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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river....
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Absolutely Superb
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2023
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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With an introduction by Will Self. A classic work of psychology, this international best seller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind....
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Fascinating insight into the human mind
- By Chris Regan on 21-02-2019
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Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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In this inspiring masterpiece, best-selling author Susan Cain shows the power of 'bittersweetness'—a tendency towards sorrow and longing, an acute awareness of passing time and a piercing joy when beholding beauty....
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By sophie harris on 05-11-2023
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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson Hunte, Ben Miles, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, narrated by a prestigious cast of actors and notable literary figures connected to Hilary's work....
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about how to live....
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The kind words I needed
- By Anonymous User on 29-07-2022
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Walking, Autumnal Tints & Wild Apples
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Here are three of Thoreau’s most famous talks brought together in one volume. “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” and “Wild Apples” are all autumn essays—contemplative, deliberate, and insightful....
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river....
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Absolutely Superb
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2023
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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With an introduction by Will Self. A classic work of psychology, this international best seller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind....
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Fascinating insight into the human mind
- By Chris Regan on 21-02-2019
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Bittersweet
- How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Susan Cain
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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In this inspiring masterpiece, best-selling author Susan Cain shows the power of 'bittersweetness'—a tendency towards sorrow and longing, an acute awareness of passing time and a piercing joy when beholding beauty....
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By sophie harris on 05-11-2023
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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson Hunte, Ben Miles, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, narrated by a prestigious cast of actors and notable literary figures connected to Hilary's work....
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about how to live....
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The kind words I needed
- By Anonymous User on 29-07-2022
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Walking, Autumnal Tints & Wild Apples
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Here are three of Thoreau’s most famous talks brought together in one volume. “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” and “Wild Apples” are all autumn essays—contemplative, deliberate, and insightful....
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living....
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Professional suffer = 10/10
- By Ben on 14-03-2016
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from number-one best-selling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast....
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I give The Anthropocene Reviewed.. 5 stars.
- By Allana Kate on 27-05-2021
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What I Know for Sure
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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The inspirational wisdom of Oprah Winfrey, collected for the first time in a beautiful book....
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Loved every minute
- By Joyce on 29-11-2015
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Diane Keaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece....
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May have been interesting in the 60s
- By Brisbenjamin on 21-06-2023
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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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Comforted my soul
- By Bree on 02-10-2019
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These Precious Days
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally best-selling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House....
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meditations on love and the power therein
- By joe douglas on 16-08-2023
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Heirloom Rooms
- Soulful Stories of Home
- By: Erin Napier
- Narrated by: Erin Napier
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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Erin Napier, designer, host of HGTV’s Home Town, and author of Make Something Good Today, returns with a one-of-a-kind celebration of the homes we live in and love....
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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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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- By: Elena Kostyuchenko, Ilona Chavasse - translator, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases....
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Gratitude
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 36 mins
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In Gratitude Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end....
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Musicophilia
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Oliver Sacks examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people....
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insightful, relevant, incredibly well written
- By B. C. Pelayo on 28-01-2023
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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Not all laughs
- By Sarah on 19-02-2023
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Politics and the English Language
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 42 mins
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'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered one of Orwell's most important essays....
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Great book!
- By Cain on 01-12-2022
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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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The Cost of Living
- Living Autobiography 2
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement and emerging renewed from the ashes of a former life....
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Considered and touching
- By Anonymous User on 01-09-2023
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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David Sedaris' remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights....
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great read
- By rah on 18-03-2015
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Opinions
- A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Opinions is a collection of Roxane Gay's best nonfiction pieces from the past ten years, addressing a wide range of topics - politics, the culture wars, civil rights, celebrities, and much more....
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The Best of Me
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume....
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david sedaris' best of
- By Ben on 21-12-2020
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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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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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Making It up as I Go Along
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life....
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Loved it!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-2018
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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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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
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Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....
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Democracy in America
- By: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....
