Modestly
By: Dina Torkia
Narrated by: Dina Torkia
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Modestly, written and read by Dina Torkia.
‘This is the story of my life. It’s about me as a Muslim Brit embracing dual identities, surviving the turbulent teens and transitioning from self-doubt to self-belief. There is a little bit of drama, lots of laughs, plenty of practical advice and a... Read more
Yes She Can
By: Ruth Davidson
Narrated by: Kate Harper, Ruth Davidson, Sandra Duncan, Sara...
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson gleans life lessons learned by inspirational women from around the world in a personal and inspirational book.
In Ruth Davidson's YES SHE CAN we meet world-beating women from fields as diverse as science, politics, the military, business and sport. They share their own journeys to the top -... Read more
How Does It Feel?
By: Mark Kermode
Narrated by: Mark Kermode
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric guitar and very little talent, he embarked on an alternative career - a chaotic journey which would take him from the halls and youth clubs of North... Read more
View audiobookGrowing up Aboriginal in Australia
By: Anita Heiss
Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza...
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the... Read more
View audiobookGrinding It Out
By: Ray Kroc
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc... Read more
View audiobookHow the Laser Happened
By: Charles H. Townes
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a pioneer in the study of gas clouds in galaxies and around stars. Throughout... Read more
View audiobookTry Not to Suck
By: Bill Chastain & Jesse Rogers
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch.
In Try Not... Read more
Running Against the Tide
By: Captain Lee
Narrated by: Captain Lee
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the star of Bravo’s hit reality show Below Deck comes Running Against the Tide, the “Stud of the Sea’s” first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas, where he has spent more than twenty-five years as a superyacht captain.
The cast members of Below Deck are known for their catfights, scheming,... Read more
Nobody Cares
By: Anne T. Donahue
Narrated by: Anne T. Donahue
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
“The internet’s best friend.” — Flare
From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said, Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties.
As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her... Read more
Dansa med träben
By: Solveig Cronström
Narrated by: Linnea Stenbeck
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Livet är en dans, och trillar man kan man för det mesta resa sig igen. Att dansa med träben innebär dock att fallet blir extra hårt... Ett maskrosbarn är en person som varit med om en fruktansvärd och instabil uppväxt, men som lyckats bli en fullt fungerande vuxen människa. Men att vara ett maskrosbarn är dock som att dansa genom livet med... Read more
View audiobookNotes for the Everlost
By: Kate Inglis
Narrated by: Kate Inglis
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.
Inglis's story is a springboard that can help other bereaved parents--and anyone who has experienced... Read more
My Own Devices
By: Dessa
Narrated by: Dessa
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“I love the way Dessa puts words together. In her songs, in her poetry, in her short stories, and now in this beautiful and candid memoir. Wanna be an artist? Get this book.”
--Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Dessa writes beautifully about a wide range of topics, including science, music, and the pain that comes with being in love; it's a surprising and... Read more
Julaftonsmordet - en komplicerad gåta
By: Diverse
Narrated by: Sebastian Karlsson
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Klockan 23.40 på julaftonskvällen 2001 ringer en man in till 112. När operatören frågar vad det är som har hänt svarar bara mannen kortfattat: "Jag har gjort ett mord." Genast är polisen igång, och man åker ut till den lägenhet som mannen förklarat att han befinner sig i, för han har lovat att stanna där han är. När polisen anländer möts de av... Read more
View audiobookThe Man Who Walked Backward
By: Ben Montgomery
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.
Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with... Read more
To Obama
By: Jeanne Marie Laskas
Narrated by: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, MacLeod An...
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. This is the story of the private and profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency. Their voices combine to reveal a diary of a nation.
Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written... Read more
Fins
By: William Knoedelseder
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were... Read more
View audiobookWhiskey in a Teacup
By: Reese Witherspoon
Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.
Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacup.”... Read more
Don't Unplug
By: Chris Dancy
Narrated by: Chris Dancy
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
In Don't Unplug, Chris Dancy, the world's most connected person, inspires listeners with practical advice to live a happier and healthier life using technology.
In 2002, Chris Dancy was overweight, unemployed, and addicted to technology. He chain-smoked cigarettes, popped pills, and was angry and depressed. But... Read more
Imagine It Forward
By: Beth Comstock & Tahl Raz
Narrated by: Beth Comstock
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
FROM ONE OF TODAY'S FOREMOST INNOVATION LEADERS, AN INSPIRING, PERSONAL APPROACH TO MASTERING CHANGE IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY.
NAMED A 2018 BEST BUSINESS BOOK PICK BY FAST COMPANY AND WIRED UK.
Confronting change is incredibly hard, both organizationally and personally. People become resistant. They are afraid. Yet the pace of change in our... Read more
Kafka's Last Trial
By: Benjamin Balint
Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka's last instruction: to burn his manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which... Read more
View audiobookTjugoettåring erkände liljekonvaljmordet
By: Diverse
Narrated by: Dan Bratt
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
En 73-årig kvinna hittas brutalt mördad i en skog strax utanför Halmstad. Hon har svåra skallskador och tydliga sticksår syns på hennes kropp. I sin hand håller hon en bukett liljekonvaljer. Utredningen rör sig snabbt framåt och när man till slut får en misstänkt märker polisen att saker och ting är mycket allvarligare än man trott...I Nordisk... Read more
View audiobookSchumann
By: Judith Chernaik
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella & Judith Chernaik
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer’s life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann’s nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many “masks” that gave voice to... Read more
View audiobookMy Bright Abyss
By: Christian Wiman
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith―responsive not only to... Read more
View audiobookCan You Ever Forgive Me?
By: Lee Israel
Narrated by: Jane Curtin
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy—Lee Israel’s hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others.
Before turning to her life of crime—running a... Read more