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Ghost Empire
- By: Richard Fidler
- Narrated by: Richard Fidler
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 359
Ghost Empire is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, realised by a master storyteller....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it.
- By Fjp on 23-04-2017
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Working Class Boy
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Story5 out of 5 stars 676
Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw & honest autobiography
- By M. O'Brien on 27-09-2017
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Beastie Boys Book
- By: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story5 out of 5 stars 103
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Illest Communication
- By caine brimble on 17-11-2018
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Scar Tissue
- By: Anthony Kiedis
- Narrated by: Rider Strong
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 270
In 1983 four self-described 'knuckleheads' burst out of the neo-punk rock scene in LA with their own unique brand of cosmic hard-core mayhem funk....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful read
- By Darren on 29-08-2016
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Ghost Empire
- By: Richard Fidler
- Narrated by: Richard Fidler
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 359
Ghost Empire is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, realised by a master storyteller....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it.
- By Fjp on 23-04-2017
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Working Class Boy
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Story5 out of 5 stars 676
Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw & honest autobiography
- By M. O'Brien on 27-09-2017
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Beastie Boys Book
- By: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story5 out of 5 stars 103
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Illest Communication
- By caine brimble on 17-11-2018
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Scar Tissue
- By: Anthony Kiedis
- Narrated by: Rider Strong
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 270
In 1983 four self-described 'knuckleheads' burst out of the neo-punk rock scene in LA with their own unique brand of cosmic hard-core mayhem funk....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful read
- By Darren on 29-08-2016
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My Thoughts Exactly
- By: Lily Allen
- Narrated by: Lily Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 301
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Story5 out of 5 stars 297
I'm a people-pleaser. I'm spoilt. I'm needy. I contradict myself. I try to do good. I want to do good. I'm impassioned. I'm observant. Most importantly, I tell the truth. And this is my story....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lily Allen as told by Lily (and read by Lily too!)
- By pip lincolne on 23-09-2018
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Freak Kingdom
- Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
- By: Timothy Denevi
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless opponent of corruption and fascism, one who sacrificed his future well-being to fight against it....
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 06-04-2018
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The Heroin Diaries: 10 Year Anniversary Edition
- A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
- By: Nikki Sixx
- Narrated by: Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman, Ross Marquand
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
In honor of the 10-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx’s definitive and bestselling memoir on drug addiction is now available on audio for the first time, read by Nikki Sixx....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 26-01-2018
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended
- By Chris Andrews on 19-11-2018
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Everything I Know About Love
- By: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 79
A Spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the way....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything I Love About this Book
- By Kate on 30-01-2019
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On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 278
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
On Writing is part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cracker of a book
- By seth on 02-07-2017
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Brutally Honest
- Mel B’s tell-all memoir
- By: Melanie Brown, Louise Gannon
- Narrated by: Melanie Brown, Phoenix Chi Gulzar Brown, Andrea Brown, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
The memoir from the real woman behind the leopard print, for real women everywhere....
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4 out of 5 stars
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hadn't kept up with media, very interesting
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-2019
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Hitch-22
- A Memoir
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story5 out of 5 stars 113
In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tour De Force but rebalance your speakers
- By W. Stokeley on 27-02-2018
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The Real Sherlock
- By: Lucinda Hawksley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character of all time, and he has been reimagined by actors, playwrights and directors over centuries....
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The Road Beneath My Feet
- By: Frank Turner
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The Sunday Times best seller. Frank Turner narrates a searingly honest and brilliantly written account of his journey from pub circuit to Wembley Arena....
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A Walk in the Woods
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 74
The Appalachian Trail covers 14 states, and over 2,000 miles. It stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By josh on 01-07-2018
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Scar Tissue
- By: Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
- Narrated by: Rider Strong
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 127
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge....
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3 out of 5 stars
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narration is terrible.
- By Dan Baker on 17-03-2018
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Try This at Home
- Adventures in Songwriting
- By: Frank Turner
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process....
