Self-Improvement audiobooks

The Magic Castle

By: Heather Bestel

Narrated by: Heather Bestel

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Magic Castle' is a superb high quality meditation recording by Heather Bestel. Heather is a very experienced psychotherapist who has worked with children developing and building their self esteem and confidence since 1994.

This MP3 Download is a lovely and safe way for 8-11 year old children to feel calm & confident, increasing... Read more

Magical Me

By: Heather Bestel

Narrated by: Heather Bestel

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

'Magical Me' is a superb high quality meditation recording by Heather Bestel. Heather is a very experienced psychotherapist who has worked with children developing and building their self esteem and confidence since 1994.

This MP3 Download is a lovely and safe way to introduce 4 to 7 year olds to the world of relaxation and to help them find... Read more

Letting Go Of Fear

By: Lucinda Drayton

Narrated by: Lucinda Drayton

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the third MP3 download in the Simple Truths series by Lucinda Drayton and it is an inspirational three-track meditation to help the listener to manage and overcome their worst fears. This MP3 download will help you to embrace your fears in order to let them go. The three meditations will help you to walk right up to your fear and look it... Read more

How to Love

By: Gordon Livingston

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally best-selling author of Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, Dr. Gordon Livingston here helps readers discover fulfilling happiness. By recognizing and understanding particular character traits in ourselves and others, we can all learn who best to love-and who best to avoid. "As gracefully written as Erich Fromm's classic The Art of... Read more

Surviving and Thriving When Times Are Tough

By: Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When stress feels overwhelming, we struggle to find the balance we desperately need to get through it all. Borysenko guides us through the warning signs of pessimism and the pitfalls of optimism. She also offers up a wealth of suggestions for how to develop what she calls “stress-hardiness”—to handle all of life’s challenges with resilience,... Read more

Qualities of Success

By: Zig Ziglar

Narrated by: Zig Ziglar

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ziglar's Qualities of Success was created with a focus on helping your people succeed. This program is designed to help you grow personally and professionally in four critical areas: qualities, abilities, skills, and attitudes. By focusing on these core areas, you gain characteristics of success, professionalism, excellence, and perhaps the very... Read more

Here's the Deal

By: Howie Mandel & Josh Young

Narrated by: Howie Mandel

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.

Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No... Read more

Amen, Amen, Amen

By: Abby Sher

Narrated by: Abby Sher

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Until the age of ten, comedian and writer Abby Sher was a happy child in a fun-loving, musical family. When her father and favorite aunt pass away, Abby fills the void of her loss with rituals: kissing her father's picture over and over each night, washing her hands and counting her steps, collecting sharp objects that she thinks could harm... Read more

The Investor's Manifesto

By: William Bernstein

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As recently as a generation or two ago, the lack of financial ability wasn't a handicap for the average person. But in today's world—where most of us have been forced to manage our own investment and retirement portfolios—it has become essential to understand the finer points of our financial life.
While the meltdown of 2008–2009 has compounded... Read more

Biscuits, Fleas and Pump Handles

By: Zig Ziglar

Narrated by: Zig Ziglar

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A legacy that has touched audiences all over the world began in Dallas, Texas, in 1972 when Zig Ziglar recorded perhaps the definitive work of his career. Biscuits Fleas and Pump Handles is the compilation of observations, thoughts and research Zig had spent years preparing to present as the foundation of a philosophy born of hope and nurtured... Read more

Ich REDE. - Abridged

By: Isabel García

Narrated by: Isabel García

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wir kennen alle die leidlichen Situationen, in denen wir nach einem Telefonat auflegen und denken: "Das ist nicht so gelaufen, wie ich es wollte." Oder bei den Diskussionen mit Kollegen, wenn Sie einfach nicht zu Wort kommen oder Ihre Argumente überhört werden? Sehr unangenehm sind auch Präsentationen, bei denen Sie merken, dass Ihre Zuhörer... Read more

