Essays audiobooks

Düsseldorfer Sagen und Legenden

By: Nadine Boos

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Es war der 23. Mai 1159 als Papst Hadrian IV. verfügte, dass die Bewohner eines kleinen Dorfes einmal im Jahr fünf Schillinge an St. Ursula in Köln abzuführen hätten. Düsseldorf war damals klein, wirtschaftlich aber bereits von Bedeutung. Trotzdem einige Düsseldorfer das Fährrecht besaßen und auch ein Pfarrkirchlein ihr eigen nannten, stand das... Read more

Underground London

By: Stephen Smith

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; In UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground... Read more

On The Slow Train

By: Michael Williams

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU

This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning... Read more

They Call Me Baba Booey

By: Gary Dell'Abate & Chad Millman

Narrated by: Gary Dell'Abate

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on... Read more

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times-bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas.

Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace on earth and goodwill toward all. But not for Lewis Black.

He says humbug to the Christmas tradtitions and... Read more

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar.  It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills.  He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar... Read more

Life and Laughing

By: Michael McIntyre

Narrated by: Michael McIntyre

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, poignant and remarkably honest biography from Britain's biggest comedy star, Michael McIntyre, brought to you by Penguin.

His debut stand-up DVD, Live & Laughing, was the fastest selling of all time.
Now he hosts his own BAFTA nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, and has won the British Comedy Award for Best... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 39 Stories about Pushing Through, Where It Takes You, and Triathlons

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

39 Stories about Pushing Through, Where It Takes You, and TriathlonsA Step at a Time Fortitude Interesting Places Triathlons Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 31 Stories on Starting Out, Running Therapy, and Camaraderie

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories on Starting Out, Running Therapy, and CamaraderieStarting Out Running Therapy Camaraderie Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 31 Stories of Adventure, Comebacks, and Family Ties

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories of Adventure, Comebacks, and Family TiesComebacks Everyday Adventures Family Ties Read more

Oogy

By: Larry Levin

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Rescuing Sprite comes the story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted.

In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. What would begin as a terrible... Read more

Role of a Lifetime

By: James Brown

Narrated by: James Brown

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.

Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With ROLE OF A LIFETIME, James... Read more

Dewey's Nine Lives

By: Vicki Myron

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki Myron follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller Dewey with stories of cats who inspire their owners and includes two brand-new Dewey stories! Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats—all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who... Read more

NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Most NPR listeners have experienced at least one “driveway moment”: You’re so captivated by a story, interview, or essay you’re hearing on the radio that you sit in your driveway, motor running, to hear it all the way through. Even if the ice cream is melting in the trunk. 
 
The latest collection of this best-selling series features memorable... Read more

Travels in Siberia

By: Ian Frazier

Narrated by: Ian Frazier

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains

In Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the... Read more

Нравственные письма к Луцилию

By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Narrated by: Yuriy Grigoriev

Length: 25 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Это своеобразный свод этических правил, предлагаемых в виде писем к знатному человеку, занимающему высокую государственную должность. Написанные в доступной манере, с множеством примеров из истории и из повседневной жизни, порой остроумные, порой саркастичные, они увлекают читателя своим содержанием и нередко поражают глубиной мысли. Read more

Dewey

By: Vicki Myron

Narrated by: Susan McInearny

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world -- with over 2 million copies sold! (Booklist)

Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. On the coldest night of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old--a... Read more

The Dead Beat

By: Marilyn Johnson

Narrated by: Marilyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of... Read more

Walking Wisdom

By: Gotham Chopra & Deepak Chopra

Narrated by: Gotham Chopra

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As far back as he can remember, every day of his life someone has asked Gotham Chopra what it was like to have Deepak Chopra as a father. They wanted to know if Gotham is a master practitioner of the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, whether he is in Perfect Health, if he meditates all day—in short, if he lives the perfect spiritual life. The... Read more

David Attenborough Life On Air: Memoirs Of A Broadcaster

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

David Attenborough reads his own bestselling memoir

'An enthralling autobiography from one of the linchpins of television' Good Book Guide

David Attenborough is the acknowledged voice of nature, loved and revered worldwide for his groundbreaking wildlife documentaries. Over the course of his long BBC career, David has risen from trainee producer... Read more

Karlsruher Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Blickt man aus der Vogelperspektive auf Karlsruhe, versteht man, warum Karlsruhe auch die Fächerstadt genannt wird. Vom Zentrum, dem Schlosse aus, streben 32 Straßen und Alleen strahlenförmig in alle Himmelsrichtungen. Das erste Stadtgebiet bildeten, einem Fächer gleich, die neun nach Süden laufenden Straßen. Mit dem Bau seiner neuen Residenz... Read more

Zürcher Sagen und Legenden

By: Anja Lanz & Geraldine von Aarburch

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Obwohl sich Kelten, Römer und Alemannen im heutigen Zürich niederließen, wuchs das Gebiet erst unter fränkischer Herrschaft im Mittelalter zu einer größeren Stadt heran. Vorher war Zürich ein Ort mit mehreren Zentren, bestehend aus Großmünster, Fraumünster, Peterskirche und der Pfalz. Das Privileg der Reichsunmittelbarkeit sicherte 1262 die... Read more

One Man's Wilderness

By: Sam Keith & Richard Proenneke

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company.



Thousands... Read more

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris, Sian Phillips, Dylan Baker & Ela...

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.

In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about... Read more