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Essays - The Second Series
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrated by: George Doyle
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Essays: Second Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. This book contains 9 essays: The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, New England Reformers. Artist Bio Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist,... Read more
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The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?
By: Brittany Gibbons
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A sartorial follow-up to her hilarious memoir in stories, Fat Girl Walking, internet personality Brittany Gibbons once again deep dives into the world of the plus size woman, this time chronicling her love/hate (but mostly hate) relationship with what fashion.From Pinterest boards and Instagram posts to shop windows and ad campaigns, fashion is... Read more
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Why You Eat What You Eat
By: Rachel Herz, PhD
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Rachel Herz uncovers the fascinating and surprising facts that affect food consumption: bringing reusable bags to the grocery store encourages us to buy more treats; our beliefs about food affect the number... Read more
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Nature and the Human Soul
By: Bill Plotkin, PhD
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 25 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when soul and wild nature guide us. Depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin presents a model for a human life... Read more
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The Truth Matters
By: Bruce Bartlett
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and... Read more
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Silk Parachute
By: John McPhee
Narrated by: John McPhee
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A WONDROUS BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES-IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker over a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his... Read more
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Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?
By: Bill Heavey
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal-two entities rarely seen in the same sentence-like it. For more than twenty years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has... Read more
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You're Not That Great
By: Elan Gale
Narrated by: Elan Gale
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious, scathing send up of the self-help genre in the bestselling tradition of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck from social media mogul and The Bachelor producer Elan Gale.
I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.
I care more about feeling great than being great.
I am NOT THAT... Read more
The Last Black Unicorn
By: Tiffany Haddish
Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South... Read more
The Captive Mind
By: Czeslaw Milosz
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of... Read more
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Alfie the Holiday Cat
By: Rachel Wells
Narrated by: Edward Killingback
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a fourth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures – this time taking them a long way from home… Alfie and George just can’t seem to keep out of trouble. So when they hear that their owners have got a new holiday home, they can’t... Read more
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Goodbye Europe
By: Various
Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jenni Murray, J...
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes us British, and what makes us European.
Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique collection spanning everything from art, language, food, music and movies, to war, literature, driving, nudity, geography, smoking and nature.
Featuring pieces of... Read more
Gods, Wasps and Stranglers
By: Mike Shanahan
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, “The best could be yet to come.” Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history and ecology of one of the world’s most fascinating—and... Read more
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Don’t Save Anything
By: James Salter
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
James Salter was a master. One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, his acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style. The author of many memorable works of fiction—including Dusk, and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award—he is also celebrated for his... Read more
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Eiger Dreams
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. . In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting – including the essay, “Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs” – Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo... Read more
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On the Decay of the Art of Lying
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a classic essay penned by Mark Twain in 1880. This narration is performed by Larry G. Jones. Read more
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Nobody Knows My Name
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer’s ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin’s controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman.... Read more
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L'Appart
By: David Lebovitz
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes.
When David Lebovitz... Read more
Tamed and Untamed
By: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery. A Mail on Sunday “Critic's Pick” Best Read of the Year "In their writing and in their lives and in their remarkable friendship, Liz and Sy break down false barriers and carry us... Read more
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A Very British Christmas
By: Rhodri Marsden
Narrated by: Rhodri Marsden, Helen Keeley & Paul Tyreman
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest parts of Christmas. With cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who’ve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. The essential Christmas stocking filler for... Read more
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How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomach
By: Melanie Muhl & Diana von Kopp
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Outsmart Your Impulses and Eat Better
A Belgian chocolate cake topped with a velvety homemade mousse catches your eye on the menu. The next thing you know, you've ordered it—despite the hefty price. But do you know why?
Through over forty compelling questions, this book explores how our eating decisions tread the line between conscious and... Read more
Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
By: Vicki Lesage
Narrated by: Em Eldridge
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
When newly-single party girl Vicki moves to Paris, she hopes to indulge in wine, stuff her face with croissants, and fall in love. It proves to be much more difficile than she imagined. In this laugh-out-loud memoir, this cheeky storyteller recounts the highs and lows of her life in the City of Light. Sassy and shamelessly honest, Vicki makes... Read more
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Eight Whopping Lies
By: Brian Doyle
Narrated by: Douglas James
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brian Doyle is an extraordinary writer whose tales will endure.” —Cynthia Ozick, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Quarrel and Quandary
This is a guided tour through the mind of one of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary Catholic writing. Brian Doyle effortlessly connects the everyday with the inexpressible and... Read more
Still Happy
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Still Happy is Elizabeth's second collection of Facebook posts. Her first, Make Someone Happy, did indeed make many people happy, and so, due to popular demand, she has put together a second volume, which includes "The Book of Homer," a tribute to her beloved dog who recently died. Still Happy, like Make Someone Happy, exemplifies Berg's gift,... Read more
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