Burning Audiobooks to CD to play in car

I upgraded from QuickTime7 to QuicktimePro and with the free download from quickTime 6.5 to 7.0 the download included iTunes. And before this I always purchased my audiobooks from Walmart.
With that said I will go on to my question.
When trying to burn the book to a disc to listen to in the car, is there anyway the book can be converted to a format my car cd player will support? You know, like a .wav file or something.:-) I am trying to be cute but the truth is when it comes to burning or dealing with music in anyway I am simply put Lost in Space.
I know the computer very well just had no reason to deal with any audio or video files ever before. Therefore I cannot troubleshoot since I don't know anything about the file formats. I do know about hardware supporting file formats so I probaly will be able to follow anything of help.
It's a 15.35 Hr. book so I would rather ask someones help than try a go at it myself. I am a woman who knows her limitations. Thanks to any kind person.
Compaq PC and HP laptop Windows XP Service pk 2, windows firewall turned off, purchassing and downloading audiobooks

No problem that I am the only one with 0 answers. If I could take the question off I would rather seem like an idiot

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