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In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that... Read more
Babyhood
By: Paul Reiser
Narrated by: Paul Reiser
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
I'm going to be totally honest. This is not the kind of audiobook that can help you. It's not a "how-to," a "when-to," or a "what-to-expect." It's not even endorsed by anyone remotely connected to the medical profession. (Although a cousin of mine who sells carpeting to doctors' offices not only found it "insightful" and "informative," but... Read more
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Bella Tuscany - Abridged
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more
Eiger Dreams - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
In Pakistan, the fearsome... Read more
Rants Redux - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Why are Americans so disinterested in politics? Because we can be. Democracy is voluntary. And our lack of interest hasn't happened overnight. It can be traced directly back to our ever-decreasing attention spans. We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez-small, sweet, and coming out of a funny plastic head.
Why has flying in... Read more
The Rants - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There's good news for those that rage at the evening news, shake their heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom from social crisis to political crisis to economic crisis: Dennis Miller is back, and he means to shake the nation by its lapels.
Miller respects no boundaries. Whether the subject is... Read more
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more
On Mexican Time - Abridged
By: Tony Cohan
Narrated by: Tony Cohan
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets... Read more
The Great Republic - Abridged
By: Winston S. Churchill
Narrated by: Winston S. Churchill
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best short histories of the ... Read more
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Ranting Again - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dennis Miller is back, and he is Ranting Again in this hilarious compendium of wit, wisdom, and righteous outrage. This is good news for all of us who fume at the country's lack of common sense, and seethe at the absurdity of the daily headlines.
Setting his sights higher and wider than ever before, Dennis Miller is at the top of his game,... Read more
I Rant, Therefore I Am - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.
Dennis Miller first gained national... Read more
Faithful Travelers - Abridged
By: James Dodson
Narrated by: James Dodson
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In Final Rounds, James Dodson told the poignant story of the golf trip of a lifetime with his terminally ill father. Now, armed with a fly-fishing rod and reel, he embarks with his seven-year-old daughter on an equally memorable journey across America in search of clear-running streams, swift elusive fish, and the eternal truths that only nature... Read more
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A Walk in the Woods - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more
Sinbad's Guide to Life - Abridged
By: Sinbad
Narrated by: Sinbad
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A hilarious guide to life from a man who has "lived large and fallen hard--lost every job I ever had, messed up everybody I've ever dated, been kicked out of every institution I've ever been in"--and still survived; offering observations on courage ("Lots of guys brag they'd fight off anything to save their woman. Yeah, right--there is no sense... Read more
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Confederates in the Attic - Abridged
By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more
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Neither Here Nor There - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. As he makes his way round this incredibly... Read more
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Life Stories
By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Amy Irving, Philip Bosco & Alton Fitzgerald White
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the... Read more
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River Horse - Abridged
By: William Heat-Moon & William Least heat-moon
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth -- recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes,... Read more
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How Paul Robeson Saved My Life
By: Carl Reiner
Narrated by: Carl Reiner
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleven-time Emmy Award winner and icon of American comedy, Carl Reiner, performs a sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of two dozen multi-dimensional short stories— some true and others merely tales. Included in this collection are stories about a man too handsome for his personality, a lifetime bond that is created by a football... Read more
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Towards A New World Culture: The Synthesis Dialogues: Part 4
By: Dalai Lama
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the fall of 1999, forty innovative thinkers from around the world gathered with H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet at his home in Dharamsala, northern India, for a special invitation-only dialogue about the future of humanity and the planet. In this the conclusion of the four part special series we join the participants for a private audience with... Read more
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Comrades - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.
Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them... Read more
More Charles Kuralt's American Moments - Abridged
By: Charles Kuralt
Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what makes the United States so special.
An American Moment with Charles Kuralt -- a timeless series of television essays about uniquely American people, places, and ideas --... Read more
The Fabric of the Future
By: MJ Ryan, Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, Marianne Will...
Narrated by: Gayle Madeline Randall, Andrea Thompson, Tracy ...
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Provocative and enlightening essays about transforming our future by such visionaries as Shakti Gawain, Gloria Steinem, Angeles Arrien, Sylvia Boorstein, Joan Borysenko, Z Budapest, Flor Fernandez, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Luisah Teish, Rama Vernon, and Marianne Williamson.Where do we go from here, and in practical terms, what must we do to get... Read more
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
By: Jean Kerr
Narrated by: Marni Webb
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal... Read more
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