Essays audiobooks

Belle Weather

By: Celia Rivenbark

Narrated by: Celia Rivenbark

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter what side of the Mason-Dixon line you live on, you will find Celia Rivenbark's hilarious observations about Southern living as easy as a tall drink of sweet tea on a hundred degree day. In this latest collection of laugh-out-loud essays, you'll experience:
*The joys of Remodeling Tara
*Harry Potter Bitch-slaps Nancy Drew
*Britney's To Do... Read more

Die rätselhaftesten Todesfälle - Abridged

By: Erik Berg

Narrated by: Detlef Bierstedt & Anna Dramski

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wer gab Mozart Gift? War Jack the Ripper ein Deutscher? Wurde John F. Kennedy von Lee Harvey Oswald erschossen? Wer wollte, dass Marilyn Monroe starb? War Lady Dianas Tod wirklich nur ein Unfall? Von König Ludwig II. über Elvis Presley, Napoleon Bonaparte bis Abraham Lincoln - die Geschichte ist voll ungeklärter Tode, die die Menschen immer... Read more

Much Depends on Dinner

By: Margaret Visser

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Margaret Visser holds a doctorate in classics and appears frequently on television and radio shows. Much Depends on Dinner was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly. As the subtitle suggests, here she uses the framework of a simple meal to show us how our food has... Read more

A Few Seconds of Panic

By: Stefan Fatsis

Narrated by: Stefan Fatsis

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving expert status (comparable to a grandmaster ranking in chess). Now he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture—pro football. After more than a year spent working out with a strength coach and polishing his craft with a gurulike... Read more

We're Just Like You, Only Prettier

By: Celia Rivenbark

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Celia Rivenbark's hilarious observations of life below the Mason-Dixon Line have made her a Southeast Booksellers Association best-selling author. In this collection of essays she shows how to be a true Southerner. For starters, don't forget that Chuck E. Cheese's is a place where a kid can be a kid- while mommie gets hammered on watered-down... Read more

Lost on Planet China

By: J. Maarten Troost

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Troost charmed listeners with his humorous tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific in The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages. When the travel bug bit again, he took on the world’s most populous and intriguing nation.As Troost relates his gonzo adventure—dodging deadly drivers in Shanghai, eating yak in... Read more

You Can Observe a Lot by Watching

By: Yogi Berra & Dave Kaplan

Narrated by: Dale Berra

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas?  Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching.  In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra... Read more

Black Wave

By: John Silverwood & Jean Silverwood

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie & Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences, not only about the natural world but about the beauty of human life stripped down to its essence, far from civilization. But the adventure that awaited them... Read more

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the... Read more

Me of Little Faith

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Abridged CDs * 5 CDs, 6 hours

From the hilariously mad-as-hell Daily Show regular and New York Times– bestselling author comes a ferociously funny exploration of religion and faith. Read more

Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more... Read more

Car Talk Field Guide to the North American Wacko

By: Ray Magliozzi & Tom Magliozzi

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A radio road trip across America featuring the wackiest calls from the nuttiest specimens ever to phone the show.

A high point of every Car Talk show is the call-in segment, when listeners phone in for advice and regale hosts Click and Clack with tales of their own automotive misadventures.

Like Dave from Bemidji, Minnesota, who drives his... Read more

NPR Funniest Driveway Moments

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR's favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing.



A "driveway moment" is when you're so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Some are serious, some are touching, and some, like the... Read more

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

By: Chelsea Handler

Narrated by: Chelsea Handler

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Chelsea Handler's world—a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.

When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power—vodka. Seems reasonable, when considering that she discovered her boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo and she had to pretend... Read more

Cultural Amnesia - Abridged

By: Clive James

Narrated by: Clive James

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James.

With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.

'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' –... Read more

Armageddon in Retrospect

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Rip Torn

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.

A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more

The Truth About Hillary

By: Edward Klein

Narrated by: Edward Klein

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Edward Klein is a former foreign editor for Newsweek and former editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine. In this illuminating exploration of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Klein draws on insider sources to reveal the many secrets she has managed to keep hidden despite the publication of more than a dozen... Read more

Step Across This Line

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie offers incisive, often humorous takes on literature, culture and world events in this New York Times Notable Book. In these stimulating pieces, Rushdie addresses a variety of subjects, including the death of the novel, India, soccer and the Rolling Stones. "Sometimes pensive, sometimes... Read more

The Sea and the Jungle

By: H.M. Tomlinson

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic tale of a proper English gentleman who bade a resounding adieu! to the status quo and hopped aboard a freighter bound for the Amazon in the winter of 1909. Read more

Uncommon Carriers

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: John McPhee

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize-winner John McPhee-author of The Founding Fish -comes the fascinating story of an often overlooked, yet vitally important part of America. This first-hand account of the transportation sector features evocative portraits of the men and women who deliver our consumer and industrial goods. McPhee begins his adventure riding... Read more

Tell Me Where It Hurts

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It all begins at 2:47 a.m. Then over one twenty-four-hour period, Dr. Trout fights for the life of a ten-year-old German shepherd, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and reflects on the humor, heartache, and inspiration in his life as an animal surgeon. And he wants to take you along... Read more

The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

During the five-year voyage of the Beagle, the young naturalist Darwin collected some of the scientific evidence that led to his ideas on volution and natural selection. Read more

Swim against the Current - Abridged

By: Jim Hightower & Susan DeMarco

Narrated by: Jim Hightower & Susan DeMarco

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t look around, but the corporate and political powers that be want you to put this book down, right now. It definitely is NOT on their approved list. Swim against the Current is one of those books that the power elites don’t like seeing in stores, much less in your hands - not merely because it challenges their established order, but... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments Baseball

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America's national pastime.<



Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the... Read more