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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2018
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- By: George Watsky
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress....
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Great Story
- By Sam on 06-09-2022
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The Essential Dick Gregory
- By: Dick Gregory
- Narrated by: Joe Morton, Christian Gregory, Andre Gaines, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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A true renaissance man, Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory was one of the pioneering satirists of his generation, a reformer and brilliant spokesperson for the downtrodden and forgotten who dedicated his life to speaking unadulterated truth—and to improving ordinary lives....
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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Darwin and Dawkins, what’s not to love?
- By Anonymous User on 23-03-2018
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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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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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Challenging Convention
- By Nicky Webber on 26-08-2017
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2018
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How to Ruin Everything
- Essays
- By: George Watsky
- Narrated by: George Watsky
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In this brutally honest and humorous debut, musician and artist George Watsky chronicles the small triumphs over humiliation that make life bearable and how he has come to accept defeat as necessary to personal progress....
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Great Story
- By Sam on 06-09-2022
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The Essential Dick Gregory
- By: Dick Gregory
- Narrated by: Joe Morton, Christian Gregory, Andre Gaines, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A true renaissance man, Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory was one of the pioneering satirists of his generation, a reformer and brilliant spokesperson for the downtrodden and forgotten who dedicated his life to speaking unadulterated truth—and to improving ordinary lives....
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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Darwin and Dawkins, what’s not to love?
- By Anonymous User on 23-03-2018
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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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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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Challenging Convention
- By Nicky Webber on 26-08-2017
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Love this book
- By Daniel Schuller on 03-11-2022
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Dharma Artha Kama Moksha [Dharma Meaning Work Salvation]
- 40 Insights for Happiness
- By: Devdutt Pattanaik
- Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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In Dharma Artha Kama Moksha, Devdutt Pattanaik uses his unique understanding of mythology to provide an accessible and lucid guide to the Hindu way of thinking, with short essays that are crisp expositions of important concepts....
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Life's Amazing Secrets
- How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life
- By: Gaur Gopal Das
- Narrated by: Gaur Gopal Das
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend, Harry, get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness....
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Marvellous
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-2022
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How to Be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- By: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who'd rather you not....
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Doesn’t teach you anything
- By Aleisha lommerse on 22-05-2022
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....
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Astoundingly beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 26-07-2017
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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Charming.
- By Kathy Wesson on 27-09-2023
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- By: Bill Hayes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by....
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enjoyed every precious moment
- By Patrick on 11-03-2018
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Earth Keeper
- Reflections on the American Land
- By: N. Scott Momaday
- Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
- Length: 51 mins
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday presents a magnificent testament to the Earth....
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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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Absolutely excellent
- By Richard on 12-12-2019
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The Braindead Megaphone
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction....
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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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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How fortunate that Hitchens left this legacy!
- By Nigel Jarvis on 10-10-2021
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After Henry
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts....
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It's Not About the Burqa
- Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
- By: Mariam Khan
- Narrated by: Mariam Khan, Amna Saleem, Afshan D'souza-Lodhi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about....
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Amazing read for Muslim and non Muslim listeners
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-2019
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家族だから愛したんじゃなくて、愛したのが家族だった
- By: 岸田 奈美
- Narrated by: 水瀬 真知
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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笑えて泣ける岸田家の日々のこと 車いすユーザーの母、ダウン症で知的障害のある弟、ベンチャー起業家で急逝した父――
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I Like to Watch
- Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
- By: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Emily Nussbaum
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV....
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture....
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Read it. Learn from it. Grow from it!!
- By T N on 08-01-2021
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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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Very enjoyable
- By sarah on 04-06-2020
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....
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Loved the collection of Minimalist articles
- By Taikozfan on 24-03-2017
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On Doubt
- Little Books on Big Ideas
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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When society seems to demand confidence and certainty, how much courage does it take to admit doubt, especially self-doubt? In this personal essay, one of Australia's most respected journalists argues in favour of a doubtful mind....
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Wish the author narrated
- By Anonymous User on 11-01-2021
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Daughters of Latin America
- An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
- By: Sandra Guzman
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Maria Victoria Martinez
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
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Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and creativity of these visionary writers, leaders, scholars, and activists—including 24 Indigenous voices....
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Growing Up African in Australia
- By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Narrated by: Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Compiled by award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke, with curatorial assistance from writers Ahmed Yussuf and Magan Magan, this anthology brings together the regions of Africa, and the African diaspora, from the Caribbean to the Americas....