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How to Be a Woman
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 161
1913 - Suffragette throws herself under the King's horse. 1969 - Feminists storm Miss World. Now - Caitlin Moran rewrites "The Female Eunuch"....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Proper good bab' (as they'd say in Wolverhampton)
- By Kai1 on 14-12-2016
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Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
- A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, etc.
- By: Jeff Tweedy
- Narrated by: Jeff Tweedy
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Through his pioneering work in the legendary country-punk band Uncle Tupelo, to his enduring legacy as the creative force behind the unclassifiable sound of Wilco, Jeff Tweedy has weaved his way between the underground and the mainstream - and back again....
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- By: Ian Winwood
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, music writer Ian Winwood will at last give the significant, substantive, and compelling story of '90s punk rock its due....
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Play On
- Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac
- By: Mick Fleetwood
- Narrated by: Martin Dew
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
'After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you'....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating life
- By Richard on 22-05-2018
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The Story of the Streets
- By: Mike Skinner
- Narrated by: Mike Skinner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In this thoroughly modern memoir, the man the Guardian once dubbed "half Dostoevsky… half Samuel Pepys" tells a freewheeling, funny and fearlessly honest tale....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mike skinner is a true artist!
- By Anonymous User on 30-08-2018
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Just Kids
- By: Patti Smith
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story5 out of 5 stars 126
In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An intimate portrait of two amazing artists
- By Darren on 05-02-2019
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The Lucy Family Alphabet
- By: Judith Lucy
- Narrated by: Judith Lucy
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for years. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she despised them, Judith was shocked....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth a listen
- By Cathryn Walker on 20-06-2015
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Homage to Catalonia
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Road to 1984?
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-2019
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I Might Regret This
- Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff
- By: Abbi Jacobson
- Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful, emotional and real listen
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2018
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The Art of Asking
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
- By: Amanda Palmer
- Narrated by: Amanda Palmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 134
In The Art of Asking, Palmer expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how ordinary people, those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans, can use these same principles....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just take the F'ing flower!!!
- By Misty on 27-05-2015
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Alan Partridge: Nomad
- By: Alan Partridge
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Alan Partridge dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious!
- By cathryn on 16-12-2016
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Maya Angelou: The Autobiographies
- Six BBC Radio 4 Dramatisations
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Indie Gjesdal, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are some of the best, most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography written....
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April Fool's Day
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
This is Bryce Courtenay's moving tribute to his son, Damon, a hemophiliac who died from medically acquired AIDS on April 1, 1991, at the age of 24....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing true story
- By Renee on 01-10-2016
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A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
- By: Maynard James Keenan, Sarah Jensen
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari, Maynard James Keenan
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97
This is the official authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan, the enigmatic vocalist for Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your typical rock star biography!
- By Joel on 14-11-2016
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Roger Daltrey: Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite
- My Story
- By: Roger Daltrey
- Narrated by: Roger Daltrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation. That generation was the first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World War...to invent the concept of the teenager. This is his story....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great listening
- By Sue on 04-02-2019
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
In this unabridged, enlightening and often shocking expose of life on the streets of two of Europe's most romanticised and celebrated cities, Orwell describes in detail the day-to-day life of a 'down-and-out'....
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5 out of 5 stars
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wasn't expecting much.
- By Gaetano on 24-10-2017
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May I Have Your Attention Please?
- By: James Corden
- Narrated by: James Corden
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 126
May I Have Your Attention Please? is the warm, cheeky, surprisingly honest and hilarious story of one of our most popular comedy talents....
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5 out of 5 stars
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james reads like he is talking to you!
- By jo Casey on 17-04-2017
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Heavier Than Heaven
- The Biography of Kurt Cobain
- By: Charles R. Cross
- Narrated by: Greg Lockett
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
A commemorative edition, featuring new material of the definitive, best-selling biography to mark 25 years since Kurt Cobain's death....
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Dreadnaught
- King of Afropunk
- By: D.H. Peligro, William Knoedelseder - introduction
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A no-holds-barred memoir of legendary Dead Kennedys and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer D.H. Peligro, Dreadnaught chronicles Peligro from his pre-DK years growing up in a deprived St. Louis ghetto to his years in San Francisco with Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Flouride - from Los Angeles with the Red Hot Chili Peppers through years of drug and alcohol abuse all over the world amidst a backdrop of some of the most defining periods of late 20th century cultural, social, and music history.
