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Water, Wood, and Wild Things
By: Hannah Kirshner
Narrated by: Hannah Kirshner
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira Kalman
An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food... Read more
Germany - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Barry Tomalin
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Germany—the powerhouse of Europe and pillar of the Eurozone—feels reassuringly familiar. However, despite superficial appearances, this is a country that operates very differently from the USA and Britain. German history is more than a thousand years old and the relatively new German nation-state encompasses an astonishing variety of cultural... Read more
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Italy - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Barry Tomalin
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, stunningly beautiful landscapes, the glory of its art and architecture, the richness and variety of its food, the elegance of its design and fashion, and the vitality and charm of its people. Italian style and culture have been exported all over the world. At home, however,... Read more
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Vietnam - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Geoffrey Murray
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Vietnam is one of the most fascinating destinations in Southeast Asia. Having emerged from two decades of war, it is has undergone a period of rapid and far-reaching change, and its people have their eyes fixed firmly on the horizon. Culture Smart! Vietnam is for those who want to learn about the traditional values, sensibility, and modern way... Read more
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Switzerland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Kendall Hunter
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate and cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, multilingual, and fiercely independent country at the heart of Europe is full of surprises.Culture Smart! Switzerland reveals the human dimension of this enigmatic country. It... Read more
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نبض
By: أدهم شرقاوي
Narrated by: تامر لبد
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
الآن يا نبض أجد اللحظة مؤاتيه لأرتكب خيانتي الأولى لك ! قررت أخيرا أن أكتبك ، بعض النساء نخونهن إذ نكتبهن . فتحويل امرأة مثلك إلى لغة يعتبر خيانة من زاوية ما . إني و بعد كل ما حدث أحاول أن أقف على الحد الفاصل بيني وبينك و ليس غير الكتابة سبيلي. أعرف يا نبض أني اذ أكتبك أحمل اللغة فوق ما تسطيع ، الليل في عينكِ أكبر من قدرة اللغة ، و هذا... Read more
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#LivingTheDream
By: Carrie Frais, Pippa curtis, Adrienne Walder, An...
Narrated by: Carrie Frais, Adrienne Walder, Annabel Cotton, ...
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Grief, loneliness, Brexit, motherhood, identity, single parenthood, rootlessness, drinking culture and integration are just some of the issues tackled in a series of powerful stories written by ten women on the challenges of expat life in Spain, France, Hong Kong, Australia, Israel, Belgium, New Zealand and the UK.In one of the first books of... Read more
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Festival Days
By: Jo Ann Beard
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville,who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner for The Friend).
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of... Read more
A Place Like Mississippi
By: W. Ralph Eubanks
Narrated by: James Shippey
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir
The South has produced some of America’s most... Read more
Olive, Mabel & Me
By: Andrew Cotter
Narrated by: Andrew Cotter
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of Olive and Mabel, Labrador retrievers who rose to internet fame as the subjects of Andrew Cotter's BBC sports parodies.
When sporting events were put on hold in March 2020, commentator Andrew Cotter shifted to working from home. The one-on-one competitors? His two Labrador retrievers, Olive and Mabel. In the hilarious videos that... Read more
Lolita in the Afterlife
By: Jenny Minton Quigley
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Marisol Ramirez, Paul Bellanton...
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse— art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and... Read more
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So Many Ways to Lose
By: Devin Gordon
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is a weird, wonderful, and essential book about both America and its pastime. It’s about a place as vast as New York City and as intimate as the human heart. Fred Exley meets Richard Ben Cramer—a funny, wild, heartfelt, and keenly observed portrait of yearning itself.”—Wright Thompson, New York Times bestselling author of The Cost of These... Read more
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Notes From the Bathroom Line
By: Amy Solomon
Narrated by: Amy Solomon & Multi Cast
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of never-before-seen humor pieces—essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more—from 150 of the biggest female comedians today, curated by Amy Solomon, a producer of the hit HBO shows Silicon Valley and Barry, performed by the author and Jo Firestone, Mitra Jouhari, Whitmer Thomas, Lauren Lapkus, Sasheer Zamata,... Read more
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China - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Kathy Flower & Indre Balcikonyte-Huang
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence of being Chinese remained essentially unchanged until the twentieth century. Since then, change has taken place in Chinese society at an unprecedented... Read more
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الهاشميون وحلم العرب
By: روبرت ماكنمارا - ترجمة: منال حامد
Narrated by: سامي العربي
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
يدور الكتاب حول الأسرة الهاشمية، وطموحاتها في مملكة عربية تمتد حدودها إلى جميع أنحاء شبه الجزيرة العربية. بدءًا من الشريف حسين، الذي توَّج نفسه ملكًا على الحجاز عام 1916، وصراعه مع آل سعود ليحافظ على حكمه. ثم أبناءه، فيصل الذي ذهب للجميع وقدم الكثير ليحصل على حكم سوريا وانتهى به الأمر ملكًا على العراق، وعبد الله الذي فاز في نهاية الأمر بمملكة... Read more
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In Search of Mycotopia
By: Doug Bierend
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"The author’s sharp ear for dialogue imbues his word portraits with vivid detail. . . . Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life."—Library Journal "Comprehensive and enthusiastic . . . This fascinating, informative look into a unique subculture and the fungi at its... Read more
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We Came, We Saw, We Left
By: Charles Wheelan
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.
What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts... Read more
Life's Edge
By: Carl Zimmer
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“Carl Zimmer is one of the best science writers we have today.”
—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world—from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses—the harder they find it is to locate life’s edge.
Carl Zimmer... Read more
How to be a Brit
By: George Mikes
Narrated by: Richard Goulding
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
George Mikes's perceptive manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include insights on important topics including the weather, how to be... Read more
The Man Who Planted Trees
By: Jean Giono
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better.
In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard... Read more
Korea - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide To Customs & Culture
By: James Hoare
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Apart from the headline-making politics, not much is known in the West about the Korean people and their ancient culture. Yet those who visit Korea, whether North or South, find a land of great interest. The Koreans, when not constrained by politics or other considerations, are friendly and sociable, and the peninsula has areas of outstanding... Read more
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Read Through Bitter Mouth Sweet Mouth
By: Rongbao Li & Zuoren Zhou
Narrated by: Rongbao Li
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated in Chinese, an old professor from Beijing University, at end of Qing dynasty, Republic and early People's Republic of China, tells about what a Ru-ism is doing: follow mass scribes, note strange or fresh bugs and fishes, chant spring wind and autumn moon with head and tail rotating, also explore the reason of country governance peace or... Read more
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Japan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Paul Norbury
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms and elegant culture, military prowess and technological precision, have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and consensus-based philosophy have proved... Read more
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Spain - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Belen Aguado Viguer & Marian Meaney
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In the popular imagination, Spain conjures up a picture of rapacious conquistadores, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. All true enough—but how closely does everyday life in modern Spain conform to these dramatic stereotypes? This book explores the complex human realities of contemporary Spanish life. It describes how Spain’s history... Read more
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