Essays audiobooks
When the Facts Change
By: Tony Judt
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 14 hours
Abridged: No
In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt’s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has... Read more
View audiobookIt Was Me All Along
By: Andie Mitchell
Narrated by: Andie Mitchell
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance.
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured... Read more
Vanity Fair: February 2015 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators
Length: 4 hours 52 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 audiobookVanity Fair: September–December 2014 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators
Length: 19 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity 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... Read more
View audiobookNicht mehr ich
By: Doris Wagner
Narrated by: Gaby Hildenbrandt
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Als sie mit 19 in ein Kloster eintrat, hoffte sie auf eine schöne Zukunft. Sie wurde Ordensschwester in einer jungen und charismatischen Gemeinschaft. Als sie diese Gemeinschaft 2011 wieder verließ, war sie depressiv, praktisch mittellos und hatte keine sozialen Kontakte mehr. Sie war kontrolliert, manipuliert, sexuell missbraucht und unter... Read more
View audiobookFallen Leaves
By: Will Durant
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant—discovered thirty-two years after his death—is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey.From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of... Read more
View audiobookTales of a Female Nomad
By: Rita Golden Gelman
Narrated by: Rita Golden Gelman
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of Rita Golden Gelman, an ordinary woman who is living an extraordinary existence. At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita left an elegant life in Los Angeles to follow her dream of connecting with people in cultures all over the world. In 1986, she sold her possessions and became a nomad,... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: January 2015 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators
Length: 5 hours 2 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 audiobookThe Unspeakable
By: Meghan Daum
Narrated by: Meghan Daum
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
It's a report tempered by hard times. In 'Matricide,' Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in 'Diary of a Coma' she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the... Read more
View audiobookCitizens of the Green Room
By: Mark Leibovich
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington’s elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a “master of the political profile,” Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about... Read more
View audiobookA Russian Journal
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare... Read more
View audiobookThe David Foster Wallace Reader
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace, Sally Fos...
Length: 48 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here -- with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work -- essays like... Read more
View audiobookSmall Victories
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Stitches, and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message... Read more
Life, Love and The Archers
By: Wendy Cope
Narrated by: Wendy Cope
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
'IS IT ANY WONDER THAT SO MANY OF US LOVE HER?' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday
Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted... Read more
Revolution
By: Russell Brand
Narrated by: Russell Brand
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
We all know the system isn’t working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there’s nothing we can do: “It’s just the way things are.”
In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our... Read more
Vanity Fair: December 2014 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators
Length: 4 hours 58 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 audiobookLettres de Marcel Proust
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Guillaume Gallienne
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Marcel Proust fut un correspondant maniaque. Dès l'enfance, puis dans le monde, jusqu'à sa mort, sans trêve il a écrit : à ses proches, à ses amis, aux lecteurs de ses livres, à ses éditeurs, ses banquiers... Les milliers de lettres qu'il a écrites traitent des sujets les plus variés : souvenirs, confidences intimes, politique, impressions de... Read more
View audiobookBrief Encounters
By: Dick Cavett
Narrated by: Dick Cavett
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2016 Grammy nominee for Best Spoken Word Album
Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life
In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James... Read more
Grace's Guide
By: Grace Helbig
Narrated by: Grace Helbig
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller
By the host of The Grace Helbig Show on E! and the it’sGrace YouTube channel, comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.
Infused with her trademark saucy, sweet, and funny voice, Grace’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek handbook for... Read more
Food: A Love Story
By: Jim Gaffigan
Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Comedian Jim Gaffigan reveals his most intimate food memories, opinions, and fantasies that will keep you laughing all the way to the refrigerator.
“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why: I’m a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I’d highly recommend... Read more
Nepomuken, die auf die Brücken spucken - Abridged
By: Michael Frank
Narrated by: Martin Schwab
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In der Interpretation des Burgschauspielers Martin Schwab fügen sich Michael Franks Prager Hintergedanken zu einem kundigen Porträt der tschechischen Hauptstadt. Abseits aller gängigen Mythen und ausgetretenen Pfade nähert sich der langjährige Korrespondent der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" vor kulturgeschlichtlichem und politischem Hintergrund dem... Read more
View audiobookNeil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
By: Neil Patrick Harris
Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
You’ve already made a great choice by picking up the audio edition of NEIL PATRICK HARRIS’S CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This hilarious book has been adapted especially for the audiobook edition so you’ll hear all of the same fun and humor from the printed version but you don’t have to make any decisions or jump around—just kick back, relax... Read more
View audiobookEat More Better
By: Dan Pashman
Narrated by: Dan Pashman
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you could make everything you eat more delicious?
As creator of the WNYC podcast The Sporkful and host of the Cooking Channel web series You're Eating It Wrong, Dan Pashman is obsessed with doing just that. Eat More Better weaves science and humor into a definitive, illustrated guidebook for anyone who loves food. But this book isn’t for... Read more
A Load of Hooey
By: Bob Odenkirk
Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, various narrators, David Cross, J...
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal television shows.This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues ("Martin Luther King Jr.'s Worst Speech Ever") to intentionally... Read more
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