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Graced by Waters
By: John Dietsch
Narrated by: Jim Denison
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
John Dietsch—fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It—explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss.
In this inspirational and humorous collection of essays, author John Dietsch sees his... Read more
A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World
By: John Rember
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events—and the real possibility of an intolerable future. It is a compelling, surprising, disturbing, and highly literate work of reportage and contemplation. It is both a... Read more
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The Writer's Library
By: Nancy Pearl & Jeff Schwager
Narrated by: Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager, Xe Sands, Dominic H...
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Performed by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea, Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’s Library audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami. With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's... Read more
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Wheels Galore!
By: Iain M. MacLeod
Narrated by: Tony McGeever
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Through his unique blend of Scottish good humour, real-life experience, and funny stories of mishaps and misadventures, Iain M. MacLeod draws the reader into his vibrant life from childhood to the present, a life not defined by Cerebral Palsy, which he has had since the age of three. Racing from one adventure to the next on wheels galore, from... Read more
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Ask Me What's for Dinner One More Time
By: Meredith Masony
Narrated by: Meredith Masony
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the founder of That’s Inappropriate—one of the most popular parenting blogs on the web—comes a hilarious, genuine, and relatable essay collection on the ups and downs of motherhood.
Meredith Masony founded That’s Inappropriate in 2014 as an innocent and humorous way to chronicle her chaotic days as a working mom, child wrangler, and busy... Read more
Runaway
By: Jorie Graham
Narrated by: Jorie Graham
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR Best Book of the YearA collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie GrahamIn her formidable and clairvoyant collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not?Keeping pace with the... Read more
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Seen and Unseen
By: Russell Darley
Narrated by: Russell Darley
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping view of Asia and the Pacific through a series of literary essays written by Australian Russell Darnley, who earned an OAM for services he provided after the Bali Bombings.
Malaria, cockfights and magic are confronting realities in the Asia-Pacific region, yet beyond these more remains unseen and misunderstood. These cultures also exert... Read more
The Psychology of Final Fantasy: Surpassing The Limit Break
By: Anthony Bean, PhD
Narrated by: Gabriella Pitchford
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew." - Lulu, Final Fantasy X.From its initial release in 1987, Final Fantasy has gone on to become one of the most beloved series of role-playing games in history. With narratives revolving around grandiose stories of good versus evil, Final Fantasy has allowed us, as... Read more
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Fat of the Land
By: Langdon Cook
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Foraging is not just a throwback to our hunter-gatherer past; it's a way to reconnect with the landscape. And Langdon Cook is not just your typical grocery cart-toting dad. For him, gourmet delicacies abound, free for the taking if we just open our eyes. As a result, he finds himself free-diving in icy Puget Sound in hopes of spearing a... Read more
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The Socrates Express
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.
We turn to philosophy for the same reasons... Read more
One for the Road
By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Nathaniel Horwitz
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"A high-spirited, comic ramble into the savage Outback populated by irreverent, beer-guzzling frontiersmen." --Chicago Tribune
Swept off to live in Sydney by his Australian bride, American writer Tony Horwitz longs to explore the exotic reaches of his adopted land. So one day, armed only with a backpack and fantasies of the open road, he... Read more
White Hot Light
By: Frank Huyler
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.
In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of... Read more
Hernán Cortés
By: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
Narrated by: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Hernán Cortés y Motecuzoma protagonizaron el choque de culturas más trascendente de la historia de la humanidad. Todo en la historia del mundo moderno es producto de ese encuentro y esa conquista. "Toda nuestra historia se integra en Hernán Cortés. Odiarlo no nos ha servido y no ha resuelto nada. Amarlo no es necesario. Aceptarlo e integrarlo en... Read more
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If These Lips Could Talk
By: Frank Pace & Billy O'Connor
Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
With a foreword by Brooke Shields -- From the edge of Hollywood’s spotlight into the locker rooms of America, If These Lips Could Talk gives you a producer’s unfettered access to big-named actors and athletes you have long known and admired. Be warned...some of these people are not who they appear to be! Featured players include: Sandra... Read more
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High Tech and Hot Pot
By: Stephan Orth
Narrated by: Brent Hirose
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning writer reveals a changing China—one conversation and adventure at a time.When Stephan Orth lands in China, he knows it’s his last visit, having lied about his job as a journalist to get into the country. So, he makes the most of it, couch-surfing with locals instead of hitting the nearest hotel. Starting in Macau—a former... Read more
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One Long River of Song
By: Brian Doyle
Narrated by: George Newbern, Mary Doyle, Liam Doyle, Lily Do...
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of... Read more
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Losers
By: Mary Pilon & Louisa Thomas
Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Kevin R. Free, Brittany Pressley...
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“It's easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” —Floyd Patterson
Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to... Read more
For the Love of Europe
By: Rick Steves
Narrated by: Rick Steves
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection: For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories.
Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese... Read more
Memos from Purgatory and Other Works
By: Harlan Ellison
Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Mia Barron
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that
became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama. This audiobook also includes Ellison’s Children of the Streets.
Hemingway said, “A man should never write what he doesn’t know.” In the mid
-fifties, Harlan Ellison—kicked
out of college and hungry to... Read more
Women in the Kitchen
By: Anne Willan
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Culinary historian Anne Willan “has melded her passions for culinary history, writing, and teaching into her fascinating new book” (Chicago Tribune) that traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve influential women—from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters—whose recipes and ideas... Read more
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Appalachian Fall
By: Jeff Young
Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.
Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at... Read more
The Unreality of Memory
By: Elisa Gabbert
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did you see?" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last.
The Unreality of Memory collects... Read more
موسيقى الحوت الأزرق:الهوية، الكتابة، العنف
By: أدونيس
Narrated by: قصي حمود
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
يقول أدونيس في هذا الكتاب:- "إننا نعيش في وضع يقول لنا أن الخطر اليوم علينا، نحن العرب، يجيء من جميع الجهات: من المستقبل، ومن الحاضر، ومن الماضي. ويقول لنا إن (ثقافة) اولئك الناطقين باسم (الأمة) و(ثوابتها) و(حقائقها المطلقة) لا تشوه المعرفة وطرقها وحسب، وإنما تلغيها كذلك. إنها (ثقافة) مؤسسة على خلل أصلي في العلاقات بين الأسماء والأشياء، بل ليس... Read more
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How to Be a Fascist
By: Michela Murgia
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The first and only guide to turning your 21st century democracy into a fascist paradise.
Democracy is difficult, flawed and unstable. It involves barely distinguishable political parties taking part in lengthy, overcomplicated and expensive decision-making processes. Trying to engage so many people with political issues seems to lead only to... Read more