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  • The Right Hand

  • Conversations with the chiefs of staff to the world's most powerful people
  • Auteur(s): Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
  • Narrateur(s): Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
  • Durée: 8 h et 33 min
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We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela, and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just behind them? In The Right Hand, Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks sits down with the chiefs of...

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  • The Communist Manifesto

  • Penguin Classics
  • Auteur(s): Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Gareth Stedman Jones - editor
  • Narrateur(s): Arinze Kene
  • Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones. The Communist...

  • Intro is longer than the actual book

  • Écrit par Maximus le 2021-10-18
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  • Notes to John

  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Julianne Moore
  • Durée: 6 h et 33 min
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

  • Sweet and deep

  • Écrit par TabAmazon le 2025-04-29
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  • Things in Nature Merely Grow

  • Auteur(s): Yiyun Li
  • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
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Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. “There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this audiobook. “There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two...

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  • Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez

  • Auteur(s): Nicolas Bérubé
  • Narrateur(s): Pierre Corriveau
  • Durée: 5 h et 9 min
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Comment décririez-vous la vie d'un millionnaire ? Conduirait-il un VUS électrique ? Habiterait-il un loft haut perché ou une maison avec des tourelles ? Sur les relevés de ses cartes de crédit, trouverait-on des achats de vêtements chics....

  • L'exemple même de ma vie

  • Écrit par Lavoie005 le 2022-06-23
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  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

  • Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  • Auteur(s): John Green
  • Narrateur(s): John Green
  • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
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“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author...

  • Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed.

  • Écrit par Josh Ruberg le 2021-06-03
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  • The Right Hand

  • Conversations with the chiefs of staff to the world's most powerful people
  • Auteur(s): Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
  • Narrateur(s): Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
  • Durée: 8 h et 33 min
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We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela, and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just behind them? In The Right Hand, Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks sits down with the chiefs of...

Page de couverture de The Communist Manifesto
  • The Communist Manifesto

  • Penguin Classics
  • Auteur(s): Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Gareth Stedman Jones - editor
  • Narrateur(s): Arinze Kene
  • Durée: 7 h et 32 min
  • Version intégrale
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones. The Communist...

  • Intro is longer than the actual book

  • Écrit par Maximus le 2021-10-18
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  • Notes to John

  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Julianne Moore
  • Durée: 6 h et 33 min
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

  • Sweet and deep

  • Écrit par TabAmazon le 2025-04-29
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  • Things in Nature Merely Grow

  • Auteur(s): Yiyun Li
  • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
  • Durée: 4 h et 56 min
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Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. “There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this audiobook. “There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two...

Page de couverture de Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez
  • Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez

  • Auteur(s): Nicolas Bérubé
  • Narrateur(s): Pierre Corriveau
  • Durée: 5 h et 9 min
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Comment décririez-vous la vie d'un millionnaire ? Conduirait-il un VUS électrique ? Habiterait-il un loft haut perché ou une maison avec des tourelles ? Sur les relevés de ses cartes de crédit, trouverait-on des achats de vêtements chics....

  • L'exemple même de ma vie

  • Écrit par Lavoie005 le 2022-06-23
Page de couverture de The Anthropocene Reviewed
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

  • Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  • Auteur(s): John Green
  • Narrateur(s): John Green
  • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
  • Version intégrale
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“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author...

  • Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed.

  • Écrit par Josh Ruberg le 2021-06-03
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  • The Myth of Sisyphus

  • Auteur(s): Albert Camus
  • Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
  • Durée: 5 h et 39 min
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought....

  • requires further reading

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-08-19
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  • Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

  • A Memoir
  • Auteur(s): Bob Odenkirk
  • Narrateur(s): Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti
  • Durée: 7 h et 52 min
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In this “essential” (Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” (AV Club) memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at...

  • Perfect listen for any fan of alternative comedy

  • Écrit par Adam le 2022-08-17
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  • What the Dog Saw

  • And Other Adventures
  • Auteur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
  • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
  • Durée: 12 h et 46 min
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The bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker. What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are...

  • Light but Compelling

  • Écrit par GTHA001 le 2018-09-18
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  • The Inconvenient Indian

  • A Curious Account of Native People in North America
  • Auteur(s): Thomas King
  • Narrateur(s): Lorne Cardinal
  • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America....

  • Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.

  • Écrit par Shantelle Lamouche le 2021-01-18
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  • Blue Nights

  • A Memoir
  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
  • Durée: 4 h et 21 min
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by...

