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The 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
How to Be a Stoic
By: Massimo Pigliucci
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus... Read more
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Scratch
By: Manjula Martin
Narrated by: Sean Crisden & Robin Eller
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It's an endless, confusing,... Read more
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Aliens
By: Jim Al-Khalili
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee M...
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials); A.I. (artificial intelligence);... Read more
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That’s Your Lot
By: Limmy
Narrated by: Limmy
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This is Limmy’s second book. It’s a whole load of new, odd, and hilariously grim short stories. Tom is in a soft play with his daughters. He’s bored. He’s so bored he can move things with his mind. A man fills up a mate’s biscuit tin without ever telling him, to see what happens. Maggie’s... Read more
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All Over the Place
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Some people are meant to travel the globe, to unwrap its secrets and share them with the world. And some people have no sense of direction, are terrified of pigeons, and get motion sickness from tying their shoes. These people are meant to stay home and eat nachos.
Geraldine DeRuiter is the latter. But she won't let that stop her.
Hilarious,... Read more
We Stood Upon Stars
By: Roger W. Thompson
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Get lost... and find what really matters
You are made for freedom and adventure, friendship and romance. Yet too much of your life is spent unfulfilled at work, restless at home, and bored at church. All the while, you know there is something more. You’ll find some of life’s best moments waiting for you over a campfire, on a river — even in that... Read more
Talking to Animals
By: Jon Katz
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz—“a Thoreau for modern times” (San Antonio Express-News)—offers us a deeper understanding of the inner lives of animals and teaches us how we can more effectively communicate with them, made real by his own remarkable experiences with a wide array of creatures great and small.
In Talking to Animals,... Read more
Kitty Cornered
By: Bob Tarte
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, “I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble.” In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six—including a hard-to-manage stray named... Read more
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I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It
By: Jess Kimball Leslie
Narrated by: Jess Kimball Leslie
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book!"
-- Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens LiveI
Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in it is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the Internet and celebrating technology's role in our lives.
Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and... Read more
Flavor
By: Bob Holmes
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from red snapper? How Brie differs from cheddar? For most of us, unfortunately, the answer is: badly. Flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept we don't know enough about to describe—or to appreciate—fully.
In Flavor, Bob Holmes shows us just how much we're missing. He tackles questions like... Read more
Confessions of a Surgeon
By: Paul A. Ruggieri, MD
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and... Read more
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Running with Raven
By: Laura Lee Huttenbach
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Raven Kraft has changed the lives of thousands who have run with him—many of them hundreds of times. From all fifty states and dozens of countries, across all age groups and backgrounds, they come to run with Raven, and in the process find friendship, inspiration—and a nickname.
Among them is author Laura Lee "White Lightning" Huttenbach, who... Read more
Lessons from the Prairie
By: Melissa Francis
Narrated by: Melissa Francis
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Lessons from the Prairie delivers one belly laugh after another as Melissa tees up an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to tackling life's toughest challenges, and making your life happier." -- Megyn Kelly
For fans of the beloved TV show Little House on the Prairie, a self-help book by Melissa Francis, bestselling author of Diary of a Stage... Read more
Make Someone Happy
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied, and they hope that their offering will be... Read more
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The Phenomenon
By: Rick Ankiel
Narrated by: Rick Ankiel
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.
The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch -- not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as "the Yips." It came without warning,... Read more
An American Lawyer in London
By: Brad Meltzer
Narrated by: Brad Meltzer
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this hilarious book, a New York Times bestselling author breaks down the real and ridiculous differences between American lawyers and British barristers.
Originally published in Sunday Times in London, after the magazine asked Brad to compare American Lawyers with British barristers. Wig-a-riffic! Read more
How to Be Married
By: Jo Piazza
Narrated by: Jo Piazza
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone tells you marriage is hard, but no one tells you what to do about it.
At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world... Read more
When You Find Out the World is Against You
By: Kelly Oxford
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The famed internet personality—named one of Rolling Stone’s Funniest People on Twitter and creator of the viral #notokay for women to share their stories of sexual assault—and bestselling author of Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar turns her laser-like wit to anxiety, parenthood (or ""the sheer insanity of being in charge of the safety... Read more
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Wherever You Go, There They Are
By: Annabelle Gurwitch
Narrated by: Annabelle Gurwitch
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.
When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast... Read more
Why I Love Superman
By: Brad Meltzer
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
See where Brad's obsession started. Originally written for USA Weekend. Read more
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At Home in the World
By: Tsh Oxenreider
Narrated by: Tsh Oxenreider
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family’s adventure around the world—seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way—she discovers what it truly means to be at home.The wide world is calling.Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade.... Read more
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Secrets of a Pet Nanny
By: Eileen Riley
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
At aged twenty-eight, Eileen Riley had an enviably glamorous life; her globe-trotting career as a diplomat took her from the corridors of power at the White House to postings in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, and finally, London—where she decided to give it all up to become a professional dog-sitter. But her diplomatic skills were to prove... Read more
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation with the Judas Contract
By: Brad Meltzer
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
What one reviewer called "my near-sexual fascination" with a comic book character. Originally published in Give Our Regards to the Atom-Smashers! Read more
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