The Motorcycle & The Molecule
By: Dougie Lux
Narrated by: Dougie Lux
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The Motorcycle & The Molecule is a comical insight into intentional communities, international travel and alternative styles of living. Mayan rulers, janky motorcycles and mischievous beavers all make appearances in a tale inspired by a solo research expedition through Central America. From a troubled community deep in the wilderness of... Read more
View audiobookThe sacred history of solitude and solitariness
By: Khaled Hafdhi
Narrated by: Frank Meaden
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Solitude offers us that other space of thinking, another modality where we can meet different ingredients of perfection. The author is letting his pen engrave what the fuel of the holy history of solitude may inspire, echoing as much lonesome voices from the past with a never ending thirst to offer the best in us.Solitude was there for us all... Read more
View audiobookDances with Destiny
By: Claire Markette
Narrated by: Brittany Goodwin
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of eleven sensitively written vignettes highlighting experiences and relationships is a wistful look back at life and love, their joys and disappointments, and the lessons we learn from our past and from the "dancers" in our lives. The essays can be read in a progression from Dance 1 to 11, or separately in any order. Read more
View audiobookThe Braindead Megaphone
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official "Genius"--his first nonfiction collection ever.
George Saunders's... Read more
How Contagion Works
By: Paolo Giordano
Narrated by: David Thorpe & Paolo Giordano
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time.
Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease
spreads in our interconnected world:
why it matters
how it impacts us
how we must react
By expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake... Read more
Leave Only Footprints
By: Conor Knighton
Narrated by: Conor Knighton
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe
From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and... Read more
Final Draft
By: David Carr & Jill Rooney Carr
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Christopher Ryan Grant & Jill...
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr’s writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, and more.
Throughout his 25-year journalistic career, David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness and justice, and his remarkable compassion and... Read more
I Don't Want to Die Poor
By: Michael Arceneaux
Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020
One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called “a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating,” comes a wry and insightful essay collection that explores the financial and emotional cost of chasing... Read more
Las reinas de África
By: Cristina Morató
Narrated by: Elisa Beuter
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Semblanzas, anécdotas e historias de las principales viajeras que llegaron a África en los siglos XIX y XX. Cristina Morató viajó por primera vez a África en 1983 y desde entonces ha recorrido varios países de este continente atraída por sus gentes y la grandeza de sus paisajes. Al igual que ella un buen número de extraordinarias viajeras y... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Odyssa
By: Jennifer Pharr Davis
Narrated by: Jennifer Pharr Davis
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2,175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. The... Read more
View audiobookFoodWISE
By: Gigi Berardi
Narrated by: Julie Slater
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive guide for food lovers on how to make the right food choices amidst a sea of ever-changing information, and an invitation to return to the joys of garden and kitchen
We live in a culture awash with advice on nutrition and eating. Who do we believe? And what does it really mean to eat healthy? Food Wise is for anyone who has felt... Read more
Sensuous Knowledge
By: Minna Salami
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power.
Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore... Read more
Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
By: Fanny Singer
Narrated by: Fanny Singer & Alice Waters
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.
In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother--and herself--Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food,... Read more
Hitching for Hope
By: Ruairí McKiernan
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A modern travel tale—part personal pilgrimage, part political quest—that captures the power of human resilience "McKiernan sticks his thumb out, and somehow a healthy dose of humanity manages to roll up alongside him. . . . This book is a paean to nuance, decency and possibility."—Colum McCann, National Book Award winner and New York Times... Read more
View audiobookHad I Known
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker).
A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an... Read more
Constellations
By: Sinéad Gleeson
Narrated by: Sinéad Gleeson
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 Irish bestseller and winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards, winner of the 2020 Dalkey Literary Awards, named Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Observer, Image, Irish Times, New Statesman, and Irish Independent, Sinéad Gleeson’s essays chronicle—in crystalline, tender, powerful prose—life in a... Read more
View audiobookLean Out
By: Tara Henley
Narrated by: Tara Henley
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Travel to the land of Couldn't Be More Timely."--Margaret Atwood on Lean Out, in the West End Phoenix
"What begins as one woman's critique of our culture of overwork and productivity ultimately becomes an investigation into our most urgent problems: vast inequality, loneliness, economic precarity, and isolation from... Read more
One Hundred Daffodils
By: Rebecca Winn
Narrated by: Rebecca Winn
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
"When women share the truth about life and loss . . . hope is restored" in this enlightening and comforting memoir about purpose, personal growth, and nature's ability to heal (Sarah Ban Breathnach).
"There is so much life in the garden. That is why I come. Life that is gentle, self-supporting, and beautiful. Continuous in its cycles, grounded,... Read more
Lives of Houses
By: Kate Kennedy & Hermione Lee
Narrated by: Kate Kennedy, Lisa Coleman, Phyllida Nash, Herm...
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee celebrates our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past
With additional narration by Lisa Coleman, Phyllida Nash, and Richard Pryal
Features contributions by notable writers such as UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes,... Read more
Your Life Is a Life of Hope!
By: Lord Birthday
Narrated by: Matthew Frow
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
What makes life worth living? If you ask Lord Birthday, the answer is visor hats. And lighthouses. And the stranger who gave him a half-eaten panini on the bus the other day.
In Your Life Is a Life of Hope!, the Internet’s favorite mustachioed king presents a series of short, illustrated essays in which he argues for hope by way of absurdity and... Read more
Las muertas
By: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Narrated by: Ignacio Casas
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Acompañada de tres hombres, una mujer llega a un pueblo en busca del panadero para cobrar venganza. Cuando lo encuentra, lo balacea y le prende fuego al lugar. Las investigaciones del crimen revelarán los oscuros secretos de las conocidas hermanas Baladro, dueñas de cantinas y prostíbulos. Estafas, trata de mujeres, entierros clandestinos y... Read more
View audiobookThailand - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Roger Jones
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
For many outsiders, Thailand still conjures up images of the East at its most mysterious and enchanting—a view largely formed by Hollywood films like The King and I. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today, it is a representative democracy with a populist... Read more
View audiobookThis Ain’t No Holiday Inn
By: James Lough
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Robertson Dean...
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
During its heyday, the Chelsea Hotel in New York City was a home and safe haven for Bohemian artists, poets, and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Janis Joplin, and Dee Dee Ramone.This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic façade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the... Read more
View audiobookRomania - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
By: Debbie Stowe
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A land of mountains, hills, and fertile plains, Romania is a tourist destination waiting to be discovered. It is a rich and complex country: a place whose cities are home to beautiful parks and vibrant cultural scenes and whose people welcome guests warmly into their homes, sharing the best of whatever they have and partying into the night,... Read more
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