Art audiobooks
A Room of My Own - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sibling rivalry. Sometimes, a kid just isn't ready for some little squirt to come along and invade his space, his own room. So what if there's an extra bed in the room; isn't that where the stuffed animals are supposed to sleep? How could a couple of otherwise sensible parents just bring a new kid home without even consulting their very own son?... Read more
View audiobookProfile on Suzanne Farrell
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A closer look at a renowned ballerina and artistic legacy, dancer Suzanne Farrell. Read more
View audiobookThe Media: Cutting Through the Illusion
By: Norman Solomon
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Solomon, nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics and founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy, speaks eloquently about the seductiveย power of the media and how it shapes our understandingย of the world, andย our response to critical world events. Read more
View audiobookDancing With Yourself
By: Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
After writing the best-selling book, The Invitation, Dreamer discovered that her intention to grow in her capacity to love well was not manifesting, evident in circumstances such as illness and dissolving relationships.ย She wanted to know, really know, that she was enough just as she was. Read more
View audiobookThe Infinite Field Of Possibilities: Viewing Change Through A Kaleidoscope
By: Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Eastern philosophy tells us that the only constant in life is change. We move into our day feeling secure about the future, then suddenly we are faced with a catastrophe. A new world is born and our lives are forever altered. In these times of transition what do we do? How do we move beyond fear and anger to live heartfully in the field of... Read more
View audiobookAndy Warhol
By: Wayne Koestenbaum
Narrated by: Arthur Addison
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In his bravura account of Warhol's life and work, scholar and culture critic Wayne Koestenbaum gets past the contradictions and reveals the man behind the blond wig and dark glasses. Nimbly weaving brilliant and witty analysis into an absorbing narrative, Koestenbaum makes a convincing case for Warhol as a serious artist, one whose importance... Read more
View audiobookMarlon Brando
By: Patricia Bosworth
Narrated by: Edward Holland
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Following his development from moody Oklahoma teenager to the method-trained star to the eccentric recluse of his later years, Patricia Bosworth offers a penetrating look at Marlon Brandoโs evolving persona: the volcanic Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, the sensitive rebel in The Wild Ones, the iconic Don Corleone in The Godfather.... Read more
View audiobookCar Talk: Men Are from GM, Women Are from Ford
By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
When a question about anti-lock brakes becomes and entrรฉe for dispensing marital advice, you know you've entered the world of Click and Clack, the Car Talk guys. Together they dish up sage advice, car guidance, and fun as they irritate, pontificate, and finally illuminate life for the less fortunate of us who are mechanically disinclined. ... Read more
View audiobookCar Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father When It Comes to Cars
By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
It's a fact: 98% of what fathers say is dead wrong. Join famous syndicated radio talk show hosts and ingenious car experts Click and Clack as they bring this little known fact to light. Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father ... is a hilarious collection of the Tappet brothers' favorite calls over the years about fathers,... Read more
View audiobookThe Power of Myth
By: Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The complete soundtrack from the phenomenally popular PBS series whose message about myth, ritual, and spiritual potentialities exhilarated millions of people.
Contents:
Program 1: The Hero's Adventure
Program 2: The Message of the Myth
Program 3: The First Storytellers
Program 4: Sacrifice and Bliss
Program 5: Love and the Goddess
Program 6: Masks... Read more
The Monticello Dialogues, Part I: Democratic Design
By: William McDonough
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
McDonough shares how his early life growing up in Hong Kong affected his worldview, and how his work has been influenced by innovative designs of Thomas Jefferson. He describes his work with chemist Michael Braungart in designing from the point of view of nature. Read more
View audiobookLet Me Entertain You
By: David Brown
Narrated by: David Brown
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Seldom has the world seen a man with the grace, style, intellect, and success of journalist, author, publisher, Broadway and film producer, and husband to long-time Cosmopolitan head Helen Gurley Brown, David Brown. Throughout his remarkable life, he was a friend, acquaintance, and confidant of the world's most powerful, most famous, and most... Read more
View audiobookMark Morris - Extended Interview
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this 2001 interview, choreographer and dancer Mark Morris talks to Jeffrey Broan about his career. Read more
View audiobookThe Vagina Monologues
By: Eve Ensler
Narrated by: Eve Ensler
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A landmark in womenโs empowermentโas relevant as ever after a year marked by unprecedented political protestโthat honors female sexuality in all its complexity.
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their... Read more
2.5 Minute Ride
By: Lisa Kron
Narrated by: Lisa Kron
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2.5 Minute Ride--winner of the Obie Award, The New York Press Award, and the L.A. Dramalogue Awardโ Lisa Kron invites her audience on a roller coaster ride through the Kron family album. Kron's performance switches back and forth between a journey to Auschwitz with her septuagenarian father, a Holocaust survivor; her Michigan... Read more
View audiobookMy Life in Three Acts - Abridged
By: Helen Hayes
Narrated by: Helen Hayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In this extremely candid and honest account, Helen Hayes, acclaimed "First Lady of the American Theater", looks back on her life and career, and you are invited to a private listening session. So sit back, relax, and listen to behind-the-scenes portraits and anecdotes of personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, John F. Kennedy, Al... Read more
View audiobookThalberg - Abridged
By: Bob Thomas
Narrated by: John Landis
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than 85 years after his untimely death at just age 37, Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) remains a legendary Hollywood figure. Called the โBoy Wonder of Hollywood,โ Thalberg quickly climbed the ranks at MGM studios to became one of the most powerful and high-profile producers of the time, elevating filmmaking to an art form. In this definitive... Read more
View audiobookHeart Rhythm
By: Reinhard Flatischler & Camelia Flatischler
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Beginning his musical journey at the early age of four, Reinhard Flatischler went on to become an international performer by the age of 15.ย Studying under shamans and masters from around the world eventually led him to an adaptation of his own ideas and ultimately to the creation of his own method. Read more
View audiobookLeonardo Da Vinci
By: Sherwin Nuland
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies. He detects the siren... Read more
View audiobookNatural Blonde - Abridged
By: Liz Smith
Narrated by: Liz Smith
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and... Read more
View audiobookMarried to Laughter - Abridged
By: Jerry Stiller
Narrated by: Jerry Stiller
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara began performing together in coffehouses in Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and then as frequent guests on The Ed Sullivan Show. They based their standup characters on exaggerated vrsions of themselves, especially in the irrepressible commercials for Blue Nun wine. Offstage they raised two children, Amy and... Read more
View audiobookDefinitely Above Average
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.
After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. This new collection gathers the warmest, funniest, most affectionate examples: dance tunes and comedy with sound effects; songs featuring Chet Atkins,... Read more
I Rant, Therefore I Am - Abridged
By: Dennis Miller
Narrated by: Dennis Miller
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Once again there's good news for those of us who rage at the evening news, shake our heads at Washington's business-as-usual, or watch as politicians carom helplessly between political crises and sex scandals: Dennis Miller is back with his third installment of hilarious observations, I Rant, Therefore I Am.
Dennis Miller first gained national... Read more
Interview with poet Seamus Heaney
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Interview with poet Seamus Heaney on his translation of the poem Beowulf Read more
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