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    • Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
    • Written by: Gillian Anderson
    • Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, uncredited
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous fantasy).

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    • What the Dog Saw

    • And Other Adventures
    • Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2009-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings

    • The best-selling 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....

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    • The Best of Me

    • Written by: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings

    • David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook....

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    • Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez

    • Written by: Nicolas Bérubé
    • Narrated by: Pierre Corriveau
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-03
    • Language: French
    • 5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings

    • 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....

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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
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 916 ratings

    • 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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    • On the Genealogy of Morals

    • A Polemic
    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Duncan Steen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2013-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....

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    • Danse Macabre

    • Written by: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In ten brilliantly written chapters, Stephen King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers.

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    • Happy-Go-Lucky

    • Written by: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings

    • David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....

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    • Calypso

    • Written by: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 553 ratings

    • With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....

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    • The Fire Next Time

    • Written by: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2008-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • Love's Executioner

    • Written by: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • 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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    • Making Love with the Land

    • Written by: Joshua Whitehead
    • Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • In this first non-fiction work, Joshua Whitehead brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, confession).

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    • Y en n'aura pas de miracle!

    • Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
    • Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
    • Series: Cours Toutoune, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: French
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

    • 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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    • Truth & Beauty

    • A Friendship
    • Written by: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2004-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....

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    • The Practicing Stoic

    • Written by: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings

    • 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....

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    • Inciting Joy

    • Essays
    • Written by: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection.

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    • The Myth of Sisyphus

    • Written by: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

    • 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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    • The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection

    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
    • Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • 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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    • These Precious Days

    • Essays
    • Written by: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • “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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