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Love Is an Ex-Country
By: Randa Jarrar
Narrated by: Randa Jarrar
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America.
Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an... Read more
Borges and Me
By: Jay Parini
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis... Read more
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Dirt
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal
What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
By: Sean Dietrich
Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready... Read more
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A Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
Narrated by: Hisham Matar
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD
After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always... Read more
Chesapeake Requiem
By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus ""BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND... Read more
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Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
By: Sheba Karim
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more
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Travel as a Political Act
By: Rick Steves
Narrated by: Rick Steves
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.
With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's... Read more
In Other Words
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:... Read more
The Geography of Genius
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more
The Oregon Trail
By: Rinker Buck
Narrated by: Rinker Buck
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more
No Walk in the Park
By: Michael Engelhard
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In the footsteps of Desert Solitaire, these essays by an award-winning writer and student of culture sift decades of experience backpacking and boating for a stance that questions the mainstream. More than mere tales of bravado, they offer glimpses into the heart of the places explored, with the Grand Canyon as their center of gravity. Vivid,... Read more
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Completely Mad
By: James R. Hansen
Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary—and extraordinarily different—adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat . . . alone.
The two men couldn't have been more different. John Fairfax was a playboy, gambler, gun smuggler, and... Read more
Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
By: Priyanka Mattoo
Narrated by: Priyanka Mattoo
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.
"I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat... Read more
The New Tourist
By: Paige McClanahan
Narrated by: Paige McClanahan
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse—essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust.
Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe—from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam... Read more
Abenteuer Atlantik
By: Guido Lange
Narrated by: Guido Lange
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Das "Abenteuer Atlantik" sind zwei Reisen mit dem Rennrad und "schmalem Gepäck" entlang der Atlantikküste Europas: - von Rotterdam (NL) über Belgien, den Pays du Nord und der Normandie in die Bretagne - Brest (F) (1350 km) - von Huelva (ES) über die portugiesische Küste, Galicien, Asturien ins Baskenland weiter an der Küste nach Norden wieder... Read more
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
By: Glynnis MacNicol
Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie?
Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets.
After New York City emptied out in March 2020,... Read more
The Countryside
By: Corinne Fowler
Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal the countryside’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism—a work of accessible history that will transform our understanding of British landscapes and heritage.
The green fields, rugged highlands, and rolling hills of England, Scotland, and Wales are commonly associated with adventure,... Read more
Ben & Me
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that’s part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription.
Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of only two non-presidents to appear on US currency, Franklin... Read more
12 Trips in 12 Months
By: Jen Ruiz
Narrated by: Jen Ruiz
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A LibraryReads pick for Notable NonfictionBestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be—and empowering others to do the same.The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz decided to change everything. Despite being professionally... Read more
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Hello, South Korea
By: DK Eyewitness
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Korea is a global phenomenon. K-pop tops the charts, kimchi spices up meals and K-drama dominates TV screens. Now, it’s time to discover more of the country and culture that’s captivated the world.
It might be a powerhouse of popular culture, but South Korea is so much more than BTS and bibimbap – and with this book, it’s yours to explore. Dive... Read more
Traveling Without Moving
By: Taiyon J. Coleman
Narrated by: Keyonni James
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you're Taiyon J. Coleman, you write.
In Traveling without Moving, Coleman shares intimate essays from her life: her childhood in Chicago—growing up in poverty with four siblings and a single... Read more
Impossible City
By: Simon Kuper
Narrated by: Tim Frances
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.
When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other
plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the... Read more
Abenteuer Island
By: Guido Lange
Narrated by: Guido Lange
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Das Abenteuer Island war eine ganz besondere Reise mit dem Gravelbike rund um die Insel aus Feuer und Eis! Ein wertvolles Hörbuch voller Begegnungen und Erlebnissen in der Natur und Schönheit Islands. In 20 Tagen rund um Island nicht nur auf der Ringstrasse Nummer 1 sondern im Norden und Osten weit in die einsamen Fjorde hinein sieht man das... Read more
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