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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- Written by: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 28 hrs and 22 mins
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The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell.
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Read anything written by Christopher Hitchens
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-19
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 28 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-01
- Language: English
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.
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J'ai adoré
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-09-24
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-23
- Language: English
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- Written by: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-07
- Language: English
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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. Here, nurses remember their first "sticks", first births, and first deaths and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts and keeps them in the profession.
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Loved this!
- By ERIN on 2023-02-16
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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out
- True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-04
- Language: English
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The View from the Cheap Seats
- Selected Nonfiction
- Written by: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his fiction. Now The View from the Cheap Seats brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of his outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart.
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Just could not get into it.
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-08-08
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The View from the Cheap Seats
- Selected Nonfiction
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-31
- Language: English
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La Femme indépendante
- Written by: Simone de Beauvoir
- Narrated by: Florence Viala
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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"La femme a toujours été, sinon l'esclave de l'homme, du moins sa vassale ; les deux sexes ne se sont jamais partagé le monde à égalité ; et aujourd'hui encore, bien que sa condition soit en train d'évoluer, la femme est lourdement handicapée."
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La Femme indépendante
- Narrated by: Florence Viala
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-28
- Language: French
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- Written by: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most.
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disappointed
- By 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 on 2023-01-06
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-31
- Language: English
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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
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Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the best-selling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s.
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The Great Shark Hunt
- Strange Tales from a Strange Time
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2013-08-06
- Language: English
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- Written by: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
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Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New Historicism. Insisting instead upon "the autonomy of aesthetic," Bloom places Shakespeare at the center of the Western Canon.....
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The Western Canon
- The Books and School of the Ages
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2000-10-26
- Language: English
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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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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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I had to listen to it a few times
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-09-24
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The Fire Next Time
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2008-01-16
- Language: English
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Les Identités meurtrières
- Written by: Amin Maalouf
- Narrated by: Cyril Romoli
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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"Depuis que j'ai quitté le Liban pour m'installer en France, que de fois m'a-t-on demandé, avec les meilleures intentions du monde, si je me sentais plutôt français" ou "plutôt libanais". Je réponds invariablement : "L'un et l'autre !" Non par quelque souci d'équilibre ou d'équité, mais parce qu'en répondant différemment, je mentirais. Ce qui fait que je suis moi-même et pas un autre, c'est que je suis ainsi à la lisière de deux pays, de deux ou trois langues, de plusieurs traditions culturelles. C'est cela mon identité..."
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Les Identités meurtrières
- Narrated by: Cyril Romoli
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-25
- Language: French
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
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- Written by: Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit - introduction
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home place and the community around it—a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he’d long warned.
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Rich and Rambling
- By Robert McInnis on 2022-11-04
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
- Essays
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-31
- Language: English
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Baggage
- Tales from a Fully Packed Life
- Written by: Alan Cumming
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity.
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Brilliant…
- By Barbara M. on 2022-12-21
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Baggage
- Tales from a Fully Packed Life
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-26
- Language: English
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Return of the Primitive
- The Anti-Industrial Revolution
- Written by: Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.
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Eerie
- By C. Schuett on 2020-05-07
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Return of the Primitive
- The Anti-Industrial Revolution
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2009-12-04
- Language: English
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Love's Executioner
- Written by: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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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. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist.
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I don't say this lightly; this is astounding
- By Alexandre L'Écuyer on 2019-01-30
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Love's Executioner
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-18
- Language: English
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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. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well.
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A Must Listen
- By Anonymous User on 2023-07-04
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The Collected Schizophrenias
- Essays
- Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-05
- Language: English
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Selected Non-Fictions, Volume 3
- Written by: Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger - editor translator, Esther Allen - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
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It will come as a surprise to some that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture—though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work—have scarcely been translated into English.
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Selected Non-Fictions, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Diego Diment
- Series: Selected Non-Fictions, Book 3
- Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-07-11
- Language: English
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A Man Without a Country
- Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process: "If you want to really hurt your parents...the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding."
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A Man Without a Country
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-22
- Language: English
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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 - everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers’ communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four-year-olds ("there is no difference between a four-year-old eating a taco and throwing a taco on the floor").
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Meh.
- By Billy on 2019-01-09
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Dad Is Fat
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-07
- Language: English
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
- Written by: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure - until, of course, they don't.
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Wish it was Chuck
- By Anonymous User on 2017-11-22
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But What If We're Wrong?
- Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-07
- Language: English
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