Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparentābut all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more
View audiobookCalypso
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.
If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent... Read more
Congratulations, The Best Is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of āfunny and compulsively readableā (Vogue), āhilarious and incisiveāĀ (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after.
āHow is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one? Phenomenal.āāJenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
Wow, No Thank You.
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.
Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and... Read more
We Loved It All
By: Lydia Millet
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed novelist Lydia Milletās first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological... Read more
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By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel...Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful message: Depression and anxiety suck, but we can rise above them." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From... Read more
Nine Nasty Words
By: John McWhorter
Narrated by: John McWhorter
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller
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One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much.
Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact,... Read more
Burning Questions
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaidās Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granolaāand seeks answers to Burning Questions... Read more
View audiobookShit, Actually
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**
New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from... Read more
In Praise of Good Bookstores
By: Jeff Deutsch
Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutschāthe director of Chicagoās Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the... Read more
All We Can Save
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
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There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more
Yearbook
By: Seth Rogen
Narrated by: Seth Rogen & Full Cast
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers ofĀ SuperbadĀ andĀ Pineapple ExpressĀ and one of the producers ofĀ The Disaster Artist, Neighbors,Ā andĀ The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in peopleās searchesĀ using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) The... Read more
View audiobookAll Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**
"Nicholas Ralphās readings of Herriotās stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." āThe Houston Chronicle
A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special, available on streaming and home video.
All Creatures Great and... Read more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ This essay collection from the ābitches gotta eatā blogger, writer on Huluās Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and āone of our countryās most fierce and foulmouthed authorsā (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful... Read more
Music and Mind
By: RenƩe Fleming
Narrated by: Gina Daniels, Carin Gilfry, Patty Nieman, Cary ...
Length: 22 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative artsĀ to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections.ā āBessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score
World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate ReneĢe Fleming... Read more
The Disordered Cosmos
By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmosāand a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
A Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A Finalist for the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
AĀ Smithsonian MagazineĀ Best Science Book of... Read more
A Very Punchable Face
By: Colin Jost
Narrated by: Colin Jost
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ In these hilarious essays, theĀ Saturday Night LiveĀ head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.
āI always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.āāLarry David
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Cosmopolitan ā¢ Vulture ā¢ Parade
If thereās... Read more
Trick Mirror
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āFromĀ The New YorkerāsĀ beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.āāEsquire
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Book Club Pick forĀ NowĀ ReadĀ This, fromĀ PBSĀ NewsHourĀ andĀ The New York TimesĀ ā¢Ā āA whip-smart, challenging book.āāZadie Smith ā¢ āJia... Read more
What If? 2
By: Randall Munroe
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask
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The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire... Read more
Fieldwork
By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Iliana Regan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Not long after Iliana Reganās celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin starāwinning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more
View audiobookGathering Moss
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read more
The Witches Are Coming
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.
This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more
Me Talk Pretty One Day
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one... Read more
View audiobookSunshine State
By: Sarah Gerard
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Floridaās gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survivalāphysical, emotional, environmentalāthrough a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and... Read more
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