Essays audiobooks

What It Takes to Save a Life

By: Kwane Stewart

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals and humans on the streets of California - and how he discovered what bonds all living creatures.Dr. Kwane Stewart was questioning his career as a veterinarian when he saw a homeless man... Read more

My Own Magic

By: Anna Kloots

Narrated by: Anna Kloots

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within...Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own... Read more

These Vital Signs

By: Sayed Tabatabai

Narrated by: Christopher Salazar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to... Read more

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

komplette Lesung des dritten Buches der Welt als Wille und Vorstellung Der Welt als Vorstellung zweite Betrachtung: Die Vorstellung, unabhängig vom Satze des Grundes: die Platonische Idee: das Objekt der Kunst. "Ich gehöre zu den Lesern Schopenhauers", schrieb Friedrich Nietzsche, "welche, nachdem sie die erste Seite von ihm gelesen... Read more

Flourish

By: Antonia Case

Narrated by: Sarah Kants

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Flourish by Antonia Case, read by Sarah Kants.

What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish?

Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of meaning. In a quest to find answers, she turns off... Read more

Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back

By: unknown

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the Way." In Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, the Way wends through entirely new adventures in the Star Wars galaxy far, far away: not only the films of the Skywalker saga, but also Rebels, The Bad Batch, Rogue One, Solo, and The Mandalorian. Like the creators of these films and television series, the authors in this book harness... Read more

The Little Book of World Religions

By: Ross Dickinson

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Religion flourishes around the globe in diverse forms, each uniquely fascinating and multifaceted, playing a central role in the lives of billions. From the five biggest faiths to the lesser-known creeds, this pocket guide offers an engaging introduction to world religions, exploring their history, beliefs, practices, and personalities. It's a... Read more

The Science of Star Trek

By: Mark Brake

Narrated by: Jon Vertullo

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural landscape in so many ways since it first aired in 1966. The franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue, leading to a wide range of spin-off games, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek is noted for its social science, too, with its... Read more

Plums for Months

By: Zaji Cox

Narrated by: Stephanie Weeks

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

As a neurodivergent child in a hundred-year-old house, Zaji Cox collects grammar books, second-hand toys, and sightings of feral cats.She dances and cartwheels through self-discovery and doubt, guided by her big sister and their devoted single mother.Through short essays that evoke the abundant imagination of childhood, Plums for Months explores... Read more

¿Por qué importa la filosofía?

By: Carlos Peña

Narrated by: Claudio Munda

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"¿Cómo justificar la reflexión filosófica a la luz de esos objetivos de política pública que la filosofía no es capaz por sí misma de satisfacer?"
En este necesario y perspicaz ensayo, Carlos Peña se hace cargo críticamente del menos precio del que, de un tiempo a esta parte, es objeto la filosofía. En base a acusaciones de despilfarro e... Read more

The (Big) Year That Flew By

By: Arjan Dwarshuis

Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic tale of one passionate birder’s record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 continents—in just one year—to see 6,852 bird species, rare and common, before many go extinct. When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the “Big Year”—the legendary record for birdwatching—he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the... Read more

Pages From My Passport

By: Amelia Dalton

Narrated by: Amelia Dalton

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Amelia Dalton, fresh from touring the Scottish islands, takes on the world and sets up exclusive holidays in remote places for a new cruise ship. As she scopes out her itineraries, she explores inaccessible islands and survives a hotel fire, a bomb in a palace, being stung by a scorpion and thrown into jail. Meanwhile, she's being wooed from... Read more

