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Parky
- My Autobiography
- By: Michael Parkinson
- Narrated by: Michael Parkinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Britain's national icon, Michael Parkinson reads his long-awaited autobiography....
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What a wonderful personality.
- By Anonymous User on 31-01-2024
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
- Locating Happily-Single Serenity
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution....
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Enjoyable and validating
- By Anonymous User on 19-08-2019
By: Catherine Gray
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Once upon a Time
- The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
- By: Elizabeth Beller
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with friends, family members, teachers, roommates, and colleagues, and featuring never-before-seen family photos, this comprehensive biography reveals a multi-faceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death.
By: Elizabeth Beller
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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MUST READ!!
- By Kindle Customer on 18-12-2022
By: Maya Angelou
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants...
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superior and moving 'i used to be drunk' story
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-2017
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
By: Kerri Andrews, and others
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Parky
- My Autobiography
- By: Michael Parkinson
- Narrated by: Michael Parkinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Britain's national icon, Michael Parkinson reads his long-awaited autobiography....
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What a wonderful personality.
- By Anonymous User on 31-01-2024
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
- Locating Happily-Single Serenity
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution....
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Enjoyable and validating
- By Anonymous User on 19-08-2019
By: Catherine Gray
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Once upon a Time
- The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
- By: Elizabeth Beller
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with friends, family members, teachers, roommates, and colleagues, and featuring never-before-seen family photos, this comprehensive biography reveals a multi-faceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death.
By: Elizabeth Beller
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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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MUST READ!!
- By Kindle Customer on 18-12-2022
By: Maya Angelou
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants...
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superior and moving 'i used to be drunk' story
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-2017
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
By: Kerri Andrews, and others
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....
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A true insight.
- By Gerard Settgast on 21-07-2024
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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Tennessee Williams
- Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
- By: John Lahr
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Ashley
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker....
By: John Lahr
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Sunshine Warm Sober
- The unexpected joy of being sober – forever
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Retired wreckhead Catherine Gray, author of surprise best seller The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, is now in her ninth sober year and has learnt a damn sight more....
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Some good pockets of wisdom from someone very knowledgeable
- By Claire Sutherland on 20-07-2021
By: Catherine Gray
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Vivienne Westwood
- By: Vivienne Westwood, Ian Kelly
- Narrated by: Paula Wilcox
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, cocreator of punk, global brand, and grandmother--a true living legend....
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loved it
- By Anonymous User on 26-01-2023
By: Vivienne Westwood, and others
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Small Acts of Courage
- A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Ali Velshi
- Narrated by: Ali Velshi
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A captivating family history that illustrates how small actions can have an outsized political impact....
By: Ali Velshi
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Selections from The Diary of Samuel Pepys
- By: Samuel Pepys
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys is perhaps the most well known collection of reminiscences. He maintained it, in secrecy, from 1660, the year of the Restoration, until 1669....
By: Samuel Pepys
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Shaggy Muses
- The Dogs Who Inspired Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf
- By: Maureen Adams
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on diaries, letters, and other contemporary accounts, these five miniature biographies allow us unparalleled intimacy with women of genius and their devoted canines....
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Gentle and intelligent
- By Anonymous User on 29-06-2023
By: Maureen Adams
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Sun and Steel
- By: Yukio Mishima
- Narrated by: Matthew Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them....
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Terribly narrated.
- By Ian Callaghan on 07-12-2022
By: Yukio Mishima
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A Wolf at the Table
- A Memoir of My Father
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son....
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Brilliant
- By Sergiu Pobereznic (author) on 14-09-2015
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....
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Fantastic
- By Sophie on 07-08-2019
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Hell's Angels
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Sébastien Desjours
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Au début des années soixante, Thompson, alors journaliste à San Francisco, est fasciné par les Hell's Angels. Son article sur ces seigneurs de...
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Yes it’s in French and can’t change
- By Brett Wilson on 29-12-2022
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One Hundred Years of Dirt
- By: Rick Morton
- Narrated by: Rick Morton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress....
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Insightful and beautifully told human story
- By christiana O on 30-08-2021
By: Rick Morton
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Writing on Empty
- A Guide to Finding Your Voice
- By: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a devastating period of writer’s block and back into a life of growth, creativity, and healing.