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- By: Stephanie Bennett, Keith Richards - contributor, Helen Mirren - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.
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The Unknown Orwell and Orwell: The Transformation
- By: Peter Stansky, William Abrahams
- Narrated by: Mr Tim Dalgleish
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time, these two essential works on George Orwell have been brought together in one audiobook. The Unknown Orwell describes the first 30 years of Orwell's life - his childhood, the years at Eton and in Burma, and the struggles to become a writer. Orwell: The Transformation carries us forward into the crucial years 1933 to 1937 in which Eric Blair, minor novelist, became George Orwell, a powerful writer with a view, a mission, and a message.
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My Father as I Recall Him
- By: Mamie Dickens
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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To hear Mamie Dickens' memories of her father, Charles Dickens, is a rare privilege and offers a fascinating insight into the private life of one of literature's most beloved authors. His love for his children and animals and the time that he always had to be with them, despite his rigorous writing schedule, demonstrates how well he kept his life's priorities in order.
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Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Agatha Christie remains, all these years later, the unchallenged queen of the murder-mystery genre. What life could produce the woman who seems to be the clear inspiration for J.B. Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote? Follow Christie from England to Egypt and back again, join her on archaeological digs with her husband and dive into strange facts that led to her to write fewer books as she aged.
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OG (Old Guy) Dad
- Weird Shit Happens When You Don't Die Young
- By: Jerry Stahl
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of celebrated columns from The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG Dad finds Jerry Stahl fighting a terminal disease - not to mention mortality, sleeplessness, and the soul-crushing weirdness of preschool drop-offs with parents half his age. Square is the last frontier.
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Dreadnaught
- King of Afropunk
- By: D.H. Peligro, William Knoedelseder - introduction
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A no-holds-barred memoir of legendary Dead Kennedys and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer D.H. Peligro, Dreadnaught chronicles Peligro from his pre-DK years growing up in a deprived St. Louis ghetto to his years in San Francisco with Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Flouride - from Los Angeles with the Red Hot Chili Peppers through years of drug and alcohol abuse all over the world amidst a backdrop of some of the most defining periods of late 20th century cultural, social, and music history.
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- By: Stephanie Bennett, Keith Richards - contributor, Helen Mirren - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.
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The Unknown Orwell and Orwell: The Transformation
- By: Peter Stansky, William Abrahams
- Narrated by: Mr Tim Dalgleish
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time, these two essential works on George Orwell have been brought together in one audiobook. The Unknown Orwell describes the first 30 years of Orwell's life - his childhood, the years at Eton and in Burma, and the struggles to become a writer. Orwell: The Transformation carries us forward into the crucial years 1933 to 1937 in which Eric Blair, minor novelist, became George Orwell, a powerful writer with a view, a mission, and a message.
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My Father as I Recall Him
- By: Mamie Dickens
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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To hear Mamie Dickens' memories of her father, Charles Dickens, is a rare privilege and offers a fascinating insight into the private life of one of literature's most beloved authors. His love for his children and animals and the time that he always had to be with them, despite his rigorous writing schedule, demonstrates how well he kept his life's priorities in order.
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Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime
- By: in60Learning
- Narrated by: Tony Honickberg
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Agatha Christie remains, all these years later, the unchallenged queen of the murder-mystery genre. What life could produce the woman who seems to be the clear inspiration for J.B. Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote? Follow Christie from England to Egypt and back again, join her on archaeological digs with her husband and dive into strange facts that led to her to write fewer books as she aged.
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OG (Old Guy) Dad
- Weird Shit Happens When You Don't Die Young
- By: Jerry Stahl
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of celebrated columns from The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG Dad finds Jerry Stahl fighting a terminal disease - not to mention mortality, sleeplessness, and the soul-crushing weirdness of preschool drop-offs with parents half his age. Square is the last frontier.
