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Symptoms of Withdrawal - Abridged
By: Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Narrated by: Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
At last, the first memoir from a Kennedy family member—an inspirational, candid, and explosive personal story sure to be one of the most sensational bestsellers of the yearChristopher Kennedy Lawson was born to enormous privilege. But with fame, money, and power came tragedy and heartbreak. In this clear-eyed, sensitive, and compulsively... Read more
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Diego Velázquez - Abridged
By: Richard Muther
Narrated by: Michael Kommant
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Velazquez malte nicht das platt auffallende, sondern das allverbreitete, allgegenwärtige Licht, das Ambiente, die Luft, die zwischen den Dingen wogt. So suggerieren seine Bilder den Eindruck einer Weite und räumlichen Tiefe, wie ihn kein früherer erreichte. Doch die Luft schafft nicht nur den Raum, sie harmonisiert auch die Farben. Bei... Read more
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Francisco de Goya - Abridged
By: Richard Muther
Narrated by: Michael Kommant
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Goyas Schaffen klingen alle Melodien seines Zeitalters zu einem wilden Potpourri zusammen. Er war in den Kämpfen der Epoche Mittel- und Brennpunkt. Als Harlekin mit der Schellenkappe folgt er dem Leichenzuge der alten aristokratischen Gesellschaft. Als großer Agitator sucht er ein neues Weltalter vorzubereiten, und als Pessimist, an allem... Read more
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Leonardo da Vinci - Abridged
By: Richard Muther
Narrated by: Various Artists
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Leonardo da Vinci hat die Universalität des Renaissancegeistes ihren Gipfel erreicht. Nie vorher und nachher hat menschliche Begabung in so erstaunlicher Weise sich über alle Gebiete des Denkens erstreckt. Er war ein Genius, der die Malerei gar nicht als Hauptberuf, sondern als etwas Nebensächliches betrieb, der den Pinsel nur zur Hand nahm,... Read more
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Just Say Yes: Improvising Your Life
By: Patricia Ryan Madson
Narrated by: Bec Kageyama
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Patricia Madson draws on the principles of improvisational theater to approach life with a willingness to pay attention to whatever life presents, and to say yes to the unexpected. Read more
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New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
What better way to spend an hour than with some audience-tested and certified Not Bad jokes? Join guest Paula Poundstone, Garrison Keillor, and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion as they share more puns, one-liners, and light bulb jokes than you can shake a rubber chicken at. You get bar jokes, political jokes, Ole and Lena jokes, grade school... Read more
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Dear Me - Abridged
By: Peter Ustinov
Narrated by: Peter Ustinov
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Brought to you by Penguin.
Sir Peter Ustinov's beautifully crafted autobiography is told with exquisite wit and insight. From his birth in April 1921, it spans his extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'. Ustinov's renowned gift for mimicry is... Read more
New Rules - Abridged
By: Bill Maher
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bill Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit program Politically Incorrect, in which he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that garnered him a loyal following. In his popular and long-running HBO television show, Real Time with Bill Maher, his reputation for being a hilarious provocateur... Read more
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Troilus and Cressida - Abridged
By: E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, William Shakes...
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Lust poses as love and ambition as patriotism in this dark and brilliant play depicting the heroic action of the Trojan War.Troy is besieged by the invading Greeks, but the young Trojan prince Troilus can think only of his love for Cressida. Her uncle Pandarus brings the two together, but after only one night news comes that Cressida must be... Read more
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Billy Collins Live
By: Billy Collins
Narrated by: Billy Collins
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most often standing room only.
