Art audiobooks

The Sound of Music Story

By: Tom Santopietro

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound of Music" did as it blended history, music, Austrian location filming,... Read more

Hold Still

By: Sally Mann

Narrated by: Sally Mann

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.

In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically... Read more

My Paris Dream

By: Kate Betts

Narrated by: Kate Betts

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style

“You can always come back,” my mother said. “Just go.”

As a young woman, Kate Betts nursed a dream of striking out on her own in a... Read more

Sonnets & Sunspots

By: Eric Niderost

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Sonnets & Sunspots tells the story of one of the most beloved popular science series of all time and the charismatic educator who became an icon to several generations of students. The book is also a fascinating history of popular science programming in television and film, from its primitive beginnings to the twenty-first century. Along the... Read more

The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 11 - Abridged

By: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg & Donnie Pitchford

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Donnie Pitchford...

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Firesign Theatre’s David Ossman (as George Tirebiter), comedy legend Shelley Berman, and former SNL comedian Senator Al Franken join the cast of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour for another six misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, and Woody (all voiced by Joe Bev); Olive Pitts, Ellis, Mrs. Terwilliger, and Lkie (all voiced... Read more

How Poetry Can Transform Our Lives

By: Jane Hirshfield

Narrated by: Roger Housden

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Hirshfield believes that poetry can play a transformative role in our lives. “What poems are doing is counterbalancing the mainstream tenor of our culture, which is to do, to be active, to be energetic and to prove one’s self… and one of the messages underlying all poems that move us is that we have nothing at all to prove.” She offers her... Read more

Coming to the Stage: Season 1

By: Dan Levy & Various

Narrated by: Dan Levy & Various

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Season 1 of Coming to the Stage, Comedy Dynamics’ first original series, comedian Dan Levy hosts and introduces a talented pool of up-and-coming comedians who people WILL be talking about tomorrow.  Levy hosts Ian Abramson, Benji Aflalo, Dave Anthony, Rell Battle, Jen D’Angelo, James Davis, Matt McCarthy, Rob O’Reilly, Jesse Popp, Sara... Read more

Craig Shoemaker: The Last Stand (Up)

By: Craig Shoemaker

Narrated by: Craig Shoemaker

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A live finale performance from a 35 year stellar comedy career, given by the Lovemaster/Laughmaster himself - Craig Shoemaker. Performed live from the place he recorded his first album - the legendary Icehouse in Pasadena, California. Read more

What the **** is Normal?!

By: Francesca Martinez

Narrated by: Francesca Martinez

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED?
Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments: More about Animals

By: Christopher Joyce

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If you listen to NPR, you've had at least one "driveway moment." You're still sitting in your parked car, hooked by a story, needing to hear it all the way through. More About Animals features stories of fascinating encounters with our friends from the animal kingdom. Some whose behavior seems eerily familiar, some we would like to know better,... Read more

Broadcast Hysteria

By: A. Brad Schwartz

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 30, 1938, families across the country were gathered around their radios when their regular programming was interrupted by an announcer delivering news of a meteor strike in New Jersey. With increasing intensity, the announcer read bulletins describing terrifying war  machines moving toward New York City. As the invading force... Read more

Dave Stone: Hogwash

By: Dave Stone

Narrated by: Dave Stone

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A versatile performer, Dave prides himself on his ability to reach a wide range of audiences, transcending age, race, gender, height, and weight via his real life experiences of growing up in Atlanta and living out of a van in LA. Read more

Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. It featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum... Read more

Gunsmoke, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: William Conrad & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a US marshal and the smell of … Gunsmoke!"Radio Westerns were strictly for kids until 1952, when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. The stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains was harsh. Radio... Read more

Chasers of the Light

By: Tyler Knott Gregson

Narrated by: Tyler Knott Gregson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane.

One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to... Read more

Love, Laughter and Truth

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An incendiary album of unreleased material culled from the multitude of live recordings Hicks made for personal use from the mid ‘80s until his death in ’94. Read more

Salvation

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This 2-hour album captures Hicks at the height of his powers in a legendary performance at Oxford University. Read more

Relentless

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Raising the spiritual and philosophical stake considerably, Relentless is pure comedic catharsis. Read more

Arizona Bay Extended

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

is Bill Hicks' portrait of life on the beach after the “big one” drops California into the Pacific Ocean. This extended version is a raw and uncut show that comprised the original Arizona Bay album. Now fully-restored, much longer, and without music, hear Arizona Bay like an audience did when it was first recorded and revel in Bill’s genius once... Read more

Arizona Bay

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Hicks developed a more complex plan for Arizona Bay, alternating music and comedy and painting a portrait of life on the beach after the “big one” dropped California into the Pacific Ocean. Read more

Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring the best of Dangerous, Relentless, Arizona Bay, and Rant in E-Minor, Philosophy creates the feel of one incredible live performance. Read more

Dangerous

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

On his hilarious first album Hicks unleashes his thoughts on homelessness, smoking, drugs, and porn. While it may seem dark and cynical, it’s sunny compared to the work that follows. Read more

Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An unreleased live performance recorded in ’91 before what Hicks dubbed “the worst audience I’ve ever faced.” He whips out every trick in the book to win them over. The show is magic. Read more

Rant in E-Minor

By: Bill Hicks

Narrated by: Bill Hicks

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps his most explosive recorded work, Rant in E-Minor sees Hicks broaden the range of his comedy and further hone his satirical wit. Read more