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How do you expand the power of your mind? How do you find your purpose? How can you change your life - and the world? In his new podcast, The Mind Power Mixtape, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy-winning rapper Common conducts a series of illuminating and exciting conversations with an amazing group of artists, to explore the secrets of life, love, art and faith.

Maculate Conception documents one young married couple’s deeply emotional and intimate experience of infertility as we follow Isaac and Abbe Feder through their third painful year of failed in-vitro treatments.

Presidents Are People Too! transforms American presidents into real-life people - complete with flaws, quirks, and scandals you won't find in history books.

Mortal City gets intimate with some of New York's most interesting strangers. Each episode shares vivid and often funny stories about sex, death and the gritty magic that makes living here worth the trouble [Explicit].

When you add Mortal City to your library you will receive receive all 8 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 15 minutes.

The MacArthur Foundation awards the "Genius Grant" every year to the most compelling scientists, educators and artists in the country. But who are these "geniuses," really? Host Bob Garfield sits down with fellows, including writer and producer David Simon, radio producer Jad Abumrad, and inventor Amy Smith, to learn what events shaped their life, how they became leaders in their fields, and what they imagine our shared future looks like.

Writer Ashley Ford wants to know about authors' firsts. First love. First draft. First rejection. Join Ashley as she gets authors like Zadie Smith, Jessica Valenti, Janet Mock and others to open up for an intimate conversation about writing, books, art, life, and love.

When you add Authorized: Firsts to your library you will receive all 11 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 20 minutes.

Dermot O'Leary welcomes you back to the second season of his interview podcast, People, Just People. Inspired by understanding how some of the most interesting people in all walks of life got to where they have, Dermot chats candidly with guests about key moments that have defined them, the lessons they have learnt and much more.

Whenever a tragic event happens, our first thoughts are with the victims, their families, and even with the motives driving the perpetrators. But what happens after the police tape comes down? Damned Spot revisits the places where painful memories of death and destruction still linger, and explores what a building and, ultimately, a community needs in order to heal.

[Contains explicit content] The latest Audible Original series "GameBreaker with Keith Olbermann" brings listeners inside the experience of athletes who can teach us lessons far beyond sports. From the runner who rewired her brain's reaction to pain, to the Olympic swimmer whose refusal of rules revolutionized the sport, to the cyclist with a soap tattoo and a burning sense of what's right, the series looks at the personal sacrifice and societal pressures that impact athletes and challenge the way we think about sports.

<>President and founder of Sojourners, Jim Wallis explores faith, justice, and the moral choices behind today's headlines in this new Audible Original series. In each episode, Jim sits down with an inspiring guest; from Michelle Alexander to Margaret Atwood to Rev William Barber, they discuss their deepest moral convictions and how they are putting them to work in the world.

When you add Jim Wallis: In Conversation to your library you will receive all 9 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 30 minutes.

From Oahu to Detroit, "Little Saigon" to Brooklyn, authors from all walks of life take us to the real worlds that inspired their works. Hosted by reporters Amy Standen and Michael Epstein.

Warning: strong language and adult content.

To The Woman is Audible UK's flagship podcast series for International Women's Day.

Broadcaster, comedian and writer Mark Dolan interrogates the most intriguing people imaginable.

Author and humorist Faith Salie jumps heart-first into Romance literature to find out what makes a great love story - on and off the page. Hear your favorite authors, including Nicholas Sparks, Sophie Kinsella, and Toni Morrison, reflect on the positive power of Romance and how their own experiences with love, sex, and longing affect their work.

When you add Authorized: Love and Romance to your library you will receive all 15 episodes, plus a bonus episode, each with a runtime of approximately 25 minutes.

Antonieta Osornio was a rebellious young woman who fell in love and married very young. One day her husband challenges her, and Tony decides to jump out of a plane, and as a result of that experience, Tony becomes addicted to skydiving. From that moment on, her life turns into a series of adventures, escaping death on so many occasions, that ultimately lead her to become a source of inspiration and change for people with motor disabilities.

In Force of Beauty, Mikki Taylor, editor-at-large of Essence magazine and longtime activist, introduces us to her gifted grandmother, Bessie, her glamorous mother, Modina, and how Modina’s friendship with the legendary Sarah Vaughan shaped Mikki’s childhood. Taylor’s mini-memoir is a tribute to Newark in the '50s and '60s, of cool jazz clubs and close-knit neighborhoods, a handsome house on Avon Avenue, and one family’s tale of perseverance and ingenuity in a city they all loved.

Die Audio-Dokumentation mit bislang ungehörten O-Tönen der jungen Christiane F. (15): "Auf der einen Seite wusste ich, dass irgendwann einmal ein Wendepunkt in meinem Leben kommen wird. Das heißt aber auch, dass ich eben vielleicht noch ein paar Mal auf die Schnauze fliegen muss bevor es soweit kommt." West-Berlin in den 70ern: In dem Gemisch aus Abschottung, Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Drogen entstehen Parallelgesellschaften mit einmaligen Möglichkeiten, aber auch neuen Gefahren.

Rudyard Kipling era un joven reportero cuando encontró la perdición en el barrio erótico del Lahore colonial; el marinero Joseph Conrad descubrió en Borneo un mundo hecho para «los hombres sin entrañas»; y George Orwell se inspiró en el enclave de Khata, donde trabajó como policía imperial, para escribir sus Días de Birmania. David Jiménez sigue los pasos de nueve escritores legendarios por Oriente, recorre los escenarios de sus libros y nos desvela qué permanece —y qué se ha desvanecido— en los destinos que marcaron sus vidas y su obra.

One day, on her way to a date, Isabella Huffington gets hit by a bike. What begins as a concussion with a diagnosed recovery time of seven-to-ten days becomes more than two years of debilitating pain with no apparent end and a string of unhelpful doctor and specialist visits. In the wreckage, jobs are canceled. Leases are broken. There is no second date. What’s left is Isabella, her body, and her pain. Because the source of her pain cannot be located within the body, she is told over and over that her pain is psychosomatic. And Isabella believes it, over and over.