Performed by the author... Read more
Educating For Wholeness
By: David Marshak
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Marshak believes most schools have an unstated belief that only a small number of children are intelligent. "If instead," he asserts, "we believed that every child is a gifted child in one way or another, we would organize schools very differently." Read more
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Confessions of a Video Vixen
By: Karrine Steffans & Karen Hunter
Narrated by: Karrine Steffans
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs,... Read more
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Flying Colors
By: Tim Lefens
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
When Tim Lefens walked into the Matheny School in New Jersey to show slides of his paintings, his one-hour visit became a life-changing experience. The students he met had severe physical challenges: only one of them could talk, none could walk, and all lacked the use of their hands. As a painter facing his own gradual loss of eyesight, Tim had... Read more
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Wonderful Memories of It’s a Wonderful Life
By: Jimmy Hawkins
Narrated by: Jimmy Hawkins
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
When the movie It’s a Wonderful Life opened in December 1946, it captured five Academy Award nominations. It also captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Over the past fifty years, It’s a Wonderful Life has become as much a holiday tradition as Thanksgiving dinner and the Christmas tree. For many people, Christmas just isn’t complete until... Read more
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Art’s Prospect
By: Roger Kimball
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this series of essays, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. His wide range of subjects includes Vincent van Gogh, Clement Greenberg, the Barnes Foundation, Matthew Barney, Mark Rothko, and the Whitney Biennial, as well... Read more
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Steve Martin
By: Morris Wayne Walker
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the wild and crazy years that the author spent growing up with Steve Martin and their apprenticeship in comedy. No one could better chronicle Steve’s life than his best and oldest friend, Morris Walker.Steve and Morris were class clowns together, charming the girls and the teachers with their wit and later setting out on the... Read more
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Living Biographies of Great Painters
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: Pat Bottino
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their... Read more
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By Myself and Then Some - Abridged
By: Lauren Bacall
Narrated by: Lauren Bacall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple.But when Bogart died of... Read more
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Julius Caesar - Abridged
By: Tom Wheelwright, William Shakespeare, E.A. Cope...
Narrated by: Michael Feast & a full cast
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At the heart of this tragic history is one of Shakespeare's most noble characters, the statesman Brutus, who is caught in a devastating conflict between private affection and public duty.Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in the Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself? A conspiracy is hatched, one... Read more
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Captain Underhill Uncovers the Truth
By: Steven Thomas Oney
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A treasure-trove of Edgar Allan Poe memorabilia found in a hundred and fifty-year-old credenza—an early book of Poe poetry, Poe's obituary, a stuffed Raven, a desiccated cat, a lock of hair, and a Tiffany gold bug broach—may turn out to be the stuff that dreams are made of at The Antiques Roadshow, but only if retired Cape Cod Police Captain... Read more
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Captain Underhill Unlocks the Enigma
By: Steven Thomas Oney
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Queen is in the Counting House” is a timely tale about up-and-coming Boston Red Sox catcher Zachary Devlin who could perhaps take the team to a World Championship, but only if he can survive—literally—the annual Cape Cod exhibition game.
A child’s prank goes horribly wrong, trapping a young boy in a cast iron safe in “Don't Touch That... Read more
Captain Underhill Uncoils the Mystery
By: Steven Thomas Oney
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In “The Whirlpool,” retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill and Dr. Alexander Scofield try to take a vacation but instead find themselves kidnapped by an escaped convict before being swept into the spiral maw of a monstrous tidal whirlpool, fourteen hundred feet across. Can even their wits save them from one of nature's rarest and most... Read more
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Captain Underhill Unmasks the Murderer
By: Steven Thomas Oney
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In “The Legacy of Euriah Pillar,” retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill reveals how the bizarre will of an eccentric millionaire leads to treachery, deceit, and a triple homicide.
In the sequel, Dr. Alexander Scofield joins Underhill as they uncover clues beginning with Euriah Pillar’s long-forgotten strong-box and ending up at the... Read more
The Power in Our Stories
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Bec Kageyama
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Amazing things happen when we take action. Solnit reminds us that some of the most radical ideals of our predecessors are the norms of mainstream society today - only because they took action even when a positive outcome seemed unlikely. She encourages us to remain hopeful and know that we have powerful impact on how the world will look seven... Read more
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