The Life Scientific: Explorers
By: Anna Buckley
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific
'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, Telegraph
Based on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers takes science out of its box and introduces us to the men and women who... Read more
Michael O'Leary
By: Matt Cooper
Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Michael O'Leary by Matt Cooper, read by Stephen Hogan.
September 2017. Ryanair cancels over 700,000 bookings and its powerful PR juggernaut comes shuddering to a halt. For once, the airline's aggressive and flamboyant CEO, Michael O'Leary, is contrite and apologetic.
A month later Ryanair announces... Read more
Bad Singer
By: Tim Falconer
Narrated by: Matthew Edison
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness — and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music.Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music,... Read more
View audiobookButterfly on a Pin
By: Alannah Hill
Narrated by: Alannah Hill
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Alannah Hill, one of Australia's most successful fashion designers, created an international fashion brand that defied trends with ornamental, sophisticated elegance, beads, bows and vintage florals. But growing up in a milk bar in Tasmania, Alannah's childhood was one of hardship, fear and abuse. At an early age she ran away from home with... Read more
View audiobookKrävde 55 miljoner i lösen för Siba-direktör
By: Diverse
Narrated by: Oscar Askelöf
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
33-årige Fabian Bengtsson övermannades den 17 januari 2005 och hölls sedan inspärrad i en ljusisolerad låda i sjutton dygn. Under denna tid förhandlade två kidnappade med offrets föräldrar och krävde drygt 55 miljoner kronor för att släppa honom fri. Men kidnappardramat fick en oväntad upplösning: Fabian Bengtsson släpptes utan att någon lösen... Read more
View audiobookStoryworthy
By: Matthew Dicks
Narrated by: Matthew Dicks & John Glouchevitch
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and why doing so matters.Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions... Read more
View audiobookBelichick
By: Ian O'Connor
Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
Length: 21 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach, Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL-the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the... Read more
View audiobookHandcrafted
By: Clint Harp
Narrated by: Clint Harp
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A moving and inspirational memoir from the beloved maverick carpenter on HGTV’s smash hit Fixer Upper that shows how to turn your hobbies and craft into a career and celebrates the power of meaningful work.
Now known to the countless fans of Fixer Upper as Chip and Joanna Gaines’s go-to table maker and acclaimed artisan, Clint Harp hasn’t always... Read more
Erebus
By: Michael Palin
Narrated by: Michael Palin
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” —Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage.Michael Palin brings the fascinating... Read more
View audiobookThe King of Con
By: Thomas Giacomaro & Natasha Stoynoff
Narrated by: Thomas Giacomaro
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hunger to be king of the business world, Tom Giacomaro could convince anyone of anything. As a teenager, Tom Giacomaro began working in the mob-laden New Jersey trucking industry. A charming, brash-talking salesman, he climbed the ranks, and let his... Read more
View audiobookHiking with Nietzsche
By: John Kaag
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker, Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later and in quite different circumstances: as a husband and father. His wife and small child in tow,... Read more
View audiobookMussolini and Hitler
By: Christian Goeschel
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally.
Goeschel, a scholar of... Read more
American Like Me
By: America Ferrera
Narrated by: America Ferrera, Bambadjan Bamba, Joy Cho, Auli...
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... Read more
The Lady Queen
By: Nancy Goldstone
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial -- and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages.
On March 15, 1348, twenty-two-year-old Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for the murder of her husband before the Pope and his court in Avignon. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against... Read more
Buffy Sainte-Marie
By: Andrea Warner
Narrated by: Andrea Warner & Buffy Sainte-Marie
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary—an authorized insight into the making of a legend." —Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries
A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this,... Read more
God Is in the Crowd
By: Tal Keinan
Narrated by: Tal Keinan
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Enthralling, searching, profound, an extraordinarily powerful work on Jewish identity in the twenty-first century.”—Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
A bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force
God Is in the Crowd is an... Read more
Miles and Me
By: Quincy Troupe
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Quincy Troupe's account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistically and personally. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography, Troupe-one of the major poets to emerge... Read more
View audiobookWhat Now, Lieutenant?
By: Robert O. Babcock
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Every now and then a work comes along that is so simple and refreshing in its originality that it immediately captures the spirit of American fighting men throughout the ages. Such is this work by Bob Babcock. What makes this work unique is that it is based upon his wartime writing as it occurred, without the softening of time and the refining... Read more
View audiobookTrump on the Couch
By: Justin A. Frank, MD
Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Justin A. Frank, MD
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"A great public service--critical for our time."
--Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
The New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch shows that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally unfit to execute the duties of President.
No president in the history of... Read more
West Wingers
By: Gautam Raghavan
Narrated by: Gautam Raghavan, Michael Strautmanis, Brad Jenk...
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The Obama White House staff invites us behind-the-scenes of history for a deeply personal and moving look at the presidency and how a president's staff can change the nation
When we elect a president, we elect with them an entire team that will join them in the West Wing to help run the country. Each of these staffers has a story to tell, and... Read more
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
By: Michael Ovitz
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Michael Ovitz
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
“When the history of Hollywood is written, few people will have played a larger role than Michael Ovitz.... It is impossible to read such a chronicle and not see Mr. Ovitz as the Steve Jobs of agenting, possessing a version of Jobs’s fanatical drive and a similar desire to remake an industry.” —The Wall Street Journal
Who is Michael Ovitz? He’s a... Read more
Rap Dad
By: Juan Vidal
Narrated by: Juan Vidal
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
This timely reflection on male identity in America that explores the intersection of fatherhood, race, and hip-hop culture “is a page-turner…drenched in history and encompasses the energy, fire, and passion that is hip-hop” (D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author).
Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing... Read more
Tuxedo Park
By: Jennet Conant
Narrated by: John Kroft
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history.
Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of... Read more
A Life on the Edge
By: Jim Whittaker
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In May of 1963, Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into world history by becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest. More than fifty years later, he is still regarded as a seminal figure in North American mountaineering, as well as an astute businessman who helped create the outdoor recreation industry.A Life on the Edge: Memoirs... Read more
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