La mente nera: lo strano caso di Aldo Semerari
By: Corrado De Rosa
Narrated by: Dimitri Riccio
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Aldo Semerari, psichiatra, criminologo e criminale, è stato connesso a tante delle vicende oscure che puntellano la storia d'Italia. Professore universitario, simpatizzante nazista (aveva una bandiera con la svastica sopra il letto e un dobermann a cui dava ordini solo in tedesco), collaboratore tanto della criminalità organizzata quanto dello... Read more
View audiobookOn Foot from Pakistan to Germany (unabridged)
By: Niaz Qureshi & Peter Schütt
Narrated by: Nick Ellsworth
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Transcending beliefs and borders, Niaz Qureshi's On Foot from Pakistan to Germany recalls one man's trek from East to West in the 1960s. This memoir explores a rapidly widening spectrum of human culture at a time of modern and traditional Schism. Commandingly retold by Nick Ellsworth and scored by Farida Gasser, this audiobook brings Qureshi's... Read more
View audiobookArt of Tea
By: author
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Have you ever wished the world would just stop for a minute?
What if it could?
As a teenager, Steve Schwartz lived in 24/7 survival mode, going hungry whenever he couldn’t find enough work to pay for a school lunch. At the age of eighteen, he nursed his dying mother through the final stages of terminal cancer.
His mother’s death launched him on... Read more
Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction
By: Reggie D. Ford
Narrated by: Reggie D. Ford
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In Reggie Ford’s bold reassessment of the Black experience in America, he demonstrates that a new understanding of PTSD is required. PTSD, Perseverance Through Severe Dysfunction, as Ford defines it, underlines the darkness of mental health illnesses and behaviors that impact young Black men and have plagued Black Americans for generations.But... Read more
View audiobookJack Wild: It's a Dodger's Life
By: Jack Wild & Claire Harding-Wild
Narrated by: Richard Burnip & Claire Harding-Wild
Length: 20 hours
Abridged: No
Propelled to stardom at the age of 15, until his tragic death from cancer at the age of 53, this is the story of actor Jack Wild, in his own words – published for the first time.Jack was just an ordinary young boy, whose talent was spotted by chance by a theatrical agent, and propelled onto the world stage through his performance in the 1968... Read more
View audiobookAmours, délices et orgues : récits d'une vie plurielle
By: François Dompierre
Narrated by: François Dompierre
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
François Dompierre. Depuis toujours, cet homme singulier décline sa passion de la musique au pluriel : trames sonores, chansons, concertos, publicités, comédies musicales et plus encore. Mais Dompierre, c’est aussi douze années de radio et cinq années d’ateliers culinaires, trois livres et treize disques, des milliers de kilomètres à pied et un... Read more
View audiobookLos sueños de la niña de la montaña
By: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza
Narrated by: Gabriela Ramírez
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento... Read more
View audiobookFinding True North
By: Linda Gask
Narrated by: Linda Gask
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Beneath the wide skies of Orkney, Linda Gask recalls her career as a consultant psychiatrist an her lifelong struggle with her own mental health. After the favelas of Brazil, the glittering cities of the Middle East, and the forests of Haida Gwaii. Will she find perspective, spiritual relief, and healing in her own home?
“A story of struggling... Read more
Loquillo
By: Felipe Cabrerizo
Narrated by: Mario Encinas
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
La biografía oficial y definitiva de la gran estrella del rock, basada en materiales de archivo y entrevistas inéditas a su protagonista. «Este libro cuenta (casi) toda mi verdad».
Loquillo Figura polémica y esquiva, Loquillo alcanzó el éxito en compañía de Intocables y Trogloditas pero, incómodo ante un personaje que había dejado de ser el... Read more
Sueño mexicano
By: Arnoldo de la Rocha y Navarrete
Narrated by: Luis Pineda & Arnoldo de la Rocha y Navarrete
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
«EN LA VIDA HAY QUE TENER SUEÑOS LO SUFICIENTEMENTE REALISTAS PARA LLEGAR A ELLOS ANTES DE MORIR, PERO LO SUFICIENTEMENTE MOTIVANTES PARA LEVANTARSE TODOS LOS DÍAS A LUCHAR POR ELLOS.» Don Arnoldo de la Rocha es originario de la sierra de Chihuahua. Aprendió a trabajar la tierra desde los seis años, usó zapatos a partir de los ocho y entró a la... Read more
View audiobookA Line Above the Sky
By: Helen Mort
Narrated by: Helen Mort
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death.
Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world. But when... Read more
Caught with My Pants Down and Other Tales from a Life in Hollywood
By: Jim Piddock
Narrated by: Jim Piddock
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than four decades, Jim Piddock has navigated the turbulent waters of Broadway and Hollywood as an actor and a writer. In this highly entertaining and witty account of his journey from a small village in England to the heady heights of the Hollywood Hills, he pulls back the curtain—with remarkable honesty and humor—to reveal what really... Read more
View audiobookDas Leben ist das Produkt deiner Gedanken
By: Andreas Handler
Narrated by: Andreas Handler
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Mein Pilger-Weg, auf den ich Sie nun einlade, ist in drei größere Teilstrecken - "Die Vorgeschichte - Ein Jahrzehnt in meiner Opferrolle - Mein Weg" gegliedert. Ich erzähle Ihnen unverblümt von meinen Irrwegen, meiner psychischen Erkrankung, meinen Weggabelungen und Neuorientierungen. Ich erzähle Ihnen, wie ich aus der Opferrolle kam, den Täter... Read more
View audiobookTagebuch der Isolation
By: Stefan Brugg
Narrated by: Stefan Brugg
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Die meisten Tagebücher sind geheim. Doch besondere Zeiten erfordern besondere Maßnahmen. Im März 2020, als der erste Lockdown in Österreich verkündet wurde und viele Menschen zu Hause bleiben mussten, begann ich, wenn auch aus einer Laune heraus den Grundstein für mein Tagebuch zu legen. Was mit einer mehr oder minder einfallsreichen... Read more
View audiobookVoyager
By: Nona Fernández
Narrated by: Nona Fernández
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Tomando como punto de partida algunos recuerdos de su madre, que en la pantalla de un escáner cerebral "evocan un paisaje astral", Nona Fernández construye lo que ella misma ha llamado una "constelación de materiales". Lo hace a través de la memoria personal, familiar y colectiva, la memoria de un país, y también echando mano del documento, de... Read more
View audiobookSex, Drugs & Jesus
By: DeVannon Hubert
Narrated by: DeVannon Hubert
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
***FIREBIRD BOOK AWARD WINNER***First Place - LGBTQ+ NonfictionFirst Place - True CrimeThird Place - Memoir"A bleak but often engrossing real-life story of an eventful and sometimes-dangerous life." - Kirkus Reviews“Sex, Drugs & Jesus is a riveting memoir that will capture your heart and take you inside the trials and tribulations of Mr.... Read more
View audiobookJennifer's Choice
By: Dawn Stilwell
Narrated by: M.H Kan
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
November 13th, 2021 will be forever burned into my memory. That day, my sister passed away via medical assistance in dying, after an 18 month battle with metastatic breast cancer. Medical assistance in dying became legal in Canada in 2016. Since then, thousands of terminally ill patients have taken advantage of their right to die. I never... Read more
View audiobookThe Nation's Homeopath
By: Dr Mukesh Batra
Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
THE STORY OF A HEALER AND THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHAIN OF HOMEOPATHY CLINICS
If you think of homeopathy in India, one name springs to mind-Dr Batra's(R). From humble beginnings with a clinic in Chowpatty, Bombay in 1982, Dr Mukesh Batra put homeopathy on the world map by starting over 200 clinics in seven countries and in 150 cities of India in the... Read more
Truly, Madly
By: Stephen Galloway
Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided to a friend,... Read more
Soul on the Street
By: William Roache
Narrated by: William Roache
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
William Roache has been an actor on Britain's best-loved soap opera, Coronation Street, for over 60 years - making him the world's longest-serving soap star. As a young actor William auditioned for a TV drama that was likely to be running for only a few weeks. Now, 62 years later, he is the only original cast member and the soap's success has... Read more
View audiobookAll Our Families
By: Jennifer Natalya Fink
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocation to reclaim our disability lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability, kinship, and carework
Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In All Our... Read more
With or Without Me
By: Esther Maria Magnis
Narrated by: Ewa Maria Wojcik
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
With or Without Me is an unsparing and eloquent critique of religion. Yet Esther Maria Magnis’s ire is merely the beginning of an exceptional journey toward belief and God—a journey punctuated by personal losses retold with intense immediacy. “Maybe God is a sadist,” she writes, “a big baby who had a terrible upbringing. If, as Christians claim,... Read more
View audiobookThe War That Made the Roman Empire
By: Barry Strauss
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.
Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained... Read more
Overdue
By: Amanda Oliver
Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society today?
Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, Overdue begins with Oliver's first day at an "unusual" branch: Northwest... Read more