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Beeswing
By: Richard Thompson
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.”
—The Wall Street Journal
Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello
In this moving, immersive,... Read more
No Place Like Home
By: Brooke Berman
Narrated by: Brooke Berman
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Humorous, poignant, and honest, No Place Like Home is the story of one woman’s journey to feel settled without settling, and her realization that home is much more than an address.Brooke Berman moved to New York as a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old eager to call the big city home. Candid, funny, and thoughtful, in No Place Like Home, we follow... Read more
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The Men in My Life
By: Vivian Gornick
Narrated by: J. Michael McCullough
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In this new collection, she turns her attention to another large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. Great literature,... Read more
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The Price of Health
By: Michael Kinch & Lori Weiman
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From "pharma bros" to everday household budgets, just how did the pharmaceutical industry betray its own history—and how can it return to its tradition of care?
It’s an unfortunate and life-threatening fact: one in five Americans has skipped vital prescriptions simply because of the cost. These choices are being made even though we have reached... Read more
The Solitude of Self
By: Vivian Gornick
Narrated by: Theresa Conkin
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that... Read more
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Picturing Peter Bogdanovich
By: Peter Tonguette
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as "the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane." Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich's popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What's Up, Doc? (1972)and Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich became a bona fide celebrity, making regular appearances... Read more
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Classic Black Narratives
By: Solomon Northup, W. E. B. Du Bois, Olaudah Equ...
Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price, Mirron Willis, David Dear, ...
Length: 30 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Witness powerful stories about the effects and realities of living in a prejudiced society in this audio bundle of classic Black narratives. These selections are both fictional and nonfictional stories of living in a society that devalues and dehumanizes the lives of Black people. Though all four of these books were written over a hundred years... Read more
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Women in Science
By: Vivian Gornick
Narrated by: Madelyn Buzzard
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"Gornick's portraits demonstrate the driving force behind science."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Women in science stir the contemporary imagination. In their hyphenated identity is captured the pain and excitement of a culture struggling to mature."—The Washington Post
In this revised twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed writer and... Read more
The Book of Difficult Fruit
By: Kate Lebo
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A is for Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for Durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor—peaches, old garlic. M is for Medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for Quince, which, fresh, gives off the... Read more
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Eva and Eve
By: Julie Metz
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In this unforgettable and “essential feminist memoir of women’s lives” (Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love) the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection unearths her mother’s hidden past in in Nazi-occupied Austria.
To Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the quintessential New Yorker. Eve rarely spoke about her childhood and it... Read more
I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust
By: Valerie Gilpeer & Emily Grodin
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who’d long been unable to communicate—until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, who’d been trapped inside for more than two decades.
“I have been buried under years of dust and now I have so much to say.”These were the first... Read more
The Invention of Miracles
By: Katie Booth
Narrated by: Samantha Desz
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize
“Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Silberman), this “provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography” (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s... Read more
Light of Assisi
By: Margaret Carney OSF
Narrated by: Kathleen Li
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
For centuries St. Clare of Assisi has been a lesser-known saint simply because she was overshadowed by the giant that is St. Francis. This biography not only tells the story of their intertwined lives, but more importantly highlights the extraordinary contributions Clare made to the Franciscan world following Francis’s death. This book is her... Read more
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The Red Mirror
By: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
What explains Putin's enduring popularity in Russia?
