Essays audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Half Empty

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed.

In this deeply funny (and, no kidding, wise and poignant) book, Rakoff examines the realities of our sunny,  gosh­... Read more

Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards

By: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Put the country's big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks which are the Senate and the House.Having had a lot of fun with what politicians do, P.J. O'Rourke now has a lot of fun with what we should think about those politicians. Nothing good,... Read more

The Lost Dogs

By: Jim Gorant

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man’s best friend in the aftermath of the nation’s most notorious case of animal cruelty.Animal lovers and sports fans were shocked when the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick’s brutal dogfighting operation. But what became of the dozens of dogs who survived? As acclaimed... Read more

True Prep - Abridged

By: Lisa Birnbach & Chip Kidd

Narrated by: Lisa Birnbach

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.”

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.

True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping,... Read more

Dismantling the Empire

By: Chalmers Johnson

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The "unsinkable" Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French "sidewalk cafe," private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board.Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later,... Read more

Cardboard Gods

By: Josh Wilker

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his... Read more

The Ice Cave

By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Gripping true adventure stories - from the Mojave to the Antarctic - reveal one woman's wild affair with the EarthFor Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts... Read more

My Life as an Experiment

By: A. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.

One man. Ten extraordinary quests.

Bestselling author and human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes... Read more

Suck It, Wonder Woman!

By: Olivia Munn & Mac Montandon

Narrated by: Olivia Munn

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Today's hottest geek and host of G4's ATTACK OF THE SHOW dishes her unique brand of humor of on everything from Star Wars, gadgets, and her love of banana cream pie.

Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network. She also occasionally likes to get dressed up as Wonder Woman. SUCK IT... Read more

Still a Legend

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This book recounts the slugger Roger Maris' life before, during, and after his headline season of 1961, when the taciturn North Dakota native topped Babe Ruth's all-time record by hitting sixty-one home runs. From his youth as a star high-school athlete and American Legion baseball player, Maris's went on to play for the Cleveland Indians, the... Read more

How Did You Get This Number

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always... Read more

Furious Love

By: Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal... Read more