Morningstar
By: Ann Hood
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book that Matters Most, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story behind these works of fiction.
Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn't foster the love of literature, Hood... Read more
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
By: Megan Stielstra
Narrated by: Megan Stielstra & Meredith Mitchell
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and HungerFrom an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both... Read more
View audiobookLa búsqueda de Gobi
By: Dion Leonard
Narrated by: Alejandro Vargas-Lugo
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
La búsqueda de Gobi es la milagrosa historia de Dion Leonard, un corredor de ultramaratones experimentado que se encontró con una perrita callejera mientras competía en una carrera de 155 millas a través del desierto de Gobi en China. La adorable cachorro, que luego nombró «Gobi», demostró que lo que le faltaba en tamaño, lo compensaba con el... Read more
View audiobookThe Art of Flavor
By: Daniel Patterson & Mandy Aftel
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Two masters of composition—a chef and a perfumer—present a revolutionary new approach to creating delicious food.Michelin two-star chef Daniel Patterson and celebrated natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts at orchestrating ingredients. Yet in a world awash in cooking shows and food blogs, they noticed, home cooks get little guidance in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Mission Walker
By: Edie Littlefield Sundby
Narrated by: Jaimee Paul
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Audie Award Finalist for best inspirational book!IMAGE AWARD (Native Daughters of the Golden West)"The Mission Walker is a marvelous book, a moving meditation on the relationships between courage and faith, endurance and transcendence." Randall Sullivan, Creator, The Miracle Detective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)Have you ever wanted to just... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Animal
By: David Abram
Narrated by: David Abram
Length: 13 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a... Read more
View audiobookThe Lives of a Cell
By: Lewis Thomas
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is one of men and women too, a world of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the... Read more
View audiobookI'll Tell You In Person
By: Chloe Caldwell
Narrated by: Chloe Caldwell
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Flailing in jobs, failing at love, getting addicted and un-addicted to people, food, and drugs—I'll Tell You in Person is a disarmingly frank account of attempts at adulthood and all the less than perfect ways we get there.
Chloe Caldwell has an unsparing knack for looking within and reporting back what's really there, rather than what she'd... Read more
Girl Up
By: Laura Bates
Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Already an international bestseller, this empowering survival guide provides no-nonsense advice on sex, social media, mental health, and sexism that young women face in their everyday life—from one of the emerging leaders in the feminist movement.
They told you that you need to be thin and beautiful.
They told you to wear longer skirts, avoid... Read more
I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the authors.
"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." —Delia Ephron, bestselling author
The bestselling and “perennially hilarious” mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Join Lisa Scottoline and... Read more
A Paris All Your Own
By: Eleanor Brown
Narrated by: Various
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig, edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris.
“My time in Paris,” says New York Times–bestselling... Read more
Sweet Spot
By: Amy Ettinger
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist channels her ice-cream obsession, scouring the United States for the best artisanal brands and delving into the surprising history of ice cream and frozen treats in America.
For Amy Ettinger, ice cream is not just a delicious snack but a circumstance and a time of year—frozen forever in memory. As the youngest child and only girl,... Read more
The Spell of the Sensuous
By: David Abram
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How,... Read more
View audiobookFinding Gobi
By: Dion Leonard
Narrated by: Simon Bubb
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling true story of an Australian ultramarathon runner and a little dog who formed an unbreakable bond in the middle of the Gobi desert.Finding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in... Read more
View audiobookMore Ketchup than Salsa
By: Joe Cawley
Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A laugh-out-loud, heartwarming memoir.
**Winner of ‘Best Travel Narrative’ by the British Guild of Travel Writers.**
"If you only buy one book this year... get this.""Probably the best book I have read this millenium.""Fantastic, hilarious, painful. Completely un-put-downable!"
Childhood sweethearts, Joe and Joy are broke and bored. They’re also... Read more
Would Everybody Please Stop?
By: Jenny Allen
Narrated by: Jenny Allen
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
"One of the funniest writers in America."
That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable.
With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through... Read more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash
By: Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman
Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Gabra Zackman
Length: 16 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence—an... Read more
View audiobookA Country Between
By: Stephanie Saldaña
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
When American writer Stephanie Saldaña finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem, she is a new wife trying to navigate a fragile terrain, both within her marriage and throughout the country in which she has chosen to live.
Pregnant with her first child, Stephanie struggles... Read more
Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X
By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal introduction to the mind of one of the sharpest and most... Read more
View audiobookAre You Anybody?
By: Jeffrey Tambor
Narrated by: Jeffrey Tambor
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have... Read more
View audiobookPeace Kills
By: P. J. O'Rourke
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author who “never fails to find the absurd” addresses everything from airport security to the Iraq War (The New York Times Book Review).To unravel the mysteries of war, P.J. O’Rourke first visits Kosovo. (“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the... Read more
View audiobookDave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
By: Dave Barry
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the bestselling success of Dave's novel, Big Trouble, here is a hilarious new collection of columns from the writer critics have called "the funniest man in America."What's been getting Dave Barry all worked up lately? What can possibly induce him to rise up—yes, actually out of his chair—in indignation? Well, lots of things. For... Read more
View audiobookThe Mother of All Questions
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
In her characteristic style, Solnit mixes... Read more
Boogers Are My Beat
By: Dave Barry
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times calls him "the funniest man in America," and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:• The scientific search for the world’s funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word "weasel")
• RV camping in the Wal-Mart... Read more