Essays audiobooks

The Legend of Machu Picchu

By: Shreyas Pande & Sharad Baggonkar

Narrated by: Santosh Nair

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Machu Picchu is one of the seven wonders of the world. Built by the Incas, its located about 50 miles northwest of Cuzco, Peru on the Andes mountain. The visual beauty of the place is a breathtaking. But have you ever wondered how Machu Picchu was built and why was it built?To know more about Machu Picchu, listen to the fun story. Read more

Un país bañado en sangre

By: Paul Auster & Spencer Ostrander

Narrated by: Santiago Pavón

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Una bala marcó la vida de Paul Auster. El eco de aquel disparo atraviesa la historia de Estados Unidos. «La pistola que mató a mi abuelo es la misma arma que destrozó la vida de mi padre» Paul Auster, como la mayoría de los niños estadounidenses, creció jugando con pistolas de juguete e imitando a los vaqueros de las películas del Oeste. Pero... Read more

Fancies Versus Fads

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Russell Stamets

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to... Read more

An Affirming Flame

By: Roger Cohen

Narrated by: Roger Cohen & Mark Deakins

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of Kyiv to an execution chamber in Alabama,... Read more

Beyond Guilt Trips

By: Anu Taranath

Narrated by: Anu Taranath

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners—brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons—travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. While travel abroad can provide much-needed... Read more

Propos sur le bonheur

By: Alain

Narrated by: Marie Stephane Cattaneo

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Voici le jardin du philosophe. On y cueillera des fruits mûris sur le tronc de la sagesse commune et dorés à cette autre lumière des idées. Ils en reprennent leur saveur d'origine, qui est le goût de l'existence. Saveur oubliée en nos pensées ; car on voudrait s'assurer que l'existence est bonne et on ne le peut ; on en déçoit donc l'espérance... Read more

Lo que sueñan los androides

By: David Calle

Narrated by: Javier Portugués (Portu)

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Del descubrimiento del fuego a los smartphones: una breve historia de la tecnología. Del profesor estrella de YouTube finalista del Global Teacher Prize y una de las personas más creativas del mundo según Forbes. Cuando nos adentramos en la sección de tecnología de un centro comercial, encontramos ordenadores portátiles ultraligeros, cables... Read more

More to Say

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

As deeply rewarding as her fiction, More to Say presents a selection of Ann Beattie’s essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always penetrating collection of writing never before published in book form.Ann... Read more

Winning Fixes Everything

By: Evan Drellich

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself.Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America.... Read more

You're That Bitch

By: Bretman Rock

Narrated by: Bretman Rock

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud.”—Chelsea HandlerA chaotically joyous collection of essays from one of the original influencers and the internet's sweetheart, Bretman ""The Baddest"" Rock.Hilarious and earnest, this collection of essays, how-tos, and more goes far beyond what we know of Bretman Rock from social... Read more

Philosophie und Bildung Band 1 - Quadratur des Kreises

By: Michael von Känel

Narrated by: Michael von Känel

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophie und Bildung Band 1 - Quadratur des Kreises 20 Aufsätze zu Alltagsthemen – Neue Denkansätze für frische Köpfe ---------------------- In allen 60 Aufsätzen der drei Bücher Philosophie und Bildung geht es darum, Alltagsthemen aus philosophischer Sicht zu umkreisen und sie dann in Bezug zur Bildung und zu unserem Bildungssystem zu... Read more

Errances

By: Marie-Thé Morin

Narrated by: Marie-Thé Morin

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Anaïs, au volant de sa vieille camionnette, sillonne les routes pour se nourrir d’histoires. Pour écrire. Quelque part dans le sud des États-Unis, elle se fait interpeller par une policière qui l’invite à la suivre dans un vieux motel délabré. Ce qu’Anaïs accepte, sans trop savoir ce qui l’incite à le faire.Rod, chanteur d’opéra, cherche à... Read more

The Tribe

By: Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Teeming with life and compulsively listenable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form—a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative nonfiction, and... Read more

One Thousand Shades of Green

By: Mike Dilger

Narrated by: Mike Dilger

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents One Thousand Shades of Green written and read by Mike Dilger.

‘A cracking read.’ IOLO WILLIAMS
‘What an incredible achievement!’ ALISON STEADMAN
‘An inspirational odyssey.’ NICK BAKER
'Immediately accessible.' BBC COUNTRYFILE

Mike Dilger's nationwide quest to find 1,000 wild plant species in a single year.

For most of 2020, Mike... Read more

Finding Hildasay

By: Christian Lewis

Narrated by: Christian Lewis

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths - and into a new life. Finding Hildasay, read by the author, is a brutal and beautiful true story of depression, survival, walking, and the meaning of home.

‘Now I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm – the part where the real pain sets in.... Read more

Little Yellow House

By: Carissa Halton

Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ma’am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?” Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with a tough reputation. As they make their home in one of the oldest parts of the city, she reflects on the revitalization that is slowly changing the view from her little yellow house. While... Read more

Sprache spielerisch

By: Erich Dix

Narrated by: Erich Dix

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sprache spielerisch" ist eine Auswahl von Sprachspielereien und Wortstellereien, die vom Autor Erich Dix aus seinen Büchern KLIRR-KLAR (2020), FLIRR-SINN (2017), WIRR-WAHR (2013) und IRR-WISCHE (2011) persönlich vorgetragen werden. Read more

Sourcebooks for Our Drawings

By: Danny Jacobs

Narrated by: Danny Jacobs

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sourcebooks for Our Drawings is a book steeped in place: the rural idyll of a Southeastern New Brunswick farmhouse, the author's childhood suburbia, and the commercial sprawl of contemporary Atlantic Canada. Each piece provides a snapshot of New Brunswick in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a place at once unique and startlingly not-so in... Read more

Aus dem Leben gegriffen

By: Erich Dix

Narrated by: Erich Dix

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Aus dem Leben gegriffen" ist eine Auslese von Gedichten und Kurzgeschichten, die dem Alltag entstammen und den Hörer ganz harmlos in die Absurdität geleiten. Autor Erich Dix liest aus seinen Büchern KLIRR-KLAR (2020), FLIRR-SINN (2017), WIRR-WAHR (2013) und IRR-WISCHE (2011). Read more

Toujours Provence

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with... Read more

Voice of the Fish

By: Lars Horn

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection... Read more

SterbeMund

By: Petra Frey

Narrated by: Petra Frey

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Petra Frey, Schauspielerin und Hospizbegleiterin erzählt von den anderen Momenten in der Sterbebegleitung. Humorvoll, herzlich und ein bisschen verrückt. Geschichten vom Tod, wie sie nur das Leben schreiben kann. Erleben Sie den filmreifen Abgang einer Bühnendiva, die berührende Erzählung einer verbotenen Liebe oder begleiten Sie den... Read more

Germinal

By: Tania Tagle

Narrated by: Kerygma Flores

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Germinal es un ensayo que acompaña el proceso de traer a una persona a este mundo desde un entendimiento de la angustia y la belleza que eso implica. Un libro que conmueve y que abre espacio, también, para pensar cómo se insertan esos procesos en el pensamiento y la cultura y cómo podemos transformarlos Con unenfoque íntimo y auténtico Tania... Read more

Cooperación o extinción

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: Germán Jaramillo & Diego Vélez García

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Una obra imprescindible para tomar conciencia y pasar a la acción. Cooperación o extinción es la última novedad del lingüista, filósofo, politólogo Noam Chomsky, también uno de los activistas más influyentes del mundo. En esta ocasión, se trata de una recopilación que nace de un llamado «Encuentro Chomsky» celebrado en Boston y dedicado a las... Read more