Essays audiobooks

Homegrown

By: Alex Speier

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox, as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core—the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from one of the most respected baseball writers in the country.The 2018 season was a coronation for the Boston Red Sox. The best team in Major League... Read more

Diagnosis

By: Lisa Sanders

Narrated by: Lisa Sanders

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series

“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York... Read more

Zen Bender

By: Stephanie Krikorian

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Forty, chronically single, and up an extra twenty pounds, TV news producer Stephanie Krikorian fell victim to The Great Recession, finding herself suddenly unemployed. One unwanted pregnancy away from being a Lifetime Original Movie, Stephanie had to reinvent herself . . . and fast. So, to keep her head above water, she started ghostwriting... Read more

La vida de las abejas

By: Maurice Maeterlink

Narrated by: Alex Ortega

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra aparece reeditada después de muchos años en un terreno tan difícil como la realidad colombiana que vivimos. Es una invitación a volver a las raíces de la naturaleza y a la concordia que tanto necesita nuestro país. Read more

La vida de las hormigas

By: Maurice Maeterlink

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Las hormigas se nos muestran en este libro como seres capaces de extraordinarias proezas. como el hombre, también ellas cuentan con ejercicios organizados. algunas se han especializado en una suerte de ganadería y otras parecen hacer aprendido a cultivar sus alimentos. su sistema de comunicación también despierta el asombro y nos recuerda a la... Read more

Lady Diana - Top Secret

By: Sergio Felleti

Narrated by: Ian A Miller

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What and who caused the death of Lady Diana? Was she a victim of a fatal accidental car crash, or was she violently murdered through a precise and well organized plot? According to the authors of many books it is an extremely mysterious event, and it will remain so forever, however this book gives out evidence, testimonies and accuracies about... Read more

The Pretty One

By: Keah Brown

Narrated by: Keah Brown

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire... Read more

Girl on the Block

By: Jessica Wragg

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A memoir of coming of age behind the counter, exploring butchery as an art form and taking an incisive look at an industry on the brink.When sixteen-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at her local farm shop in Derbyshire, England, she never expected to land a position behind the butchery counter. Wragg was younger than many of her... Read more

An Everlasting Meal

By: Tamar Adler

Narrated by: Tamar Adler

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler has written a book that “reads less like a cookbook than like a recipe for a delicious life” (New York magazine).

In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. An Everlasting Meal demonstrates the implicit frugality... Read more

La aventura de los conquistadores

By: Juan Antonio Cebrián

Narrated by: Sergio Olcina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

El 12 de octubre de 1492 el almirante Cristóbal Colón, al mando de tres navíos y un puñado de aventureros, soldados y clérigos, descubría la realidad de un nuevo continente que recibiría más tarde el nombre de América. Aquella tierra se convirtió de inmediato en el paraíso prometido para miles de esforzados soñadores, tan ávidos de aventura y... Read more

Don't Wait Up

By: Liz Astrof

Narrated by: Liz Astrof

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“The parenting genre is never going to be the same” (Jancee Dunn, author of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids) after this candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The King of Queens, who swears she loves her kids—when she’s not hiding from... Read more

The Great Alone - Abridged

By: Tim Voors

Narrated by: BJ Genten

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Time is precious. The world is waiting. Rediscover yourself. The Great Alone is the epic adventure of a relatable explorer. Why does a 44-year-old father leave his family for six months to walk 4,286 km across America on the Pacific Crest Trail? What effect does it have on his marriage? on his children? and on himself? Following his... Read more

Física de lo imposible

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Raúl Arrieta

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Hasta qué punto los ingenios de la ciencia ficción que hoy consideramos imposibles pueden ser habituales en el futuro? Descúbrelo escuchando este audiolibro. Teletransporte, máquinas del tiempo, campos de fuerza y naves intergalácticas: ¿materia de ciencia ficción o tecnologías potencialmente disponibles en el futuro? Inspirado por los mundos... Read more

Screen Tests

By: Kate Zambreno

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Screen Tests, an astoundingly original and stylish collection, Zambreno has once again created new categories of writing, of vivid and surprising language and thought. In the first half, the narrator regales us with incisive and witty swatches from a life lived inside a brilliant mind, meditating on aging and vanity, fame and failure, writing... Read more

Funny, Sad & True

By: Ale Solis

Narrated by: Ale Solis

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny, Sad & True nos relata un camino de autodescubrimiento que, a primera vista, podría resultar inspirador – si no fuera porque se trata de una historia de tropiezos.En este conjunto de ensayos cómicos, la comediante abarca temas tan diversos como los poderes mágicos de las frutas, las preocupaciones generacionales que atormentan a la... Read more

La inteligencia de las flores

By: Maurice Maeterlink

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra aparece reeditada después de muchos años en un terreno tan difícil como la realidad colombiana que vivimos. Es una invitación a volver a las raíces de la naturaleza y a la concordia que tanto necesita nuestro país. Read more

Bring Jade Home

By: Michelle Caffrey

Narrated by: Kristin James

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine your dog, suddenly lost in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Alone. At night. Surrounded by wolves and grizzly bears. Day after day, week after week. How far would you go to find your dog? Time is running out. Predators. Frigid nights. A dangerous landscape. Starvation.

Bring Jade Home is the gripping true story of Jade, a young... Read more

The Songlines

By: Bruce Chatwin

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song—and humanity's origins. Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the... Read more

Raised in Captivity

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, James Urbaniak, Bill Wise, Ed...

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?

A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play.... Read more

The Jack Report

By: Albert

Narrated by: Jack

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

London Calling is the independent social and political observation of an observant Londoner.Albert Jack has written 18 books, including four worldwide best-sellers, on subjects ranging between history, politics, religion and war.This collection is Part One in a series of five.'Albert Jack offers a crash-course in skeptical thinking and -... Read more

Hungry

By: Jeff Gordinier

Narrated by: Jeff Gordinier

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with René Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.
 
“If you want to understand modern restaurant culture, you need to read this book.”—Ruth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums
 
Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but... Read more

Burn the Ice

By: Kevin Alexander

Narrated by: Holter Graham & Kevin Alexander

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Inspiring"—Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the Table

James Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in American dining

Over the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a... Read more

Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez

By: Nicolas Bérubé

Narrated by: Pierre Corriveau

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Comment décririez-vous la vie d'un millionnaire ? Conduirait-il un VUS électrique ? Habiterait-il un loft haut perché ou une maison avec des tourelles ? Sur les relevés de ses cartes de crédit, trouverait-on des achats de vêtements chics ? Des repas dans des restaurants à la mode ? Ces gens existent, bien sûr, mais la plupart de ceux qui mènent... Read more

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

By: Gore Vidal & Jay Parini (Editor)

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four... Read more