고맙습니다

By: 올리버 색스

Narrated by: 장호비

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

오토바이와 주기율표를 사랑하고, 암페타민에 중독됐던 아웃사이더 올리버 색스 여든두 살, 죽음을 앞둔 그가 우리 모두에게 삶에 대한 따뜻한 감사를 전합니다. 올리버 색스가 세상을 떠났을 때 전 세계 언론은 비통해 했다. 그가 뛰어난 뇌신경학자였기 때문도, 《아내를 모자로 착각한 남자》 《뮤지코필리아》 《온 더 무브》와 같은 베스트셀러 저자이기 때문만도 아니었다. 삶의 마지막 순간까지 상처 입은 인간을 따뜻하게 바라보며 감싸 안던 이 시대의 지성이 더이상 우리와 함께 할 수 없다는 사실에 대한 깊은 탄식이었다. 올리버 색스만큼 의학적 드라마와 인간적 드라마를 솔직하면서도 유려하게 포착해내는 데 성공한 작가는... Read more

La conquista de la felicidad

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Ángel Morón

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

La felicidad ¿es un estado o una búsqueda? Esta obra afirma que lo segundo: el ser humano se debe mostrar activo en la eliminación de las trabas al despliegue de la felicidad, comenzando por eliminar esas pasiones egocéntricas que son la envidia, el miedo o la conciencia de pecado y reforzando las que impulsan hacia fuera de sí mismo, que... Read more

Look for Me There

By: Luke Russert

Narrated by: Luke Russert

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world’s most stunning destinations, he visits the internal places of grief, family, faith, ambition, and purpose—with intense self-reflection, honesty, and courage."—Savannah Guthrie, coanchor... Read more

In Search of Perfumes

By: Dominique Roques

Narrated by: Jean Brassard

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry’s leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo of rose oil? One million roses, each handpicked. When it comes to... Read more

Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex

By: Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon & Lawrence Koval

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Perspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies.

For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an Apology

Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large... Read more

Got Your Number

By: Mike Greenberg & Paul Hembekides

Narrated by: Mike Greenberg

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends... Read more

The Power of Trees

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Another love letter from Wohlleben to the green world… makes the case for how we should allow forests throughout the world to regrow and in the process help heal not only the climate but us, as well.”—Lydia Millet, Oprah Daily

An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through... Read more

Digital Pilgrims

By: Adrián Sicilia

Narrated by: Jennifer Moule

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The present has the texture of the future. Hyper-digitalization has made all questions outdated, especially: what are we going to do? For decades, we have been inhabiting and moving within the Digital Environment. Today, the unavoidable question is: what and who are we going to be?Digital Pilgrims proposes novel and urgent debates for a society... Read more

What Women Want - Sieben Geschichten über Begehren, Macht und Liebe (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein faszinierender Einblick in die weibliche Seele und die Arbeit einer Psychotherapeutin - fantastisch erzählt. Terri steht kurz vor der Hochzeit mit ihrem Verlobten, doch sie flüchtet sich immer wieder in One-Night-Stands mit Frauen. Warum? Tia erlebte schon als Kind, als ihr Vater ihre Mutter betrog, dass weiße Frauen scheinbar liebenswerter... Read more

Dickens und Prince - Unvergleichliche Genies (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Thomas Nicolai

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein warmherziges und unterhaltsames Hörbuch über Kunst, Kreativität und die überraschenden Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem viktorianischen Romancier Charles Dickens und dem modernen amerikanischen Rockstar Prince. Mit der Bewunderung eines Fans und seinem typischen Humor und Witz zeigt uns Nick Hornby die kuriosen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen zwei auf... Read more

Andar y ver

By: Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez

Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

«Hallazgos de la poesía, revelaciones arquitectónicas, mensajes del pincel o la batuta, sabiduría del bisturí.» Este libro es una colección de ejercicios de admiración, invitaciones a recorrer parajes de maravilla. Con una prosa precisa y transparente, Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez escribe acerca de obras y artistas que lo han tocado, que le han... Read more

ForkFight!

By: Mark H. Brezinski & Mark Stuertz

Narrated by: Mark H. Brezinski

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The most compelling, insightful, and white-knuckled journey behind the restaurant curtain since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.Mark H. Brezinski is a forty-five-year veteran of the dynamic restaurant industry. A graduate of the famed School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, Mark went on to create or co-create multiple... Read more