Art audiobooks

The Blessed Lens

By: Joseph Luzzi

Narrated by: Joseph Luzzi

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Joseph Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard College and an award-winning author, offers a comprehensive look at Italian cinema from its inception in 1895 through its major periods and influences. Having altered the landscape of Italian art and society, as well as inspiring filmmakers the world over, Italian cinema proves a... Read more

Harlan Ellison's Watching

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“An enjoyable, irascible collection” of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author (Library Journal).

Everyone’s a critic, especially in the digital age—but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The... Read more

So You Need to Decide

By: Beth Lapides

Narrated by: Beth Lapides

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

How many decisions do you make each day? Ten? Twenty? Fifty? How often do you think about the way each of those little and not-so-little decisions reverberate through your life? And how often do you regret a choice you made and wish you could simply choose again?

“One of the better audio-comedy productions in recent memory … the project is a... Read more

Art & Crime

By: Tobias Timm & Stefan Koldehoff

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world.The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets,... Read more

How to Be Golden

By: Paula Bernstein

Narrated by: Jodi Carlisle

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If there's one thing the nation can agree on--we all love Betty White! This spirited homage to Betty captures her unique humor, timeless wisdom, and impish irreverence that's made her one of America's longest lasting and most beloved stars.

 An unparalleled American icon, Betty White started show business in 1939 in radio and was a pioneer in the... Read more

Paths to modernisation

By: Parvesh singh

Narrated by: Parvesh singh

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Different societies have evolved their distinctive modernities. The Japanese and Chinese cases are very instructive in this regard. Japan succeeded in remaining free of colonial control. Read more

The father of Indian navy

By: Deepak dalal

Narrated by: Deepak dalal

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The 17th-century Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is considered as the 'Father of the Indian Navy. Read more

Movement Matters

By: Katy Bowman

Narrated by: Katy Bowman

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What if we can make ourselves, our communities, and our planet healthier all at the same time by moving our bodies more?Movement Matters is a collection of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her groundbreaking investigation of the mechanics of our sedentary culture and the profound potential of human movement. Here she widens her... Read more

Sawami dayanand saraswati

By: Deepak dalal

Narrated by: Deepak dalal

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Dayananda Saraswati was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Read more

The gold rush

By: Parvesh singh

Narrated by: Parvesh singh

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

California gold rush rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter's Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852. Read more

The story of karan

By: Deepak dalal

Narrated by: Deepak dalal

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Karna also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, is one of the major characters of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. He is the spiritual son of the Vedic deity- Surya. Read more

Elvis

By: Chiara Rebutto

Narrated by: Librinpillole

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"The King", "The Pelvis", oppure semplicemente Elvis Presley: questo personaggio non ha bisogno di presentazioni. L'uomo che ha cambiato per sempre il modo di intendere la musica, portandola su un piano proletario e rivoluzionario, non ha mai smesso di ammaliare generazioni di fan. Il suo provocatorio movimento del bacino, il suo fascino... Read more

Stanley Kubrick

By: Chiara Rebutto

Narrated by: Gianna Gesualdo

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley Kubrick è stato uno dei registi più influenti del Novecento. "Arancia meccanica", "Eyes Wide Shut", "Full Metal Jacket", "Lolita", "2001: Odissea nello spazio", "Shining" sono solo alcuni dei titoli entrati nella leggenda del cinema e destinati a rimanervi per l'eternità. Il segreto del suo successo? Una meticolosa perfezione nelle... Read more

Ripped from the Headlines!

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Chicago’s Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school... Read more

Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard

By: Sam Staggs

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It’s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great—and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of... Read more

The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats

By: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything that's great about the game.

Never before has the... Read more

Shadows in the Vineyard

By: Maximillian Potter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more

Grand Central

By: Sam Roberts

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A rich, illustrated - and entertaining -- history of the iconic Grand
Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in
time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary.

In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and
immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable... Read more

Welcome to Dunder Mifflin

By: Brian Baumgartner & Ben Silverman

Narrated by: Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels,...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the entire Dunder Mifflin gang on a journey back to Scranton: here's the hilarious inside story of how a little show that barely survived its first season became the most watched series in the universe.Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the cast and creators of The Office—the actors, writers, producers, directors,... Read more

In On the Joke

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A sensitive and vivid study of early female stand-ups… [Levy is a] painstaking, knowledgeable guide.”  —New York Times Book Review
 
A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the mic—perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Hacks

Today, women are ascendant... Read more

Breaking It Down

By: Nicole Hodges Persley & Monica White Ndounou

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Working in an environment that often stereotypes or attempts to “universalize” experiences, it’s more important than ever that actors consider how culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability are inseparable and important parts of their identity that should not be minimized and can instead enhance their work. In Breaking It Down:... Read more

Starstruck

By: Leonard Maltin

Narrated by: Leonard Maltin

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites listeners to pull up a chair as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, from fifty-plus years of interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and the 1930s... Read more

Hiking the Horizontal

By: Liz Lerman

Narrated by: Liz Lerman

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The unique career of choreographer Liz Lerman has taken her from theater stages to shipyards, and from synagogues to science labs. In this wide-ranging collection of essays and articles, she reflects on her life-long exploration of dance as a vehicle for human insight and understanding of the world around us. Lerman has been described by the... Read more

What the Ermine Saw

By: Eden Collinsworth

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits—"a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palazzos of Europe" (Amanda Foreman, New York Times best-selling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)

Five hundred... Read more