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Love, Loss, and What We Ate
By: Padma Lakshmi
Narrated by: Padma Lakshmi
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s HeartburnLong before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television... Read more
View audiobookDust Tracks on a Road
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“Warm, witty, imaginative.... This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerDust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature’s most compelling and influential authors. Hurston’s powerful novels of the South—including Jonah’s Gourd Vine... Read more
View audiobookLands of Lost Borders
By: Kate Harris
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic."" —Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab... Read more
View audiobookThe Woman Who Smashed Codes
By: Jason Fagone
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her... Read more
View audiobookTears Over Russia
By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more
View audiobookHoney, Baby, Mine
By: Laura Dern & Diane Ladd
Narrated by: Laura Dern & Diane Ladd
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother—legendary actress Diane Ladd.
What happens when we are brave enough to speak our truths to the ones we love the most?
Laura Dern and Diane Ladd always had a close relationship, but the stakes were raised... 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
London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency
By: Kate MacDougall
Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“ Sparkles with humor, joy and wit. London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency bounds along with the energy of a rambunctious pup and exudes the wisdom of a beloved canine with an old soul (you know the type)."" — BookPageThe irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for London’s busy, well-heeled dog... Read more
Dancing in the Mosque
By: Homeira Qaderi
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on... Read more
An Onion in My Pocket
By: Deborah Madison
Narrated by: Deborah Madison
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens," The Washington Post)—a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.
Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer... Read more
This Is My Story
By: Dr. Willie H. Clemons
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Dr. Willie H. Clemons's inspiring book, This Is My Story: This Is My Song: One Man's Journey To Turning Oppositions Into Opportunities And Fulfilling His Unique Gifts, shares his personal experiences and insights on growing up in Alabama. Along the way, the author weaves a beautiful and inspiring story of his journey to fulfilling his childhood... Read more
View audiobookBeyond the Bamboo Curtain
By: Dr. Michael Soon Lee
Narrated by: Dr. Michael Soon Lee
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This unique and informative book provides well-documented but little-known facts that will give listeners a deeper understanding of the cultural experience of Asians in America. Michael Soon Lee powerfully reveals how he overcame prejudice and discrimination to achieve success despite these obstacles. Shedding light on the diverse Asian American... Read more
View audiobookThe Most Human
By: Adam Nimoy
Narrated by: Adam Nimoy
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Living with Dad was like living with a stranger—as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek, I’d see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in... Read more
View audiobookWild Life
By: Rae Wynn-Grant
Narrated by: Rae Wynn-Grant
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist.
Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male... Read more
The Blues Brothers
By: Daniel De Visé
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. “We’re on a mission from God.” So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage. But Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the... Read more
View audiobookFacing Down the Furies
By: Edith Hall
Narrated by: Edith Hall
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves
In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces,... Read more
The Showman
By: Simon Shuster
Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety... Read more
View audiobookBoy Who Reached for the Stars, The \ El nino que alcanzó las estrellas (SPA) Una
By: Elio Morillo
Narrated by: Cesar Ramones
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
El joven ingeniero conocido como “el mecánico del espacio” (@THESPACEMECHANIC) comparte su apasionante historia, desde su infancia en Ecuador hasta su trabajo en la misión Marte 2020 de la NASA.Elio Morillo tenía cuatro años cuando una serie de dificultades económicas y familiares obligaron a su madre a abandonar Ecuador con él. En Nueva York, y... Read more
View audiobookSongs on Endless Repeat
By: Anthony Veasna So
Narrated by: Keong Sim
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * ShondalandBy the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late... Read more
View audiobookGrowing Seasons
By: Kristin Johns
Narrated by: Kristin Johns
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Pull up a chair and gather in close with entrepreneur and content creator Kristin Johns as she shares her best-kept secrets: mouthwatering recipes, design inspiration, and ways we all can grow, celebrate, and find nourishment in every season of life. Kristin Johns long dreamed of putting together a book of favorite recipes, ideas for interiors,... Read more
View audiobookA Brilliant Life
By: Rachelle Unreich
Narrated by: Rachel Griffiths
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There... Read more
View audiobookThe Old Gays Guide to the Good Life
By: Mick Peterson, Bill Lyons, Robert Reeves & Jess...
Narrated by: Mick Peterson, Bill Lyons, Robert Reeves & Jess...
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From America’s most beloved foursome—the TikTok sensation @theoldgays—a book of unexpected aspirational advice and inspirational stories drawn from their decades of living, from pre-Stonewall to the rise of the LGBTQ+ movement to gay marriage and beyond.Ranging in age from 67 to 80, Mick, Jessay, Robert, and Bill are the real-life Golden Girls... Read more
View audiobookLiving the Beatles Legend
By: Kenneth Womack
Narrated by: Gary T. Evans & Kenneth Womack
Length: 19 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie. Malcolm Evans, the Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band’s inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles’ story, contributing at times as a... Read more
View audiobookDear Jacob
By: Patty Wetterling & Joy Baker
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy’s remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob, told by his mother, Patty. With down-to-earth candor, she details the... Read more
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