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Maeve in America
By: Maeve Higgins
Narrated by: Maeve Higgins
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“If Tina Fey and David Sedaris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.” —Glamour
A startlingly hilarious essay collection about one woman’s messy path to finding her footing in New York City, from breakout comedy star and podcaster Maeve Higgins
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling author and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the grand old... Read more
Women in Clothes
By: Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & o...
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Karen Sepulveda, Keisha Zollar, ...
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more... Read more
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Tree
By: David Suzuki
Narrated by: David Skulski
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.
In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady tell story that spans a millennium and includes a... Read more
Third Thoughts
By: Steven Weinberg
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize–winning author of To Explain the World.For more than four decades, one of the most captivating and celebrated science communicators of our time has challenged the public to think carefully about the foundations of nature and the inseparable entanglement of... Read more
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South Toward Home
By: Julia Reed
Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Julia Reed
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
South Toward Home is a wry and humorous audiobook about life and culture in the American South.
In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and... Read more
Okay Fine Whatever
By: Courtenay Hameister
Narrated by: Courtenay Hameister
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The "hilarious and poignant" story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding (Cheryl Strayed).
For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. She... Read more
The Anti-Cool Girl
By: Rosie Waterland
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Brutal, brave, hilarious -- a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you.
Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various... Read more
Killing It
By: Camas Davis
Narrated by: Camas Davis
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man delivered on her dreams, and in the span of a year, Camas was unemployed, on her own,... Read more
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Bearing Witness
By: John R. Carpenter
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that... Read more
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I Can't Date Jesus
By: Michael Arceneaux
Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media.
From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I’m Judging You, a timely collection... Read more
The Wave in the Mind
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary... Read more
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Eat Cake. Be Brave.
By: Melissa Radke
Narrated by: Melissa Radke
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the star of USA reality show The Radkes and creator of the viral "Red Ribbon Week" video, this is a hilarious and inspiring story of finding self-confidence in a world of naysayers.
My name is Melissa Radke, and there is a very real chance you have no idea who I am or why I wrote a book. But admit it, you're curious!
Even though millions... Read more
We're Doomed. Now What?
By: Roy Scranton
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what?
We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a... Read more
RISK!
By: Kevin Allison
Narrated by: Kevin Allison, Sarah Mollo-Christensen & Robin ...
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A "fascinating" (MetroSource) collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us.
Collecting the most celebrated stories from the hit podcast RISK!, along with all-new true tales about explosive secrets and off-the-wall adventures, this book... Read more
The Death of Truth
By: Michiko Kakutani
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason
We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for... Read more
Happily Ever Esther
By: Steve Jenkins, Derek Walter & Caprice Crane
Narrated by: Steve Jenkins
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling authors and loving owners of Esther the Wonder Pig, comes a memoir about their new life on the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, which is anything but boring.
Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, had their lives turned upside down when they adopted their pig-daughter Esther--the so-called micro pig who turned out... Read more
I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses
By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
Narrated by: Francesca Scottoline Serritella & Lisa Scottoline
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"Are you and your mother as funny as Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella? If not, these authors will keep you laughing as they share their meditations on life with vigor, energy, and pluck." — AudioFile Magazine
In I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt... Read more
Amsterdam- Exposed
By: David Wienir
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Amsterdam Exposed tells the true one-of-a-kind story of an innocent exchange student who moves to Amsterdam hoping to write a book about the red light district and everything that follows. It's an American abroad story, and also a love story; it's an uplifting tragedy, full of humor from beginning to end; it's an Amsterdam survival guide; a... Read more
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What to Read and Why
By: Francine Prose
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño.In an age... Read more
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Can You Tolerate This?
By: Ashleigh Young
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappointment, Katherine Mansfield tourism and New Zealand punk rock, and the limitations of the body.
Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that... Read more
The Call of the Road
By: Chris Sidwells
Narrated by: David Thorpe
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. A sole cyclist battling over a pass high in the mountains is one of the most romantic of sporting images. In the past 150 years road cycling has been dominated by a series of iconic people who have redefined... Read more
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient... Read more
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Dead Girls
By: Alice Bolin
Narrated by: Em Eldridge
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence... I love this book. I want to take it into the middle of a crowded room and hold it up and scream until someone tackles me the ground; even then, I’d probably keep screaming.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body... Read more