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By: Shannon Stocker

Narrated by: Elle Newlands

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

* Schneider Family Book Award Winner *

A gorgeous and empowering picture book biography about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman, who became the first full-time solo percussionist in the world.

"No. You can't," people said.
But Evelyn knew she could. She had found her own way to listen.

From the moment Evelyn Glennie heard her first note, music held her... Read more

Serenade

By: Toni Bentley

Narrated by: Leslie Howard & Toni Bentley

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era.
 
"Reading Bentley's Serenade made me feel as alive as I felt on the stage the moment that I fell in... Read more

Age of Cage

By: Keith Phipps

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius.



Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at him, there's no denying two things: you've seen one of his many films, and you certainly know his name. But who is he, really, and why has his career endured for over forty years, with more than a hundred films, and birthed a million memes?



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Beverly Hills Confidential

By: Barbara Schroeder & Clark Fogg

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Acid-throwing brides, axe murdering maids, mysterious deaths at Greystone mansion, and the real story of what happened the night a superstar publicist was gunned down on Sunset Boulevard; just a few of the many stories in this "Rip-roaring" story featuring the first 100 years of grand times and grand crimes in the world's glamour capital of... Read more

CHARACTERISTICS OF

By: Mukesh Kumar

Narrated by: Mukesh Kumar

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Vedic society was patriarchal and patrilineal. Early Indo-Aryans were a Late Bronze Age society centred in the Punjab, organised into tribes rather than kingdoms, and primarily sustained by a pastoral way of life. Around c. 1200–1000 BCE the Aryan culture spread eastward to the fertile western Ganges Plain. Read more

Whatever Happened to Hollywood?

By: Jesse Lasky Jr.

Narrated by: Richard Niles

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. tells his Hollywood tales as an insider, with stories and insights sparkling with poetry, humor and the heat of first-hand observation. The son of the man who produced Hollywood’s first feature film, Jesse’s book is the history of the film industry, the birth of an art form and a compelling personal memoir. There... Read more

NFT Art and Collectibles for Beginners

By: Chris Collins

Narrated by: Jon Ramsey

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you looking to learn how you can cash in on the NFT revolution?Did you just find out about NFTs? Do you want to jump in on the craze as an artist, gamer, or musician? Are you finding it difficult to find all the information in the same place or just utterly confusing?If this sounds like you, then read on!NFT Art and Collectables for... Read more

The TV Showrunner's Roadmap

By: Neil Landau

Narrated by: Oliver Fenton

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

If you've ever dreamed of being in charge of your own network, cable, or web series, then this is the book for you. The TV Showrunner's Roadmap provides you with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit show. Combining his 20+ years as a working screenwriter and UCLA professor, Neil Landau expertly guides you through 21... Read more

The Life and Work of Oscar Micheaux

By: Earl James Young, Jr.

Narrated by: Alan K Courtright

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a three-decade period that began in 1919, Oscar Micheaux wrote, directed, edited, produced, and distributed over forty films nationally and internationally. These films usually featured all-Black casts. They spanned a silent film period (1919-1930)and a talkie period (sound films) (1931-1948). Given such a background and the period in... Read more

Voiceover Narration

By: Dian Perry

Narrated by: Dian Perry

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What goes on inside a great narrator to make them great? This groundbreaking work answers this question by exploring the psychophysical aspect of voiceover. The listener is given a bird’s-eye view of the professional narrator’s mental, physical, and vocal ”machinery” as well as an in-depth look at the underlying currents that power it: energy,... Read more

Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty

By: Hana Shafi

Narrated by: Tunchai Redvers

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about.Instead,... Read more

What Is the Taj Mahal?

By: Nilan Aynk

Narrated by: Michele McNeal

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Taj Mahal is a fascinating building, which inspires childlike wonder to people all over the world. However, there are many mysteries still surrounding it. There are many knowns and unknowns about the large stone structure in Northern India.There are a series of questions to be answered, like when and how was it built? Who built it? Why was... Read more

Gracias, papá

By: Héctor Suárez Gomís

Narrated by: Héctor Suárez Gomís, Pablo Suárez Quiroz, Ximen...

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Una historia de humor amor En este libro Héctor abre su baúl más preciado y más que contarnos la historia de don Héctor Suárez el actor, el hombre que perteneció a su público, nos comparte la amorosa visión de un hijo recordando a su padre con todos sus matices y cómo esto lo formó.» JAVIER POZA «Las historias en estas páginas son memorables por... Read more

All About “All About Eve”

By: Sam Staggs

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that’s witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars—including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm—found their best roles in this movie, and its sophisticated dialogue has entered the lexicon.But there’s much more... Read more

Hell Hath No Fury Like Her

By: Lee Gambin

Narrated by: Scott Allen Nollen

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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Woke Up This Morning

By: Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa

Narrated by: Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa & Full Cast

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive oral history of the landmark television series and streaming hit The Sopranos, packed with untold stories from behind the scenes and on the set. Stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa—whose Talking Sopranos podcast has become a sensational fan favorite—talk intimately with virtually everyone who has been involved with the... Read more

Playing at the Border

By: Joanna Ho

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho, delivers a poignant biography about the musician Yo-Yo Ma, immigration, and using music to build bridges.“Everyone can benefit from Ho’s message of music bringing calm and peace to the world.” —Booklist Joanna Ho’s lyrical writing tells an inspiring story of Yo-Yo... Read more

Negative Space

By: Lilly Dancyger

Narrated by: Lilly Dancyger

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir from the editor of Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, Negative Space explores Dancyger’s own anger, grief, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness her father hid from her, as well as her own.Despite her parents’ struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But... Read more

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

By: Jack Lowery

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.

In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out... Read more

Sex Education: A Guide to Life

By: Jordan Paramor

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The official, must-have modern fully fleshed out guide to relationships, sex, and much more from the original Netflix series, Sex Education.

Questioning your body? Not sure about how you feel? Worried if that thing is normal? Unlikely educator Otis Milburn and his friends offer frank, feminist, and positive guidance in this life-changing book.... Read more

Out of the Shadows

By: Fiona Robinson

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full eleven years before Disney’s Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she... Read more

The Humbugs of the World

By: P. T. Barnum

Narrated by: Greg Tremblay

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

P. T. Barnum, best-known for his own use of hoaxes in his popular Barnum & Bailey Circus, found that the use of hoaxes was acceptable when the audience was getting the entertainment they paid for. When it came to religious hoaxes, fraud, and swindling, Barnum was avidly against it. He even went so far as to offer $500 to any medium who could... Read more

The Visitors

By: Caroline Scott

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923...

Esme Nicholls is to spend the summer in Cornwall. Her late husband Alec, who died fighting in the war, grew up in Penzance, and she’s... Read more

How to Win the Bachelor

By: Chad Kultgen & Lizzy Pace

Narrated by: Chad Kultgen & Lizzy Pace

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Bachelor Nation and Seinfeldia, an illuminating deep dive into the most successful reality TV franchise of all time—The Bachelor.

Since its premiere in 2002, ABC’s The Bachelor has become a staple of American television. Now, discover the fascinating history of the show, uncover the ins and outs of the phenomenon that has... Read more