Essays audiobooks

Vanity Fair: April 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Becoming Meryl Streep: how personal tragedy and offscreen battles fueled the multiple Academy Award winner’s breakthrough performancePlus:On the road with the Rolling StonesAl Sharpton on the election and the controversies he can’t shakeSumner Redstone’s last chapterThe F. Scott Fitzgerald of CartooningPlus: Titus Burgess, Elizabeth Barlow... Read more

Atala e o D.O.M. que surpreende - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

É o dono do Na Mesa e do D.O M. "O Na Mesa é a extensão da minha pessoa. Fiz para os amigos, para comer com os amigos que me cobravam cozinhar. É uma cozinha mais clássica, mas com direção de arte. O D.O.M. é a extensão do meu trabalho." Read more

The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition - Abridged

By: Andrew Leckey & Ken Auletta

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman & Oliver Wyman

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Vintage Original

The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.

Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more

A gastronomia molecular de Hervé This, A dificuldade com a arte culinária & Nem tudo é belo na gastronomia - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Como Hervé disse numa entrevista quando esteve no Brasil, "houve um tempo em que a mídia dizia que os chefs estavam fazendo gastronomia molecular: isto não é possível, já que a gastronomia molecular é ciência. A dificuldade com a arte culinária é enorme. É claro que ela nasceu com o sentido de "ofício", como eram ofícios as atividades dos ... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE DOWNLOAD: DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR SPEAKS!In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue All about Bill Murray’s Netflix Christmas special Dispatches from Miami Beach, London, and Palo Alto Burt Reynolds on love, money, and what cost him the most Plus: Lucky Blue Smith, Annabel Astor, and much more!Vanity... Read more

Vanity Fair: February 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

The Areas of My Expertise - Abridged

By: John Hodgman

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously) - a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom - all of it completely... Read more

Fire - Abridged

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Sebastian Junger

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force;... Read more

My Life in the Middle Ages - Abridged

By: James Atlas

Narrated by: James Atlas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Striving children, aging parents, job pressures, financial anxieties, physical ailments, generalized hope and dread—a memoir of middle age that is both literary and confessionalWhat is the most baffling period in our lives? Not childhood, not old age, but the decades of our forties and fifties, the period now generously known as middle age. Of... Read more

Heat - Abridged

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 13 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

The Last River - Abridged

By: Todd Balf

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers,... Read more

Problemzonen - Über das Leben, die Sehnsucht und die Liebe danach (Autorinnenlesung) - Abridged

By: Ildikó von Kürthy

Narrated by: Ildikó von Kürthy

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sehnsucht und Schokolade Liebe und ihr Ende, Freundschaft, Feindschaft, Elternschaft und nackte Oberarme. Problemzonen versammelt die besten Brigitte-Kolumnen von Ildikó von Kürthy. Radikal subjektive Texte, todernst und lebendig, amüsant, scharfsinnig, neurotisch und dramatisch - ein Reiseführer in die Krisengebiete des Alltags, ein Hörbuch zum... Read more

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Abridged

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over half a million copies sold!

From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power... Read more

Storyteller's Daughter - Abridged

By: Saira Shah

Narrated by: Saira Shah

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The startling memoir of a young woman
shaped by two dramatically disparate worldsBorn in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira -- part sophisticated and sensitive... Read more

Vanity Fair: June 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 45 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

Confederates in the Attic - Abridged

By: Tony Horwitz

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more

As frutas e o sujeito oculto, Chefinhos e chefões & (Re)Centração gastronômica - Abridged

By: Carlos Alberto Dória

Narrated by: Gerson Esteves

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vivaldi, vivaldino, é que sabia das coisas. Distinguia cada uma das 4 estações e fazia delas uma festa! Que a música inspire a gastronomia do futuro. Chefinhos: são aqueles meninos e meninas (cada vez mais jovens, aliás) que adoram circular pela rua envergando sua roupa de trabalho. Chefões: são os chefinhos crescidos e estabelecidos. Adoram... Read more

Vanity Fair: September–December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 20 hours 44 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

Hidden Kitchens - Abridged

By: Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva

Narrated by: Frances McDormand

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. –James Beard
The saga of the Chili Queens of San Antonio, NASCAR kitchens tucked away in the crew pits at race tracks, the story of an unexpected kitchen—the George Foreman Grill—these stories and more from Hidden Kitchens, the popular and highly acclaimed radio series on NPR's morning... Read more

No Retreat, No Surrender - Abridged

By: Tom DeLay & Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Tom DeLay

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics. Read more

Consider the Lobster - Abridged

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: David Foster Wallace

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?

David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read more

Vanity Fair: July 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 17 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

الجبتانا: أسفار التكوين المصرية - Abridged

By: علي علي الألفي" & "مانيتون السمنودي

Narrated by: محمد الخميس

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لايزال التاريخ المصرى القديم زاخرًا بالنصوص والأسرار التي تتجلى تباعًا لتؤكد فرادة المصريين، بعض هذه النصوص تم كشفها والبعض الآخر لايزال مصيره مجهولًا، وربما تعرض للمحو أو التعتيم عليه، لدحض حقيقة تاريخية أو عقائدية تؤكد سبق الحضارة المصرية. هذا ما يتناوله كتاب «الجبتانا.. أسفار التكوين المصرية» للمؤرخ المصري الشهير «مانيتون السمنودي»، الذي ولد... Read more