Family & Relationships audiobooks

Building Resilience in Children and Teens, 4th ed

By: Kenneth R. Ginsburg

Narrated by: Miles Meili

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Help prepare the children and teens in your life to face life's challenges with grace and grit. In this award-winning guide, author and pediatrician Dr. Ken Ginsburg shares his 7 crucial Cs: competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. You'll discover how to incorporate these concepts into your parenting... Read more

Hollywood Park

By: Mikel Jollett

Narrated by: Mikel Jollett

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, and includes original music from the Airborne Toxic Event album, Hollywood Park

Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his... Read more

Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother

By: Barry Sonnenfeld

Narrated by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This outrageous and hilarious memoir follows a film and television director’s life, from his idiosyncratic upbringing to his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable... Read more

Once More We Saw Stars

By: Jayson Greene

Narrated by: Jayson Greene

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss.”
 --Cheryl Strayed

For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief.

As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her... Read more

And Now We Have Everything

By: Meaghan O'Connell

Narrated by: Meaghan O'Connell

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up.

When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So... Read more

The Tender Bar

By: J. R. Moehringer

Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Daniel Thomas May

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword.

J.R. Moehringer grew up... Read more

The Fact of a Body

By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Narrated by: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You


Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men... Read more

Queen Bees and Wannabes

By: Rosalind Wiseman

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“My daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand her and she won’t tell me anything. How can I find out what’s going on?”

“There’s a clique in my daughter’s grade that’s making her life miserable. She doesn’t want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and she’s too afraid to do anything. What can I... Read more

Here After

By: Amy Lin

Narrated by: Amy Lin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An ELLE Best (and Most Anticipated) Nonfiction Book of 2024 (“This book is a little wonder—a clear, utterly courageous act of love.”)A SheReads Most Anticipated Book of 2024Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist
Here After is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut... Read more

Seek

By: Scott Shigeoka

Narrated by: Scott Shigeoka

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Most people recognize the value of curiosity, but few know how to unleash it. Seek will help you close the gap between awareness and action. Scott Shigeoka’s thirst for understanding and connection is contagious, and his book is a timely bridge for our divided world.” ―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden... Read more

The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

Narrated by: Kate Zambreno

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“  —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 

From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss

In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and... Read more

We're All in This Together . . .

By: Tom Papa

Narrated by: Tom Papa

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"In 37 short essays comedian Tom Papa reminds listeners that life's absurdities are here to stay and that everyone is doing the best they can. His tone and delivery are comforting, heartwarming, even therapeutic."- AudioFile

Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work... Read more

Walking with Sam

By: Andrew McCarthy

Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam. 
 
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more... Read more

Without Children

By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast... Read more

Happily

By: Sabrina Orah Mark

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily”

“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.”—Kiese... Read more

Sink

By: Joseph Earl Thomas

Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.

Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack... Read more

Becoming Free Indeed

By: Jinger Vuolo

Narrated by: Jinger Vuolo

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller Read by the author.Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ.When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the... Read more

Somewhere Sisters

By: Erika Hayasaki

Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds.
 
The twins were born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1998, where their mother struggled to care for them. Hà was taken in by their biological aunt,... Read more

The Last Doctor

By: Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Schneller

Narrated by: Jean Marmoreo & Eve Crawford

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY*

An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners.


Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when... Read more

All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

Narrated by: Seán Hewitt

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist

“The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic •... Read more

The Crane Wife

By: CJ Hauser

Narrated by: CJ Hauser

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more

Where the Children Take Us

By: Zain E. Asher

Narrated by: Zain E. Asher

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There’s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is... Read more

Black Love Matters

By: Jessica P. Pryde

Narrated by: Jessica P. Pryde, Gina Daniels, Julienne Irons,...

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde.
 
Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in... Read more

Everything I Have Is Yours

By: Eleanor Henderson

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vacker's insightful presentation introduces listeners to this debilitating disease and its effects on marriage and family." - AudioFile Magazine

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s... Read more