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    • Essays
    • By: Rebecca West, Benjamin Moser - introduction
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 09-02-2027
    • Language: English
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    • A masterwork of moral inquiry from one of the twentieth century’s greatest observers of power, guilt, and justice. In A Train of Powder, Rebecca West—one of the great literary journalists of the twentieth century—brings her crystalline intelligence and unsparing moral vision to some of the...

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    • By: Brianna Wiest
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 411 ratings
    • Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the...

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    • Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America
    • By: Hugh White
    • Narrated by: Hugh White
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 199 ratings
    • In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt and oppose China. What led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? Is this a case of sleepwalking to war? What tests might a new government face....

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    • Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia
    • By: Sarah Krasnostein
    • Narrated by: Sarah Krasnostein
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 85 ratings
    • Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today, Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose....

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    • Can We Stop Violence Against Women and Children
    • By: Jess Hill
    • Narrated by: Jess Hill
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2025
    • Language: English
    • 27 ratings
    • What will it take to stop gendered violence?What went wrong? Australian governments promised to end violence against women and children in a single generation.

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    • How a Company Captured a Country
    • By: Marian Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Marian Wilkinson
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2025
    • Language: English
    • 10 ratings
    • The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change, but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give.

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    • Essays in Objectivist Thought
    • By: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2008
    • Language: English
    • 13 ratings
    • This collection communicates not only Rand's singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise....

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    • On Recognition and Renewal
    • By: Megan Davis
    • Narrated by: Megan Davis
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 48 ratings
    • At Uluru, an invitation was issued to the Australian people. With the upcoming referendum, the nation will decide whether to accept that invitation....

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    • Essays
    • By: Jesmyn Ward
    • Narrated by: Jesmyn Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2026
    • Language: English
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    • Bloomsbury presents On Witness and Respair written and read by Jesmyn Ward The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after...

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    • Selected Essays
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Robin Yocum
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio....

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    • Disability, Humanity and the NDIS
    • By: Micheline Lee
    • Narrated by: Micheline Lee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 25 ratings
    • Caring or careless? In this powerful and moving essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, a transformative social change that ran into problems....

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    • Reflections on Success, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life
    • By: Thibaut Meurisse
    • Narrated by: Thibaut Meurisse
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2025
    • Language: English
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    • In his latest book, Essays, best-selling author Thibaut Meurisse shares his insights on a variety of topics such as success, happiness, money, personal development and the meaning of life.

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    • Essays
    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 21 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird. From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith 'Generous, courageous, and...

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    • Essays
    • By: Tim Kreider
    • Narrated by: Tim Kreider
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2015
    • Language: English
    • 73 ratings
    • Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems....

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    • Essays
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Maya Hawke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-2024
    • Language: English
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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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