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Generally good book but sometimes hard to listen
- By Sally on 18-09-2021
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The Empty Honour Board
- By: Martin Flanagan
- Narrated by: Martin Flanagan
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmania. Of the 12 priests on the staff, three have since gone to prison for sexual crimes committed against boys in their care....
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Written with Honour
- By Deborah Ellks on 02-08-2023
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The Life of Oscar Wilde
- By: Hesketh Pearson
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language....
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Simplicity
- Essays
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Simon Whistler
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus - The Minimalists - left their six-figure careers, jettisoned many of their material possessions, and started focusing on life's most important aspects. And they never looked back....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sensations Thoughts and Emotions
- Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023
- By: Lincoln Stoller
- Narrated by: Lincoln Stoller
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This book helps you see, think, and feel back together those parts of yourself the Western mind reduced to rubble. If you feel integration to be unnatural, that’s your problem at a glance. I apologize that the day is dawning and there’s work we need to do, but hello. It’s time to wake up.
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Sex with a Brain Injury
- On Concussion and Recovery
- By: Annie Liontas
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the “walking wounded,” facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother’s battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate and expand representations of mental health, ability, and disability—particularly in relation to women and the LGBT community.
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Acres of Diamonds
- By: Russell H. Conwell
- Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Acres of Diamonds - essay, written by Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. The original inspiration for Acres of Diamonds, his most famous essay, occurred in 1869 when Conwell was traveling in the Middle East. The work began as a speech, "at first given," wrote Conwell in 1913, "before a reunion of my old comrades of the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, which served in the Civil War and in which I was captain."
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- By: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Essays Collection
- Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Letters & Reminisances; Virginia Woolf's Essays on Dostoyevsky
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Emma Gregory
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of Fyodor Dostotevsky's two finest works of non-fiction.
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Chapters from My Autobiography
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Chapters from My Autobiography is a collection of twenty-five pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark Twain in the North American Review between September 1906 and December 1907. Rather than following the standard form of an autobiography, they comprise a typically Twain-esque collection of rambling anecdotes and ruminations.
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Virginia Woolf: 3 Essays on Dostoyevsky
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The essays included are: The Father: Woolf's ruminations of family and, particularly, the father within the works of Dostoyevsky. More Dostoyevsky: Further thoughts on Dostoyevsky's work, an author of whom she once wrote “It is directly obvious that he is the greatest writer ever born." In Cranford: A comedic exploration of Dostoyevsky's work where Woolf transplants the great master into English provincial life to explore the unique nature of his work and the English nature.
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From Superman to Man
- By: J. A. Rogers
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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"From Superman to Man" is not just a critique of racial prejudices but also an empowerment tool. By dismantling stereotypes and celebrating black accomplishments, the book seeks to uplift the African-American community. It remains a relevant historical document, capturing the zeitgeist of its era and contributing to the ongoing discourse on race and identity. Rogers' dedication to dismantling stereotypes and promoting a more inclusive understanding of African-American history is evident throughout the text, making the book a significant contribution to the broader conversation on racial issues in America.
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A Radiant Birth
- Advent Readings for a Bright Season
- By: Leslie Leyland Fields - editor, Paul J. Willis - editor
- Narrated by: Kellye A. Saunders, William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The first Christmas sermon preserved in church history was preached by St. John Chrysostom in AD 386, in which he declared, "Behold a new and wonderful mystery!" In this volume, the Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful season of anticipation and glory. Through forty-two readings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, contributors prepare us in watchful waiting for the coming of Jesus.
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Book 101 Review: Volume 3
- Suggestions
- By: Daniel Lucas
- Narrated by: Daniel Lucas
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Delve deep into the literary cosmos with "Book 101 Review Volume 3: Suggestions," an exquisite collection of reviews and recommendations tailored for every breed of listeners. Curated with meticulous detail, this volume showcases a diverse range of genres, authors, and narratives, aiming to rekindle the flame of seasoned bibliophiles and light the spark for budding enthusiasts.
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George Orwell - Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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George Orwell (1903-50) is known around the world for his satirical novella Animal Farm and his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he was arguably at his best in the essay form. Below, we've selected and introduced ten of Orwell's best essays for the interested newcomer to his non-fiction, but there are many more we could have added.