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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
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easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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What My Mother And I Don't Talk About
- By Hayley Westwood on 03-05-22
By: Michele Filgate
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The Common Reader Volume 1
- 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....
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Let this not be your first Virginia !
- By Fothergill on 30-04-20
By: Virginia Woolf
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
By: George Orwell
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
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easy book to dip in and out off
- By Leona on 14-04-13
By: Marian Keyes
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Original Recording
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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What My Mother And I Don't Talk About
- By Hayley Westwood on 03-05-22
By: Michele Filgate
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The Common Reader Volume 1
- 26 Essays on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Montaigne and Others
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is Virginia Woolf’s first collection of essays, published in 1925. In them, she attempts to see literature from the point of view of the ‘common reader’ - someone whom she, with Dr Johnson, distinguished from the critic and the scholar....
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Let this not be your first Virginia !
- By Fothergill on 30-04-20
By: Virginia Woolf
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Themes and Variations
- An Essay
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 30 mins
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In this surprising essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rewards of a book tour and his devoted readers’ worst-kept secrets....
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Hilarious and thought provoking....
- By Amazon Customer on 14-08-20
By: David Sedaris
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Pensées
- By: Blaise Pascal
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Intended to be a defense of the Christian religion, Pensées is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason, and theology. Unfinished at the time of Pascal's death, the book consists of philosophical fragments on the "wretchedness" of man....
By: Blaise Pascal
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On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....
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Impassioned brilliance- this is the beautiful thing
- By Pixieface on 17-10-20
By: Kae Tempest
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The Challenge of Things
- Thinking Through Troubled Times
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict....
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Thought-provoking, bite-sized philosophy
- By Swede on 22-12-15
By: A. C. Grayling
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change....
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The Depth of the Blitz
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-22
By: George Orwell
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To Throw Away Unopened
- By: Viv Albertine
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic....
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A read again and again book!
- By Sarah Power on 18-01-19
By: Viv Albertine
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The Alan Clark Diaries
- In Power 1983-1992
- By: Alan Clark
- Narrated by: Alan Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....
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Just wonderful
- By Joe Jones on 13-04-21
By: Alan Clark
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Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble
- Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.....
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Nora Ephron-articulate, funny and intelligent
- By Sennichi on 10-10-13
By: Nora Ephron
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....
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enjoyed this
- By Leo on 27-06-21
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Virginia Woolf: 3 Essays on Dostoyevsky
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 29 mins
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Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky....
By: Virginia Woolf
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An Unsuitable Boy
- By: Karan Johar
- Narrated by: Gaurav Sajjanhar
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Honest, heart-warming and insightful, An Unsuitable Boy is both the story of the life of an exceptional filmmaker at the peak of his powers and of an equally extraordinary human being who shows you how to survive and succeed in life....
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What a wonderful listen this is. I loved it
- By Mr. R. S. Akhtar on 26-09-21
By: Karan Johar
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats....
By: Joseph Epstein
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Politics and the English Language: And Other Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jackson Moss
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Biographer Michael Shelden called Orwell’s Politics and the English Language “his most important essay on style”....
By: George Orwell
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High Tide in Tucson
- Essays from Now or Never
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction....
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Perfect prose poetry
- By Geranium on 28-02-22
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Aspects of the Novel
- By: E. M. Forster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration....
By: E. M. Forster
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches....
By: Bell Hooks
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....
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Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
By: Clive James
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Alle sind so ernst geworden
- By: Martin Suter, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
- Narrated by: Caren Miosga, Linda Zervakis
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Martin Suter (Linda Zervakis) und Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (Caren Miosga) unterhalten sich über: Badehosen, Glitzer, Äähm, Hochzeiten...
By: Martin Suter, and others
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Bruce Chatwin: A BBC Radio Collection
- In Patagonia & more
- By: Bruce Chatwin
- Narrated by: Russell Tovey, Ian Hogg, Ioan Meredith, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Author and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was one of the 20th Century’s most charismatic writers. Included in this collection are full-cast dramas and readings from the giant of travel writing – plus a bonus documentary....
By: Bruce Chatwin
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The Shipwreck
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 37 mins
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Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist...
By: Charles Dickens
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No Time to Spare
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines....