By: Natalie Goldberg
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This is an unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter....
By: Alan Bennett
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All the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the book that changed America....
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Very relevant to current political events
- By The Quiet Reader on 04-06-2018
By: Bob Woodward, and others
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 15-03-2024
By: Stefan Zweig, and others
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Frida
- A Biography of Frida Kahlo
- By: Hayden Herrera
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed by readers/listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences.
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Loved learning about the women behind the portrait
- By Jemma on 12-07-2023
By: Hayden Herrera
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Black Virgin Mountain
- A Return to Vietnam
- By: Larry Heinemann
- Narrated by: Larry Heinemann
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1966, just as the American military buildup in Vietnam was going into overdrive, a working-class 22-year-old from Chicago was drafted into the army....
By: Larry Heinemann
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Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded Edition)
- The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
- By: Phil Baker, Alan Moore - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)....
By: Phil Baker, and others
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My Story
- By: Kamala Das
- Narrated by: Suchitra Koliyot
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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My Story is an autobiographical book written by Indian author and poet Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Surayya or Madhavikutty). The book was originally published in Malayalam, titled Ente Katha. The book evoked violent reactions of admiration and criticism....
By: Kamala Das
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On Leopard Rock
- A Life of Adventures
- By: Wilbur Smith
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....
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horrible
- By readsAlot on 17-04-2022
By: Wilbur Smith
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Hell
- A Prison Diary 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred...
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well written and narration was excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 19-03-2024
By: Jeffrey Archer
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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"Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" by Robert Graves is a seminal work that vividly captures the harrowing experiences of a young British officer during World War I.
By: Robert Graves
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Endless Flight
- The Life of Joseph Roth
- By: Keiron Pim
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the twentieth-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age. Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars....
By: Keiron Pim
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- By: Ralf Webb
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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In San Francisco, 1960, James Baldwin spoke to John Cheever about what he saw as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'. Strange Relations examines how Baldwin came to this assessment and what may be amiss in our understanding of masculinity. Building on Walt Whitman's philosophy of the love between men, the book considers the work and lives of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Cheever and Baldwin. All four writers wrestled in their art, as well as in their sexual and platonic relationships, with the expectations of masculinity, the pull of queer life and the tensions between the two.
By: Ralf Webb
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Wild Old Woman
- A Meta-Memoir from Burning Man to Bhutan
- By: Joan Maloof
- Narrated by: Joan Maloof
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The second half of life can be just as wild as the first half. This is a true story of love, loss, sex, earth, spirit, writing, and adventure after ‘the change.’ In this story people die, the author sleeps with three men, she ingests magic mushrooms, is threatened by a wild tiger, and dances naked with a famous artist. Then there is the meta layer of what happens after the wild story is written down and shared.
By: Joan Maloof
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Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect?
- Triglyph People, Book 1
- By: Clive Aslet
- Narrated by: Clive Aslet
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolized a grieving nation's sense of loss. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.
By: Clive Aslet
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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"Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" by Robert Graves is a seminal work that vividly captures the harrowing experiences of a young British officer during World War I.
By: Robert Graves
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Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes
- Pop Classics, Book 10
- By: Michael Hingston
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin’s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination―its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations―helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America’s last great comic strip.
By: Michael Hingston
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Iconic
- My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects
- By: Zandra Rhodes, Ella Alexander
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does. In this insightful memoir, Zandra shares her life story for the first time. Told through a variety of mementos and curiosities collected over the course of her eight decades, it is a vibrant account.
By: Zandra Rhodes, and others
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- By: Ralf Webb
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In San Francisco, 1960, James Baldwin spoke to John Cheever about what he saw as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'. Strange Relations examines how Baldwin came to this assessment and what may be amiss in our understanding of masculinity. Building on Walt Whitman's philosophy of the love between men, the book considers the work and lives of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Cheever and Baldwin. All four writers wrestled in their art, as well as in their sexual and platonic relationships, with the expectations of masculinity, the pull of queer life and the tensions between the two.
