Art audiobooks

Pretty Good Jokes

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Fulfilling the flood of requests from enthused listeners, Pretty Good Jokes combines all the jokes from A Prairie Home Companion's first four joke shows (1996-1999). It is an entertaining mix of knock-knocks, one-liners, North Dakota, religious, animal, bar, and light bulb jokes, those famous "yo mama" insults and much more. This live recording... Read more

Selznick - Abridged

By: Bob Thomas

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was the triumph and the tragedy of his life. As a producer, he had reached the pinnacle of success; there was nowhere else to go. In this biography, noted Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas reveals the stormy career of a shrewd, self-confident intellectual whiz kid who today personifies the image of a studio head during the Golden Age of movies.... Read more

Eigenes Konto

By: Matthias Beltz

Narrated by: Matthias Beltz

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Was ist das überhaupt für ein Land, so fragte sich noch jüngst eine besorgte Bürgerin, in der ein Knallerbsenstrauch mehr wert ist als ein Maschendrahtzaun? Es ist ein ungerechtes Land, muss man dieser Frau antworten, ein Land, in dem nur der als Mensch zählt, der ein eigenes Girokonto bei der Bank hat. Wen die Bank nicht kennt, der besitzt auch... Read more

Zero Hour 6

By: author

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “Wife of the Red-Haired Man” and starring Patty Duke, John Astin, Howard Duff, Harold Gould, and Benny Ruben. Read more

Grace Under Pressure

By: Peggy Fleming

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, a teenage girl in a chartreuse dress delivered a breathtaking free-skating program that captured the only winter Olympics gold medal for the United States.  Peggy Fleming continued to earn the highest marks in her skating career, but she deserved even higher marks for her grace under pressure off the ice. Read more

The Spirit of Intuition

By: Judith Orloff, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A courageous pioneer who risked ridicule and rejection in order to better serve patients, Orloff has made incredible breakthroughs in the field of psychiatric care. Her powerful advice is for both doctors and patients, with fresh new concepts that apply to all areas of life, not just your health. Read more

Nuhr nach vorn

By: Dieter Nuhr

Narrated by: Dieter Nuhr

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Liveaufnahme aus dem Haus der Springmaus in Bonn, 1998. Mit Studiomoderationen. Read more

A Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This anniversary release features highlights from 25 years on the air, including favorite monologues like "Truckstop," "Gospel Birds" and "Pontoon Boat," plus brand-new stories never before available on audio. Also includes a special bonus collection of 25 toe-tapping tunes with down-home music from long-time show regulars, including Butch... Read more

Chanting:  The Sound of Spirit

By: Robert Gass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The magic of chanting has a calming, awakening and sometimes even consciousness-altering mystery about it.  From singing hymns together in church to learning nursery songs in kindergarten, we’ve all experienced the joy and resonance chanting can bring.  In his early days as a rock musician, Robert Gass tapped into "the tribal music of the... Read more

Miss Daisy - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady babysitter are the heroines in these new digital studio recordings of Donald Davis' two all-time most-requested stories. "It was the 42nd year she had taught fourth grade", yet there was nothing routine about Miss Daisy or her methods. Rather than settle for textbook work (Miss Daisy left textbooks in... Read more

Big-Screen Drive-In Theater - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The drive-in is dying. People can blame the demise on cable television, luxury theaters with sound systems so technical NASA engineers are needed to install them, or on a host of other modern conveniences and distractions. In reality, the drive-in operator of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater hired a young Donald Davis to work his... Read more

The Grand Canyon - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down, you may have difficulty picturing the temporary insanity that leads otherwise responsible adults to sign away the remainder of their natural life expectancy just for the chance to see the Grand Canyon's... Read more

Braces - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of... Read more

Listening for the Crack of Dawn - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Donald Davis was born into a southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. He grew up listening to his father and his Uncle Frank tell stories of their boyhood, all the while taking in the details of his own childhood experience. These stories of growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s are funny and true, nostalgic and bittersweet. The... Read more

Rodin

By: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 27 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more

Christian Dior

By: Marie-France Pochna

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy.Born... Read more

The Painted Word

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism... Read more

Pure Drivel

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Steve Martin

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Love

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Love includes "Truckstop," "Uncle Al's Gift," "Rotten Apples," and "The Wise Men." Read more

Taiko Drumming: Bringing Rhythm To Life

By: Heidi Varian

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone who has heard the thunderous power of these magnificent drums recognizes a compelling spiritual force at work.  Heidi Varian speaks of her teacher, Grandmaster Sensei Seiichi Tanaka:  "To be his age and to play with that much spirit and power makes you realize it has to be more than just physical strength--it has to come from somewhere... Read more

Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Home Comedy and Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.


Prairie Home Comedy Contents:
Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The In and Out Cat... Read more

Life These Days

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for Best Short Stories Wherever Garrison Keillor's imagination takes him, the road back to Lake Wobegon is always a delightful one. His story collections about "the little town that time forgot" are his most popular; this Lake Wobegon collection features 11 wonderful stories recorded from live radio... Read more

The Ultimate Vision Quest

By: Carol Adrienne, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you get excited about the idea of finding your true purpose in life, you will enjoy this fascinating dialogue with Carol Adrienne.  She says, "Our life purpose is like a magnetic field that draws us toward a particular experience that we need at that time to develop a characteristic or change a point of view." Read more

The Art Of Leadership

By: James Autry & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on the wisdom of the world's oldest leadership manual, the Tao Te Ching, James Autry and Stephen Mitchell discuss how to transform the workplace.  Says Autry, "Where does leadership begin?  On the inside.  The transition from management--knowing what to do--to leadership--knowing how to be--is a transition from the external to the... Read more