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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Tamala Shelton, 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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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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This is wonderful
- By Felicity on 28-02-2021
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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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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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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Tamala Shelton, 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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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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This is wonderful
- By Felicity on 28-02-2021
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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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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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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 Anonymous User on 21-12-2020
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 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 Four Horsemen
- The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- By: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the 21st century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging....
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Loved it but
- By daniel on 19-02-2019
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....
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A brilliantly read version
- By Simon Hart on 04-06-2018
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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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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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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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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble....
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THANK YOU
- By Amazon Customer on 11-07-2017
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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 Akii Ngo on 08-01-2021
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 8 hrs
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A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from number-one best-selling author John Green....
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Awakening Bharat Mata
- By: Swapan Dasgupta
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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This collection is an attempt to showcase the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in terms of how it perceives itself. Many of the concerns that drive the Indian Right are located in the country's nationalist culture....
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Henry David Thoreau Collection
- Walden, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking, and Cape Cod
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Drake Johnson
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
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Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American writer and lifelong advocate for the abolition of slavery. His written works are many and varied but he is perhaps best known for works such as Walden, a book which promotes the idea of simple living in natural surroundings....
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The Book of the City of Ladies
- By: Christine de Pizan
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Partly myth, partly fact, The Book of the City of Ladies is an extraordinary, pioneering and impassioned defense of women that set out to shatter medieval misogynist cliches, and serve to instill self-worth in its female listeners of the time....
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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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The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Williams....
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terrible reading.Cant listen to it
- By Elizabeth Chapman on 11-01-2021
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- By: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that....
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eh
- By leafydragon on 06-04-2021
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Explore the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives....
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loved it
- By Dianna Brettschneider on 16-07-2020
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On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....
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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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Hard to listen to
- By Hannah on 15-06-2020
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- By: John Green
- Length: Not Yet Known
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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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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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The Hard Crowd
- Essays 2000-2020
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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An electrifying book about living fast and free in a crowded world....
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True Stories
- Selected Non-Fiction
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex....
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Written & read by Helen Garner
- By Ms S J Hutchison on 01-01-2018
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Themes and Variations
- An Essay
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 30 mins
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In this surprising essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rewards of a book tour and his devoted readers’ worst-kept secrets....
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Brilliant Brilliance
- By Anonymous User on 01-01-2021
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The Cool Side of My Pillow
- A Book of Essays
- By: Bruce Campbell
- Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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The Cool Side of My Pillow is a collection of essays. Don’t let that fancy word fool you. I’m not trying to get highbrow or rant myself blue, but there are experiences and observations outside of the entertainment industry that I feel are worth sharing....
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警察裏物語
- By: 北芝 健
- Narrated by: サカウエ 稔
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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警察官だって、生身の人間である。
事実は小説より奇なり、小説やTVドラマより面白い警察の真実を、元警視庁刑事の著者が暴露します。
警察官と言えば、正義感に溢れた、真面目な人たちの集団。
そんなイメージを持っている方が多いかと思います。
もちろん、使命感に溢れ、国民を守る存在である警察官は、皆そうした素養を持っていることは間違いありません
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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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Things I Don't Want to Know
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood....
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Wildwood
- A Journey Through Trees
- By: Roger Deakin
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives....
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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In An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us....
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A wonderful painting of atypical genius
- By Jack on 13-02-2019
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Mantel Pieces
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....
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The Unusual Billionaires
- By: Saurabh Mukherjea
- Narrated by: Gaurav Marwa
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 percent revenue growth over the last 10 years and 15 percent return on capital employed. These companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth....
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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