Essays audiobooks

Otro fin del mundo es posible

By: Alejandro Gaviria

Narrated by: Alejandro Gaviria

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Durante el confinamiento obligatorio del primer semestre de este año, Alejandro Gaviria entabló una conversación peculiar con el filósofo inglés Aldous Huxley. Fiel a su idea de que "la lectura es un acto de creación", se dedicó a leer y releer los ensayos y novelas de este autor, que considera imprescindible y un auténtico pensador del... Read more

Rilassamento

By: Andrzej Budzinski

Narrated by: Stefano Trillini

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A parte il contenuto che è molto interessante e utile... facile da leggere perché scritto in modo leggero, “colpisce” come la pubblicità...tocca profondamente e fa riflettere...non lascia il lettore indifferente...interessante e direi anche nuovo e originale, tutto fatto a slogan, con frasi brevi che tendono a colpire il lettore con il detto... Read more

الشاي.. ثقافات.. طقوس.. حكايات

By: كريستوف بيترز

Narrated by: شادي عباس

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

في هذا الكتاب، يقوم الكاتب والخبير بالشاي "كريستوف بيترز" بحديث مطول مع القارئ عن الشاي. ويحكي في هذا الكتاب عن ولعه بذلك المشروب المُلهِم المتنوع وعن فن إعداده، الذي يُسبِّب السعادة. منذ كان فتى يافعًا، يُفضِّل "كريستوف بيترز" جمع أواني الشاي أكثر من جمع الإسطوانات، والآن ينهمك لساعاتٍ كثيرة كل أسبوع في معرفة السُبُل المختلفة التي تُمكِّنه من... Read more

Plaidoyer pour la véritable liberté, égalité, fraternité

By: Edouard Nelson

Narrated by: Philip Kapitaniuk

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité !La devise de notre République française est magnifique. Elle inspire nos révolutions et orne fièrement nos bâtiments publics. Trois mots simples, mais qui reflètent nos plus profondes aspirations. Seulement voilà, avouons qu'ils portent en eux un idéal plus qu'une réalité. Quelle frustration !Serait-il possible... Read more

Midnight Chicken

By: Ella Risbridger

Narrated by: Ella Risbridger

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Midnight Chicken written and read by Ella Risbridger.
_________________

Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020
_________________

‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson

‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ –... Read more

Three Simple Lines

By: Natalie Goldberg

Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku

A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that “make the mind leap.” A good one, he said, lets the mind experience “a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God.” As many... Read more

Mobile Home

By: Megan Harlan

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family's extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan's globe-wandering... Read more

Como sapiens

By: Lucas Llach

Narrated by: Javier Gómez

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

El conflicto entre nuestros instintos y cuerpo de Homo sapiens y la vida que llevamos es cada vez mayor. ¿Qué humanidad estamos construyendo?
Nuestra especie no era la única ni la más prometedora de las varias versiones de humanos en el planeta hace 200.000 años. Pero lo conquistó. Salió de su cuna en África y ocupó todos los continentes.... Read more

Aim of Life and Other Articles

By: Pabitra Adhikary

Narrated by: Ashish Hazra & Rohini Chatterjee

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of articles by Pabitra Adhikary Read more

Back to Nature

By: Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin

Narrated by: Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Optimistic field notes from the new normal for nature

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And although the natural world has never been more under pressure, there are still reasons to be hopeful.

Through personal stories, conservation breakthroughs and fascinating scientific discoveries, Back to Nature captures... Read more

'저 마포구 사람인데요' (원본)

By: 다니엘 브라이트

Narrated by: Daniel Bright & Sang-Un Lee

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"한국에서도 충분히 재미있게, 희망차게 살 수 있다는 것을 보여주고 싶었다" 동네 할머니부터 소설가까지, 국적과 직업, 인종과 세대를 넘나들며 유튜버 단이 만난 '성실하게 버티는 삶들'의 이야기 구독자 27만 명의 유튜브 [단앤조엘]의 크리에이터 '단(본명 다니엘 브라이트)'이 책을 출간했다. 영국 웨일스 출신으로 마포구에 살고 있는 단은 유튜브 채널 [영국남자]에 조쉬의 친구로 종종 등장하며 얼굴을 알리다가 또 다른 친구 조엘과 함께 [단앤조엘]을 만들었다. 유튜브 [단앤조엘]은 한국의 소탈하고 인간적인 모습을 다큐멘터리와 같은 영상미로 찍어내며 현재 수많은 구독자에게 감동을 주고 있다. 자극적인 콘텐츠가 아닌... Read more

