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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
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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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
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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Tales of Two Planets
By: John Freeman
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, David DeSantos, Peter Ganim, Alma...
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.
In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta,... Read more
My Life as a Villainess
By: Laura Lippman
Narrated by: Laura Lippman
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising. Meet the... Read more
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger
By: Lisa Donovan
Narrated by: Lisa Donovan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun
"Donovan is such a vivid writer—smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny— that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good as her prose, well, I'd be open to even giving that signature buttermilk whipped cream she tops her desserts with a try.”—Maureen... Read more
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
Değişen Beynim - Abridged
By: Sinan Canan
Narrated by: Yüce Armağan Erkek
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bu kitap bizzat sizinle, bizimle ilgili... Anne karnından yaşamımızın sonuna kadar tüm yaşamımızı yönetmek gibi çetin bir işle mükellef o muhteşem et parçasının, yani beyninizin başrolü oynadığı bir macerayı yaşıyoruz hep birlikte. Bu maceranın adı ise "hayat"... Bir sinirbilimci olarak, beyin hakkında herkesin bilmesi gerektiğini... Read more
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Mudlark River
By: Simon Wilcox
Narrated by: Simon Wilcox
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The discovery of a Victorian map in a London antiques shop takes Simon Wilcox on a journey down the Thames: his mission a bit like that of those Victorian river scavengers, the mudlarks, to forage about on the shoreline for something of value.The mudlarks found old coins, and objects washed up from ships anchored in the London docks. Tramping... Read more
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Tomboyland
By: Melissa Faliveno
Narrated by: Melissa Faliveno
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It’s a... Read more
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Horse People
By: Michael Korda
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story—sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed—of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor,... Read more
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Menno Moto
By: Cameron Dueck
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Across Latin America, from the plains of Mexico to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds closed, separating their communities from a secular world they view as sinful.
The story of their search for religious and social independence began generations ago in... Read more
The Virus in the Age of Madness
By: Bernard-Henri Levy
Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society
With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher... Read more
Union
By: Jordan Blashek & Christopher Haugh
Narrated by: Cameron Scoggins, Jordan Blashek & Christopher ...
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Two friends—a Democrat and a Republican—travel across America "on a deeply personal journey through the heart of a divided nation . . . to find growth, hope and fundamental strength in their own lives" (Bob Woodward) and the country they love, in good times and bad.
In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a... Read more
Reading Backwards
By: John Crowley
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Reading Backwards opens with the autobiographical "My Life in the Theater," a memoir of the younger Crowley's earliest ambitions, and closes with the moving and memorable "Practicing the Arts of Peace." In between, the author offers us more than thirty carefully crafted essays, each one notable for its insight, intelligence, and typically... Read more
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The Inner Coast
By: Donovan Hohn
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Prize-winning essays on our changing place in the natural world by the bestselling author of Moby-Duck.
Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely... Read more
Crossing Boundaries
By: Aziz Abu Sarah
Narrated by: Tristan Wright
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
“Aziz Abu Sarah rightly reminds us that it's not more travel we should be after, but the right kind of travel—one that treads lightly, highlights multiple perspectives (including traditionally marginalized ones), and fosters personal transformation, which is the key to a better world.”
—Norie Quintos, Editor at Large, National Geographic Travel... Read more
Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
By: Alexandra Petri
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency.
In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will... Read more
Take Back the Tray
By: Joshna Maharaj
Narrated by: Joshna Maharaj
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A beloved chef takes on institutional food and sparks a revolution with this manifesto, memoir from the trenches, and blueprint for reclaiming control from corporations and brutal bottom lines. “With hard-won insights and deep commitment, Joshna Maharaj takes us on a mouthwatering tour of what our collective food future might be.” ― Raj... Read more
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Dear NHS
By: Various
Narrated by: Caitlin Moran, Candice Carty-Williams, Ed Sheer...
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
FEATURES 75 STORIES NARRATED BY THEIR AUTHORS
Curated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million bestseller This is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include Paul McCartney, Emilia Clarke, Stephen Fry, Sir Trevor McDonald,... Read more
Ins Astloch gemurmelt - Abridged
By: Christian Hölbling
Narrated by: Christian Hölbling
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Christian Hölbling ist ein feiner Beobachter der kleinen Welt und schließt daraus oft auf die große. Denn er merkt, dass die Globalisierung längst in unserem Dorf gelandet ist. Obwohl er meint, dass man so manche Kritik genauso gut in ein Astloch murmeln könnte, versucht er sich mit diesem Buch doch als Aufklärer. Seine Texte sind pointiert... Read more
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The Cold Vanish
By: Jon Billman
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them.
These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace... Read more