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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • La vie n'est pas une course

  • Auteur(s): Léa Stréliski
  • Narrateur(s): Léa Stréliski
  • Durée: 1 h et 36 min
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Je m’adresse aux essoufflés. À ceux qui ont tout essayé. Aux éreintés qui poursuivent le bonheur sans l’atteindre. Ceci n’est pas une recette, mais un portrait des temps qui courent et qui font du bien quand ils s’arrêtent. Un appel à une autre manière de vivre....

  • Décevant

  • Écrit par minie375 le 2021-10-29
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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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  • 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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  • 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
  • Au global
    531
  • Performance
    449
  • Histoire
    448

“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
Page de couverture de What the Dog Saw
  • What the Dog Saw

  • And Other Adventures
  • Auteur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
  • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
  • Durée: 12 h et 46 min
  • Version intégrale
  • Au global
    291
  • Performance
    239
  • Histoire
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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
Page de couverture de Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
  • Narrateur(s): Maya Hawke
  • Durée: 6 h et 23 min
  • Version intégrale
  • Au global
    2
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    2
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    2

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...

Page de couverture de La vie n'est pas une course
  • La vie n'est pas une course

  • Auteur(s): Léa Stréliski
  • Narrateur(s): Léa Stréliski
  • Durée: 1 h et 36 min
  • Version intégrale
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  • Performance
    103
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    103

Je m’adresse aux essoufflés. À ceux qui ont tout essayé. Aux éreintés qui poursuivent le bonheur sans l’atteindre. Ceci n’est pas une recette, mais un portrait des temps qui courent et qui font du bien quand ils s’arrêtent. Un appel à une autre manière de vivre....

  • Décevant

  • Écrit par minie375 le 2021-10-29
Page de couverture de The Inconvenient Indian
  • 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
  • Version intégrale
  • Au global
    924
  • Performance
    800
  • Histoire
    794

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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  • The Myth of Sisyphus

  • Auteur(s): Albert Camus
  • Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
  • Durée: 5 h et 39 min
  • Version intégrale
  • Au global
    48
  • Performance
    41
  • Histoire
    41

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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  • 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 (UK) 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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  • Democracy in America

  • Auteur(s): Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Narrateur(s): John Pruden
  • Durée: 34 h et 4 min
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States....

  • only of historical interest

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-10-14
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  • The Conspiracy against the Human Race

  • A Contrivance of Horror
  • Auteur(s): Thomas Ligotti
  • Narrateur(s): Jon Padgett
  • Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...

  • Bleak, pessimistic, powerful

  • Écrit par J. le 2025-11-16
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  • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

  • Unabridged Selections
  • Auteur(s): Alice Wong
  • Narrateur(s): Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
  • Durée: 8 h et 1 min
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings...

  • Missing the First Essay

  • Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-25
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Life on a Little-Known Planet

  • Dispatches from a Changing World
  • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
  • Durée: 12 h et 39 min
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A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series...

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  • Arguably

  • Essays by Christopher Hitchens
  • Auteur(s): Christopher Hitchens
  • Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
  • Durée: 28 h et 22 min
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"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront...

  • Read anything written by Christopher Hitchens

  • Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-19
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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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  • 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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  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

  • Essays and Arguments
  • Auteur(s): David Foster Wallace
  • Narrateur(s): Paul Garcia
  • Durée: 17 h et 46 min
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In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace...

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  • The Rebel

  • Auteur(s): Albert Camus
  • Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
  • Durée: 11 h et 44 min
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....

  • Not the best of Camus

  • Écrit par Reza le 2019-12-21
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  • Curry

  • Eating, Reading, and Race
  • Auteur(s): Naben Ruthnum
  • Narrateur(s): Naben Ruthnum
  • Durée: 3 h et 16 min
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Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations....

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  • The Practicing Stoic

  • Auteur(s): Ward Farnsworth
  • Narrateur(s): John Lescault
  • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
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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....

  • Best Stoicism book

  • Écrit par J in Victoria le 2019-10-20
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  • Does This Make Me Funny?

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Zosia Mamet
  • Narrateur(s): Zosia Mamet
  • Durée: 8 h et 17 min
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From the singular mind of Zosia Mamet, a collection of charmingly witty and achingly vulnerable essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show business You may know Zosia Mamet from her role as Shoshanna on Girls, or for being one of Hollywood’s original nepo babies (or as she says...

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  • The Opposite of Loneliness

  • Essays and Stories
  • Auteur(s): Marina Keegan
  • Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
  • Durée: 5 h et 41 min
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Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012....

  • Very disappointing

  • Écrit par Elizabeth83 le 2022-04-09
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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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  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
  • Auteur(s): Audre Lorde
  • Narrateur(s): Robin Eller
  • Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature....

  • difficult to follow narrator

  • Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2017-11-13
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  • Daemon Voices

  • On Stories and Storytelling
  • Auteur(s): Philip Pullman
  • Narrateur(s): Philip Pullman, Simon Mason
  • Durée: 12 h et 53 min
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From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling. One of the most highly acclaimed and...

  • Pullman could read the dictionary and I would love it

  • Écrit par Gail le 2022-07-29
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  • The Slicks

  • On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift
  • Auteur(s): Maggie Nelson
  • Narrateur(s): Maggie Nelson
  • Durée: 1 h et 4 min
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A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and...

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  • Authority

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Andrea Long Chu
  • Narrateur(s): Andrea Long Chu
  • Durée: 10 h et 55 min
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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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  • The Collected Schizophrenias

  • Essays
  • Auteur(s): Esmé Weijun Wang
  • Narrateur(s): Esmé Weijun Wang
  • Durée: 7 h et 51 min
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An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core....

  • shocking lack of depth, cogency, and empathy

  • Écrit par Steph W le 2024-12-10
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