Essays audiobooks

Interpreting Our Heritage

By: Freeman Tilden

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman... Read more

Tuk-Tuk for Two

By: Adam Fletcher

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"The race." She said. "India. Were you serious . . . ?"



About racing a tuk-tuk one thousand kilometres through India with a woman I'd just met?



No, I wasn't serious.



"There's a fifty percent chance we'll die. And the flight's in two days. But if you want to, okay . . . "

It was not a reasonable offer. But then she wasn't a reasonable woman. She was... Read more

White Guilt

By: Shelby Steele

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

""Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard Wright’s best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership.” — Cleveland Plain DealerIn 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused... Read more

Visegrado

By: Karen Villeda

Narrated by: Dulce Guerrero

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Los países de Europa del Este son el blanco de esta crónica de viajes, suerte de ensayo sobre literaturas distantes, y a la vez colección de estampas sobre la identidad y los desplazamientos. República Checa, Varsovia y Hungría. En los textos que a manera de prólogos abren la lectura, la autora expone su propuesta del libro: Visegrado será... Read more

The End of the Road

By: Jack Cooke

Narrated by: Paul Hilliar

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites. Along the way, he launches a daredevil... Read more

Unutulacak Şeyler - Abridged

By: Sinan Canan

Narrated by: Nisan Kumru

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Daha önce sizi Fraktal Düşünceler'imin dehlizlerine davet etmiş, ardından Kimsenin Bilemeyeceği Şeyler'in var olduğuna ikna etmeye gayret etmiştim. Sonra da Değişen Be(y)nim ile beyinlerimizi anlatmaya çalıştım size; her birimizin değişmeye nasıl mecbur ve mahkûm olduğunun altını çizmek için… Şimdi, yıllardır kendime hatırlatmaya muvaffak... Read more

Democracy and Delusion

By: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

Narrated by: Hangwi Lephatsi

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

South African politics is riddled with delusions. Many common political arguments come pre-packaged in an old and dusty box - but the self-evident truths are not, in fact, so indisputable. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh sets out to dismantle that box. He argues that free education is far from impossible, the ANC's liberation narrative is too idyllic to... Read more

Sobre el amor (Serie Great Ideas)

By: Miguel de Cervantes

Narrated by: Eugenio Barona, Paula Iwasaki, Rebeca Hernando,...

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.... Read more

Probable Impossibilities

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls... Read more

Hungry Hearts

By: Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty.

Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse... Read more

The River Always Wins

By: David Marquis

Narrated by: David Marquis

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation... Read more

Die Überraschung

By: Wolf Lotter

Narrated by: Wolf Lotter & Ralf Herms

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

+rosebud no.8 – Die Überraschung ist die finale Ausgabe von +rosebud magazine. Das bibliophil gestaltete und produzierte Buch markiert den Abschluss einer Serie, deren Leitmotiv seit mehr als 20 Jahren, abseits von Genregrenzen, die Möglichkeiten des Mediums Papier auslotet und experimentell weiterentwickelt. Zentraler Bestandteil des Buches ist... Read more

El arte de mentir

By: Eusebio Ruvalcaba

Narrated by: Juan Antonio Edwards

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Aforismo, ensayos –unos largos, otros breves-, apuntes, reflexiones. La charla íntima se turna con la lección del maestro. Un decálogo, un instructivo, un manual. Todos comparten una sapiencia serena y libre de vanidad, un discurso sembrado de brillantes conclusiones, cuestionamientos fértiles e informes de la experiencia. La Amistad, las... Read more

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

El 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

Yards 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

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

You 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

The 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

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

Homo 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

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

결혼해도 괜찮아

By: 박혜란

Narrated by: 김경진

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

결혼 45년차 여성학자 박혜란은 결혼에 대해 무슨 이야기를 할까? -[다시 아이를 키운다면][믿는 만큼 자라는 아이들] 베스트셀러 저자 박혜란 취업 출산 결혼을 포기했다고 해서 '삼포세대'라는 말이 생기고, 결혼하는 사람보다 이혼하는 사람들이 많아지는 세상에 '결혼해도 괜찮다?' 결혼 45년차 여성학자 박혜란은 결혼에 대해 무슨 이야기를 할까? 이제는 이적 엄마로 더 많이 알려진 베스트셀러 저자 박혜란은 특유의 유쾌한 글쓰기로 결혼을 비틀기 한다. "결혼이 진흙탕이라고? 그래! 진흙탕 맞아, 근데 너만 빠진 거 아니잖아. 너만 빠지면 불행하지만 모두가 함께 빠지면 진흙탕도 놀이터가 될 수 있어." 지금부터... Read more