Language audiobooks

Travelers German

By: Cortina Learning

Narrated by: Cortina Learning

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn German by listening to Cortina Travelers German... any time... anywhere.

You learn German as easily, as naturally, as you learned English.

With Cortina Travelers German, you learn German naturally, as a child learns... by listening and repeating what you hear. Read more

Travelers French

By: Cortina Learning

Narrated by: Cortina Learning

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn French by listening to Cortina Travelers French... any time... anywhere.

You learn French as easily, as naturally, as you learned English.

With Cortina Travelers French, you learn French naturally, as a child learns...by listening and repeating what you hear. Read more

Ingles Basico

By: Cortina Learning

Narrated by: Cortina Learning

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Inglés Básico presents instruction in basic, useful topics in an accessible format.

Designed to be used without having to refer to the text, these recorded lessons can be absorbed easily while driving, walking, or doing household chores. Digital technology insures that the quality of the voice reproduction will be crystal clear, so that students... Read more

The Roots of Violence

By: Susan Griffin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dialogue, Susan Griffin explores the relationship between what happens in our intimate lives and the violence we express individually and as a nation. She explains, "The idea that we have to get somebody with a lot of muscles to take care of us happens when our core relationship to our own feelings has been erased." Read more

Engaging Life's Conversation

By: David Whyte

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

David Whyte has the poet's gift of taking us deep into the most intimate moments of life and noticing the details most of us miss, the details that make us truly alive. His willingness to expose his vulnerability gives us courage to engage our own. Read more

True Notebooks - Abridged

By: Mark Salzman

Narrated by: Mark Salzman

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years... Read more

Writing From The Heart

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

If you've ever wished to sit down over a cup of tea and a plate of chocolates for an intimate conversation with a favorite author, you'll treasure this dialogue. Isabel Allende reflects on her early years in Chile, her decision to take her family into exile, the culture she left behind, and her views on politics and feminism in the world today.... Read more

True Notebooks

By: Mark Salzman

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years... Read more

How To Talk To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere - Abridged

By: Larry King

Narrated by: Larry King

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some find talking to others uncomfortable, difficult, or intimidating. Here is a way to overcome these communication challenges. How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere is the key to building confidence and improving communication skills. Written by Larry King, this guide provides simple and practical advice to help make communication easier,... Read more

Activism With Heart And Soul: A Dialogue With Alice Walker, Part 1 Of 2

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Part one of two. Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics—poetry and writing, Mexico and The South, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change, death and transformations, and much more—Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance. Read more

Activism With Heart And Soul: A Dialogue With Alice Walker, Part 2 Of 2

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Part two of two. Speaking from the heart on a wide range of topics—poetry and writing, Mexico and The South, family and relationship, Buddhism and spiritual teachers, power and greed, politics and social change, death and transformations, and much more—Walker addresses these challenging times and how to live in balance. Read more

Speak Up With Confidence

By: Jack Valenti

Narrated by: Jack Valenti

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Public speaking is one of the most intimidating and important aspects of many jobs. As a one-time speech writer for President Johnson, and in his current position as president of the M.P.A.A., Jack Valenti has written and delivered speeches in all kinds of settings. Originally published in 1982, Speak Up with Confidence is an indispensable... Read more

The Power of Story in Social Change

By: Susan Griffin

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Author, poet and social activist Susan Griffin sees that we are in somewhat of a box, and that we need the visionary power of art to help us find our way out. "I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever." Read more

Mark Twain - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns & Dayton Duncan

Narrated by: Bill Meisle

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not have been... Read more

The New Joys of Yiddish - Abridged

By: Leo Rosten

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin, Peter Riegert, Harry Goz, Michael G...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students,... Read more

Words of Wisdom: Quotes By His Holiness the Dalai Lama

By: Margaret Gee

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Respected and loved by millions of people around the world, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, is a powerful and profound man. The Tibetan spiritual leader’s words of wisdom resonate with everyone from world leaders to the common man. 
 
Born into a peasant family, the Dalai Lama was two years old when he was recognized as the... Read more

Wordbuilders: Volume 6 - Abridged

By: Audio University

Narrated by: Audio University

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Wordbuilders: The convenient and entertaining way to build a more powerful vocabulary. Each 60-minute entry in the series features 40 words used in everyday conversation, or in the media and books, but which many people skip, finding them difficult or even impossible to define or pronounce accurately. 
 
Using highly effective mnemonic devices... Read more

Wordbuilders Volume 5 - Abridged

By: Audio University

Narrated by: Audio University

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Wordbuilders: The convenient and entertaining way to build a more powerful vocabulary. Each 60-minute entry in the series features 40 words used in everyday conversation, or in the media and books, but which many people skip, finding them difficult or even impossible to define or pronounce accurately. 
 
Using highly effective mnemonic devices... Read more

Wordbuilders: Volumes 1-4 - Abridged

By: Audio University

Narrated by: Audio University

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Wordbuilders: the convenient and entertaining way to build a more powerful vocabulary. Each sixty-minute audiobook volume within this series features forty words used in everyday conversation, or in the media and books, but which many people skip, finding these words difficult or even impossible to define or pronounce accurately. Using highly... Read more

Eco World:  What Price Fun?

By: Mark Hertsgaard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, Mark Hertsgaard began an odyssey that lasted six years and spanned nineteen countries.  His was a journey into the gripping truth about the escalating environmental crisis.   Here, in his remarkable account of his travels, he faces the hard realities of nuclear technology, overpopulation, excessive consumerism and greed, with heart and... Read more

Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. For more than thirty-five years, he delighted us with his On the Road reports, as an anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, and with bestselling books that include On the Road with Charles Kuralt and Charles Kuralt's America. As... Read more

Rumi: The Supreme Mystical Guide

By: Andrew Harvey

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

There is probably no one more qualified to illuminate the life and work of Jalaluddin Rumi, the great thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet, than Andrew Harvey, who possesses the very eloquence and passion he admires in Rumi's work.  Harvey likens Rumi to Buddha, Ramakrishna, Shakespeare and Jesus Christ. Read more

Inspire Any Audience

By: Tony Jeary

Narrated by: Tony Jeary

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Find out why Zig Ziglar calls this the “ultimate presenter’s handbook.” From presentation planning to conquering jitters to getting an action response, this guide covers everything you need to know to positively inspire any audience. Read more

El Regalo De Navidad

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Angel Pineda

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"No importa la razón, el hecho es que cada Navidad que pasa, descubro que la historia de la Caja de Navidad se cuenta cada vez menos y se necesita cada vez más. Por lo tanto la escribo ahora, para que las futures generaciones la tomen o la dejen según les plazca. Por lo que a mi respecta, creo en ella. Dispués de todo, se trata de mi propia... Read more