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Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
By: Priyanka Mattoo
Narrated by: Priyanka Mattoo
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.
"I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat... Read more
Break, Blow, Burn, and Make
By: E. Lily Yu
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of On Fragile Waves comes an inspirational, surprising guide to creation and creativity, and how both bring us closer to God.
Centuries ago, sound theology and good fiction were friends and not strangers. Decades ago, authors strove not for self-expression and self-disclosure but for a mastery of craft and... Read more
Zero at the Bone
By: Christian Wiman
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer—perhaps none—do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism,... Read more
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Daybreak at Chavez Ravine
By: Erik Sherman
Narrated by: Asa Siegel
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in a remote Mexican town, the left-hander had moved to the US less than two years before. He became an instant icon and there hasn't been a player since who created as many Dodgers fans.
After the Dodgers' move to... Read more
I've Tried Being Nice
By: Ann Leary
Narrated by: Ann Leary
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home... Read more
Impossible City
By: Simon Kuper
Narrated by: Tim Frances
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little.
When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn't planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other
plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the... Read more
World Class
By: Grant Wahl
Narrated by: Dr. Céline Gounder, Mark Mravic, Eric Wahl & Al...
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“This collection of Grant’s work is a great testament to not only what he did when he was here, but what he’s still doing to impact others.”—LeBron James
The definitive collection of beloved late journalist Grant Wahl’s work—a masterclass in the art of sportswriting
After Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar,... Read more
12 Trips in 12 Months
By: Jen Ruiz
Narrated by: Jen Ruiz
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A LibraryReads pick for Notable NonfictionBestselling author Jen Ruiz takes readers on a trip around the globe in 12 Trips in 12 Months, defying societal expectations of what a woman is supposed to be—and empowering others to do the same.The year before her thirtieth birthday, Jen Ruiz decided to change everything. Despite being professionally... Read more
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A Dog Named Mattis
By: Mark Tappan
Narrated by: Mark Tappan
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.Take a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (and dog) has a purpose.Sergeant Mark Tappan shares a unique bond with his K9 partner Mattis, one of the most decorated police... Read more
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Everything and Nothing at Once
By: Joél Leon
Narrated by: Joél Leon
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
For readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be.
Growing up in the Bronx, Joél Leon was taught that being soft, being vulnerable, could end your life. Shaped by a singular view of Black... Read more
Traveling Without Moving
By: Taiyon J. Coleman
Narrated by: Keyonni James
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you're Taiyon J. Coleman, you write.
In Traveling without Moving, Coleman shares intimate essays from her life: her childhood in Chicago—growing up in poverty with four siblings and a single... Read more
The White Album
By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Susan Varon
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.
Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now... Read more
The Hidden Fires
By: Merryn Glover
Narrated by: Merryn Glover
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
Elemental, fierce, and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender.
In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as... Read more
All Things Are Too Small
By: Becca Rothfeld
Narrated by: Ruth Crawford
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession,... Read more
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The Call Is Coming from Inside the House
By: Allyson McOuat
Narrated by: Allyson McOuat
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From Allyson McOuat, author of the popular 2020 New York Times Modern Love essay "The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems," comes her debut essay collection
In a series of intimate and humorous dispatches, McOuat examines her identity as a queer woman, and as a mother, through the lens of the pop culture moments in the '80s and '90s that molded... Read more
Las deliciosas historias de la taberna Kamogawa (Taberna Kamogawa 2)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Una nueva entrega del fenómeno del cosy crime japonés que ha seducido a miles de lectores Un misterioso anuncio de una sola línea en una revista culinaria, sin número de teléfono ni dirección: ¡quienes deseen visitar la taberna Kamogawa tienen que confiar en un toque de magia para llegar hasta ella! Solo los asiduos y los curiosos, guiados por... Read more
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The Headmaster
By: John McPhee
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
"It was a delight to re-read and record The Headmaster. My Deerfield days came back to me in a great rush. ... So much of Mr. Boyden's teaching focused on what boys needed to grow up to be adults in society, with a particular emphasis on giving back to the community.” —Edoardo Ballerini
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment... Read more
(R)évolution de conscience(s) – Politique et spiritualité
By: Lionel Cruzille
Narrated by: Lionel Cruzille
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Quel point commun y a-t-il entre spiritualité, médias et politique ? L'attention. Médias, industriels et politiques se l'arrachent, c'est le célèbre « temps de cerveaux disponible ». Or l'attention est la clé de notre liberté intérieure. C'est aussi le cœur même de toute vie spirituelle. Dès lors, comment, dans ce monde où notre vigilance est... Read more
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Frying Pork Chops Naked
By: Eric Litsky
Narrated by: Eric Litsky
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Eric Litsky brings us on a funny, rollicking, heartfelt trip down memory lane, from coming of age adventures, to growing up and still being the free-spirited and roguish adult that keeps the neighborhood on its toes.By all counts, you could say Eric Litsky had a pretty standard freewheeling childhood. Growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was... Read more
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Baseball: The Movie
By: Noah Gittell
Narrated by: Noah Gittell
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and... Read more
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The Art of Dying
By: Peter Schjeldahl
Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra... Read more
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More Home Cooking
By: Laurie Colwin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion as she chatters on about the small culinary accomplishments and discoveries that occur in her kitchen” (Chicago Tribune). Lucky... Read more
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My Mets Bible
By: Evan Roberts
Narrated by: Evan Roberts
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A Love Letter To New York Mets Fandom—the triumphs, the heartbreak, and everything in between.Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring... Read more
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Altern - Leben (ungekürzt)
By: Elke Heidenreich
Narrated by: Elke Heidenreich
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Alle wollen alt werden, niemand will alt sein. Der Widerspruch ist absurd, das Leiden daran real. Wie lernen wir, so gut wie möglich damit zurechtzukommen? Geht das, alt werden und ein erfülltes Leben führen? Mit ihren über 80 Jahren hat sich Elke Heidenreich mit dem Altwerden beschäftigt. Herausgekommen ist dabei ein Buch, wie nur sie es... Read more
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