Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Caffeinated

By: Murray Carpenter

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The additive that flows under the radar

The most popular drug in America is a white powder. No, not that powder. This is caffeine in its most essential state. And Caffeinated reveals the little-known truth about this addictive, largely unregulated drug found in coffee, energy drinks, teas, colas, chocolate, and even pain relievers.

We’ll learn why... Read more

On Tennis

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: a collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers. 

A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote... Read more

Breaking Through My Limits

By: Alexandra Orlando

Narrated by: Alexandra Orlando

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandra Orlando is an Olympic athlete who dedicated seventeen years of her life to the sport of rhythmic gymnastics, winning almost two hundred medals. Despite injury, she competed at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and retired from the sport at the age of twenty-one as one of the top ten gymnasts in the world.

Her incredible story is one of... Read more

In a Heartbeat

By: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy & Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, Sally Jenkins, Ka...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story

First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never... Read more

Lilias Yoga Complete

By: Lilias Folan

Narrated by: Lilias Folan

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available on CD, this perennial favorite with over 50,000 copies in print includes a comprehensive course for students of any level by yoga guru Lilias Folan

Yoga Journal reports that nearly 15 million U.S. adults currently practice yoga, and more than 35 million Americans intend to try yoga in the next twelve months. Now, Lilias Folan,... Read more

Francona: The Red Sox Years

By: Terry Francona & Dan Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From famed baseball manager Terry Francona, a lively, unvarnished narrative of his tenure with the storied Boston Red Sox

From 2004 to 2011, Terry "Tito" Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, the most talked about, scrutinized team in all of sports. In Francona the legendary manager opens up for the first time about his eight years there, as they... Read more

The One-Day Contract

By: Rick Pitino & Eric Crawford

Narrated by: Rick Pitino & Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A life-changing guide to achieving your goals, by the 2013 NCAA champion college basketball coach and #1 New York Times bestselling author.

Rick Pitino is famous as one of the most dynamic and successful basketball coaches of our time, leading the University of Louisville Cardinals to the NCAA basketball championship in 2013, and is renowned for... Read more

Sly Moves

By: Sylvester Stallone

Narrated by: Robb Webb

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Are you ready to be a contender? Sly’s action-oriented program for getting fit and eating right is a revealing portrait of one of Hollywood’s biggest slavesSly Moves—part candid autobiography, part nuts-and-bolts training manual, part motivational handbook—is a refreshingly sensible guide to getting immediate results that last a lifetime. It’s... Read more

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more

The Dangerous Book for Boys

By: Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Recapture Sunday afternoons and long summer days. This is a wonderful collection of all things that make being young, or young at heart, fun. These selections from the bestselling phenomenon Dangerous Book for Boys were chosen for easy, enjoyable listening independent of the book.Topics include:·        Questions about the World·        How to... Read more

Rebound Rules

By: Rick Pitino & Pat Forde

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Rick Pitino knows a thing or two about comebacks—on the court and in life.”—Louisville Courier-Journal Basketball legend Rick Pitino reveals his model of success built upon his experiences of failure and personal loss in Rebound Rules—a powerful, deeply personal book about never giving up. Recalling the tragedies that shaped his life and... Read more

The Long Snapper

By: Jeffrey Marx

Narrated by: Jeff Rechner

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Kinchen was a thirty-eight-year-old husband, father of four, and seventh-grade Bible teacher whose professional football career had been over for three years when the New England Patriots called on December 15, 2003. With the Patriots riding a ten-game winning streak and the playoffs only a few weeks away, they needed a fill-in for the... Read more

Red and Me

By: Bill Russell

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book."" — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book ReviewIn Red and Me, Boston Celtics... Read more

Crazy for the Storm

By: Norman Ollestad

Narrated by: Norman Ollestad

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Breathtaking....Crazy for the Storm will keep you up late into the night.”
—Washington Post Book World Norman Olstead’s New York Times bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing plane crash the author miraculously survived at age eleven, framed by the moving tale of his complicated relationship with his charismatic,... Read more

Sandy Koufax

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Charley Steiner

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal “Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living... Read more

The Last Boy

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Jane Leavy & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife... Read more

Steinbrenner

By: Bill Madden

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

No owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. From the moment he bought the team in 1973 for $10 million, Steinbrenner's monomaniacal pursuit was to restore the most fabled franchise in baseball history to its former glory. Today the New York Yankees are worth more than $1 billion and are once... Read more

Bounce

By: Matthew Syed

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in... Read more

Bottom of the 33rd

By: Dan Barry

Narrated by: Dan Barry

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax From Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust... Read more

Death Clutch

By: Brock Lesnar

Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The “baddest man on the planet,” undisputed, three-time WWE Champion and current UFC World Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesner, shares his true personal story of determination, domination, and survival in Death Clutch. A raw, no-holds-barred memoir from one of the most popular—and polarizing—figures in sports entertainment and professional mixed... Read more

Fiat Food

By: Matthew Lysiak & Saifedean Ammous

Narrated by: Matthew Lysiak

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

THE REAL COST OF INFLATION ON A COUNTRY can be best seen not through government-sanctioned data points circulated throughout the corporate sponsored media, but in the financial, physical, and mental health of its citizenry. Officials point to the increase of paper wealth as evidence that their stewardship in both the economy and nutrition has... Read more

The Joy of Gardening

By: Ellen Mary

Narrated by: Sarah Durham

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Getting outside, our hands in the earth, watching plants bud then burst into bloom: the slow pleasures of gardening are an age-old tonic for the soul.

From sowing seeds to deadheading flowers, growing your own potatoes to welcoming feathered friends into your own garden, discover the joy to be found in every moment of gardening by slowing down,... Read more

Great Rides According to G

By: Geraint Thomas

Narrated by: Joe Leat

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A bespoke collection of the best bike adventures from Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas's career

Across the UK, into Europe and further afield, these are the training rides, races and journeys closest to his heart. From one-day classics in the Peak District and Snowdonia to the rolling roads of Tuscany and the wide-open vistas of New Zealand's... Read more

My Family and Other Seedlings

By: Lalage Snow

Narrated by: Lally Snow

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'A tender but substantive family memoir' Sunday Independent

'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The Field

A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and... Read more