The Particulars of Peter

By: Kelly Conaboy

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg & Kelly Conaboy

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

"This might be one of the month’s, if not the year’s, sweetest books — zaniest, too.” ―The Washington Post

"A hilarious addition to the dogoir canon.” ―People

"Perhaps the greatest love story ever told.” ―Refinery29 "The feel-good book the world needs." —PopSugar 
From one of the Internet's most original voices, a hilarious journey through the odd... Read more

An Outsider's Guide to Humans

By: Camilla Pang PhD

Narrated by: Camilla Pang PhD

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE

An instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger's syndrome allows her--and us--to see ourselves in a different way...and to be better at being human

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand... Read more

Fire Flood Plague

By: Sophie Cunningham

Narrated by: Aimee Horne & Rupert Degas

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 began with fire storms raging through the country, followed by floods, and then a global pandemic that has changed how Australians think, feel and live. We all experienced this year differently, but one thing rings true for all us: this is a year we won't forget.

This anthology brings together original work from a diverse collection of... Read more

Paddling My Own Canoe

By: Audrey Sutherland

Narrated by: Mapuana Makia

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A Book for Connoisseurs of Wild Places of the EarthAn Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now"

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now

In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and... Read more

Paddling North

By: Audrey Sutherland

Narrated by: Mapuana Makia

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now"

In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast... Read more

En el limbo

By: Estanislao Bachrach

Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz & Estanislao Bachrach

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Con Ágilmente Estanislao Bachrach puso de moda la neurociencia. Con En el limbo -luego de años de investigación- el divulgador científico más lúcido de la década nos presenta una nueva teoría sobre las emociones que barre por completo con los viejos conceptos que aún hoy intentan imponer los ensayos de autores que repiten viejas fórmulas. ... Read more

True Stories and Other Rarities: Backpacking in Asia

By: Mark Gowan

Narrated by: Mark Gowan

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When the lamp hit the wall we knew we needed a change. And change things we did. Very shortly afterwards we sold almost everything we owned, bought backpacks and boots and two one-way tickets to Bangkok Thailand. We didn't know when we were coming back or even where we would go but Bangkok was a start and we needed a new start. Living a quiet... Read more

The Grand Gypsy

By: Ottavio Canestrelli with Ottavio Gesmundo

Narrated by: Ottavio Gesmundo

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What do Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, and Ed Sullivan have in common? Ottavio Canestrelli crossed paths with each. He performed with the Krone Circus in Italy and Germany from 1922 to 1924 on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power; he witnessed a rally for Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1931; and he appeared twice on the Ed Sullivan Show during the... Read more

I Hate Men

By: Pauline Harmange

Narrated by: Emily Lucienne

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The feminist book they tried to ban in France ‘A delightful book’ Roxane Gay Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.) But what if mistrusting men,... Read more

How to be Human: Life Lessons from Buddy Hirani

By: Manjeet Hirani

Narrated by: Aishwarya Singh

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Manjeet Hirani was adamant that a dog would never enter her house, but that was before little Buddy arrived at her doorstep.

One day, the doorbell rang. Her husband, Rajkumar Hirani, who had just finished shooting for the film PK, had sent a parcel for their son. It was an adorable puppy, one that had played the role of a depressed dog... Read more

No One Asked For This

By: Cazzie David

Narrated by: Cazzie David, Gabra Zackman & James Langton

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From writer/director Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about anxiety, social media, misanthropy, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.
For Cazzie David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks... Read more

Under the Open Skies

By: Markus Torgeby & Frida Torgeby

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural world—under the open skies.""I believe in sleeping outdoors, surrounded by tall fir trees, darkness and cold. Lying on my back and looking up at the stars, watching my breath form thin clouds.""Under the Open Skies is one man’s perspective-shifting, immersive... Read more

Not Necessarily Rocket Science

By: Kellie Gerardi

Narrated by: Angie Kane

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity is on an astronomical trajectory and according to aerospace professional and popular science communicator Kellie Gerardi, that future doesn’t rest solely on the shoulders of rocket scientists. Gerardi’s non-traditional path in the space industry shows us that humanity’s next giant leap will require the contributions of artists,... Read more