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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Mandatory listening for all Canadians
- By m salem on 2018-05-15
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Y en n'aura pas de miracle!
- Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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L'ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour arrêter de se trouver des excuses, pour garder sa motivation et pour mettre de côté ses complexes, même si on a les bras mous et les cuisses dépendantes affectives.
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satisfactions
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-23
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation - a mixtape from America's alpha mind....
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Light but Compelling
- By GTHA001 on 2018-09-18
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- Written by: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities....
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Calypso
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....
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Great Narration
- By designaholic on 2019-01-16
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The Best of Me
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected by the author himself....
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You can't go wrong with Sedaris
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Mandatory listening for all Canadians
- By m salem on 2018-05-15
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Y en n'aura pas de miracle!
- Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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L'ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour arrêter de se trouver des excuses, pour garder sa motivation et pour mettre de côté ses complexes, même si on a les bras mous et les cuisses dépendantes affectives.
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satisfactions
- By Anonymous User on 2021-01-23
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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For the millions of Malcolm Gladwell fans, this anthology is like a greatest hits compilation - a mixtape from America's alpha mind....
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Light but Compelling
- By GTHA001 on 2018-09-18
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- Written by: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities....
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Calypso
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....
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Great Narration
- By designaholic on 2019-01-16
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The Best of Me
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected by the author himself....
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You can't go wrong with Sedaris
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-11-13
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The Myth of Sisyphus
- Written by: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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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....
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requires further reading
- By Anonymous User on 2019-08-19
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How to Be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- Written by: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who'd rather you not....
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Amazing read!
- By Jennifer Astle on 2018-11-14
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Written by: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Sopranos Sessions
- Written by: Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall, David Chase, and others
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television....
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Written by: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....
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Must read
- By clangordey on 2019-12-22
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Life's Amazing Secrets
- How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life
- Written by: Gaur Gopal Das
- Narrated by: Gaur Gopal Das
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend, Harry, get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness....
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If Women Rose Rooted
- The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
- Written by: Sharon Blackie
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the second edition of a uniquely empowering, international word-of-mouth best seller about wild landscapes, female mythology, and the challenges facing modern women....
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Incredible
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-12-18
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Homo Irrealis
- Essays
- Written by: André Aciman
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works....
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Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- Written by: Jia Tolentino
- Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time....
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Dont believe the Hype, it's trending for no reason
- By Lisa O'Leary on 2020-01-20
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
- Written by: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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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....
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difficult to follow narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-13
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Citizen
- An American Lyric
- Written by: Claudia Rankine
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media....
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Le Naufrage des civilisations
- Written by: Amin Maalouf
- Narrated by: Stéphane Boucher
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d'Amin Maalouf : ses intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience...
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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out
- True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
- Written by: Lee Gutkind
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses who provide the first vital line of patient care....
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated (Media Tie-In)
- True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
- Written by: Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, Ayelet Waldman, and others
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Will Brill, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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These are just a few of the people who tell their stories in Modern Love, Revised and Updated, featuring dozens of the most memorable essays to run in The New York Times “Modern Love” column since its debut in 2004....
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Vesper Flights
- Written by: Helen Macdonald
- Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves....
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The Book of Delights
- Essays
- Written by: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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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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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- Written by: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....
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Great
- By Ryan H on 2018-09-20
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The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Williams....
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Good Apple
- Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
- Written by: Elizabeth Passarella
- Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth Passarella shares stories and upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best....
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No Name in the Street
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 5 hrs
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This stunningly personal document displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works....
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- Written by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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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....
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La vie n'est pas une course
- Written by: Léa Stréliski
- Narrated by: Léa Stréliski
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Comme prendre le thé avec une vieille amie
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-12-27
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The Fire Next Time
- Written by: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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I had to listen to it a few times
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-24
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Like Streams to the Ocean
- Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things that Make Us Who We Are
- Written by: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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With the clarity that made his debut, To Shake the Sleeping Self, a national best seller, Jedidiah Jenkins brings together new and old writings to explore the eight themes all of us face as we find our way in life: ego, family, home, friendship, love, work, death, the soul....
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Democracy in America
- Written by: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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only of historical interest
- By Anonymous User on 2019-10-14
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Love's Executioner
- Written by: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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I don't say this lightly; this is astounding
- By Anonymous User on 2019-01-30
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- Written by: Viet Thanh Nguyen - editor
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience....
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The Great Shark Hunt
- Strange Tales from a Strange Time
- Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Dad Is Fat
- Written by: Jim Gaffigan
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....
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HILARIOUS
- By Jessica on 2020-07-10
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Good Apple
- Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
- Written by: Elizabeth Passarella
- Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Passarella grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she moved to New York, fell in love with the city - and, eventually, her husband - and changed. Sort of. While her politics have tilted to the left, she still puts her faith first - and argues that the two can go hand in hand, for what it’s worth. In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth shares stories and upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best.
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The Cool Side of My Pillow
- A Book of Essays
- Written by: Bruce Campbell
- Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cool Side of My Pillow is a collection of essays. Don’t let that fancy word fool you. I’m not trying to get highbrow or rant myself blue, but there are experiences and observations outside of the entertainment industry that I feel are worth sharing. What’s it about? Mostly, things that matter to me, like putting in the effort, being honest, and not treating the environment like it’s the enemy.
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More Bruce goodness.
- By W. Boulier on 2021-01-17
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Thinking Again
- A Diary
- Written by: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Morris waxes on the ironies of modern life in all their resonant glories and inevitable stupidities - from her daily exercise (a "statutory thousand paces of brisk walk") to the troubles of Brexit; her enduring yet complicated love for America; and honest reflections on the vagaries and ailments of aging. Both intimate and luminously wise, Thinking Again is a testament to the virtues of embracing life, creativity, and above all, kindness.
