Education audiobooks

Strings Attached

By: Joanne Lipman

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Eliza Foss

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE.

If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or a family friend.

For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a... Read more

The Last Lecture

By: Randy Pausch

Narrated by: Eric Singer

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic."We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy PauschA lot of professors give talks titled "The Last... Read more

Do More, Spend Less

By: Brad Wilson

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It's tough in the consumer world. The good news? The entire basis for how to best shop, spend, travel, bank--essentially all aspects of being a consumer--is fundamentally changing. The power is now in your hands. Do More, Spend Less is your road map to get off the default path, turn the tables on the banks, airlines, hotels, cell phone... Read more

The Etymologicon

By: Mark Forsyth

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Do you know why…

…a mortgage is literally a death pledge? …why guns have girls’ names? …why salt is related to soldier?

You’re about to find out…

The Etymologicon (e-t?-‘mä-lä-ji-kän) is:
*Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor
*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge
*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive


The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide... Read more

They Say, I Say

By: Cathy Birkenstein & Gerald Graff

Narrated by: Tony Craine & Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling book on academic writing—in use at more than 1,500 schools.

“They Say / I Say” identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all... Read more

Middle School Makeover

By: Michelle Icard

Narrated by: Rose Itzcovitz

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The audiobook helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face. Author Michelle... Read more

The Horologicon

By: Mark Forsyth

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized.

Find yourself pretending to work? That’s fudgelling.

And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don’t get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.

The Horologicon (or book... Read more

Religious Literacy

By: Stephen Prothero

Narrated by: Stephen Prothero

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

What's Your Religious Literacy IQ? Quick—can you: Name the four Gospels? Name a sacred text of Hinduism? Name the holy book of Islam? Name the first five books of the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament?Name the Ten Commandments? Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism? If you can't, you're not alone. We are a religiously illiterate... Read more

Making a Difference

By: Chesley B. Sullenberger

Narrated by: Chesley B. Sullenberger & Michael McConnohie

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most captivating heroes of the last decade and the author of the New York Times bestseller Highest Duty explores the nature of leadership with some of America's best and brightestAt a time of political polarization and economic turmoil, we yearn for superior leadership. Few have demonstrated this trait better than Captain ""Sully""... Read more

Radical

By: Michelle Rhee

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings—not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the... Read more

You Are Not Special

By: David McCullough, Jr.

Narrated by: David McCullough, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

David McCullough, Jr.'s high school commencement address of 2012, dubbed "You Are Not Special," was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike. With wit and a perspective earned from raising four children and teaching high school students for nearly thirty years, McCullough expands on his speech—taking a hard look at hovering parents,... Read more

Fluent in 3 Months

By: Benny Lewis

Narrated by: Benny Lewis

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any... Read more

Thinking Differently

By: David Flink

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently, David Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye—a national mentoring... Read more

God and Man at Yale

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the book that launched Buckley's career—and a movement. As a young recent graduate, Buckley took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical withdrawal from the tenets upon which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God exists, and thus virtue and individualism represent immutable... Read more

The Hollow Men

By: Charles J. Sykes

Narrated by: Michael Wells

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

College curriculums that were once centered on instruction in the classics of Western civilization have become smorgasbords where almost anything qualifies as a course in the liberal arts and where political conformity is enforced by professors. Stanford University, caving in to demands from the Black Student Union (“We don’t want to read any... Read more

Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington

Narrated by: Noah Waterman

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his... Read more

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By: Anna Harriette Leonowens

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1870 memoir, which was the basis for the musical The King and I, vividly recounts the experiences of Anna Harriette Leonowens, who served as a governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role, and her writings... Read more

A Personal Odyssey

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this... Read more

Voucher Wars

By: Clint Bolick

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells... Read more

American Literature

By: Francis E. Skipp PhD

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

Psychology

By: Don Baucum PhD

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in its subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

God’s Harvard

By: Hanna Rosin

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname “God’s Harvard.” Most of these students are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the... Read more

The Courage to Teach, Tenth Anniversary Edition

By: Parker J. Palmer

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad—and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life.”— Parker J. Palmer, from the IntroductionFor many years, Parker Palmer has worked on behalf of... Read more

We Can Do

By: Moshe Kai Cavalin

Narrated by: Cristofer Jean

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Moshe Kai Cavalin entered college at eight and graduated at the tender young age of eleven. Throughout We Can Do, Moshe Kai emphasizes that he is not a genius and that any youngster—with good planning, a strong heart, hard work, and a resilient mind—can succeed beyond any expectations. Cavalin tells listeners, “I was able to reach the moon, but... Read more