Essays audiobooks

شاب كشك ... في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

By: عمرو سلامة

Narrated by: مصطفى خضر

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

الكتاب مجموعة من المواضيع التى تشغل كل المصريين ولكن بفكر شبابى. ينقل لنا الكاتب والمخرج عمرو سلامة تجربته الواسعه. "لية نقعد فى مصر ؟ علشان هنا فيه حياة، فيه مجتمع مفنجل، فيه ديليفرى الساعة 4 الصبح، قهاوي على مدار الساعة، موبايلك فيه نمر بالعبيط، لناس تفضفض معاهم وتحس انك إنسان فيه حد مهتم بيك، العالم الغربي عالم وحيد بالنسبة لينا، كئيب حتى... Read more

العقد الفريد - الجزء السابع

By: أحمد بن عبد ربه الأندلسي

Narrated by: عادل المسلاتي

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

العقد الفريد هو كتاب من تأليف ابن عبد ربه الأندلسي (ت. 328 هـ)، يعتبر من أمهات كتاب الأدب العربي . الكتاب موسوعة أدبية، تجمع بين المختارات الشعرية والنثرية، ولمحات من التاريخ والأخبار، مع الأخذ بنظرات في البلاغة والنقد مع شيء من العروض والموسيقى، وإشارات للأخلاق والعادات. Read more

العقد الفريد - الجزء الخامس

By: أحمد بن عبد ربه الأندلسي

Narrated by: عادل المسلاتي

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

العقد الفريد هو كتاب من تأليف ابن عبد ربه الأندلسي (ت. 328 هـ)، يعتبر من أمهات كتاب الأدب العربي . الكتاب موسوعة أدبية، تجمع بين المختارات الشعرية والنثرية، ولمحات من التاريخ والأخبار، مع الأخذ بنظرات في البلاغة والنقد مع شيء من العروض والموسيقى، وإشارات للأخلاق والعادات. Read more

قهوة باليورانيوم

By: أحمد خالد توفيق

Narrated by: كريم مسعد

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

لابد أن تتوقع ممن أصدر كتابًا أسمه (شاي بالنعناع) أن يصدر كتابًا آخر أسمه (قهوة باليورانيوم).. هذا شيء حتمي له قوة القانون، ولا نسأل لماذا اليورانيوم بالذات، فلا يمكن أن يكون الكتاب قهوة بالزركونيوم أو الجرمانيوم. بعض هذه المقالات ساخر وبعضها مفعم بالشحن وبعضها يتلصص على عالم الفن الساحر .. لكنك لن تجد مقالًا سياسيًا واحدًا في هذه المجموعة، لأن... Read more

Nepal - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

By: Tessa Feller

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of contrasts and incongruities—not in the least in the variety of its cultural, ethnic, and religious weave. The Nepalese attitude toward life is essentially religious. Hindu and Buddhist values predominate and help to maintain social harmony despite the divisions between rich and poor,... Read more

هادم الأساطير

By: أحمد خالد توفيق

Narrated by: معتز أبو طالب

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

عندما تصطدم الحقيقة مع الخيال الممتع، فإن الخيال يكسب بالتأكيد!.. هكذا تولد الأساطير.. هكذا تولد الشائعات.. تتضافر عوامل عدة مثل الذاكرة المزيفة، والرغبة في التصديق، والبحث عن الإثارة، وشهوة جذب الاهتمام، والبحث المحموم عن تفسير منطقي لطلاسم الكون، دعك من الرغبة في الكسب المادي لأن سوق الخرافة رائجة في كل مكان وزمان.. من ثم تغدو الخرافة أكثر... Read more

Семь типов людей, которых можно встретить в книжном магазине

By: Шон Байтелл

Narrated by: Александр Хошабаев

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

За двадцать лет, проведенных за прилавком книжного магазина в шотландском Уигтауне, Шону Байтеллу довелось не только погрузиться в мир букинистических изданий и стать активным участником культурной жизни города и страны в целом, но и повстречаться с самыми разными покупателями — от благодушных до несносных. Впечатлений хватило теперь уже на... Read more

Der Schneeleopard (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Sylvain Tesson

Narrated by: Tom Wlaschiha

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein stilles Werk von ungeheurer Wirkung Sylvain Tesson ist Schriftsteller, Philosoph und Reisender. Gemeinsam mit dem Fotografen Vincent Munier reist er nach Tibet, um sich auf die Suche nach einem der seltensten Tiere dieser Erde zu begeben - dem Schneeleoparden. Werden sie ihn finden? Ungewiss! Auf über 5.000 Metern Höhe, fernab vom Lärm der... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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