Essays audiobooks
Reisen außerhalb der Zeit. Life is a Story – story.one - Abridged
By: Gregor Sieböck
Narrated by: Gregor Sieböck
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Zu Fuß, im Kajak, mit Frachtschiff, Flugzeug, Bus und Eisenbahn unterwegs rund um unseren Zauberplaneten Erde. Seit 2003 reist der Weltenwanderer Gregor Sieböck in die weite Welt hinaus und folgt der Stimme seines Herzens. Beschenkt von der Magie des Augenblicks lösen sich dabei Zeit, Raum und Grenzen auf. Die große Herausforderung besteht... Read more
View audiobookThis is Not About You
By: Rosemary Mac Cabe
Narrated by: Rosemary Mac Cabe
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
For once, these men are the objects; I am the subject. Me, me, me.Rosemary Mac Cabe was always a serial monogamist – never happier than when she was in a relationship or, at the very least, on the way to being in one. But in her desperate search for ‘the one’ – from first love to first lust, through a series of disappointments and the searing... Read more
View audiobookMy Life: The Sitcom
By: Chadd Allan Wheat
Narrated by: Google Voice
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Welcome to My Life: The Sitcom, featuring the panderings and ponderings of Yours Truly, Chadd Wheat. Believe it or not, many of you have actually asked for this book. I don't know if you intend on using it for the bottom of the birdcage, evidence in impending legal actions, or simply as a guide to living frivolously. Whatever the case, I hope... Read more
View audiobookDepraved New World
By: John Crace
Narrated by: George Weightman
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
AS FEATURED IN WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2023 From bestselling author and beloved Guardiancolumnist John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had... Read more
View audiobookShut Up, Your Kid Is Not That Great
By: Jason Cole
Narrated by: Phil Thron
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Are you a self-proclaimed "momager" or "dadager?" Do you think your kid is the ultimate best? This is the book for you!
Dear parents everywhere—we get it, you love your kid. But, let's face it: no matter how much you praise them, your kid is most likely not the next child prodigy. Be that as it may, we are pretty sure the neighbors are tired of... Read more
How to Earn a Fortune
By: Boris Berezovsky
Narrated by: Simon Elgar
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1990s, nobody in Russia stood above Boris Berezovsky – not even the President of Russia. He built his estimated fortune of $40bn with interests in oil, media, banking, and aviation by cutting deals with bureaucrats and fellow businessmen, rapidly intimidating and charming his way to wealth.
After a change of guard in the Kremlin in the... Read more
La sangre de los libros
By: Santiago Posteguillo
Narrated by: Javier Ruiz Taboada
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Santiago Posteguillo nos sorprende ahora con un fascinante recorrido por los enigmas más famosos de la literatura. Asesinatos, suicidios, duelos, condenas a muerte, guerras, eclipses, vampiros, misterios, juicios… Detrás de los grandes libros se esconde mucha más sangre de lo que uno podría imaginar. ¿Por qué Pushkin murió en un duelo? ¿Es... Read more
View audiobookCes audacieuses qui ont façonné le Québec
By: Gilles Proulx & Louis-Philippe Messier
Narrated by: Gilles Proulx
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Nous savons peu de choses de ces femmes qui ont contribué à façonner le Québec. Pour trop de gens, Germaine Guèvremont, Marcelle Ferron ou Lucille Teasdale ne sont guère plus que des noms vaguement familiers. Pourtant,sans la volonté, la détermination et l'audace de ces femmes exceptionnelles, le Québec que nous connaissons aujourd'hui... Read more
View audiobookEllie Taylor’s Safe Space: Series 1-3
By: Ellie Taylor
Narrated by: Ellie Taylor & Robin Morgan
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
All twelve episodes of Ellie Taylor's hilarious show, in which she explores controversial subjects with help from the studio audience and sidekick Robin Morgan
Comedian, actor and bestselling author Ellie Taylor welcomes us to her 'safe space', a place where anyone can air their views, gripes and dislikes without fear of persecution. Assisting... Read more
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio
By: Liang Qichao
Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evil harvest of what previous generations sowed.'
The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to... Read more
Una nueva vida
By: Lucia Berlin
Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
«Descubrir a Lucia Berlin fue como dar con un alma gemela».
