Essays audiobooks

"Wer Angst hat, soll zuhause bleiben!" - Poesie gegen Populismus (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung)

By: Sarah Bosetti

Narrated by: Sarah Bosetti

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Bosetti hat einen Weg gefunden, die Demokratie zu retten: mit Poesie gegen Populismus! Wohin man schaut: Weltuntergang. Doch Klimawandel, Krieg und Krisen wären zu meistern, wenn die Menschen ihnen mit ehrlicher Vernunft begegnen würden. Im Kampf gegen Fake News, Diskriminierung und Diskursverschiebung nimmt Sarah Bosetti sich einige der... Read more

Dupins Bretagne - Ein Reiseführer (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

Narrated by: Christian Berkel

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit über zehn Jahren ermittelt Kommissar Georges Dupin bereits in der Bretagne. Mit jedem neuen Fall verschlägt es ihn an einen anderen faszinierenden Ort dieser so vielfältigen Region. Mit dem Reiseführer Dupins Bretagne stellt Bestsellerautor Jean-Luc Bannalec die Schauplätze und Gegenden seiner Krimireihe vor und führt durch seine... Read more

Astrología y Literatura

By: Claudia Aboaf

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La amistad entre Jorge Luis Borges y Xul Solar y entre Alejandra Pizarnik y Silvina Ocampo es interpretada en este ensayo experimental a partir de las cartas natales de los escritores, analizadas en sinastría, es decir, estudiadas en relación unas con otras, para revelar la belleza del hacer-con el otro. La autora combina saberes como la... Read more

They Call Me Weener

By: Trina Machacek

Narrated by: Trina Machacek

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

LIFE IS FULL OF QUESTIONS How do you pour the perfect glass of milk? Why are there Eskimos on the roof of the hospital in Nevada? Why would anyone happily accept being called Weener? Step into the head of Trina Machacek and find the answers to these and a cornucopia of life’s more interesting quandaries. Explore how to exercise in an elevator,... Read more

Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium

By: Walt Whitman

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them.”—“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman There is a reason the words of Walt Whitman have persisted in American literature, in literature at large, for so long. He was not simply a man of his time, not just a writer for the moment. Whitman was a man of the people and a writer of the soul—the souls... Read more

Glow in the F*cking Dark

By: Tara Schuster

Narrated by: Tara Schuster

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons for healing your past and owning your future so you can radiate strength, bravery, and joy when life gets dark.

“A revealing and powerful book that lit me up from the inside out.”—GLENNON DOYLE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

Tara... Read more

Un bárbaro en París: Textos sobre la cultura francesa

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

Narrated by: Mario Velásquez

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

EL LIBRO QUE CELEBRA LA ENTRADA DEL PREMIO NOBEL MARIO VARGAS LLOSA EN LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA «La literatura francesa fue la mejor y sigue siéndolo. La más osada, la más libre, [...] la que se insubordina a la actualidad, la que regula y administra los sueños de los seres vivos». Los mitos literarios y el dinamismo intelectual en Francia sedujeron... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alles und nichts sagen - Vom Zustand der Debatte in der Digitalmoderne (ungekürzt)

By: Eva Menasse

Narrated by: Eva Menasse

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Zieht sich eine liberale Gesellschaft gerade den Boden weg, auf dem sie fest stehen sollte? Ein Essay darüber, was die digitale Massenkommunikation zwischenmenschlich anrichtet. Nichts hat das Zusammenleben so umfassend verändert wie die Digitalisierung - wir denken, fühlen und streiten anders, seit wir dauervernetzt und überinformiert sind.... 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