By: Ralf Webb
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Wild Old Woman
- A Meta-Memoir from Burning Man to Bhutan
- By: Joan Maloof
- Narrated by: Joan Maloof
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The second half of life can be just as wild as the first half. This is a true story of love, loss, sex, earth, spirit, writing, and adventure after ‘the change.’ In this story people die, the author sleeps with three men, she ingests magic mushrooms, is threatened by a wild tiger, and dances naked with a famous artist. Then there is the meta layer of what happens after the wild story is written down and shared.
By: Joan Maloof
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Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect?
- Triglyph People, Book 1
- By: Clive Aslet
- Narrated by: Clive Aslet
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolized a grieving nation's sense of loss. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.
By: Clive Aslet
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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"Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" by Robert Graves is a seminal work that vividly captures the harrowing experiences of a young British officer during World War I.
By: Robert Graves
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Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes
- Pop Classics, Book 10
- By: Michael Hingston
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin’s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination―its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations―helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America’s last great comic strip.
By: Michael Hingston
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Iconic
- My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects
- By: Zandra Rhodes, Ella Alexander
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Dame Zandra Rhodes has spent her life rallying against what was expected of her, both as a designer and a woman. Often perceived as too bold for the mainstream, she fought for creativity and individuality, and continues to achieve both in everything she does. In this insightful memoir, Zandra shares her life story for the first time. Told through a variety of mementos and curiosities collected over the course of her eight decades, it is a vibrant account.
By: Zandra Rhodes, and others
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Perfect Bound
- A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me
- By: Lindsay Nicholson
- Narrated by: Leda Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Having suffered the unimaginable loss of her first husband and child, Lindsay Nicholson worked her way up to become the most successful lifestyle magazine editor in Britain. But when a would-be suicide ran in front of her car, the pages of her picture-perfect life fell apart once more. In just one year, Lindsay lost her marriage, job and home, and was even arrested. Suicidal and suffering from profound PTSD, she tried medication, therapy and New Age courses – until she found the answers she was looking for in the pages of her former magazine.
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Norman Maclean
- A Life of Letters and Rivers
- By: Rebecca McCarthy
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean's lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother.
By: Rebecca McCarthy
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Murray Ball
- A Cartoonist's Life
- By: Mason Ball
- Narrated by: Martin Crump
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Murray's son Mason Ball shares all the hits and misses and long years of hard graft that went into what would become the wildly successful creative enterprise: Footrot Flats. From his unique viewpoint and with candid honesty, Mason reveals the real-life backstory to Murray's most iconic characters and themes, telling the story of the man—and father—who could see the quirks of human nature and capture them with the stroke of a pen.
By: Mason Ball
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Letters to a Young Poet
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Tomás Larisch Frazer
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898, and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life.
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Swinging on the Garden Gate (Second Edition)
- A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit
- By: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Karen Oliveto
- Narrated by: Jenna Rose Stein
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunning memoir of coming of age and coming out bisexual by award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew.
By: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, and others
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Diane von Fürstenberg - A short biography
- 5 Minutes - Short on time - long on info!
- By: Lea Pfeiffer
- Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American art and fashion icon: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.
By: Lea Pfeiffer
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Cindy Sherman - A short biography
- 5 Minutes - Short on time - long on info!
- By: Lea Pfeiffer
- Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Cindy Sherman, American painter and fotografer: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.
By: Lea Pfeiffer
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Georgia O'Keeffe - A short biography
- 5 Minutes - Short on time - long on info!
- By: Lea Pfeiffer
- Narrated by: Lea Pfeiffer
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Georgia O'Keeffe, American paintress and founder of Modernism: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise.
By: Lea Pfeiffer
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Writing on Empty
- A Guide to Finding Your Voice
- By: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page.
By: Natalie Goldberg
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- By: Emily Van Duyne
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
By: Emily Van Duyne
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The Mother Artist
- Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
- By: Catherine Ricketts
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Forged in the stress of early motherhood, The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice. As a young mother working at a museum, essayist Catherine Ricketts began asking questions about the making of motherhood and the making of art. Now, with incantatory prose and an intuitive gaze, she twines intimate meditations on parenthood with studies of the work and lives of painters, writers, dancers, musicians, and other creatives.
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I Can Give You Anything but Love
- By: Gary Indiana
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments. With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary has composed literary and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post-summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality.
By: Gary Indiana