, and a new management ethic is emerging. Autry believes business is about values and relationships, not just the bottom line, and that's why downsizing, lay-offs and cutting benefits are not producing the results corporations hoped for. Read more

Climbing Up on the Rough Side

By: Hopeful Gospel

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited second audio recording by the Hopeful Gospel Quartet—Robin and Linda Williams, Kate MacKenzie, and Garrison Keillor—is old-time gospel singing at its best. Recorded live during broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, it features instrumentals by Butch Thompson, Chet Atkins, and others.

Tracks:
Climbing Up On... Read more

Saving The World, Saving Ourselves

By: Thomas Berry, C.P., Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We have discovered that the universe is dynamically alive and interconnected, and the implications are profound. Berry speaks of a vision of a restorative, creative relationship with the natural world. He is a deep believer that recognizing our connection to the natural world is imperative to our healing of our global environmental crisis. Read more

Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

By: Friedrich Nietzche

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Livre « à part », comme Nietzsche le nomma lui-même. Dans Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra apparaîssent pour la première fois des thèmes comme la volonté de puissance ou le surhomme. Ces idées comptent au nombre de celles qui ont le plus fortement marqué la pensée contemporaine. Read more

Wall Street Money Machine - Abridged

By: Wade B. Cook

Narrated by: Wade B. Cook

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes


For beginners and more experienced investors alike, Wall Street Money Machine is a dynamic and innovative guide to understanding Wall Street and making it work for you.

Wade B. Cook's is a classic rags-to-riches story: he started out as a cab driver, then became a real estate investor, author, and educator -- and he is now a renowned stock... Read more

Journey into Darkness - Abridged

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: John E. Douglas

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit.

In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of... Read more

The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law - Abridged

By: Leslie Abramson

Narrated by: Leslie Abramson

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Defense is Ready, Leslie Abramson, the brilliant and outspoken defense attorney, takes you inside today's courtroom for a stunning firsthand account of how the courage and timidity, wisdom and folly, selflessness and venality of real lawyers, judges, victims and defendants are interwoven into the complex fabric of our often frustrating... Read more

Get A Financial Life - Abridged

By: Beth Kobliner

Narrated by: Beth Kobliner

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A completely revised and updated fourth edition of the New York Times bestseller, designed to guide younger adults through the world of personal finance.

More than ever before, people in their twenties and thirties need help getting their financial lives in order. And who could blame them? These so-called millennials have come of age in the wake... Read more

Global Capitalism: Beyond Conventional Wisdom

By: William Greider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

If you are curious about what global capitalism means, and concerned about how it affects human equity, justice and quality of life, you must listen to this provocative discussion with William Greider. Driven by his compassion for the people on the front lines of the factories, Greider exposes the fundamental instabilities at the heart of the... Read more

It's All In Your Mind

By: Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Lama Thondup draws on his early childhood in Tibet traveling with his nomadic parents, followed by years of classical Buddhist education in a Tibetan monastery. He had to rely on the goodness of others when forced to leave his homeland after the Chinese invasion and relocate to India, learning a new language and new skills. Read more

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

By: Richard P. Feynman

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest).Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife... Read more