Essays audiobooks

The Quarry Fox

By: Leslie T. Sharpe

Narrated by: Leslie T. Sharpe

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Quarry Fox, Leslie T. Sharpe chronicles the seasons and the vibrant wildlife of a landscape she cherishes, offering her keen insights in an engaging narrative that celebrates the splendor of the natural world. From crafty foxes and hibernating bears to vulnerable monarch butterflies, The Quarry Fox explores the creatures of the Great... Read more

Nature beyond Solitude

By: John Seibert Farnsworth

Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well.In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and grad students engaged in long-term ecological... Read more

Война Алой и Белой розы. Краткая история

By: Дэвит Граммитт

Narrated by: Михаил Росляков

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Книга посвящена одной из самых драматичных страниц в истории Англии — Войне Алой и Белой розы, серии династических вооруженных конфликтов 1455–1485 годов, развернувшихся в ходе борьбы за власть между двумя ветвями династии Плантагенетов — Ланкастеров и Йорков — и завершившихся победой Генриха Тюдора из боковой ветви Ланкастеров, основателя... Read more

The Gift and the Curse "the Jeff Jackson Story"

By: Jeff Jackson

Narrated by: Jeff Jackson

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

(Author) Jeff Jackson former high school "GATORADE" Player Of The Year and Philadelphia Phillies former #1 Draft Pick takes you on a journey deep into his life... He reveals his truth about his professional baseball career as well as his experience with the Philadelphia Phillies and shares what really happened... For the first time, he divulges... Read more

Rebel Chef

By: Dominique Crenn & Emma Brockes

Narrated by: Hope Newhouse

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn

By the time Dominique Crenn decided to become a chef, at the age of twenty-one, she knew it was a near impossible dream in France where almost all restaurant kitchens were run by men. So, she left her home and everything she knew to move to San Francisco, where... Read more

French Like Moi

By: Scott Dominic Carpenter

Narrated by: Scott Dominic Carpenter

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

FRENCH OR FAUX?When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that await: scheming neighbors, police denunciations, surly demonstrators, cooking disasters, medical mishaps—not to mention all those lectures about cheese! It turns out that nothing in the City of Light can be taken for granted, where even... Read more

Dans la tête des animaux

By: François Y. Doré

Narrated by: Claude Despins

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

À quoi pense un chat en guettant les oiseaux ? Un éléphant marchant dans la savane ? Un chimpanzé devant un miroir ? Si les animaux ne peuvent nous parler, les récentes recherches démontrent qu’ils ont tout de même une activité mentale intense. En fait, l’animal a des habiletés cognitives qui lui permettent de s’adapter et de s’ajuster à... Read more

Pawverbs

By: Jennifer Marshall Bleakley

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and wise collection of lessons from Proverbs . . . taught by teachers with paws.
Many of us believe a house isn’t a home unless there is fur on the floor. Pawverbs, a collection of 100 short stories featuring real-life animals, presents the godly wisdom of Proverbs in a whimsical way―inviting us to explore deep spiritual truths... Read more

All Things Reconsidered

By: Knox McCoy

Narrated by: Knox McCoy & Jamie Golden

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you able to give your first impressions a second look? In this lighthearted and humorous take on life, Knox McCoy explores questioning and examining long-held ideas that no longer represent how we think.What would it mean to really examine what you think you know about yourself and your beliefs? To not just rely on the cliches you’ve always... Read more

The Groom Will Keep His Name

By: Matt Ortile

Narrated by: Matt Ortile

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A riotous collection of "witty and captivating" essays by a gay Filipino immigrant in America who is learning that everything is about sex (Bitch Magazine) -- and sex is about power.
When Matt Ortile moved from Manila to Las Vegas, the locals couldn't pronounce his name. Harassed as a kid for his brown skin, accent, and femininity, he believed he... Read more

Surviving Autocracy

By: Masha Gessen

Narrated by: Masha Gessen

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times

“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview

As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’sAll Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to... Read more

Gender Rebels

By: Anneka Harry

Narrated by: Gemma Cairney, Maya Jama & Suranne Jones

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes audio exclusive bonus material: Suranne Jones, Maya Jama, Gemma Cairney and Anneka Harry discuss their favourite Gender Rebels, feminism, their female role models and how women are missing (or misrepresented) in the history books.
Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their... Read more

