Essays audiobooks

Eat Up!

By: Ruby Tandoh

Narrated by: Ruby Tandoh

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bestselling tour de force of a culinary manifesto, Great British Bake Off alum and former Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh will help you fall back in love with food—from a great selection of recipes to straight-talking, sympathetic advice on mental health and body image
 
“I read it greedily.” —Nigella Lawson

Ruby Tandoh implores us to enjoy... Read more

The Life Fantastic

By: Noa Menhaim

Narrated by: Jenny Funnell

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of highly entertaining, mind-blowing and incredibly wide-ranging essays will make readers see western culture as they've never seen it before. From monsters to witches and ancient libraries to lost islands, The Life Fantastic seeks to trace the origins of ideas, their surprising paths and unexpected ways in which they interact... Read more

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Second Edition

By: Marcelo Gleiser

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicistMarcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. As a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it... Read more

Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses

By: Kathy Pike

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses explores and celebrates the relationship and bond possible between horses and humans. Each chapter offers a life lesson about trusting one's instincts, honestly addressing emotions, achieving clarity in communications, and releasing negative thoughts.



Because survival depends on being highly tuned to the... Read more

Holding the Center

By: Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Narrated by: Kirk Magoon

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of Heckler’s lessons arise from his life as a... Read more

Warming Up Julia Child

By: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life—the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career.Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and... Read more

Imagine a City

By: Mark Vanhoenacker

Narrated by: Kyle Soller

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This love letter to the cities of the world—from the airline pilot–author of Skyfaring—is "a journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives" (Alain de Botton, author of The Art of Travel).

In his small New... Read more

The Unwritten Book

By: Samantha Hunt

Narrated by: Samantha Hunt & Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Dark Dark comes a genre-bending work of nonfiction explores the idea of haunting—writ large.“I carry each book I’ve ever read with me, just as I carry my dead—those things that aren’t really there, those things that shape everything I am.”A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book... Read more

Coasting

By: Jonathan Raban

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an... Read more

Khabaar

By: Madhushree Ghosh

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These... Read more

أمريكا والبروباجندا الأرمنية

By: أحمد الشرقاوي

Narrated by: محمد الحكيم

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

هنري مورجنثاو سفير الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في الآستانة منذ نوفمبر 1913 م، وكتابه الأشهر "قصة السفير مورجنثاو" كان أول الأناجيل الأربعة للقضية الأرمنية مع القس الألماني ليبسوس، واللورد الإنجليزي برايس، وضابط المخابرات أرنولد توينبي(وادعاءات المذابح، التي تعرضوا لها في الدولة العثمانية.) كما كان الكتاب أقوى وسائل البروباجندا التي اعتمد عليها... Read more

From Odessa With Love

By: Vladislav Davidzon

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. The 2014 "Revolution of Dignity" heralded a tremendous transformation of Ukrainian politics and society that has... Read more

Temas lentos

By: Alan Pauls

Narrated by: Mario De Candia

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Amplia recopilación de textos sobre arte, cine y literatura que incluyen diarios de viaje, crónicas, conferencias, columnas de opinión, prólogos, intervenciones periodísticas leídos y publicados en diversos espacios y medios de España y Latinoamérica durante dos décadas, desde fines de los años 90.
Como esas embriagantes versiones en... Read more

Rebound

By: Perry King

Narrated by: K.C. Collins

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. “The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie... Read more

Ensayos

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon

Length: 23 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Los textos capitales de Michel de Montaigne, el gran inventor del ensayo moderno. Traducciones de Constantino Román y Salamero, Carlos Thiebaut, José Miguel Marinas y Gonzalo Torné En 1571, tras sufrir un accidente montando a caballo, Michel de Montaigne abandona su posición como magistrado de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo y empezar a... Read more

The Art of Setting Stones

By: Marc Peter Keane

Narrated by: Marc Peter Keane

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophical essays on the beauty and meaning of traditional Japanese gardens. In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism,... Read more

Mirrors in the Earth

By: Asia Suler

Narrated by: Asia Suler

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A nature therapy session for the soul--encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.

When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.

In a series of 12... Read more

L'avenir de la civilisation

By: Jacques Bainville

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Dans le texte de cette conférence donnée en 1922, Jacques Bainville questionne la notion de civilisation. Commençant son analyse d'un point de vue étymologique et constatant qu'il n'existe pas de définition convaincante du mot "civilisation", c'est en tant qu'historien que Bainville nous fournit ici des éléments de réponse. Au lendemain d'un... Read more

Born to Be Public

By: Greg Mania

Narrated by: Greg Mania

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique and hilarious debut memoir, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a "pariah prodigy." From inadvertently coming out to his Polish immigrant parents, to immersing himself in the world of New York City nightlife, and finding himself and his voice in comedy. Born to Be Public is a vulnerable and poignant exploration of... Read more

Pawprints On Our Hearts

By: Kerk Murray

Narrated by: Gary Middleton

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"A powerful and emotional story." — Alyson Sheldrake, Bestselling author of Kat the Dog
#1 International Bestseller and 8x Literary Award WinnerIn his debut memoir, Kerk Murray shares his coming-of-age journey, paying tribute to the animals that touch our lives and the compassion that drives us forward. It's a story of love, loss, and the courage... Read more

December in Dacca

By: KS Nair

Narrated by: P. Mathai Abraham

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1971 war between India and Pakistan, to help liberate the beleaguered people of Bangladesh, is considered one of the last 'just wars' of the twentieth century. Good triumphed decisively, unequivocally and indisputably. Yet, given the scale of atrocity that was halted in its tracks, it is shocking that the compelling circumstances as well as... Read more

Rants from the Hill

By: Michael P. Branch

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers.The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to... Read more

Cartas de un ESTOICO

By: Séneca

Narrated by: Sergio Catalán

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Quizá pensamos que vamos a estar aquí para siempre, que las personas que queremos van a estar aquí para siempre.
Hoy día podemos comprar casi cualquier cosa con nuestros teléfonos de última generación sin mover el culo del sofá de nuestra casa, comunicarnos al instante con una persona que se encuentre al otro lado del planeta, medios de... Read more

Cara o cruz: Benito Juárez

By: Alejandro Rosas & Angélica Vázquez del Mercado

Narrated by: Alejandro Ivarias & Gabriela Guraieb

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

<p style="text-align:center"><strong>Benito Juárez ha sido un personaje muy controversial en la historia de México. Es amado o es odiado. ¿Fue un autoritario o un patriota? ¿Fue un vendepatrias? ¿Se equivocó en la Ciudadela? </strong></p> ¿Sólo conocemos al Juárez de las monografías... Read more