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American Pie Slice of Life Essays on America and Japan
- By: Kay Hetherly
- Narrated by: Kay Hetherly
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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ケイ・ヘザリ(「NHKラジオ英会話」元レギュラー・ゲスト)のエッセイ単行本『American Pie』の中から厳選した17本を、著者自らが英語で朗読。
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Under the Curtain
- Stories, Poems, and Essays
- By: Tony Martello
- Narrated by: Rachael Wilde
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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Enjoy an anthology of short stories, poems, and essays by Tony Martello. Some stories and poems are reprints while others have yet to be discovered. Included is a personal essay on his perspective of the COVID-19 shutdown. Some called it a curse while others discovered opportunities in its wake!
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- By: Elena Kostyuchenko, Ilona Chavasse - translator, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.
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A Left-Handed Woman
- Essays
- By: Judith Thurman
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our time—"a master of vivisection," as Kathryn Harrison wrote in the New York Times. "When she's done with a subject, it's still living, mystery intact."
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Party Like It's 2044
- Finding the Funny in Life and Death
- By: Joni B. Cole
- Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Joni B. Cole worries that Vlad the Impaler may be a distant cousin. She feuds with a dead medium. She thinks (or overthinks) about insulting birthday cards, power trips, and the real reason writers hate Amazon. And she wishes, really wishes, all those well-meaning people would stop talking about Guatemala. At once irreverent and thought provoking, Cole's collection is a joy ride through eclectic essays that arrive smack on that sweet spot between soul searching and social commentary, between humor and heft.
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How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: John Greenman
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into the art of storytelling with "How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays" by Mark Twain, a collection of essays that offers insights, humor, and wisdom on the craft of narrative. In this audiobook, Twain shares his expertise on the subtle nuances of storytelling, exploring the intricacies of humor, character development, and the art of captivating an audience. With wit and charm, he imparts valuable lessons that are as relevant today as they were in his time.
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American Pie Slice of Life Essays on America and Japan
- By: Kay Hetherly
- Narrated by: Kay Hetherly
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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ケイ・ヘザリ(「NHKラジオ英会話」元レギュラー・ゲスト)のエッセイ単行本『American Pie』の中から厳選した17本を、著者自らが英語で朗読。
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Under the Curtain
- Stories, Poems, and Essays
- By: Tony Martello
- Narrated by: Rachael Wilde
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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Enjoy an anthology of short stories, poems, and essays by Tony Martello. Some stories and poems are reprints while others have yet to be discovered. Included is a personal essay on his perspective of the COVID-19 shutdown. Some called it a curse while others discovered opportunities in its wake!
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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- By: Elena Kostyuchenko, Ilona Chavasse - translator, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.
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A Left-Handed Woman
- Essays
- By: Judith Thurman
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our time—"a master of vivisection," as Kathryn Harrison wrote in the New York Times. "When she's done with a subject, it's still living, mystery intact."
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Party Like It's 2044
- Finding the Funny in Life and Death
- By: Joni B. Cole
- Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Author Joni B. Cole worries that Vlad the Impaler may be a distant cousin. She feuds with a dead medium. She thinks (or overthinks) about insulting birthday cards, power trips, and the real reason writers hate Amazon. And she wishes, really wishes, all those well-meaning people would stop talking about Guatemala. At once irreverent and thought provoking, Cole's collection is a joy ride through eclectic essays that arrive smack on that sweet spot between soul searching and social commentary, between humor and heft.
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How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: John Greenman
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Dive into the art of storytelling with "How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays" by Mark Twain, a collection of essays that offers insights, humor, and wisdom on the craft of narrative. In this audiobook, Twain shares his expertise on the subtle nuances of storytelling, exploring the intricacies of humor, character development, and the art of captivating an audience. With wit and charm, he imparts valuable lessons that are as relevant today as they were in his time.
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Mailer's Last Days
- New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
- By: Michael J. Lennon
- Narrated by: J. Michael Lennon
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.
