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La piedra de la locura
By: Benjamín Labatut
Narrated by: Benjamín Labatut
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones literarias y experiencias personales. ¿Lo real está más allá de nuestro alcance? ¿La verdad y la locura son síntomas de la misma enfermedad? Labatut utiliza un cuadro del Bosco, el terror atávico de Lovecraft, la lógica radical de David Hilbert y la... Read more
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Por si las voces vuelven
By: Ángel Martín
Narrated by: Ángel Martín
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Hace unos años me rompí por completo. Tanto como para que tuvieran que atarme a la cama de un hospital psiquiátrico para evitar que pudiera hacerme daño. No tengo ni idea de cuándo empezó a formarse mi locura. A lo mejor nací genéticamente predispuesto. A lo mejor fui macerando una depresión al callarme ciertas cosas por no preocupar a los... Read more
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High Yella
By: Steve Majors
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
They called him "pale faced or mixed race" or "light, bright, almost white." But most of the time his family called him "high yella." Steve Majors was the white passing, youngest son of an all-Black family that struggled with poverty, abuse, and generational trauma. High Yella is the poignant account of how he tried to leave his troubled... Read more
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A Daughter of the Samurai
By: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Narrated by: June Angela
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The youngest daughter of a high-ranking samurai, Etsu was destined to become a priestess and was molded for that path by some of the best teachers. But her fate changed when she was married off to a businessman and sent across the world to America. Finding herself miles away from the life she had imagined, she had to learn all about a new... Read more
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Go By Boat
By: Dr. Chuck Radis
Narrated by: Cole Tamminen
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. Absent-minded and initially oblivious to island mores, Dr. Radis slowly adapts to a medical practice where x-rays and advanced laboratory testing are available only on the mainland. When he travels to... Read more
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Dwyane
By: Dwyane Wade
Narrated by: David Hall
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The long-awaited photographic memoir from basketball superstar Dwyane Wade, beautifully designed with more than 200 all-new photos from Wade’s life on and off the court.For 16 years, Dwyane Wade has dazzled basketball fans with his on-court artistry and has built his personal brand into one of the most powerful ones in sports. In this beautiful... Read more
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Joni
By: Joni Eareckson Tada
Narrated by: Joni Eareckson Tada
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.One of the most beloved Christian autobiographies of modern times, Joni highlights the unforgettable story of a young woman's courageous struggle to find hope after a broken neck left her completely paralyzed. On a hot July afternoon, Joni Eareckson Tada's life was dramatically altered in a split second. A reckless dive into... Read more
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Voice
By: Adam Pottle
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
How deafness influences one writer's creative process.
In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world of muted sound, and how his deafness... Read more
The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton
By: Jerry Grillo
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Col. Bruce Hampton was a charismatic musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing. Part bandleader, soul singer, storyteller, conjuror, poet, preacher, comedian, philosopher, and trickster, Col. Bruce actively sought out and dealt in the weird, wild underbelly of the American... Read more
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Skiing into the Bright Open
By: Liv Arnesen
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In Skiing into the Bright Open Liv Arnesen describes the exhausting, exhilarating experience of being the first known woman to ski unsupported to the South Pole.
From her childhood in Norway to the seasons she spent working as a guide on Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, Arnesen courted the cold, and her memoir reflects... Read more
Si yo pude... ¡tú más!
By: Maria Antonieta Collins
Narrated by: Lina Franco
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Cargada de motivación y su característica energía, María Antonieta Collins, una de las corresponsales de noticias más reconocidas de Latinoamérica, comparte la historia de su increíble transformación física y mental, los secretos que la llevaron a perder peso y el viaje en el que se embarcó para encontrar el autoestima, salud y felicidad que... Read more
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Tim - Die offizielle Avicii-Biografie - Deutsche Ausgabe (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Måns Mosesson
Narrated by: Julian Mehne & Marian Funk
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Tim Bergling war ein musikalisches Ausnahmetalent und prägte mit seinen Melodien eine Ära, in der schwedische und europäische House Music die Welt eroberte. Doch zugleich war er ein zurückgezogener und verletzlicher junger Mann, der mit unmenschlicher Geschwindigkeit erwachsen werden musste. Nach mehreren Zusammenbrüchen und... Read more
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Three Rings
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
Narrated by: Daniel Mendelsohn
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study... Read more
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Hudson Bay Bound
By: Natalie Warren
Narrated by: Warren
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay
Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and constant hunger. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile route made famous by Eric Sevareid in his 1935 classic... Read more
Rescuing Socrates
By: Roosevelt Montás
Narrated by: Roosevelt Montás
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Dominican-born scholar Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds
What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this... Read more
Patricia Highsmith
By: Patricia Highsmith
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 41 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks finally explores the riveting interior world of one of the most prolific and now canonical novelists of the twentieth century.Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were... Read more
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Lest We Forget
By: Kwan Kew Lai
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2014 after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat,... Read more
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Reclamation
By: Gayle Jessup White
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s family, that they were direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson—lore she firmly believed, though... Read more
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Dorothy L. Sayers
By: Colin Duriez
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorothy L Sayers was a woman of contrasts. A strong Christian, she had a baby by a man she did not love - out of wedlock. Possessing a fierce intellect, she translated Dante - and also created one of the most popular fictional detectives ever, in Lord Peter Wimsey. With no new biographies on Sayers having been published for some time, Colin... Read more
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The Next Supper
By: Corey Mintz
Narrated by: Corey Mintz
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal.
In the years before the pandemic, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Uber Eats, DoorDash,... Read more
Muhammad, the World-Changer
By: Mohamad Jebara
Narrated by: John Pirkis
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
“A beautifully written, immaculately researched meditation on the impact of the Prophet Muhammad on the modern world. I loved this book!” —Reza Aslan, author of No God but God and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
A six-year-old cries in his mother’s arms as she draws her last breaths to urge him: “Muhammad, be a world-changer!” The... Read more
Friends from the Beginning
By: Stacey Johnson-Batiste
Narrated by: Nidra Sous la Terre
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid, intimate portrait of the friendship forged between Stacey Johnson Batiste and her childhood best friend, Vice President Kamala Harris—and of the community in which they were raised, and the lessons offered by those they loved and admired from childhood, through their teenage years, and up to the present day. Read more
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Bending the Arc
By: Keeda J. Haynes
Narrated by: Keeda J. Haynes & Kylah Williams
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing exposé of the profound failures in our justice system, told by a woman who has journeyed from wrongfully accused prisoner to acclaimed public defender
Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer, but after college graduation, she was imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit. Her boyfriend had asked her to sign for some... Read more
Rabbit in the Moon
By: Heather Diamond
Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Blame it on Hawaii’s rainbows, sparkling beaches, fruity cocktails, and sensuous breezes. For Heather Diamond, there for a summer course on China, a sea change began when romance bloomed with Fred, an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong. Returning to her teaching job in Texas, Heather wonders if the whirlwind affair was a moment of madness. She is,... Read more
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