Interior States
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction
"Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection."
--Lorrie Moore
A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity:... Read more
The Reckonings
By: Lacy M. Johnson
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.
In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a... Read more
My Squirrel Days
By: Ellie Kemper
Narrated by: Ellie Kemper
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and host of The Great American Baking Show Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).
“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny, healthy woman... Read more
Why Baseball Matters
By: Susan Jacoby
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans. Furthermore, baseball's greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital... Read more
View audiobookFrankfurter Sagen und Legenden
By: Katharina Hammann & Kristina Hammann
Narrated by: Michael Nowack
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Die alte Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main, die Karl der Große im Jahre 794 n. Chr. erstmals in einer Urkunde erwähnte, ist reich an wundervollen Sagen und Legenden und blickt auf eine große deutsche Geschichte zurück. Kein geringerer als Carolus Magnus, Karl der Große, einer der geschichtsträchtigsten Herrscher des Abendlandes, wählte die Furt der... Read more
View audiobookThe Unexpected Genius of Pigs
By: Matt Whyman
Narrated by: Matt Whyman
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our lives for nearly as long. Pigs are highly social and smart. They like to play. They’re inventive, crafty and belligerent – and incredibly singleminded. Ultimately, we have far more in common with these... Read more
View audiobookWhat We’re Teaching Our Sons
By: Owen Booth
Narrated by: Owen Booth
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what... Read more
View audiobookKamikaze Kangaroos!
By: Tony James Slater
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Tony James Slater knew nothing about Australia.
Except for the fact that he’d just arrived there.
The stage is set for an outrageous adventure: three people, one van, on an epic, 20,000 mile road trip around Australia.
What could possibly go wrong?
Of course, the van—nicknamed "Rusty"—is a crumbling wreck, held together by the world’s most... Read more
Impossible Owls
By: Brian Phillips
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.
The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV days, and three new... Read more
Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance
By: Valorie Kondos Field
Narrated by: Valorie Kondos Field
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Highly acclaimed UCLA Women's gymnastics coach of 7 NCAA championships Valorie Kondos Field shares insights on how to use uniqueness and authenticity to achieve success.
Former professional ballerina Valorie Kondos Field--or Miss Val, as she's affectionately known--has never tumbled, flipped, or even played any type of organized sports, and yet... Read more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
By: Dr. Steven Novella
Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."
It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with... Read more
The Burden
By: Rochelle Riley
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Burden, edited by award-winning Detroit newspaper columnist Rochelle Riley, is a powerful collection of essays that create a chorus of evidence that the burden is real. As Nikole Hannah-Jones states in the book's foreword, "despite the fact that black Americans remain at the bottom of every indicator of well-being in this country—from... Read more
View audiobookRed Lipstick: The Men In My Life
By: Laxmi
Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The world keeps taunting him as girlish but the fact is that, biologically, he is a boy. And, he is always attracted to guys. Is Laxmi both a man and a woman? Or, perhaps, neither a man nor a woman? The first inklings and stirrings of lust that Laxmi remembers came from noticing big, strong arms, the hint of a guy's moustache over his lips,... Read more
View audiobookThe Detox Diet
By: Shonali Sabherwal
Narrated by: Vanita Masquerenhas
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Shonali Sabherwal is a celebrity nutritionist who specializes in improving immunity, removing toxins, managing weight, reversing ‘leaky-gut’ syndrome and other autoimmune ailments by first altering the biodiversity of the gut. In her new book The Detox Diet, she sheds light on how the root of everything connected to our health lies in... Read more
View audiobook50 Cups Of Coffee
By: Khushnuma Daruwala
Narrated by: Aditi Thirani
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Dating is an undeniably daunting task, especially when you're done with casual flings and are looking for the real deal to settle down with. When a 30-something woman signs up on a dating website for people looking to get married, she realizes just how delightful, vexing, amusing and befuddling trying to find the perfect husband can be. Based... Read more
View audiobookNot a Nice Man To Know
By: Khushwant Singh
Narrated by: Dev Haldar J
Length: 17 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The essential Khushwant Singh collection.
In an essay in this anthology, Khushwant Singh claims that he is not a nice man to know. Whatever the truth of that assertion, there is little question about his skill as a witty, eloquent and entertaining writer. This book collects the best of over three decades of the author’s prose—including... Read more
Unsuitable Boy
By: Karan Johar
Narrated by: Gaurav Sajjanhar
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Karan Johar is synonymous with success, panache, quick wit, and outspokenness, which sometimes inadvertently creates controversy and makes headlines. KJo, as he is popularly called, has been a much-loved Bollywood film director, producer, actor, and discoverer of new talent. With his flagship Dharma Production, he has constantly challenged the... Read more
View audiobookFandango at the Wall
By: Kabir Sehgal
Narrated by: Kabir Sehgal & Douglas Brinkley
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico, accompanied by music from Grammy-winning musician Arturo O'Farrill and special guests, an extended foreword from historian Douglas Brinkley, and afterword by Ambassador Andrew Young.
The US-Mexican relationship... Read more
Haltung zeigen! (Ungekürzt)
By: Anja Reschke
Narrated by: Anja Reschke
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Haltung ist wieder ein öffentliches Thema, es wird danach gefragt, gar gerufen. Offenbar fehlt es daran. Menschen, die Haltung zeigen, Journalisten, Politiker, Whistleblower, werden dafür gelobt und geliked. Oder je nach dem auch angefeindet. Aber was ist das eigentlich: Haltung? Seit Anja Reschke immer wieder attestiert wird, Haltung zu zeigen,... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful Country Burn Again
By: Ben Fountain
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive:... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Like Me
By: America Ferrera
Narrated by: America Ferrera, Bambadjan Bamba, Joy Cho, Auli...
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... Read more
Life Honestly
By: The Pool
Narrated by: Sam Baker & Zawe Ashton
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Life Honestly is a complete guide to modern life from some of today's most talented and insightful writers including Bryony Gordon, Dolly Alderton, Natasha Devon, Lauren Laverne and Yomi Adegoke.
Within these pages you’ll find an un-airbrushed selection of advice, comment and opinion. These are intimate stories from bad sex to bad boys, from... Read more
Basketball
By: Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew & Dan Klores
Narrated by: James Fouhey, Jim Frangione, Sullivan Jones, Pe...
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.
In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie Macmullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores have... Read more
Dispatches from Planet 3
By: Marcia Bartusiak
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological “tales” by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In thirty-two concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe and those who strive to uncover its... Read more
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