The Worst-Case Scenario Business Survival Guide

By: David Borgenicht & Mark Joyner

Narrated by: Harry Nelson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Survive the Recession, Handle Layoffs, Raise Emergency Cash, Thwart an Employee Coup, and Avoid Other Potential Disasters!
Don't Panic.
Be Prepared.
Have a Plan.
Layoffs. Sales slumps. Dangerously low morale. Extreme cash tightness. Reorganizations.
It's a scary world out there. Times are as tough as they've been in decades. More than... Read more

The Ultimate Happiness Prescription

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra shares the spiritual practices that will help us to uncover the true secrets of joy in the most difficult times.

Happiness is something everyone desires. Yet how to find happiness—or even if we deserve to—remains a mystery.
 
The goal of life is the expansion of happiness, but today’s society... Read more

29 Gifts

By: Cami Walker

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she received an uncommon prescription from an African medicine woman: give to others for 29 days. 29... Read more

A Brave New World for Our Brave New Brains

By: Judith Horstman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Not too long ago neuroscientists believed we were born with an assigned number of brain cells, and as they died they were never replaced-we were doomed to get along with ever decreasing cognitive abilities. But as Judith Horstman tells us, more current research tells us that our brains are constantly adapting to our experiences, and new neuronal... Read more

The Source of Miracles

By: Kathleen McGowan

Narrated by: Kathleen McGowan

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The real secret to happiness and abundance has been hiding in plain sight, and you already know it by heart.

New York Times bestselling author Kathleen McGowan’s transformative new book unlocks the hidden power of the Lord’s Prayer in seven simple steps.

In this brilliant handbook, Kathleen McGowan reveals the true secret to a joyous and... Read more

Ask and You Will Succeed

By: Ken D. Foster

Narrated by: Author

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Connectors

By: Maribeth Kuzmeski

Narrated by: Scott Peterson

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes the world's most successful individuals so good at their jobs? What do they do that others don't?
The Connectors answers those questions with the kind of straightforward wisdom that business strategists so often overlook. Forget marketing tactics or business school best practices. Those are handy, but it's really people—and the... Read more

Virus of the Mind - Abridged

By: Richard Brodie

Narrated by: Richard Brodie

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society.

Here, the author carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins,... Read more

Cherries in Winter

By: Suzan Colon

Narrated by: Suzan Colon

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the secret to finding hope in hard times?

When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008, she needed to cut her budget way, way back, and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested, “Why don’t you look in Nana’s recipe folder?” In the basement, Suzan found the tattered treasure, full... Read more

One Simple Act

By: Debbie Macomber

Narrated by: Beth DeVries

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber shares inspirational and empowering true stories of what happens when we commit intentional acts of generosity.

Master storyteller Debbie Macomber knows a secret.

In a world that seems too often reticent and begrudging, Debbie has learned firsthand that living in a spirit of generosity... Read more

More Information Than You Require

By: John Hodgman

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman—The Daily Show's "Resident Expert" and the "PC" in the iconic Apple ads—picks up exactly where his first book left off. In fact, "the new volume is in every way a continuation of Areas of My Expertise, except in the ways it's clearly superior." (The Onion AV Club)

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Notes Left Behind

By: Brooke Desserich & Keith Desserich

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith & Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Elena has left behind a story of resilience, hope and most of all, love. We can’t help but take her into our hearts, and carry the best of her into our own lives.”—Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor of The Last Lecture Notes Left Behind by Brooke and Keith Desserich began as a journal they kept after their five-year-old daughter Elena was diagnosed with... Read more

What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?

By: Diane Conway

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For this book, author Diane Conway approached a police officer, a waitress, a politician, a lawyer, a cab driver, and many others, and asked them each the same question: "What would you do if you had no fear?" The results, chronicled in this book, were both surprising and enlightening—her respondents told her their secrets, their long-hidden... Read more