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  • The Practicing Stoic cover art

    • The Practicing Stoic

    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings

    • The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....

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    • Under the Duvet

    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Marian Keyes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • 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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    • On the Genealogy of Morals

    • A Polemic
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Duncan Steen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • 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's Executioner

    • By: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • 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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    • Cultural Amnesia

    • Notes in the Margin of My Time
    • By: Clive James
    • Narrated by: Clive James
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • 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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  • A Real Piece of Work cover art

    • A Real Piece of Work

    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Erin Riley
    • Narrated by: Erin Riley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most: family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one's authentic self....

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  • More Notes of a Dirty Old Man cover art

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  • The Book of Delights cover art

    • The Book of Delights

    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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    • A Certain Idea of America

    • Selected Writings
    • By: Peggy Noonan
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Peggy Noonan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • From Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.

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    • Figures in a Landscape

    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying

    • A Memoir
    • By: Youngmi Mayer
    • Narrated by: Youngmi Mayer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents.

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    • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • 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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    • On Meditation

    • By: Sri M.
    • Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quiet your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation....

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    • The Examined Life

    • How We Lose and Find Ourselves
    • By: Stephen Grosz
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience....

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  • On Lust and Longing cover art

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  • The Sopranos Sessions cover art

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    • Henry & June

    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Cherie Lunghi
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Anais Nin wrote her diary at the end of 1931, at the close of a sexually tumultuous and emotional year as part of a ménage a trois with fellow writer Henry Miller and his beautiful wife June Mansfield....

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    • The Periodic Table

    • By: Primo Levi
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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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