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The Running-Shaped Hole
By: Robert Earl Stewart
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance runningWhen Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin—his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly... Read more
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This Is Your Captain Speaking
By: Doug Morris
Narrated by: Doug Morris
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight
Captain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline's in-flight magazine for twenty-four years and has answered a gamut of questions. This Is Your Captain Speaking will draw... Read more
Bi
By: Julia Shaw
Narrated by: Julia Shaw
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative and eye-opening book on the science and history of bisexuality
Significant strides have been made in recent years in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. After years of feeling the crushing dearth of information on bisexuality, psychological
scientist and bestselling... Read more
Listening for America
By: Rob Kapilow
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth-century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics... Read more
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All That Moves Us
By: Jay Wellons
Narrated by: Jay Wellons
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth
“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh,... Read more
The First Chief Justice
By: Mark C. Dillon
Narrated by: Timothy Howard Jackson
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of federalized American law had to be created from scratch. In The First Chief Justice, New York State Appellate Judge Mark C. Dillon uncovers, for the first time, how Jay's personal,... Read more
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Lavoisier in the Year One
By: Madison Smartt Bell
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists.Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation as the father of modern... Read more
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Antarctic Pioneer
By: Joanna Kafarowski
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica.
Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. After marrying, they began planning the 19461948 Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. Her participation was not welcomed by... Read more
Cockroaches
By: Scholastique Mukasonga
Narrated by: Akrosia Samson
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are... Read more
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Born to Be Public
By: Greg Mania
Narrated by: Greg Mania
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In this unique and hilarious debut memoir, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a "pariah prodigy." From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of... Read more
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A Life in Light
By: Mary Pipher
Narrated by: Jessica Garcie
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A USA Today Must Read New Book
From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia—a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality.
In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher—as she did in her New York Times bestseller Women Rowing North—taps into a cultural moment, to... Read more
Inheritance
By: Baynard Woods
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same.
"Bracing, candid, and rueful." —Kirkus
Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world... Read more
Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown
By: J.F. Andrews
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of 400 years of bloody disputes as the English monarchy's line of hereditary succession was... Read more
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The Missing Cryptoqueen
By: Jamie Bartlett
Narrated by: Jamie Bartlett
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it all
In 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans, Dr. Ruja Ignatova promised her followers a financial revolution. The future, she said, belonged to cryptocurrencies such as... Read more
Salty
By: Alissa Wilkinson
Narrated by: Erin deWard
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
If you could have a dinner party with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
That's the question film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson answered as she gathered a hypothetical table of women who challenged norms and defied conventional wisdom.
Ella Baker, Alice B. Toklas, Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Agnes Varda, Elizabeth David, Edna... Read more
Approaching Fire
By: Michelle Porter
Narrated by: Michelle Porter
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a... Read more
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The Colony
By: Sally Denton
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
On the morning of November 4, 2019, a caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora... Read more
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The Little Locksmith
By: Katharine Butler Hathaway
Narrated by: Julia Atwood
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine Hathaway, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her from becoming a “hunchback” like the “little locksmith” who does odd jobs at her family’s home. Forced to endure her confinement for ten years, Katharine remains immobile... Read more
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Radical Love
By: Zachary Levi
Narrated by: Zachary Levi
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Audiobook read by Zachary LeviRadical Love is the debut memoir from actor Zachary Levi (Shazam!,?American Underdog,?The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,?Chuck), which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate purpose.Facing the scars of childhood trauma and the voices in his... Read more
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Savage Beauty
By: Nancy Milford
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 24 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself.If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself.... Read more
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Turn Around and Take a Bow!
By: Mike Dixon
Narrated by: Mike Dixon
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Mike Dixon has been involved in the British music industry for over 40 years and has been Musical Director for more than twenty West End productions including, We Will Rock You, The Bodyguard, Grease, Aspects of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. His TV credits include six Royal Variety Performances,... Read more
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Swimming with the Blowfish
By: Jim Sonefeld
Narrated by: Jim Sonefeld
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The ultimate front-row seat to Hootie & the Blowfish and Jim “Soni" Sonefeld’s breathtaking path from addiction to recovery.For a time, there was no bigger band in the world than Hootie & the Blowfish—rock & roll’s unexpected foil to the grunge music that dominated the early ’90s airwaves. Jim Sonefeld, drummer and one of the group’s... Read more
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A Beautiful Child
By: Matt Birkbeck
Narrated by: Skye Borgman
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE
Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime.
A student at Forest Park High School... Read more
Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
Narrated by: Drake Johnson
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his... Read more
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