La Mémoire qu'on vous a volée : de 1760 à nos jours

By: Louis-Philippe Messier & Gilles Proulx

Narrated by: Gilles Proulx

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Après le succès de Nouvelle-France. Ce qu'on aurait dû vous enseigner, Gilles Proulx revient à la charge pour revaloriser la mémoire collective du Québec. Pourquoi connaissons-nous si mal notre histoire? Dans cet ouvrage rédigé en collaboration avec Louis-Philippe Messier, Gilles Proulx raconte les grands événements et célèbre les personnages... Read more

Decisiones difíciles

By: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa

Narrated by: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa & Luis Leonardo Suárez

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

«Con el liderazgo de México hemos podido ver progresos en una amplia gama de retos que son vitales para prosperar: la seguridad alimentaria, el crecimiento económico verde, el combate al cambio climático, la educación financiera... Todo esto se dio en gran parte por el liderazgo del Presidente Calderón.» Barack Obama. Reunión del G20 en Los... Read more

La piel

By: Sergio del Molino

Narrated by: Sergio del Molino

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Sergio del Molino nos lleva a un territorio que nos pertenece a todos: la piel. El autor de La España vacía vuelve para hacer que nos miremos como nunca lo habíamos hecho. ENTRE LOS DIEZ MEJORES LIBROS DE 2020 SEGÚN EL CORREO «Sergio del Molino es el más joven de todos, pero tiene tanto a sus espaldas que parece el mayor. ¿De dónde saca su... Read more

Feasting Wild

By: Gina Rae La Cerva

Narrated by: Gina Rae La Cerva

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection“Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have lost since then.”—The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive... Read more

Bruno Rodi -- Globe-trotter des extrêmes

By: Sonia Sarfati

Narrated by: Pierre Corriveau

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Homme de famille et homme d'affaires, Bruno Rodi a aussi le voyage dans le sang. Il est probablement le plus grand voyageur vivant en terre québécoise. Il a répondu à l'appel de l'aventure, d'abord en se lançant à l'assaut du plus haut sommet de chaque continent, puis en se rendant au pôle Nord et au pôle Sud en ski. En l'an 2000, il a commencé... Read more

Figli Di Dio! Non Coglioni!

By: Andrzej Stanislaw Budzinski

Narrated by: Elias Ghetti

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Penso, almeno spero che la risposta non è difficile a nessuno di noi. Siamo figli di Dio! Dio è nostro Padre! Guardate che noi non siamo orfani e figli di nessuno. Dio è nostro Padre, Creatore del cielo, della Terra e dell’intero Universo. Nostro Padre è onnipotente. Non può essere meglio. Non possiamo avere un Padre migliore. Siamo fortunati.... Read more

Brown Album

By: Porochista Khakpour

Narrated by: Porochista Khakpour

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.

Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted by an alienating... Read more

Pulphead

By: John Jeremiah Sullivan

Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly

A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape―from high to low to lower than low―by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world.

In Pulphead, John Jeremiah... Read more

Biografía del silencio

By: Pablo d'Ors

Narrated by: Luis D'Ors

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Basta un año de meditación perseverante, o incluso medio, para percatarse de que se puede vivir de otra forma. La meditación nos concentra, nos devuelve a casa, nos enseña a convivir con nuestro ser, nos agrieta la estructura de nuestra personalidad hasta que, de tanto meditar, la grieta se ensancha y la vieja personalidad se rompe y, como una... Read more

Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings

By: David Roberts

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of 20 essays and articles on mountaineering and adventure by David Roberts, selected from the published works of two decades, showcases one of the most highly regarded writers in the field. The articles are composed of three types: Adventures (Roberts' own climbs and outings), Profiles (other adventurers), and Reflections... Read more

You're Doing Great!

By: Tom Papa

Narrated by: Tom Papa

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

“You’re Doing Great! is your no-nonsense go-to collection of essays to get you through the increasing noise and chatter of self-doubt and confusion in the new millennium. Tom Papa is a funny, empathetic guide and your new best friend." — Patton Oswalt

"Read it. Listen to it. Whatever, do what you want.... Read more

Braver Than You Think

By: Maggie Downs

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At age 34, newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother’s.As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing.... Read more