Essays audiobooks
The Way I Heard It
By: Mike Rowe
Narrated by: Mike Rowe
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal memories, ruminations, and insights that will leave you... Read more
View audiobookTime is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T Fleischmann
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres’s artwork—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo to the... Read more
View audiobookLa vie n'est pas une course
By: Léa Stréliski
Narrated by: Léa Stréliski
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Je m’adresse aux essoufflés. À ceux qui ont tout essayé. Aux éreintés qui poursuivent le bonheur sans l’atteindre. Ceci n’est pas une recette, mais un portrait des temps qui courent et qui font du bien quand ils s’arrêtent. Un appel à une autre manière de vivre. Read more
View audiobookLa aventura de los godos
By: Juan Antonio Cebrián
Narrated by: Vicente Quintana
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
Los godos fueron testigos de un periodo asombroso en la crónica mundial. Vieron caer imperios como el romano y levantarse otros como el musulmán, y mientras tanto, edificaban un nuevo estado en suelo hispano llamado a convertirse en uno de los grandes pueblos de nuestra historia. En sus tres siglos de hegemonía lucharon ferozmente por la... Read more
View audiobookMolly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats
By: Colin Butcher
Narrated by: Colin Butcher
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Molly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats tells the heartwarming story of the man-and-dog team behind the United Kingdom Pet Detective Agency—how Colin, in need of a new lease on life, rescues Molly the dog, and how Molly in turn rescues many more beloved lost pets.
As a veteran of the Royal Navy... Read more
I Used to Be Charming
By: Eve Babitz
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage.Eve Babitz knew everyone, tried everything (at least once), and was never shy about sharing her thoughts on any subject, be it sex, weight loss, drug use, or her ambivalence toward New York City. From... Read more
View audiobookAn Evening with W.O. Mitchell - Abridged
By: W. O. Mitchell
Narrated by: W. O. Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a unique listening experience from the unforgettable writer and public speaker W.O. Mitchell, An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a curated, abridged selection of nine remarkable pieces from Mitchell’s lifetime of public readings, read by the author himself. Featuring both a wide variety of recognizable characters from his novels as well as new,... Read more
View audiobookThe Best American Short Stories 2019
By: Anthony Doerr & Heidi Pitlor
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Heidi Pitlor, Scott Shepherd, G...
Length: 16 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of... Read more
View audiobookNonconformity
By: Nelson Algren
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding:... Read more
View audiobookHacia rutas salvajes
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Alberto Santillán
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Por qué un joven que acababa de graduarse decide cortar todos los lazos con su familia y perderse en una región inhóspita? Descúbrelo en este audiolibro En abril de 1992, Chris McCandless, de 24 años, se internó solo y apenas equipado en tierras de Alaska. Había regalado todo su dinero y abandonado su coche, y soñaba con una vida en estado... Read more
View audiobookLetters from a Stoic
By: Seneca
Narrated by: Julian Glover
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Glover, Olivier Award winning actor, also known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robin Campbell.
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in... Read more
Tercios de España. Una infantería legendaria
By: Fernando Martínez Laínez & José María Sánchez d...
Narrated by: Rafael Alcázar
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Para los europeos de su tiempo no hubo sombra de duda: Durante más de ciento cincuenta años, entre 1534 y finales del siglo XVII, los tercios españoles fueron las mejores unidades militares del mundo. Tres siglos después de su desaparición, todavía los especialistas de hoy comparan los tercios de infantería española con las legiones romanas y... Read more
View audiobookMeditations
By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Richard Armitage
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay.
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key... Read more
Surfacing
By: Kathleen Jamie
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over — not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth’s, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest.” —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing, “By the Book”... Read more
View audiobookThis Is Water: Booktrack Edition
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Amy Wallace & David Foster Wallace
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This Is Water: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep... Read more
Idiot
By: Laura Clery
Narrated by: Laura Clery
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2020 Audie Award Finalist
From YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in the vein of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby and You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein.
Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She... Read more
Never Drive A Hatchback To Austria (And Other Valuable Life Lessons)
By: R.A. Dalkey
Narrated by: R.A. Dalkey
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
If being a grown-up were as simple as holding down a job, buying a reliable car, finding the home of your dreams and living happily ever after, there’d be no need for this true story. But our mid-thirties author’s unorthodox approach and complete failure to accept the world as defined by adults was never going to make it quite so straightforward... Read more
View audiobookNouvelle-France
By: Gilles Proulx
Narrated by: Gilles Proulx
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Ce n'est pas d'hier que Gilles Proulx sonne l'alarme : les Québécois sont de plus en plus ignorants de leur histoire, oublieux de leurs ancêtres et inconscients du travail colossal que ceux-ci ont accompli pour poser les fondations du Québec d'aujourd'hui. C'est pour corriger ces tristes lacunes qu'au-delà des faits de guerre et autres dates... Read more
View audiobookSightlines
By: Kathleen Jamie
Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Sightlines, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field—from her native Scottish "byways and hills" to the frigid Arctic in fourteen enthralling essays. She dissects whatever her gaze falls upon—vistas of cells beneath a hospital microscope, orcas rounding a headland, the aurora borealis lighting up the frozen sea. In so doing, she questions what,... Read more
View audiobookTen Years a Nomad
By: Matthew Kepnes
Narrated by: Ryan Burke
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad. "Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world is unrivaled, and never fails to amaze me." ―Mark... Read more
View audiobookThe Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
By: Mona Eltahawy
Narrated by: Mona Eltahawy
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their... Read more
Nice Try
By: Josh Gondelman
Narrated by: Josh Gondelman
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman’s collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results.Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying—and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic—dubbed a “pathological sweetheart” by the New York Observer—is known throughout the industry as one of comedy’s true “nice... Read more
View audiobookTasting Grace
By: Melissa d'Arabian
Narrated by: Melissa d'Arabian
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
The winner of The Next Food Network Star season five and New York Times best-selling author of Ten Dollar Dinners shares how God used food to invite her into His love.
It wasn't until Melissa d'Arabian evaluated her relationship with food in light of her relationship with God that she began to appreciate food as not only a gift from him but also... Read more
Титаник
By: Шинейд Фитцгиббон
Narrated by: Василий Духанин & Станислав Иванов
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"Титаник", легендарный корабль, воплощенная мечта человечества, вызов, брошенный безбрежной и могучей стихии... Казалось, он – символ эпохи прогресса и процветания. И вот прекрасная мечта в одночасье оборачивается кошмаром. Цепь нелепых совпадений и случайностей приводит к мрачному финалу. С тех пор прошло больше ста лет, прогремели... Read more
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