Sports & Recreation audiobooks

What's Wrong with US?

By: Bruce Arena & Steve Kettmann

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Every four years, Americans turn their attention to the world’s game—soccer. As recently as 1998, the USMNT merely made up the numbers at the biggest sporting tournament of all, but once Bruce Arena took over the team, American soccer started to find its footing. In the 2002 World Cup, a highly-fancied Portugal team, featuring the great Ronaldo,... Read more

The Playmaker's Advantage

By: Leonard Zaichkowsky & Daniel Peterson

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the next frontier in sports training—improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience—and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life.

Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.

The playmaker on any sports team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining... Read more

Red Card

By: Ken Bensinger

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A riveting book” (The New York Times).

The FIFA... Read more

Self-Defense

By: Wesley Jones

Narrated by: Rick Paradis

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to defend yourself in any situation!The world is a dangerous place. Muggers, robbers, thieves, rapists, and murderers roam the streets, and we’re not even talking about simple dumb people who want to pick a fight or drank a little too much and lost their temper.Self-defense can be done with a clean conscience and should be learned by... Read more

Die bittere Wahrheit über Zucker - Abridged

By: Robert H. Lustig

Narrated by: Josef Vossenkuhl

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zucker ist giftig, macht abhängig und krank – ist aber gleichzeitig allgegenwärtig. Zuckerfrei zu leben scheint geradezu unmöglich. Da wir heutzutage immer beschäftigt sind und kaum Zeit zum Kochen haben, greifen wir auf verarbeitete Lebensmittel zurück. Aber genau diese sind verantwortlich dafür, dass viele Menschen immer weiter zunehmen und... Read more

When Life Grabs You by the Baseballs

By: Jon Peters, Ginger Kolbaba & John Smoltz

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When dreams collapse . . .Jon Peters had it all: record-breaking high school baseball pitcher, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a beautiful girlfriend. He was going to play professional baseball. He was going to have everything he'd ever wanted. Until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed his life. With dreams shattered, Jon struggled... Read more

Gazza in Italy

By: Daniel Storey

Narrated by: James Richardson

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, funny and insightful analysis of Paul Gascoigne’s crazy up and downs during his three years at Lazio – a period which shows his entire career in microcosm. 4th July, 1990. Turin, Italy England are on the brink of... Read more

Target Archery 2.0

By: HowExpert

Narrated by: JD Kelly

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re looking to find out more about archery then you’re definitely going to want to a look at this book because inside, you’ll find:• What’s the difference between different types of archery?• Why should you check out archery for yourself?• How can you get involved in competition?• What does it really take to become a proficient archer?•... Read more

Who Is Pele?

By: James Buckley, Jr. & Who HQ

Narrated by: David DeSantos

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a poor boy from Brazil who became the greatest soccer player of all time and one of the most important athletes of the twentieth century!

His parents may have named him Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but to the rest of the world, he was known as Pelé. The soccer forward stunned Brazil when he began playing for the Santos soccer club at... Read more

The Archetype Diet

By: Dana James

Narrated by: Dana James

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover your unique female archetype to combat emotional eating, lose weight, and become your happiest, healthiest you.

In working with thousands of women who wanted to lose weight and change the shape of their bodies, leading nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner Dana James observed a striking trend: no matter how diligent they... Read more

Farm from Home

By: Amanda Brooks

Narrated by: Amanda Brooks

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York style icon and fashion insider Amanda Brooks, a charming and inspiring meditation on life in her newly adopted home, a farm in the English countryside. 

In search of a quieter, simpler life away from the hustle of the city, style icon and longtime New Yorker Amanda Brooks moved with her family in 2012 from New York City to her... Read more

Happy, Healthy You

By: KJ Landis

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Health and wellness: Happy Healthy You is a multidisciplinary approach to reclaiming ultimate wellness. We are all so busy nowadays, and tackling all those to-do lists can leave us drained, worn down, and lacking energy. When you take a deeper look inside, you will also discover patterns, old habits, and past events blocking self-growth. Life... Read more

The Comeback

By: Daniel de Vis

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In July of 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world's pre-eminent bicycle race, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his life in peril after a hunting accident, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And... Read more

Bruce Lee

By: Matthew Polly

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 19 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.

Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew... Read more

The Heartbeat Diet

By: Jeannette Murueta

Narrated by: Cheyenne Bizon

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Heartbeat Diet puts you in control of your weight with the latest weight-loss breakthrough of monitoring your heart rate to make sure you are burning fat between meals.As long as you get your target fat-burning heart rate at rest between meals, your basal metabolic rate will do the work enabling you to lose weight naturally. Discover your... Read more

Sevens Heaven

By: Ben Ryan

Narrated by: Ben Ryan

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

The uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team

It is late summer 2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing Englishman, is given 20 minutes to decide whether he wants to coach Fiji's rugby sevens... Read more

Eat, Drink, Run.

By: Bryony Gordon

Narrated by: Bryony Gordon

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon.

Bryony Gordon was not a runner. A loafer, a dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. Yet somehow, as she began to recover from the emotional rollercoaster of laying her life bare in her mental health memoir MAD GIRL, she started to... Read more

Out of the Clouds

By: Linda Carroll & David Rosner

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen.

In the wake of... Read more

David Beckham: Born to Play

By: B.A. Roth

Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

David Beckham—the world-famous soccer star, celebrity, and sports icon—has joined the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team! As captain of England’s famous soccer team, Manchester United, Beckham singlehandedly scored 85 spectacular goals and became the only English player to score in three World Cups. Read more

Jackie Robinson: He Led the Way

By: April Jones Prince

Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jackie Robinson became the first black Major League baseball player of the modern era when he stepped onto the field as a Brooklyn Dodger in 1947. In simple, engaging language, this audiobook follows Jackie from childhood through his career as an MVP-award winning baseball player and a hero of the civil rights movement. This book is perfect for... Read more

The Lean Farm

By: Ben Hartman

Narrated by: Robert David Grant

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation To many people today, using the words “factory” and “farm” in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply whether you are producing cars or carrots. Author Ben Hartman and other young farmers are... Read more

Camping Tips

By: Wesley Jones

Narrated by: Rick Paradis

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Great. You’re going on a camping trip. Now what? Many people have no clue what to do when they’re camping. When this is the case, it can turn into a boring, frustrating downgrade from a hotel room, or even your own home. But camping can be fun and interesting in a variety of ways. Learn to make the most of your experience in nature and become a... Read more

Quidditch im Wandel der Zeiten

By: J.K. Rowling

Narrated by: Anne Düe, Gabriele Blum & Rufus Beck

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit seiner Veröffentlichung ist Quidditch im Wandel der Zeiten eines der beliebtesten Bücher in der Bibliothek von Hogwarts. Dieser unentbehrliche Leitfaden zum beliebtesten Spiel der magischen Gemeinschaft wurde bereits von Harry Potter, Hermine Granger und vielen anderen gelesen.

Quidditch hat sich von seinen Anfängen im Queerditch Marsh im... Read more

Björn Borg

By: Björn Hellberg

Narrated by: Tomas Högblom

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Tennisspelaren Björn Borg är en av Sveriges mest kända idrottsmän genom tiderna. Den här boken skrevs 1977, mitt i hans enastående karriär, och beskriver ett tennisfenomen av sällan skådat slag. Författaren Björn Hellberg berättar historien om den blyge och tillbakadragne stockholmaren som tog världen med storm. En storm som både ledde till... Read more