Le futur de la vie terrestre
By: Hubert Reeves
Narrated by: Hubert Reeves
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Quels sont les 10 moments-clรฉs de votre vie ? Quels sont les sept choix capitaux qui vous ont menรฉ lร oรน vous en รชtes ? Qui sont les cinq personnes les plus importantes de votre monde et comment vous ont-elles faรงonnรฉ ? Read more
View audiobookFinding God in the Land of Narnia
By: Kurt Bruner & Jim Ware
Narrated by: Nick Sandys
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In Finding God in the Land of Narnia, best-selling authors Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware explore the deep spiritual themes of redemption and grace found in the popular Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. With amazing clarity that captures the tone and style of C. S. Lewis himself, the authors offer a depth of insight that will surprise even... Read more
View audiobookBuilding Bridges
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Listen as Stephen King, one of America's most celebrated authors, shares his acceptance speech at the 2003 National Book Awards as he's awarded the illustrious Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
Each Autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction,... Read more
Das goldene Herz (Ungekรผrzt)
By: Ulf Stark
Narrated by: Christoph Maria Herbst
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Ludwig hat sich verliebt! Und das ausgerechnet in dem Sommer, in dem er an einem Klavierwettbewerb teilnehmen soll. Eigentlich mรผsste er stรคndig รผben und sich auf die Beethoven-Sonaten konzentrieren. Aber Ludwig denkt nur noch an eines: Wie sagt er Katarina, dem Mรคdchen mit dem knallroten Badeanzug und dem goldenen Herzen, auf die schรถnste... Read more
View audiobookThe Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Pau...
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From This American Life contributor and self-described โhistory nerdโ Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of... Read more
Charles Dickens
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels." Smiley's Charles Dickensย is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly... Read more
View audiobookTeller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
By: Daniel Stashower
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age when he created Sherlock Holmes. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship, to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and... Read more
View audiobookThe World of Atlas Shrugged - Abridged
By: The Objectivist Center
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann & Lynn Redgrave
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ayn Rand's famous 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, has become more widely read and influential with each passing year, thanks in part to its brilliant dramatization of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and its celebration of self-reliance, integrity, rationality, and productive effort. Like any great work of literature, however, Atlas Shrugged can be... Read more
View audiobookThe Best Business Stories of the Year 2001 - Abridged
By: Andrew Leckey
Narrated by: James Lurie & Eliza Floss
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
โ[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.โโUSA Today, on the 2001 edition
Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur - Abridged
By: Manfred Mai
Narrated by: Matthias Fuchs
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Der bekannte Kinder-und Jugendbuchautor Manfred Mai erzรคhlt von รผber tausend Jahren deutscher Literatur. Er filtert heraus, was Weichen gestellt hat und durchleuchtet Zeit und Milieu. Um einen geschichtlichen รberblick zu geben, wurden vor allem solche Werke ausgewรคhlt, die fรผr die Entstehungszeit typisch und besonders fรผr junge Menschen von... Read more
View audiobookJane Austen
By: Carol Shields
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement,... Read more
View audiobookThe Iliad
By: Homer
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The first of Homer's epic poems tells of the counsel of Nestor, Achilles' slaying of Hector, and the defeat of the Trojans by the Greeks.
Little is known about the Ancient Greek oral poet, Homer, the supposed 8th century BC author of the world-read Iliad and his later masterpiece, The Odyssey. These classic epics provided the basis for Greek... Read more
On The Road With Charles Kuralt - Abridged
By: Charles Kuralt
Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Charles Kuralt's classic bestseller is now on audio!
On The Road With Charles Kuralt
Featuring Charles Kuralt with an introduction by Wallace Kuralt
"To read the front pages, you might conclude that Americans are mostly out for themselves...but you can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for... Read more
Hooking Up - Abridged
By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Tom Wolfe & Ron Rifkin
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nine unabridged essays from Hooking Up with five read by Tom Wolfe!
Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the year 2000 we can... Read more
Virginia Woolf
By: Nigel Nicolson
Narrated by: Karesa McElheny
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West (Vita was one of Woolf's closest and most intimate friends) threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so... Read more
View audiobookHerman Melville
By: Elizabeth Hardwick
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging shape of his life . . . a story of the creative... Read more
View audiobookPostscript to Clarissa (Unabridged)
By: Samuel Richardson
Narrated by: Pauline Munro
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
After the publication of his novel 'Clarissa' the author Samuel Richardson received anonymous letters, many of them from his female readers who wanted a more 'fortunate ending', to wit, by reforming Lovelace and marrying him to Clarissa. The author justifies the heavenly reward he gave to his heroine and answers other accusations, including the... Read more
View audiobookJames Joyce
By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Ireland's best current novelists provides a thumbnail sketch of Ireland's greatest writer. A passionate and sensuous portrait, James Joyce is a return to the land of politics, history, saints, and scholars that shaped the creator of the twentieth century's groundbreaking novelย Ulysses. O'Brien traces Joyce's early days as a rambunctious... Read more
View audiobookWilliam J Bennett Children's Audio Treasury - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's bestseller The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues Audio Treasury is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together.
With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as Native American and African folklore, The... Read more
The Children's Book of Virtues - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the #1 national bestseller comes the definitive audio treasury of great moral takes for young children and their parents, including ten postcard-sized reproductions of Michael Hague's beautiful illustrations and featuring performances by:
The Bennett Family
(William, Elayne, John and Joseph)
Barbara Bush
Dorian Harewood
Charlton... Read more
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
By: Scott Rice
Narrated by: various narrators, Marni Webb, Bob Nathan, Ray ...
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Little did the obscure novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton know in 1830 when he penned that most relished, imitated, and lampooned opening sentence in English literature, "It was a dark and stormy night..." that his words would inspire countless aspiring writers struggling incessantly like boats against the current to emulate his unparalleled style... Read more
View audiobookStepping Stones - Abridged
By: Seamus Heaney
Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, poet Seamus Heaney brings beautiful focus to life in Ireland. Through his poetry, he encapsulates the countryโs historical and political details while connecting it to the personal lives of the citizens. Read more
View audiobookLet's Be Heard - Abridged
By: Robert Grant
Narrated by: Robert Grant
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
THE KING OF CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO SPEAKS OUT!
"Bob Grant is the king of talk radio in New York...He is one of the few talk show hosts who has lasted in combat radio. He defined it and spawned countless imitators all over the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh
For more than twenty-five years, Bob Grant has mesmerized radio listeners with his... Read more
The Moral Compass - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.
Organized by the stages along life's journey, these stories and poems serve as... Read more