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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things. "Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register "Didion’s timeless essays...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Essays
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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Erosion
- Essays of Undoing
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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This program is read by the author. Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the...
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Erosion
- Essays of Undoing
- Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 08-10-2019
- Language: English
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What On Earth Have I Done?
- Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
- By: Robert Fulghum
- Narrated by: Robert Fulghum
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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It's been over ten years since Robert Fulghum has published a book of his essays, but he is back and in fine form with What on Earth Have I Done?, encouraging listeners to slow down and pay attention to the miracles, sometimes hilarious and sometimes serious, that can be found around us...
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- By Antoinette Ehmke on 21-11-2022
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What On Earth Have I Done?
- Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
- Narrated by: Robert Fulghum
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-09-2007
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- By: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's...
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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2013
- Language: English
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You Know How I Feel About You
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- By: Caroline Hamilton Langerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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A luminous and deeply relatable essay collection about the transformative first decade of motherhood, for readers of Mary Laura Philpott and Maggie Smith. I may not have had a job, but I had never had more work to do. With humor, vulnerability, and lyrical precision, Caroline Langerman...
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You Know How I Feel About You
- Essays
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2027
- Language: English
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On Women
- By: Susan Sontag, Merve Emre - introduction, David Rieff - editor
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,”...
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On Women
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2023
- Language: English
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This I Believe II
- More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
- By: Jay Allison, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman, and others
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventy-five essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that begins the book's title. With contributors who run...
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This I Believe II
- More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Series: This I Believe, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2008
- Language: English
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Science Nourishes the Mind and Soul
- An Essay from "This I Believe"
- By: Brian Greene, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Physicist Brian Greene describes how an awareness of our small place in the universe can inspire personal strength, in "Science Nourishes the Mind and the Soul," his contribution to NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the...
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Science Nourishes the Mind and Soul
- An Essay from "This I Believe"
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 28
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2007
- Language: English
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Look Alive Out There
- Essays
- By: Sloane Crosley
- Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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This program is read by the author Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass make for an exuberant, unforgettable audiobook. From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes...
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Look Alive Out There
- Essays
- Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Kay Redfield Jamison, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Length: 3 mins
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Professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison describes the power of intense emotions and temperaments in "The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous...
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The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 38
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2007
- Language: English
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Authentic
- The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work
- By: Jodi-Ann Burey
- Narrated by: Jodi-Ann Burey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A bold call to rethink authenticity at work. This program is read by the author. Workplace dynamics in recent years have been a dizzying storm of broken promises. Companies that once encouraged employees to “come as you are” and bring your full, authentic self to work are now shutting down...
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Authentic
- The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work
- Narrated by: Jodi-Ann Burey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2025
- Language: English
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Mothers of Sparta
- A Memoir in Pieces
- By: Dawn Davies
- Narrated by: Dawn Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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This program is read by the author If you’re looking for a parenting audiobook, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother. This is an audiobook about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an...
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Mothers of Sparta
- A Memoir in Pieces
- Narrated by: Dawn Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2018
- Language: English
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The Fellowship of the World
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Niven Busch, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Niven Busch
- Length: 4 mins
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In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, novelist and screenwriter Niven Busch discusses faith, prayer, and subway rides in "The Fellowship of the World", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the...
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The Fellowship of the World
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Niven Busch
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 6
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2007
- Language: English
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The America I Believe In
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Colin Powell, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Colin Powell
- Length: 4 mins
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Former Secretary of State, and first generation American, Colin Powell explains the importance of remaining an open and welcoming nation for NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the...
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The America I Believe In
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Colin Powell
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 57
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2007
- Language: English
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Authority
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- By: Andrea Long Chu
- Narrated by: Andrea Long Chu
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Read by the author, this bold, provocative collection of essays asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has...
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Authority
- Essays
- Narrated by: Andrea Long Chu
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2025
- Language: English
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The Making of Poems
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Gregory Orr, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Gregory Orr
- Length: 3 mins
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Poet Gregory Orr reflects on the power of poetry to help people endure traumatic events and isolation in "The Making of Poems", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing...
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The Making of Poems
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Gregory Orr
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 54
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2007
- Language: English
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Unleashing the Power of Creativity
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Bill Gates, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Bill Gates
- Length: 4 mins
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Bill Gates discusses his optimism that creativity and intelligence will make the world a better place in "Unleashing the Power of Creativity," his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the...
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Unleashing the Power of Creativity
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Bill Gates
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 21
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2007
- Language: English
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Brown White Black
- An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
- By: Nishta J. Mehra
- Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance. Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her...
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Brown White Black
- An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
- Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-02-2019
- Language: English
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Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Frank X. Walker, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Frank X. Walker
- Length: 3 mins
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Frank X. Walker sees many supposed survival skills as "Creative Solutions to Life’s Challenges" in his contribution to NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with...
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Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Frank X. Walker
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 76
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2007
- Language: English
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Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- By: Azar Nafisi, Jay Allison - editor, Dan Gediman - editor
- Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
- Length: 4 mins
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Professor and author Azar Nafisi remembers empathy from unexpected sources in "Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together", her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the...
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Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together
- A "This I Believe" Essay
- Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
- Series: This I Believe, Book 1: Essay 53
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2007
- Language: English
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