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A Carnival of Losses
- Notes Nearing Ninety
- By: Donald Hall
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Donald Hall lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a “treasure” of a book in which he “balance[s] frankness about losses with humor and gratitude” (Washington Post). Before his passing in 2018, nearing ninety, Hall delivered this new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both.
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Heavier Than Heaven
- The Biography of Kurt Cobain
- By: Charles R. Cross
- Narrated by: Greg Lockett
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A commemorative edition, featuring new material of the definitive, best-selling biography to mark 25 years since Kurt Cobain's death. Kurt Cobain's life and death fast became rock 'n' roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, Nirvana, defined the music scene in the early 1990s, and their songs spoke to and for a generation. Music journalist Charles R. Cross, a veteran of the Seattle music scene, relates this extraordinary story of artistic brilliance and the pain that extinguished it.
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Mapping Woody Guthrie
- American Popular Music Series, Book 4
- By: Will Kaufman
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction, journalism, poetry, and visual art, that gave voice to the distressed and dispossessed. In this insightful audiobook, Will Kaufman examines the artist’s career through a unique perspective: the role of time and place in Guthrie’s artistic evolution.
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For the Sake of Heaviness
- The History of Metal Blade Records
- By: Brian Slagel, Lars Ulrich - foreword, Mark Eglinton
- Narrated by: Brian Slagel, John Bush
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Featuring a foreword by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, For the Sake of Heaviness pulls back the curtain to reveal the definitive look at how Metal Blade began, what they've accomplished, and where they're going. With the help of cowriter Mark Eglinton, Brian Slagel invites the listener into a personal conversation about his life's passion and the passion that drives Metal Blade - finding, exposing, and promoting the best heavy music on the planet.
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Gypsy
- Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
- By: Gypsy Rose Lee, Erik Preminger - afterword
- Narrated by: MEOW MEOW
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times best seller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York.
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Chopin
- By: Faina Orzhekhovska
- Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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One man. One instrument . A wealth of music. A biography of the brilliant and tormented Polish composer Chopin, set against the rich historic background of the era.
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Real Queer America
- LGBT Stories from Red States
- By: Samantha Allen
- Narrated by: Samantha Allen
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Real Queer America, Samantha Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more.
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Ingres
- Studies in World Art, Book 37
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: James Hill
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The artist Ingres was a supreme bourgeois who also succeeded in being one of the supreme rebels of 19th-century art. Like Caravaggio, his opposite in most respects, he is historically recalcitrant.
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On Michael Jackson
- By: Margo Jefferson
- Narrated by: Andrea Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture. Michael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma. Who was he really? And how does his spectacular rise, his catastrophic fall, reflect upon those who made him, those who broke him and those who loved him?
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Remembering Roth
- By: James Atlas
- Narrated by: James Atlas
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1977, when he was 28, James Atlas published his first book, a biography of the poet Delmore Schwartz, and was stunned to receive a congratulatory letter from Philip Roth. He had been moved by the tragic story it told. Thus began a friendship that lasted, with a few intervals, until his death. He was living in rural Connecticut then, having exiled himself from the literary noise of Manhattan in order to focus on his work, and was on his own. He invited Atlas to come visit, which he did - the first of numerous pilgrimages to the Roth homestead.
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Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War
- Through the Lens, Book 2
- By: Marina Vaizey
- Narrated by: Verona Westbrook
- Length: 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The reputation of Cecil Beaton hardly rests on the fact that he was the most prolific and productive of official war photographers both on the home front and abroad during World War II; rather, he is thought of as a royal-society- and celebrity-portrait photographer, designer for stage and film - recipient of three Oscars and a Tony - prolific author, and gossipy and fascinating diarist.
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Jimi Hendrix & The Ghettofighters
- In Harlem World
- By: TaharQa Aleem, Tunde Ra Aleem
- Narrated by: Mr. Gates
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Jimi Hendrix & the Ghetto Fighters in Harlem World is the story of The Aleem Twins, who rose from the streets of Harlem to influence virtually every musical genre of their generation, and whose mysterious connection to Jimi Hendrix, one of 20th-century's most important musicians, has launched hundreds of folk tales.