Pedro Almodóvar, Babelia Este volumen, preparado en exclusiva por su hijo Jeff Berlin para los lectores en español, reúne quince relatos inéditos en nuestro idioma, diez de ellos publicados originalmente en sus libros de cuentos, pero no incluidos en Manual para mujeres de la limpieza ni... Read more
Onkant!
By: Hendrik Hancke
Narrated by: Anrich Herbst
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“TOE EK IN MY EERSTE WÊRELDBEKERWEDSTRYD UITDRAF, WAS DAAR IETS SOOS 54 000 MENSE. JY SIEN NET KAMERAFLITSE, DIS AMPER HIPNOTIES . . . DIE COACH SKREE VIR MY: ‘CHUCKY, WAARMEE IS JY BESIG?’ TOE BESEF EK EK IS BESIG OM VIR DIE MENSE TE WAAI.” – LOUIS ‘CHUCKY’ VAN DER WESTHUIZEN Het jy al ooit gewonder hoe 50 000 ekstatiese ondersteuners op die... Read more
View audiobookMy Venice and Other Essays
By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Insightful essays on Italy and the arts from the New York Times bestselling author
Donna Leon’s wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have often been praised for their insight into culture, politics, family life, and the history of Venice, one of the world’s most treasured cities and her home for over thirty years. My... Read more
The Wonderful World of James Herriot
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Anna Madeley, Nicholas Ralph & Rosie Page
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"This collection gives listeners a peek into Herriot’s life, tracing parallels between his time on rural homesteads and his well-loved tales, and inviting listeners to sit back, relax and reminisce about more peaceful times."—BookPage
This audiobook is read by Nicholas Ralph and Anna Madeley, stars of the PBS Masterpiece television series All... Read more
A Memoir of My Former Self
By: Hilary Mantel
Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, B...
Length: 16 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." - AudioFile
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS
In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life... Read more
The Upstairs Delicatessen
By: Dwight Garner
Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book is a product of these combined gluttonies.
Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of... Read more
A Brief History of Intelligence
By: Max Bennett
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can... Read more
View audiobookUn mundo asombroso
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Narrated by: Lía Gómez
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Crónica de una sensibilidad estética y una reflexión lírica acerca de la belleza de todo lo que nos rodea. La poeta Aimee Nezhukumatathil nos sorprende con una colección de ensayos sobre el mundo natural donde nos revela cómo los animales y las plantas pueden enseñarnos e inspirarnos. De niña, Aimee vivió en distintos lugares: Kansas, Arizona,... Read more
View audiobookLa democracia ausente
By: Roger Bartra
Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Cuarta edición, corregida y aumentada, de esta reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana. A más de treinta y cinco años de su publicación, la presente obra se ha convertido en una reflexión crítica indispensable para armar el rompecabezas histórico de la izquierda mexicana y de lo que entonces,... Read more
View audiobookÑamérica
By: Martín Caparrós
Narrated by: Javier Gómez
Length: 30 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
*Prix Roger Caillois 2023* *Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023* La crónica definitiva de un territorio inacabable: Hispanoamérica. Hay una región del mundo donde veinte países y más de 400 millones de personas comparten una lengua, una historia, una cultura, preocupacionesy esperanzas. La conocemos mal;... Read more
View audiobookThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
By: Carl Zimmer & Jaime Green
Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, ...
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. “What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction.... Read more
View audiobookBaseball
By: Steven P. Gietschier
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 24 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Baseball explores the history of organized baseball during the mid-twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business. Steven P. Gietschier begins with the Great Depression, looking at how those years of economic turmoil shaped the sport and how baseball responded.... Read more
View audiobookLegitimate Kid
By: Aida Rodriguez
Narrated by: Aida Rodriguez
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“Aida Rodriguez is part of the next wave of talented comedic storytellers that I dreamt about when I was trying to break down barriers in the industry. Besides being a fierce Latina powerhouse, she’s FUNNY AS HELL! So buy this book. No really, BUY THIS BOOK!!! I don’t want any problems, ya heard?!”—John Leguizamo, Emmy and Tony Award–winning... Read more
View audiobookTouch the Future
By: John Lee Clark
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch.
Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an... Read more