Sobre el amor (Serie Great Ideas 26)
By: Miguel de Cervantes
Narrated by: Eugenio Barona, Paula Iwasaki, Rebeca Hernando,...
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.... Read more
View audiobookHungry Hearts
By: Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph
Narrated by: Various
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty.
Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse... Read more
The River Always Wins
By: David Marquis
Narrated by: David Marquis
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation... Read more
View audiobookProbable Impossibilities
By: Alan Lightman
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Melancholy
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Cheryl Smith
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious... Read more
View audiobookDie Überraschung
By: Wolf Lotter
Narrated by: Wolf Lotter & Ralf Herms
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
+rosebud no.8 – Die Überraschung ist die finale Ausgabe von +rosebud magazine. Das bibliophil gestaltete und produzierte Buch markiert den Abschluss einer Serie, deren Leitmotiv seit mehr als 20 Jahren, abseits von Genregrenzen, die Möglichkeiten des Mediums Papier auslotet und experimentell weiterentwickelt. Zentraler Bestandteil des Buches ist... Read more
View audiobookWhen Harry Met Minnie
By: Martha Teichner
Narrated by: Martha Teichner
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!*
This program is read by the author.
A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.
There are true fairy tales. Stories that... Read more
Summertime
By: Danielle Celermajer
Narrated by: Felicity Jurd
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool, and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our... Read more
View audiobookEl sueño de África (Trilogía de África 1)
By: Javier Reverte
Narrated by: Jordi Salas
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Reverte nos cuenta en su primer largo viaje africano las grandes historias del pasado y las pequeñas del presente... El sueño de África es ya un clásico en la literatura española de los últimos años. Desde que vio la luz, en 1996, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas, y fue considerado por lectores y críticos como el libro pionero que refundaba y... Read more
View audiobookYou Can't Lose Them All
By: Sal Iacono
Narrated by: Sal Iacono & Jimmy Kimmel
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way.
Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players,... Read more
From Our Land to Our Land
By: Luis J. Rodriguez
Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, "Like millions of Americans, I'm demanding a... Read more
View audiobookYards and Stripes
By: Michael Francis
Narrated by: Michael Francis
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Unlock an inspirational journey of self-discovery in Yards and Stripes - the story of one man's ambition to escape the New York rat race, and start a gardening business in Greenwich, Connecticut. With no knowledge, no experience, and only his determination to guide him, he embarks on the difficult road to success.... Read more
View audiobookLet Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Hilton Als
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women,... Read more
View audiobookReel Bay
By: Jana Larson
Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there? Unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor... Read more
View audiobookThe Solace of Open Spaces
By: Gretel Ehrlich
Narrated by: Gretel Ehrlich
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced
“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she... Read more
Homo Irrealis
By: André Aciman
Narrated by: André Aciman & Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a... Read more
Boomers
By: Helen Andrews
Narrated by: Nicole Parnell
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle
With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake... Read more
Thinking Again
By: Jan Morris
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Jan Morris, one of "Britain's greatest living writers" (Times, UK), returns with this whimsical yet deeply affecting volume on life as a redoubtable nonagenarian.
The irrepressible Jan Morris—author of such classics as Venice and Trieste—is at it again: offering a vibrant set of reminiscences that remind us "what a good, wise and witty... Read more
Rilassamento
By: Andrzej Budzinski
Narrated by: Stefano Trillini
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A parte il contenuto che è molto interessante e utile... facile da leggere perché scritto in modo leggero, “colpisce” come la pubblicità...tocca profondamente e fa riflettere...non lascia il lettore indifferente...interessante e direi anche nuovo e originale, tutto fatto a slogan, con frasi brevi che tendono a colpire il lettore con il detto... Read more
View audiobookOtro fin del mundo es posible
By: Alejandro Gaviria
Narrated by: Alejandro Gaviria
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Durante el confinamiento obligatorio del primer semestre de este año, Alejandro Gaviria entabló una conversación peculiar con el filósofo inglés Aldous Huxley. Fiel a su idea de que "la lectura es un acto de creación", se dedicó a leer y releer los ensayos y novelas de este autor, que considera imprescindible y un auténtico pensador del... Read more
View audiobookالشاي.. ثقافات.. طقوس.. حكايات
By: كريستوف بيترز
Narrated by: شادي عباس
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
في هذا الكتاب، يقوم الكاتب والخبير بالشاي "كريستوف بيترز" بحديث مطول مع القارئ عن الشاي. ويحكي في هذا الكتاب عن ولعه بذلك المشروب المُلهِم المتنوع وعن فن إعداده، الذي يُسبِّب السعادة. منذ كان فتى يافعًا، يُفضِّل "كريستوف بيترز" جمع أواني الشاي أكثر من جمع الإسطوانات، والآن ينهمك لساعاتٍ كثيرة كل أسبوع في معرفة السُبُل المختلفة التي تُمكِّنه من... Read more
View audiobookPlaidoyer pour la véritable liberté, égalité, fraternité
By: Edouard Nelson
Narrated by: Philip Kapitaniuk
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité !La devise de notre République française est magnifique. Elle inspire nos révolutions et orne fièrement nos bâtiments publics. Trois mots simples, mais qui reflètent nos plus profondes aspirations. Seulement voilà, avouons qu'ils portent en eux un idéal plus qu'une réalité. Quelle frustration !Serait-il possible... Read more
View audiobookMidnight Chicken
By: Ella Risbridger
Narrated by: Ella Risbridger
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020
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‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson
‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ - Sunday Times
'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is... Read more
Three Simple Lines
By: Natalie Goldberg
Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that “make the mind leap.” A good one, he said, lets the mind experience “a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God.” As many... Read more