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Henry & June
- By: Anais Nin
- Narrated by: Cherie Lunghi
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Anais Nin wrote her diary at the end of 1931, at the close of a sexually tumultuous and emotional year as part of a ménage a trois with fellow writer Henry Miller and his beautiful wife June Mansfield....
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A quest into human mind
- By Henna on 10-08-17
By: Anais Nin
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Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)
- The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
- By: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism....
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A wonderful edition of a great book
- By Michael on 14-12-21
By: Jeff VanderMeer
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What Is Art?
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion....
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
By: Joseph Epstein
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
By: James Baldwin
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
By: Andre Dubus III
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Transient and Strange
- Notes on the Science of Life
- By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Narrated by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.
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Duplex
- By: Mike Nagel
- Narrated by: Tim Heidecker
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it. Not much else seems to happen in Mike Nagel’s Duplex, except of course everything happens there: a distinct mind is constantly working over the absurdity, meaninglessness, and mundanity of contemporary life.
By: Mike Nagel
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Tales2inspire: The Diamond Collection Series V
- The Moonstone Collections: Book 1 and Book 2
- By: Lois W. Stern, Jan Hurst-Nicholson, Micki Peluso, and others
- Narrated by: Lois W Stern
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Each Tales2Inspire book contain stories of a different yet uplifting theme, named for the gemstone whose meaning reflects the theme of that book.
By: Lois W. Stern, and others
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Familiarity Breeds Content
- New and Selected Essays
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.
By: Joseph Epstein
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and prophetic wisdom.
By: James Baldwin
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Ghost Dogs
- On Killers and Kin
- By: Andre Dubus III
- Narrated by: Andre Dubus III
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.
By: Andre Dubus III
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Transient and Strange
- Notes on the Science of Life
- By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Narrated by: Nell Greenfieldboyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful blend of explanatory science, original reporting, and personal experience, Transient and Strange captures the ache of ordinary life, offering resonant insights into both the world around us and the worlds within us.
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Duplex
- By: Mike Nagel
- Narrated by: Tim Heidecker
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he’s hungover. There's a squirrel in the attic, the ceiling’s caving in, and he’s not sure who to call about it. Not much else seems to happen in Mike Nagel’s Duplex, except of course everything happens there: a distinct mind is constantly working over the absurdity, meaninglessness, and mundanity of contemporary life.
By: Mike Nagel
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Tales2inspire: The Diamond Collection Series V
- The Moonstone Collections: Book 1 and Book 2
- By: Lois W. Stern, Jan Hurst-Nicholson, Micki Peluso, and others
- Narrated by: Lois W Stern
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Each Tales2Inspire book contain stories of a different yet uplifting theme, named for the gemstone whose meaning reflects the theme of that book.
By: Lois W. Stern, and others
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No Judgement
- On Being Critical
- By: Lauren Oyler
- Narrated by: Lauren Oyler
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this blistering, irreverent and very funny first book of non-fiction, Lauren Oyler - one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation - takes on the bizarre particularities of our present moment in a series of interconnected essays about literature, the attention economy, gossip, the role of criticism and her own relentless, teeth-grinding anxiety. No Judgement excavates the layers of psychology and meaning in how we communicate, tell stories and make critical judgements - to offer dazzling insights into how we live and think today.
By: Lauren Oyler
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Supernatural Horror in Literature
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Supernatural Horror in Literature is a essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s. The essay was researched and written between November 1925 and May 1927, first published in August 1927, and then revised and expanded during 1933–1934. Lovecraft's essay ranges widely, but he first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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The Art of Libromancy
- On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
- By: Josh Cook
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face.
By: Josh Cook
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White as Milk and Rice
- Stories of India's Isolated Tribes
- By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
- Narrated by: Avantika Akerkar
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The Maria girls from Bastar practice sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.
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Alphabetical Diaries
- By: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Kate Berlant
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
By: Sheila Heti
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Fire Season
- Selected Essays 1984-2021
- By: Gary Indiana, Christian Lorentzen
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de grâce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breath—in the same discerning, insolent, eloquent way—about high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying the things Gary Indiana does. And when the writing is this good, it's also political, plus it's a riot of fun.
By: Gary Indiana, and others