Nonfiction audiobooks

A Guided Meditation To Help You Stop Smoking

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

In this powerful, hypnotic, research-proven guided meditation for smoking cessation, positive encouragement to quit smoking naturally comes from imagining the lungs healing and toxins clearing from the body, while capacity grows each day for taking in more and more rich, energizing, life-giving oxygen. In addition to anticipating the return of a... Read more

Snakes Apes and Bees

By: Sandra Crowe

Narrated by: Sandra Crowe

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dealing with difficult people can often feel like a frustrating and lose-lose ordeal. The reason for this is that the strategies we have for dealing are typically old (from earlier in our life) and repeated over and over with similar results. The key to really shifting your relationships with difficult people is to understand the dynamic you are... Read more

People Are Like That

By: Teri Garr

Narrated by: Teri Garr

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Submitted by readers of Catholic Digest, here are dozens of original accounts of true incidents that illustrate the compassion and kindness of which we all are capable. These real-life stories demonstrate the instinctive goodness of people and provide inspirational signposts of the humanity we all share. Listeners to this treasury will find... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You With Weight Loss

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to pump up motivation to eat in healthy ways and encourage listeners to stay on track. Repeated listening once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum impact. A separate track of affirmations offers these same ideas... Read more

A Guided Meditation to Support Your Recovery From Alcohol & Other Drugs

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

This audio was created with the help of recovering alcoholics and addicts, those who belong to various 12-step groups', chemical dependency counselors and chemical dependency professionals who understand the importance of partnering meditation and addiction. Those following a program or individual methods to achieve their sobriety and abstinence... 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

Dört Anlaşma - Toltek Bilgelik Kitabı (Kısaltılmamış)

By: Don Miguel Ruiz

Narrated by: Caner Özyazar

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On yıldan fazla New York Times en çok satan kitabı! Dünya çapında 46 dile çevrilmişti! Toltek bilgeliğinin sırlarını ortaya çıkaran bir manevi öğretmen ve dünyanın en çok satanlarının yazarı Don Miguel Ruiz, özgürlük, mutluluk ve sevgi - tüm bunları birkaç basit ve aynı zamanda derin gerçeği bilerek elde edilebildiğinden emindir. Don Miguel... Read more

Questioning the Millennium

By: Stephen Gould

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a quarter of a century later, listen to what evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould had to say about the approaching millennium.What is our concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? When did the new millennium begin? And why must our calendars be so complex, anyway? Best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit... Read more

One World Ready or Not - Abridged

By: William Greider

Narrated by: Howard McGillin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In ONE WORLD, READY OR NOT, William Greider focuses his incomparable reportorial skills on the global economy, which he contends is sowing "creative destruction" everywhere.

Greider explains the dynamics of the global economy in terms of human struggle. As he makes clear, the actions of multinational corporations and finance capitalists are no... Read more

Confucius in the Boardroom - Abridged

By: Stefan Rudnicki & Stephanie Zimbalist

Narrated by: Blair Underwood

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Today's modern, competitive business environment demands that executives conduct business operations more effectively and compassionately. Turning to the ancient wisdom of China provides insight for professionals who want to stay on the cutting edge. This program guides executives with fundamental teachings on the topics of leadership, strategy,... Read more

The Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now featuring a new introduction by Dr. M. Scott Peck, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic bestseller The Road Less Traveled, celebrated by The Washington Post as “not just a book but a spontaneous act of generosity.”

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The... Read more

False Prophets - Abridged

By: Dale Jakes & Connie Jakes

Narrated by: Dale Jakes

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dale and Connie Jakes, working for the FBI, provide a firsthand account of life under the deepest cover inside the violent, armed strongholds of the Montana Freemen organization. In 1995, the Jakes lived in the Montana mountains, discovering a major center of American terrorism. They exposed vital information about how widespread,... Read more

King of Comedy - Abridged

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marty Ingels

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A revealing biography of comic legend Jerry Lewis.Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) achieved superstardom in the 1950s and 1960s with such films as The Caddy, The Bellboy, and The Nutty Professor. Later, Lewis was almost as well known for his dedication to the cause of muscular dystrophy and his annual Labor Day telethon, which he hosted for more than... Read more

It's Not Over Until You Win - Abridged

By: Les Brown

Narrated by: Les Brown

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Les Brown is one of the most popular motivational speakers in the world today. In It’s Not Over Until You Win!, Brown offers a powerful and inspirational plan to help people overcome any obstacle in their lives.

Les Brown himself has been through countless ups and downs, suffering through personal and career crises, including the cancellation of... Read more

Jumpstart - Abridged

By: Denise Austin

Narrated by: Denise Austin

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Denise Austin, the star of Getting Fit with Denise Austin, wants you to JumpStart to a new, healthier lifestyle!

In JumpStart, Denise shows you how to lose weight, tone your body, and lose inches safely and quickly. You'll get energized, adopt an eating and exercise plan you can live with, and learn the secrets of lasting weight loss. Denise... Read more

Work as Art

By: Dick Richards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are so many of us unhappy in our jobs? Dick Richards gives us many answers to this question as well as practical insights for what we can do about it. A graphic artist, poet and international organizational consultant on leadership, change, teamwork and personal growth, Richard believes "all work has the capacity to be both science and art". Read more

Exploded

By: Tom Bodett

Narrated by: Tom Bodett

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

There are certain defining events that occur to people— the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was “ ... Read more

Hazardous Duty - Abridged

By: Colonel David H. Hackworth

Narrated by: Colonel David H. Hackworth

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Colonel David H. Hackworth— one of America's most decorated soldiers— served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After retiring from the military in 1971, he completed a second tour of battlefield duty as a war correspondent. Accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea,... Read more

Political Incorrections - Abridged

By: Bill Maher

Narrated by: Bill Maher

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Best Opening Monologues from Politically Incorrect starring Bill Maher
Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette
For everyone who's had their fill of politicians, TV trials and the daily events seen on the evening news, Simon & Schuster Audio offers some relief with POLITICAL INCORRECTIONS-a collection of the funniest opening monologues... Read more

Chaos Made Simple

By: Myron Kellner-Rogers

Narrated by: Mark Walstrom

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a growing disillusionment in our institutions today.  We all want change, but we're afraid to experiment.  Kellner-Rogers has looked to nature for insights into creating more efficient organizations, noting that "Diversity in a healthy, living ecosystem is not an ethical or moral choice, but an absolute requirement for health." Read more

The Sound of Creativity

By: Julia Cameron & Tim Wheater

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this captivating dialogue, Julia Cameron and Tim Wheater explore how music can enhance your creative powers. "If we are willing to enter into sound, allow sound into our lives, begin to make sounds, our creative powers become so much larger," according to Cameron. Read more

Everyday Miracles

By: Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you wondered how your cat or dog seems to know when you're coming home? Sheldrake, one of the most innovative scientists of our time, believes that all self-organizing systems (including human society) have invisible fields within and around them which shape and mold their development. He calls them, “morphic fields” and gives ideas for... Read more

Angels: Where Science Fears to Tread

By: Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. & Matthew Fox, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

How does modern physics parallel and transform the concept of angels? How did a split between science and spirit come about and how are the two being reconnected? What is the importance of wonder and awe in scientific study? The answers to these and many other questions are explored in this dynamic conversation between a scientist and a... Read more

Genesis: A New View

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Moyers discusses his original approach to broadcast journalism and his series "Genesis: A Living Conversation," He describes why these are among the most powerful stories in Western Civilization, and uncovering their deeper, often controversial meanings. Moyers says, "Stories are the way we organize our response to the world…Listening to others,... Read more