  • Honest and humble

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-02-09
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  • Baggage

  • Tales from a Fully Packed Life
  • Auteur(s): Alan Cumming
  • Narrateur(s): Alan Cumming
  • Durée: 8 h et 37 min
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*Read by Alan Cumming himself* ""An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate—and most importantly—a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability."" —Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain...

  • Brilliant…

  • Écrit par Barbara M. le 2022-12-21
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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Maya Hawke
  • Durée: 6 h et 23 min
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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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  • These Precious Days

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Ann Patchett
  • Narrateur(s): Ann Patchett
  • Durée: 11 h et 14 min
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. ""The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles...

  • Just everything I needed to hear…

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2025-09-08
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  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean

  • An Essay Collection
  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
  • Durée: 4 h et 5 min
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects...

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  • Happy-Go-Lucky

  • Auteur(s): David Sedaris
  • Narrateur(s): David Sedaris
  • Durée: 7 h et 30 min
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An Audie Award Winner David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on...

  • disappointed

  • Écrit par Thought this would be a brilliant efficient time saver, but after a few uses found it more frustrating than helpful, and just went back to handwashing brushes le 2023-01-06
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  • The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

  • A Memoir
  • Auteur(s): Neko Case
  • Narrateur(s): Neko Case
  • Durée: 7 h et 1 min
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From a beloved Grammy-nominated musician, a "heartbreaking and funny" memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith, NYT bestselling...

  • Heartbreaking & beautiful

  • Écrit par Jason Haywood le 2025-08-21
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  • The White Album

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Susan Varon
  • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
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"First appearing in print in 1979, this remarkable and intimate audiobook chronicles the implosion of the 1960s and reports on the people, mores, and trends that defined that turbulent time."—AudioFile First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and...

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  • Dear Dolly

  • Collected Wisdom
  • Auteur(s): Dolly Alderton
  • Narrateur(s): Dolly Alderton
  • Durée: 4 h et 48 min
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From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more. “One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa...

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  • The Haves and Have-Yachts

  • Field Notes from the Frontier of American Excess (t)
  • Auteur(s): Evan Osnos
  • Narrateur(s): Evan Osnos
  • Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London) From National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a “sharp…charming…regrettably timely” (The Washington Post) collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire...

  • Book of vignettes

  • Écrit par _MJH_ le 2025-08-23
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  • Love's Executioner

  • Auteur(s): Irvin D. Yalom
  • Narrateur(s): C.M. Carlson
  • Durée: 10 h et 59 min
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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....

  • I don't say this lightly; this is astounding

  • Écrit par Alexandre L'Écuyer le 2019-01-30
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  • Consider the Lobster

  • And Other Essays
  • Auteur(s): David Foster Wallace
  • Narrateur(s): David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
  • Durée: 15 h et 8 min
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

  • David Foster Wallace is a good

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-09-13
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  • Hijab Butch Blues

  • A Memoir
  • Auteur(s): Lamya H
  • Narrateur(s): Ashraf Shirazi
  • Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR). “A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power...

  • This was beautiful.

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2026-01-25
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  • Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

  • Auteur(s): John Gierach
  • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
  • Durée: 7 h et 29 min
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In his latest fresh and original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world....

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  • The Fire Next Time

  • Auteur(s): James Baldwin
  • Narrateur(s): Jesse L. Martin
  • Durée: 2 h et 25 min
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James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

  • I had to listen to it a few times

  • Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-24
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  • The Great Shark Hunt

  • Strange Tales from a Strange Time
  • Auteur(s): Hunter S. Thompson
  • Narrateur(s): Scott Sowers
  • Durée: 29 h et 6 min
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Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the best-selling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print....

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  • I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying

  • A Memoir
  • Auteur(s): Youngmi Mayer
  • Narrateur(s): Youngmi Mayer
  • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents’ shortcomings...

  • A Joy

  • Écrit par Becky le 2025-04-03
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  • Zen in the Art of Writing

  • Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
  • Auteur(s): Ray Bradbury
  • Narrateur(s): Aden Hakimi
  • Durée: 4 h et 16 min
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Discover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclass, part memoir, featuring a new introduction by Dan Chaon. In Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray...

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  • What On Earth Have I Done?

  • Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
  • Auteur(s): Robert Fulghum
  • Narrateur(s): Robert Fulghum
  • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
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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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  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  • Auteur(s): Annie Dillard
  • Narrateur(s): Nan McNamara
  • Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of...

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