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Europe and Elsewhere
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: John Greenman
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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Europe and Elsewhere by Mark Twain is a literary voyage that takes you on a humorous and insightful journey across continents. This audiobook presents Twain's travel writings, filled with his signature wit, keen observations, and cultural commentary. Join Twain as he explores Europe and shares his witty impressions of the Old World, offering a fresh perspective on the cultures, traditions, and quirks of the people he encounters.
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The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: John Greenman
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Embark on a journey into the imaginative and whimsical world of "The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches" by Mark Twain. This audiobook offers a delightful collection of Twain's satirical and humorous essays and sketches that explore a wide range of topics, from politics to society to the absurdities of everyday life. With Twain's trademark wit and clever storytelling, you'll find yourself transported to a place where irony reigns, and laughter is guaranteed. These sketches provide a sharp and often hilarious commentary on the quirks and follies of the human experience.
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Sad Happens
- By: Brandon Stosuy
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Reena Dutt, Cynthia Farrell, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry—and the circumstances in which we shed a tear—are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances.
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Christian Science
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: John Greenman
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Delve into the satirical and thought-provoking world of "Christian Science" by Mark Twain, a collection of essays and writings that offer a humorous yet critical examination of Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. This audiobook presents Twain's signature wit and incisive commentary as he explores the tenets of Christian Science, its practices, and its impact on society.
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Queen Victoria’s Jubilee
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Todd Kramer
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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While in London in 1897, Mark Twain was commissioned by William Randolph Hearst to report for the San Francisco Examiner on the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria’s ascension to the throne. Evoking historical detail reminiscent of passages in The Prince and the Pauper and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Twain compares the jubilee to his own original and imaginative account of the 1415 celebration following the English victory at Agincourt, and he also reflects on the rapid changes in the British Empire during the Victorian age.
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Notes from the Henhouse
- Collected Essays
- By: Elspeth Barker
- Narrated by: Rafaella Barker
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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As a teenager, Elspeth Barker had two great desires: to have a passionate love affair with a poet and to be a writer. She achieved the first when she and the poet George Barker fell in love: although he was perpetually broke, had several children by previous lovers and couldn't marry her as his first wife refused a divorce, they were extremely happy together, had five children and finally married two years before George's death. They had five children and finally married two years before George's death.
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Italian Hours
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Barbara Baker
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of "Italian Hours" by Henry James. This audiobook transports you to the picturesque landscapes and vibrant cities of Italy. With James' evocative prose and keen observations, you'll embark on a sensory journey through the art, culture, and history of this captivating country. The narrative offers a rich exploration of the intersection between travel, literature, and personal reflection.
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Heretics
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Stephen Johnston
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this galloping collection of twenty pointed essays, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) nimbly punctures the philosophical pretensions of modern non-Christian thinkers and artists—heretics, as he calls them. Chesterton good-naturedly takes on contemporaries Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, James McNeill Whistler, and even his good friend George Bernard Shaw, exposing the muddled logic of their popular ideas with his characteristic wisdom and razor-sharp wit. He also begins to lay the groundwork for Orthodoxy, his subsequent account of a rational and coherent Christian faith.
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It Takes a Village to Raise the Bar
- A New Paradigm for Black America
- By: Boyce Watkins
- Narrated by: Thomas A. Penny
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful, concise set of essays, world-renowned finance PhD Dr. Boyce Watkins explains that African Americans must dramatically and immediately shift the way we think about wealth, education, family, and community. We must educate our own children, own our own businesses, strengthen our families, and do what is necessary to ensure that the next generation is able to compete in a global, high-tech society.
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this genre-defying daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, literature, place and memory is about how reality is never made by realists and how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others.
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Absolutely Superb
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2023
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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In June 1862, Dostoevsky left St. Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, were first published in the February 1863 issue of "Vremya" (Time), the periodical he edited, and are collected here.