Vanity Fair: November 2015 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
FREE EXTRA: Download the audio version of our November cover story on Rihanna.In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue Rihanna opens up about music, sex, and Chris Brown Inside Kelly Rutherford’s custody nightmare Michael Lewis on Tom Wolfe Why some chefs don’t want a Michelin star Plus: Patti Smith,... Read more
View audiobookRescue Road
By: Peter Zheutlin
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, Greg Mahle struggled to keep the last of his family-run restaurants afloat in Ohio. When it finally closed, he was broke and unsure what to do next. Then a stranded van-load of puppies changed his life forever.
Join journalist Peter Zheutlin as he travels with Greg from Ohio to the Gulf Coast on his Rescue Road Trips to bring... Read more
My Kitchen Year
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Los Angeles Times • NPR • Men’s Journal • BookPage • Booklist • Publishers Weekly
In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when Gourmet magazine was abruptly shuttered by its parent company. No one was more stunned by this unexpected turn of events than its beloved... Read more
Cold Harbor to the Crater
By: Gary W. Gallagher & Caroline E. Janney
Narrated by: Barry Press
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland Campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although... Read more
View audiobookFuriously Happy
By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.
As Jenny says:
"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an... Read more
Yes, My Accent Is Real
By: Kunal Nayyar
Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory.
Of all the charming misfits on television, there’s no doubt Raj from The Big Bang Theory—the sincere... Read more
Why Not Me?
By: Mindy Kaling
Narrated by: Mindy Kaling, Greg Daniels & B. J. Novak
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.
“This is Kaling at the height of her power.”—USA Today
In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares... Read more
My Southern Journey
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the South. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, Bragg explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions’ varied... Read more
View audiobookHolidays
By: William McInnes
Narrated by: William McInnes
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Written and read by bestselling Australian author and much loved actor, William McInnes, this is a story about our love affair with holidays.
It's about going away and staying at home. It's about the relaxing times you had as a kid, escapes you have with your children and the stories you hear from your friends.
It can be about a romantic sunset,... Read more
Allein unter Deutschen
By: Tuvia Tenenbom
Narrated by: Stefan Krause
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Tuvia Tenenbom, aufgewachsen als Sohn eines Rabbiners in Jerusalem, begibt sich auf Entdeckungsreise durch Deutschland: von Nord nach Süd, von Ost nach West, in die Stadt, aufs Land, in die Kirchen und in die Kneipen. Auf seiner Suche nach der deutschen Identität schreckt er vor keiner Begegnung zurück. Er interviewt Helmut Schmidt, Giovanni di... Read more
View audiobookFour Seasons in Rome
By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Anthony Doerr
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.
Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the... Read more
Tales from the Back Row
By: Amy Odell
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In Tales from the Back Row, Cosmopolitan.com editor Amy Odell takes listeners behind the stage of New York's hottest fashion shows to meet the world's most influential models, designers, celebrities, editors, and photographers. But first, she has to push her way through the crowds outside, where we see the lengths people go to be noticed by the... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of Roads
By: Phil Cousineau
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Since graduating from college with a journalism degree, Phil Cousineau's wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly one hundred countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader. For him, travel provides what his mentor Joseph Campbell called "the key to the realm of the muses." Author... Read more
View audiobookIrland Sagen und Legenden
By: Patrick Wolfmar
Narrated by: Reinhard Kuhnert
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Die grüne Insel Irland blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. Erste menschliche Spuren stammen aus der Zeit um 8000 v. Chr. Die ersten Kelten, die die irische Kultur bis zur Christianisierung prägen sollten, gelangten um 600 v. Chr. auf die Insel. Aus dem Schatz dieser jahrtausendelangen Geschichte speisen sich Irlands Sagen, Mythen und... Read more
View audiobookAll I Know Now
By: Carrie Hope Fletcher
Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The only thing bigger than Carrie Hope Fletcher’s hair is her heart. Eternally upbeat, this twenty-two-year-old dynamo has sung her way to fame, both as Éponine in the London cast of Les Mis, and on her wildly popular YouTube channel, It’s Way Past My Bedtime. But here’s her not-so-secret: This rising star was once a high school misfit.
Carrie’s... Read more
Vanity Fair: October 2015 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
FREE EXTRA: Download the audio version of our cover story on Mark Zuckerberg, featuring an exclusive interview with writer Max Chafkin.What it’s like to wear the RiftHow the investment stacks upWhat to expect for the future of virtual realityIn this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the October issueMark Zuckerberg on how... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: May–August 2015 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more
View audiobookUp in the Old Hotel, and Other Stories
By: Joseph Mitchell
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 28 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Saloon keepers, street preachers, gypsies, steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady, and a ninety-three-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for the New Yorker and in four books—McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, Old... Read more
View audiobookYou're Making Me Hate You
By: Corey Taylor
Narrated by: Corey Taylor
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of the late great George Carlin, Corey Taylor, the lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour, sounds off in hilarious fashion about the many vagaries of modern life that piss him off.
Whether it's people's rude behavior in restaurants and malls, the many indignities of air travel, eye-searingly terrible fashion choices,... Read more
Iberia
By: James A. Michener
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: 37 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal
Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is... Read more
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-absorbed
By: Meghan Daum
Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all—a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children—before their biological clock stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to... Read more
View audiobookBrowsings
By: Michael Dirda
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life—the perfect companion for any lover of books.Michael Dirda has been hailed as “the best-read person in America” by the Paris Review and “the best book critic in America” by the New York Observer. In addition to... Read more
View audiobookHabe Häuschen. Da würden wir leben. - Die wunderbare Welt der Kontaktanzeigen
By: Roger Willemsen
Narrated by: Roger Willemsen & Anke Engelke
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Verpartnerungsprosa": über die wunderbare Welt der Kontaktanzeigen Es gibt eine Literatur neben der Literatur, eine, die auf eigene Weise von dem spricht, was ist, was fehlt, was sein soll, und die aus allen Menschen Autoren macht: die Kontaktanzeige. Hier zeigen sich Menschen unverblümt, hier sagen sie, wie sie selbst sich sehen oder gesehen... Read more
View audiobookIntangiball
By: Lonnie Wheeler
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey, Jr. It also draws liberally from such character-conscious clubs as the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays. Author,... Read more
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