Sloane Crosley (Look Alive Out There) at Skylight Books
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Skylight Books hosted Sloane Crosley, author of Look Alive Out There, to discuss her new book. Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass make for an exuberant, unforgettable audiobook. Look Alive Out There arrives a decade after I Was... Read more
View audiobookBöhse Onkelz - Danke für Nichts
By: Edmund Hartsch
Narrated by: Ben Becker
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Das Ding kommt sooo geschmeidig um die Ecke und avanciert sich aus dem Stand zu einer der ONKELZ Lieblingsveröffentlichungen. Sie haben es ja bereits geschrieben: Den am eigenen Leib erlebten Irrsinn von Ben Becker mit derart viel Liebe vorgetragen zu bekommen, schlägt alles! Ben Becker erweckt nun die schonungslose Geschichte der Band zu neuem... Read more
View audiobookWhen Life Grabs You by the Baseballs
By: Jon Peters, Ginger Kolbaba & John Smoltz
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When dreams collapse . . .Jon Peters had it all: record-breaking high school baseball pitcher, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a beautiful girlfriend. He was going to play professional baseball. He was going to have everything he'd ever wanted. Until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed his life. With dreams shattered, Jon struggled... Read more
View audiobookGazza in Italy
By: Daniel Storey
Narrated by: James Richardson
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, funny and insightful analysis of Paul Gascoigne’s crazy up and downs during his three years at Lazio – a period which shows his entire career in microcosm. 4th July, 1990. Turin, Italy England are on the brink of... Read more
View audiobookImpossible Things Before Breakfast
By: Rebecca Front
Narrated by: Rebecca Front
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Add to that the tricks that life plays on us and the world suddenly seems full of impossible things.
As an award-winning actor and writer, Rebecca Front has always been fascinated by life's little quirks. Impossible Things Before Breakfast is a collection of true stories... Read more
Black Klansman
By: Ron Stallworth
Narrated by: Ron Stallworth
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
This extraordinary true story, read by the author, is the basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver.
When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the... Read more
The Third Door
By: Alex Banayan
Narrated by: Alex Banayan
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world’s most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.
“If you care about your success, you have to read The Third... Read more
Take You Wherever You Go
By: Kenny Leon
Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From Tony Award-winning director and recipient of the prestigious Mr. Abbott Award, Kenny Leon, comes a powerful memoir of the lessons he has learned on his incredible life journey.
When Kenny Leon's grandmother told him to "take you wherever you go," she could hardly have anticipated that he would establish himself as one of Broadway's most... Read more
Eating My Heroes
By: Rick Bass
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations
"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick Bass, remembering fondly a conversation with the famed Paris Review editor in his office, in... Read more
A Little Piece of Light
By: Donna Hylton
Narrated by: Donna Hylton
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement.
Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early life was a nightmare of abuse that left her feeling... Read more
Chesty
By: Colonel Jon T. Hoffman, USMCR
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 23 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The Marine Corps is known for its heroes, and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller has long been considered the greatest of them all. His assignments and activities covered an extraordinary spectrum of warfare. Puller mastered small unit guerrilla warfare as a lieutenant in Haiti in the 1920s, and at the end of his career commanded a division in... Read more
View audiobookWhat Truth Sounds Like
By: Michael Eric Dyson
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop.
President Barack Obama: "Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”
In 2015 BLM activist Julius... Read more
Ghostbuster's Daughter
By: Violet Ramis Stiel
Narrated by: Violet Ramis Stiel & Seth Rogen
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
From the daughter of comedy legend Harold Ramis (and featuring a Foreword by Seth Rogen) comes a hilarious and heartwarming account of his life, work, and legacy.
Most of us know Harold Ramis as the writer, director, and actor who brought warmth and humor to the big screen in classics like Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, National... Read more
Alone Time
By: Stephanie Rosenbloom
Narrated by: Stephanie Rosenbloom
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times
A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo
In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative,... Read more
Those Wild Wyndhams
By: Claudia Renton
Narrated by: Claudia Renton
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world; their romantic, roiling age.
They were confidantes to... Read more
My Girls
By: Todd Fisher
Narrated by: Todd Fisher
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the person who knew them best, Todd Fisher’s poignant memoir is filled with moving stories of growing up among Hollywood royalty.In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, two... Read more
View audiobookThe Boy on the Beach
By: Tima Kurdi
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and poignant memoir about the family of Alan Kurdi—the young Syrian boy who became the global emblem for the desperate plight of millions of Syrian refugees—and of the many extraordinary journeys the Kurdis have taken, spanning countries and continents.
Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2,... Read more
Reporter
By: Seymour M. Hersh
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative... Read more
Trump's America
By: Newt Gingrich
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Understanding Trump, this "essential" book reveals the truth about the Trump presidency and explains his groundbreaking plans for our nation and world (Rush Limbaugh).
No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight and experience than former Speaker of the House Newt... Read more
Goodbye, Sweet Girl
By: Kelly Sundberg
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liar’s Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse—examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of physical and emotional pain,... Read more
View audiobookFive-Finger Discount
By: Helene Stapinski
Narrated by: Helene Stapinski
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People)
With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a... Read more
First in Line
By: Kate Andersen Brower
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to the most powerful office in the world—the vice presidents of the modern era—from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden to Mike Pence.Vice presidents occupy a unique and important position, living partway in the... Read more
View audiobook9 Rules of Engagement
By: Harris Faulkner
Narrated by: Harris Faulkner
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom of military service into their lives.Born into a... Read more
View audiobookCostly Grace
By: Rob Schenck
Narrated by: Rob Schenck
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading American evangelical minister—whom public figures long turned to for guidance in faith and politics—recounts his three conversions, from childhood Jewish roots to Christianity, from a pure faith to a highly politicized one, and from the religious right to the simplicity of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.Rob Schenck’s extraordinary life has... Read more
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