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A Mencken Chrestomathy
- Written by: H. L. Mencken
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 26 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Edited and annotated by H. L. M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books - the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong - but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the American Mercury, the Smart Set, and the Baltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all.
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Mobile Home
- A Memoir in Essays
- Written by: Megan Harlan
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan's globe-wandering childhood, Mobile Home maps the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home.
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Homo Irrealis
- Essays
- Written by: André Aciman
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.
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Good Apple
- Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
- Written by: Elizabeth Passarella
- Narrated by: Jill Blackwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Passarella grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she moved to New York, fell in love with the city - and, eventually, her husband - and changed. Sort of. While her politics have tilted to the left, she still puts her faith first - and argues that the two can go hand in hand, for what it’s worth. In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth shares stories and upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best.
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The Cool Side of My Pillow
- A Book of Essays
- Written by: Bruce Campbell
- Narrated by: Bruce Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cool Side of My Pillow is a collection of essays. Don’t let that fancy word fool you. I’m not trying to get highbrow or rant myself blue, but there are experiences and observations outside of the entertainment industry that I feel are worth sharing. What’s it about? Mostly, things that matter to me, like putting in the effort, being honest, and not treating the environment like it’s the enemy.
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More Bruce goodness.
- By W. Boulier on 2021-01-17
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Thinking Again
- A Diary
- Written by: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Morris waxes on the ironies of modern life in all their resonant glories and inevitable stupidities - from her daily exercise (a "statutory thousand paces of brisk walk") to the troubles of Brexit; her enduring yet complicated love for America; and honest reflections on the vagaries and ailments of aging. Both intimate and luminously wise, Thinking Again is a testament to the virtues of embracing life, creativity, and above all, kindness.
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A Mencken Chrestomathy
- Written by: H. L. Mencken
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 26 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Edited and annotated by H. L. M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books - the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on Right and Wrong - but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers (from the American Mercury, the Smart Set, and the Baltimore Evening Sun) and some notes that were never previously published at all.
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Mobile Home
- A Memoir in Essays
- Written by: Megan Harlan
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan's globe-wandering childhood, Mobile Home maps the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home.
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Homo Irrealis
- Essays
- Written by: André Aciman
- Narrated by: André Aciman, Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold.
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The Girls in My Town
- Essays
- Written by: Angela Morales
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood.
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Washington Irving Box Set
- The Devil and Tom Walker; Tales of the Alhambra; Wouter Van Twiller; Conspiracy of the Cocked Hats; & Christmas
- Written by: Washington Irving
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat. The short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" is about a miserly man who makes a deal with the devil. Irving’s fictional character Diedrich Knickerbocker is a Dutch-American historian and narrator of "The Conspiracy of the Cocked Hats" and the “golden age” of Wouter van Twiller, the Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam.
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John Stuart Mill Box Set
- Socialism; On Nature; & The Subjection of Women
- Written by: John Stuart Mill
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) had a profound influence on the shape of 19th-century thought and political discourse. His view of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to the unrestricted state. Mill favoured decentralised forms of socialism because he thought that a centralised model would discourage competition, neglect talent, and disregard freedom.
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Collected Essays
- Written by: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Shelford, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Collected Essays contains nearly 80 essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating, his subjects brought vividly to life. The resulting collection is as revealing as autobiography and characteristically rich in humour, insight and doubt.
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Reflections
- Written by: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: R D Watson
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times. To know war on any continent, listen to ‘A Memory of Indo-China’; to glimpse high political chicanery, listen to ‘The Great Spectacular’; to feel the flush and aftermath of revolutionary change, take up his pieces about Cuba.
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Xenophon Box Set
- On Horsemanship & Hiero, or "The Tyrant"
- Written by: Xenophon
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Xenophon of Athens (c. 430 BC - 354 BC) was an Athenian historian, philosopher, and soldier. "Hiero", one of Xenophon’s minor works, is a dialogue between Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, and the lyric poet Simonides, as a response to the assumption that a tyrant's life is more pleasant than that of a commoner. "On Horsemanship" is one of his two treatises on horsemanship. Military training and the duties of the cavalry commander are dealt with in the other, "Hipparchicus", while "On Horsemanship" deals with the selection, care, and training of horses in general.
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The Groundings with My Brothers
- Written by: Walter Rodney
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale.
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Wildwood
- A Journey Through Trees
- Written by: Roger Deakin
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, he embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and trees.
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Fancies Versus Fads
- Written by: G.K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Heidi Wall
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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This collection of short essays by G.K. Chesterton is as applicable in 2020 as it was when it was written in 1923 during the first "Progressive Era". He saves his most subtle and cutting humor for commentary to skewer his favorite targets: feminists, vegetarians, modernists, journalists, social reformers, psychologists, and "sophisticated" people in general.
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One Long River of Song
- Notes on Wonder
- Written by: Brian Doyle, David James Duncan - foreword
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Mary Doyle, Liam Doyle, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of 60 after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted listeners who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the 21st century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon.
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Why We Write
- 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do
- Written by: Meredith Maran - editor
- Narrated by: Adam Barr, Rachel Perry
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Twenty of America's best-selling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life. Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, 20 well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most - and least - about their vocation.
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Fire Flood Plague
- Australian Writers Respond to 2020
- Written by: Sophie Cunningham - editor
- Narrated by: Aimee Horne, Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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2020 began with fire storms raging through the country, followed by floods and then a global pandemic that has changed how Australians think, feel and live. We all experienced this year differently, but one thing rings true for all us: this is a year we won't forget. This anthology brings together original work from a diverse collection of Australian voices, from writers to scientists, journalists to historians, all expressing what 2020 meant to them.