When Harry Met Minnie
By: Martha Teichner
Narrated by: Martha Teichner
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
*An Instant New York Times Bestseller!*
This program is read by the author.
A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.
There are true fairy tales. Stories that... Read more
Summertime
By: Danielle Celermajer
Narrated by: Felicity Jurd
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool, and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our... Read more
View audiobookEl sueño de África (Trilogía de África 1)
By: Javier Reverte
Narrated by: Jordi Salas
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Reverte nos cuenta en su primer largo viaje africano las grandes historias del pasado y las pequeñas del presente... El sueño de África es ya un clásico en la literatura española de los últimos años. Desde que vio la luz, en 1996, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas, y fue considerado por lectores y críticos como el libro pionero que refundaba y... Read more
View audiobookYards and Stripes
By: Michael Francis
Narrated by: Michael Francis
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Unlock an inspirational journey of self-discovery in Yards and Stripes - the story of one man's ambition to escape the New York rat race, and start a gardening business in Greenwich, Connecticut. With no knowledge, no experience, and only his determination to guide him, he embarks on the difficult road to success.... Read more
View audiobookFrom Our Land to Our Land
By: Luis J. Rodriguez
Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, "Like millions of Americans, I'm demanding a... Read more
View audiobookYou Can't Lose Them All
By: Sal Iacono
Narrated by: Sal Iacono & Jimmy Kimmel
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this informative and entertaining book, learn from Cousin Sal how not to gamble your life away -- along with many other life lessons -- so you don't have to learn the hard way.
Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players,... Read more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Hilton Als
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women,... Read more
View audiobookHomo Irrealis
By: André Aciman
Narrated by: André Aciman & Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a... Read more
Reel Bay
By: Jana Larson
Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there? Unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor... Read more
View audiobookThe Solace of Open Spaces
By: Gretel Ehrlich
Narrated by: Gretel Ehrlich
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced
“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard
Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she... Read more
Boomers
By: Helen Andrews
Narrated by: Nicole Parnell
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Baby Boomers (and I confess I am one): prepare to squirm and shake your increasingly arthritic little fists. For here comes essayist Helen Andrews."--Terry Castle
With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children's favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? Is the destruction left in their wake... Read more
Thinking Again
By: Jan Morris
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Jan Morris, one of "Britain's greatest living writers" (Times, UK), returns with this whimsical yet deeply affecting volume on life as a redoubtable nonagenarian.
The irrepressible Jan Morris—author of such classics as Venice and Trieste—is at it again: offering a vibrant set of reminiscences that remind us "what a good, wise and witty... Read more
Rilassamento
By: Andrzej Budzinski
Narrated by: Stefano Trillini
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A parte il contenuto che è molto interessante e utile... facile da leggere perché scritto in modo leggero, “colpisce” come la pubblicità...tocca profondamente e fa riflettere...non lascia il lettore indifferente...interessante e direi anche nuovo e originale, tutto fatto a slogan, con frasi brevi che tendono a colpire il lettore con il detto... Read more
View audiobookOtro fin del mundo es posible
By: Alejandro Gaviria
Narrated by: Alejandro Gaviria
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Durante el confinamiento obligatorio del primer semestre de este año, Alejandro Gaviria entabló una conversación peculiar con el filósofo inglés Aldous Huxley. Fiel a su idea de que "la lectura es un acto de creación", se dedicó a leer y releer los ensayos y novelas de este autor, que considera imprescindible y un auténtico pensador del... Read more
View audiobookالشاي.. ثقافات.. طقوس.. حكايات
By: كريستوف بيترز
Narrated by: شادي عباس
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
في هذا الكتاب، يقوم الكاتب والخبير بالشاي "كريستوف بيترز" بحديث مطول مع القارئ عن الشاي. ويحكي في هذا الكتاب عن ولعه بذلك المشروب المُلهِم المتنوع وعن فن إعداده، الذي يُسبِّب السعادة. منذ كان فتى يافعًا، يُفضِّل "كريستوف بيترز" جمع أواني الشاي أكثر من جمع الإسطوانات، والآن ينهمك لساعاتٍ كثيرة كل أسبوع في معرفة السُبُل المختلفة التي تُمكِّنه من... Read more
View audiobookPlaidoyer pour la véritable liberté, égalité, fraternité
By: Edouard Nelson
Narrated by: Philip Kapitaniuk
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité !La devise de notre République française est magnifique. Elle inspire nos révolutions et orne fièrement nos bâtiments publics. Trois mots simples, mais qui reflètent nos plus profondes aspirations. Seulement voilà, avouons qu'ils portent en eux un idéal plus qu'une réalité. Quelle frustration !Serait-il possible... Read more
View audiobookMidnight Chicken
By: Ella Risbridger
Narrated by: Ella Risbridger
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020
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‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson
‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ - Sunday Times
'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is... Read more
Three Simple Lines
By: Natalie Goldberg
Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that “make the mind leap.” A good one, he said, lets the mind experience “a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God.” As many... Read more
Mobile Home
By: Megan Harlan
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan's globe-wandering... Read more
View audiobookComo sapiens
By: Lucas Llach
Narrated by: Javier Gómez
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
El conflicto entre nuestros instintos y cuerpo de Homo sapiens y la vida que llevamos es cada vez mayor. ¿Qué humanidad estamos construyendo?
Nuestra especie no era la única ni la más prometedora de las varias versiones de humanos en el planeta hace 200.000 años. Pero lo conquistó. Salió de su cuna en África y ocupó todos los continentes.... Read more
The Girls in My Town
By: Angela Morales
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood. She writes about her... Read more
View audiobookAim of Life and Other Articles
By: Pabitra Adhikary
Narrated by: Ashish Hazra & Rohini Chatterjee
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of articles by Pabitra Adhikary Read more
View audiobookBack to Nature
By: Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin
Narrated by: Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Optimistic field notes from the new normal for nature
One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And although the natural world has never been more under pressure, there are still reasons to be hopeful.
Through personal stories, conservation breakthroughs and fascinating scientific discoveries, Back to Nature captures... Read more
The Particulars of Peter
By: Kelly Conaboy
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg & Kelly Conaboy
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
"This might be one of the month’s, if not the year’s, sweetest books — zaniest, too.” ―The Washington Post
"A hilarious addition to the dogoir canon.” ―People
"Perhaps the greatest love story ever told.” ―Refinery29 "The feel-good book the world needs." —PopSugar
From one of the Internet's most original voices, a hilarious journey through the odd... Read more