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Ex Libris
- 100+ Books to Read and Reread
- Written by: Michiko Kakutani
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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“Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical eras”, Kakutani writes in her introduction to Ex Libris. Here listeners will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth listening or relistening; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation.
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Ex Libris
- 100+ Books to Read and Reread
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2020-10-20
- Language: English
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Shaking a Leg
- Written by: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
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Listening to Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had - a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction and everything in between. Bursting with ideas, culturally astute and sparklingly witty, this comprehensive volume of Angela Carter's journalism is the most down-to-earth and entertaining companion to latter 20th-century thought you'll ever need.
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Shaking a Leg
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-01
- Language: English
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Acid West
- Essays
- Written by: Joshua Wheeler
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler's stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities.
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Acid West
- Essays
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-17
- Language: English
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- Written by: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2009-07-06
- Language: English
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Drinking and Driving
- Written by: Oliver Miller
- Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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An excruciatingly honest, unapologetic account of reckless alcoholism, Drinking and Driving is one young man's account of reaching rock bottom behind the wheel. Oliver Miller believes all he needs to be happy is a full tank of gas and a bottle of brand-name booze. It will take him years of false starts, shattered glass, doctors offices, dingy halfway houses, fights and slurred phone calls to anyone who'll pick up to realize that drinking and driving brings him everything but happiness.
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Drinking and Driving
- Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 2014-08-15
- Language: English
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The Fourth Dimension of a Poem
- Written by: M. H. Abrams
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Gillespie
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic. In the year of his 100th birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats, and Hazlitt.
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The Fourth Dimension of a Poem
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Gillespie
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-27
- Language: English
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The Challenge of Things
- Thinking Through Troubled Times
- Written by: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.
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The Challenge of Things
- Thinking Through Troubled Times
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-16
- Language: English
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Culture and Anarchy
- Written by: Matthew Arnold
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.
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Culture and Anarchy
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-13
- Language: English
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The Good Book
- Written by: Andrew Blauner
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 9 hrs
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The Good Book collects new pieces by writers from many different faiths and ethnicities, including literary fiction writers (Colm Tóibín, Edwidge Danticat, Tobias Wolff, and Rick Moody); best-selling nonfiction writers (A. J. Jacobs, Ian Frazier, Adam Gopnik, and Thomas Lynch); notable figures in the media (Charles McGrath, Cokie Roberts, and Steven V. Roberts); and social activists (Al Sharpton and Kerry Kennedy).
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The Good Book
- Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 2015-11-10
- Language: English
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ATTENTION
- Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
- Written by: Joshua Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs
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One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life.
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ATTENTION
- Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs
- Release date: 2018-08-14
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles
- Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light
- Written by: Steffie Nelson - editor
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, Xe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Didion a sensation - Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five - while bringing together some of the finest voices of today's Los Angeles and beyond. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note; personal memoir and social commentary; cultural history and literary critique.
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles
- Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, Xe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-16
- Language: English
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And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
- Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Written by: Ilan Stavans - editor
- Narrated by: Raechel Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, and poems in this collection - from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more - detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future.
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And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
- Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Narrated by: Raechel Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-13
- Language: English
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Tratado de excitantes modernos [Treaty of Modern Excitants]
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Mariacristina Brito
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Honore de Balzac intenta en este libro exponer diversos casos relacionados al exceso y la dependencia de ciertas drogas comunes en su época. Muchas de ellas aún en uso en la actualidad. Es increíble cómo un libro escrito hace tanto pueda ayudar a tantos lidiando con problemas de abuso de sustancias en nuestros tiempos. La sabiduría y la genialidad de la escritura de Balzac son evidentes desde las primeras páginas.
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Tratado de excitantes modernos [Treaty of Modern Excitants]
- Narrated by: Mariacristina Brito
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-31
- Language: Spanish
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Cuba on the Verge
- 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
- Written by: Leila Guerriero
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Lorenzo Irizarry
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society’s profound transformation - from inside and out. Standing on both sides of the divide between the US and Cuba, 12 of our most celebrated writers investigate this period of momentous transition.
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Cuba on the Verge
- 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Lorenzo Irizarry
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-11
- Language: English
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True Stories & Other Essays
- Written by: Francis Spufford
- Narrated by: Francis Spufford
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability. Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between storytelling and truth-telling.
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True Stories & Other Essays
- Narrated by: Francis Spufford
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-14
- Language: English
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
- Written by: Cynthia Ozick
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history. For decades Ozick herself has been one of our great critics, as these essays so clearly display. She offers models of critical analysis of writers from the mid-20th century to today, from Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kafka to William Gass and Martin Amis, all assembled in provocatively named groups.
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-05
- Language: English
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The Miss Dennis School of Writing
- And Other Lessons from a Woman's Life
- Written by: Alice Steinbach
- Narrated by: Jannie Meisberger
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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This first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative non-fiction tradition of Anna Quindelen and Mary Sarton.
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The Miss Dennis School of Writing
- And Other Lessons from a Woman's Life
- Narrated by: Jannie Meisberger
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2014-06-12
- Language: English
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In My Mind's Eye
- A Thought Diary
- Written by: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Celebrated as the "greatest descriptive writer of her time" (Rebecca West), Jan Morris has been dazzling fans since she burst on the scene with her on-the-spot reportage of the first ascent of Everest in 1953. Now, the beloved 92-year-old, author of classics such as Venice and Trieste, embarks on an entirely new literary enterprise - a collection of daily diaries, penned over the course of a single year.
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In My Mind's Eye
- A Thought Diary
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-02-28
- Language: English
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Well-Read Black Girl
- Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
- Written by: Glory Edim
- Narrated by: Glory Edim
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves on the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim brings together original essays by some of our best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all - regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability - have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature.
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Well-Read Black Girl
- Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
- Narrated by: Glory Edim
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-30
- Language: English
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- Written by: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-09-25
- Language: English
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