Family & Relationships audiobooks

If the Buddha Dated

By: Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Kasl, bestselling author, spiritual practitioner, and therapist, brings a compassionate understanding to the anxiety and uneasiness of new love, and helps listeners discover their potential for vibrant human connection based on awareness, kindness, and honesty. She approaches the dating process as a means for awakening, reminding us... Read more

Common Ground

By: J. Anthony Lukas

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 35 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible . . . a truth about... Read more

#ChurchToo

By: Emily Joy Allison

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. Not a single denomination is unaffected. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or... Read more

Career and Family

By: Claudia Goldin

Narrated by: Nancy Crane

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home

A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today,... Read more

It's Never Too Late to Sleep Train

By: Craig Canapari, MD

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading pediatric sleep physician comes a revolutionary program that will have everyone in the house sleeping through the night.

When Dr. Craig Canapari became a father, he realized that all his years of 36-hour hospital shifts didn't even come close to preparing him for the sleep deprivation that comes with parenthood. The difference is... Read more

The Five Languages of Apology

By: Gary Chapman & Jennifer Thomas

Narrated by: Gary Chapman & Jennifer Thomas

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"I said I was sorry!"  Real life involves real people who make real mistakes. Sometimes saying “I’m sorry” just isn’t enough. The need for apologies impacts all human relationships. The good news is that you can learn the art of apology. Through their research and interaction with hundreds of individuals, counselor Dr. Jennifer Thomas and Dr.... Read more

Teach Your Own

By: John Holt & Pat Farenga

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic guide to teaching children at home for a new generation of homeschooling parents  In 2019, there were more than two million children being homeschooled. That number doubled during the pandemic and is now likely to continue increasing as more parents worry that school might not be the best place for their children to learn and... Read more

Relationships

By: The School of Life

Narrated by: Fiona Buckland

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh approach to matters of the heart, teaching us that success in love need never again be just a matter of luck. Love has a history and we ride—sometimes rather helplessly—on its currents. Since around 1750, we have been living in a highly distinctive era in the history of love that we can call Romanticism. And it has been a disaster for... Read more

A Lifelong Love

By: Gary Thomas

Narrated by: Gary Thomas

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A good marriage isn’t something found; it’s something made. In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling book A Lifelong Love, author Gary Thomas shares that when couples pursue spiritual purpose and worship it builds lasting intimacy and friendship between them.  
 
In A Lifelong Love, Thomas takes couples on three essential journeys... Read more

ADHD Effects on Relationships

By: Jessica Gray

Narrated by: Robyn Mary Bouedo

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is it so difficult to love someone with ADHD?Can you no longer cope with your partner’s behavior?Does attention deficit disorder strain your romantic relationship? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can cause misunderstandings, frustrations and resentments; even in close-knit romantic relationships. There are lots of couples in which... Read more

Better Breastfeeding

By: Linda D. Dahl, MD

Narrated by: Linda D. Dahl, MD

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate modern-day breastfeeding guide, with empowering, medically sound advice and solutions for the trickiest issues—from a pioneering ENT doctor and breastfeeding expert.

In today’s breastfeeding-friendly environment, the pressure to nurse is intense. We hear over and over that breastfeeding is natural, and every woman can do it. The... Read more

Blessed Are the Misfits

By: Brant Hansen

Narrated by: Brant Hansen

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

If you've ever felt like you don't fit into American church culture... Brant Hansen has been there, too. Join Hansen as he explores modern Christianity, the beauty of being different, and the astonishing goodness of God.American church culture can feel designed for extroverted, emotional people -- so what does that mean for the rest of us? Brant... Read more

Excitable Boy

By: Dominic Gordon

Narrated by: Dominic Gordon & Kyle Walmsley

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour.

What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of... Read more

The 5 Apology Languages

By: Gary Chapman & Jennifer Thomas

Narrated by: Bill A. Jones & Jenna Rose Stein

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“I said I was sorry! What more do you want?”Even in the best of relationships, we mess up. We say and do things we deeply regret later on. So we need to make things right. But just saying you’re sorry isn’t enough. That’s only the first step on the road to restoration.In The 5 Apology Languages, Gary Chapman, the #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more

Woman of Interest

By: Tracy O'Neill

Narrated by: Jeena Yi

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

MOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: The Millions, LitHub, Esquire, BookRiot, Bustle, Vulture, Boston Globe, Brit & Co, Southern LivingA National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the... Read more

The Danish Way of Raising Teens

By: Iben Dissing Sandahl

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the parenting secrets that make Danish teens the happiest in the world

If you read the bestselling The Danish Way of Parenting, you will have already discovered the secret to the happiest children in the world. Here, co-author and psychotherapist Iben Dissing Sandahl will bring to life the Danish upbringing values that form the basis of... Read more

Last Chance Couple Therapy

By: Peter Fraenkel

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Strategies and skills for therapists working with couples about to dissolve.



Therapy with couples on the brink of relationship dissolution involves unique challenges. Partners present with high levels of conflict, low levels of intimate connection, disdain and discouragement, and limited patience or hope. These couples have often tried therapy... Read more

A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother

By: Anna Prushinskaya

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother, Anna Prushinskaya explores the deep life shifts of pregnancy, birth and motherhood in the United States, a world away from the author's Soviet homeland. Drawing from inspirations as various as midwife Ina May Gaskin, writer and activist Alice Walker, filmmaker Sophia Kruz and frontierswoman Caroline... Read more

This American Ex-Wife

By: Lyz Lenz

Narrated by: Lyz Lenz

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz

“This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding bouquet), a memoir, a manifesto, and a... Read more

How to ADHD

By: Jessica McCabe

Narrated by: Jessica McCabe

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain.

“The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many... Read more

Expecting Better

By: Emily Oster

Narrated by: Emily Oster & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way.” —Amy Schumer

What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist and author of Cribsheet, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected... Read more

In the Weeds

By: B.K. Borison

Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

By: Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support them through this critical developmental stage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure

In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today’s teens... Read more

How to Walk into a Room

By: Emily P. Freeman

Narrated by: Emily P. Freeman

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerIf life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we’re in is no longer a room where we belong?What do you do when you start to feel a shift and must decide if it’s time to make a change? When it comes to navigating big decisions about when to stay and go, how can we know for sure when the... Read more