In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. The main source of Putin's political influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared collective perspective that unites many Russian citizens. Under his tenure, the Kremlin's media... Read more
Weak Strongman
By: Timothy Frye
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Why we need to look beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works
Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies—and recognizing this illuminates the... Read more
The Home Within
By: David Bayley
Narrated by: David Bayley
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
David Bayley was thirty-four when his life underwent a spiritual revolution. On passionate internal suggestion he bought a campervan, gave away his possessions, and strode toward life on four wheels. Having no plan or direction, he cast himself forth into the beauty of Australia, capturing the land in poetic prose. Like a rite of passage... Read more
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غيفارا
By: عبد العزيز حسين
Narrated by: محمد العبار
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
غاب تشي غيڤارا و بقيت أفكاره و مآثره شعلة تنير درب المناضلين في العالم في سعيهم إلى التّحرّر من ربقة السيطرة الامبرياليّة و الاستعمارية الجديدة و الرجعية المحلية. غاب و لكنّه ظلّ حيّاً يُلهم ثوّار العالم و شبابه و الرومانطيقيقيين الذين شاؤوا أن يشاركوه أحلامه. كان جيڤارا مُناضلاً كبيراً و ثائراً حقيقيّاً، و حالما أُخِذَ بأحلامه الكبيرة إلى درجة... Read more
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Pixie Dust
By: Bronwyn MacRitchie
Narrated by: Bronwyn MacRitchie
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
How do children survive a mother's abandonment and a stepmother's cruelty in an outback town in the 1950's? With imagination, a strong sibling bond, and humourous adventures, they escape a bleak home life. This book will take you on a comical and poignant journeyBonnie is a child raised in a small town in New South Wales in the fifties with her... Read more
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On Air: My Fifty -Year Love Affair with Radio
By: Jordan Rich
Narrated by: Jordan Rich & Ken Carberry
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A candid, personal story of one radio broadcaster’s life, both on and off the air. It’s a look behind-the-scenes of the radio business and how it is has evolved for the author over many decades. Read more
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Mars Attacks Memoirs
By: Jonathan Gems & Mila Pop
Narrated by: Jonathan Gems, Mila Pop & Robin Dutta
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Mars Attacks Memoirs – Mars Attacks! screenwriter Jonathan Gems has finally been released by the Martian Commander to share his memories and the inner secrets of the movie. These confidential documents have been leaked directly from Area 51, and it’s all here! Studio politics, Hollywood stars, fun, laughter, friendship, mayhem, and the genius of... Read more
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بذلة الغوص والفراشة
By: جون دومينيك بوبي
Narrated by: وائل جروان
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
من حيث ينتهي المـُتاح، يبدأ الإبداع، والأنفس الحرّة وإن غدت جثثًا، قادرةٌ على الطيران. درسان عميقان من رواية لم تكلّف نفسها عناء الوعظ والإرشاد، فكلّ ما فعله الكاتب أن أصرّ على الحياة، ولمثل تلك المهمّة يكفي أنف ورئة للتنفّس، وبلعوم لتلقّي الغذاء، ورمش عين يُسرى لباقي الأدوار! نعم برمش العين ذاك أبقى جون دومينيك بوبي على صِلته بالعالم كاملةً... Read more
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استرداد عمر: من السيرة إلى المسيرة
By: د أحمد خيري العمري
Narrated by: محمد براء حمزة
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
آن لنا أن نخرج عمر بن الخطاب من خانة كتب السيرة على رفوف المكتبة ، إلى مسيرتنا اليومية ..إلى حياتنا.. آن لنا أن نخرج فهم عمر بن الخطاب للقرآن ، وللسنة النبوية من كتب التاريخ إلى التطبيق العملي.. الفهم العمري للقرآن والسنة ، في مرحلة دقيقة جدا من التاريخ الإسلامي، هوا لذي مد هذا التاريخ أفقيا وعموديا ،أفقيا في فتوحات البلدان ، عموديا في آفاق... Read more
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قصتي
By: مارلين مونرو
Narrated by: أسماء سمير
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
بينما كنت أكْبُر، كنت أدرك أنّني مختلفة عن الأطفال الآخرين، لأنه لم يكن هناك قُبُلات أو مواعدات في حياتي. دائمًا ما كنت أشعر أني وحيدة وأنني أريدُ أن أموت. كنت أحاول أن أُسرّي عن نفسي بأحلامِ اليقظة. لم أكن أحلم أبدًا بأيّ شخصٍ يعشقني مثلما كنت أرى أطفالًا آخرين يُعشَقون. تلك الرّغبةُ في اجتذاب الانتباه كان لديها دورٌ ما لتقومَ به، أظنُّ مع... Read more
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ثورة الفن
By: أحمد حسن مشرف
Narrated by: رهام حمدي زيدان
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
هذا الكتاب هو خلاصة بحث عام كامل عن حياة عدد كبير من الفنانين (مخترعين، ملحنين، كُتاب، رجال أعمال إلخ …) وعن أهم العناصر التي صنعت بدورها التغيير في حياتهم التي تختلف كُليًا عن حياة الموظفين العاديين. ثورة الفن باختصار ... هي الزمن القادم ... هي أن يعيش من يعيش فيها فنه الذي لا ينتظر من أحد أن يحكم عليه إن كان يجب أن يقوم به أو لا. ثورة الفن... Read more
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