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I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses
By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
Narrated by: Francesca Scottoline Serritella & Lisa Scottoline
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"Are you and your mother as funny as Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella? If not, these authors will keep you laughing as they share their meditations on life with vigor, energy, and pluck." — AudioFile Magazine
In I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt... Read more
What to Read and Why
By: Francine Prose
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño.In an age... Read more
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Can You Tolerate This?
By: Ashleigh Young
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling—and already prizewinning—collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappointment, Katherine Mansfield tourism and New Zealand punk rock, and the limitations of the body.
Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that... Read more
The Call of the Road
By: Chris Sidwells
Narrated by: David Thorpe
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. A sole cyclist battling over a pass high in the mountains is one of the most romantic of sporting images. In the past 150 years road cycling has been dominated by a series of iconic people who have redefined... Read more
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient... Read more
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Dead Girls
By: Alice Bolin
Narrated by: Em Eldridge
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry, macabre humor, blistering intelligence... I love this book. I want to take it into the middle of a crowded room and hold it up and scream until someone tackles me the ground; even then, I’d probably keep screaming.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body... Read more
How Not to Get Shot
By: D. L. Hughley & Doug Moe
Narrated by: D. L. Hughley
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian—one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"—and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House."White people are always giving out ‘helpful’ advice, such as: ‘Comply with the police and you won’t get shot.’ They’ve been doling... Read more
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Rendezvous with Oblivion
By: Thomas Frank
Narrated by: Thomas Frank
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times—perfect for this political moment.
What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America’s winners persuade themselves that they owe... Read more
Notes from a Public Typewriter
By: Michael Gustafson & Oliver Uberti
Narrated by: Michael Gustafson, Will Collyer, Christine Laki...
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of confessional, hilarious, heartbreaking notes written anonymously on a public typewriter for fans of PostSecret and Other People's Love Letters.
When Michael Gustafson and his wife Hilary opened Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, they put out a typewriter for anyone to use. They had no idea what to expect. Would people... Read more
Choose Your Own Disaster
By: Dana Schwartz
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting.
Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet's... Read more
Happísland
By: Cédric H. Roserens
Narrated by: Angus Freathy
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A first shot of Iceland with an aftertaste of rotten shark. A small unpretentious introduction to Iceland's way of life, focused on Reykjavík. Swiss superspy Hans-Ueli Stauffacher is sent one full calendar year to Iceland to understand why Icelandic people are happier than Swiss people... Read more
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Where the Stress Falls
By: Susan Sontag
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer—more than forty longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideasThirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America’s most important essayist chose more than forty longer... Read more
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Lacks Self-Control
By: Roy Sekoff
Narrated by: Roy Sekoff
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
If David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler, Larry David, and Caitlin Moran had the unlikeliest orgy in history, the resulting love child might one day write a book like this rollicking collection of true tales from Roy Sekoff, the founding editor of the Huffington Post. Whether he’s describing a teenage pilgrimage to a Times Square porn superstore,... Read more
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Daditude
By: Chris Erskine
Narrated by: Claton Butcher
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, the 300-pound beagle, the chronically leaky roof, and his long-suffering wife, Posh. And that's exactly the way he likes it-except when he doesn't. Every week in the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune (and now and then in many other papers), he distills, mocks, and... Read more
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Your Dad Stole My Rake
By: Tom Papa
Narrated by: Tom Papa
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Papa's warm tone and varied timing will draw listeners into the book and enable them to see that, as is the case with most good comedy, there's truth that supports the jokes." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
It’s hard being a person, especially in a family, and no one knows that better than stand-up comedian, family man,... Read more
Tonight I'm Someone Else
By: Chelsea Hodson
Narrated by: Chelsea Hodson
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Tonight I'm Someone Else is a highly anticipated audiobook collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshing and welcome,” that explores the myriad ways in which desire and commodification intersect.
From graffiti gangs and Grand Theft Auto to sugar daddies, Schopenhauer, and a deadly game of Russian roulette, in... Read more
Eating My Heroes
By: Rick Bass
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations
"Some years later, George Plimpton offered to punch me in the nose," recounts Rick Bass, remembering fondly a conversation with the famed Paris Review editor in his office, in... Read more
Shapeshifters
By: Gavin Francis
Narrated by: Thomas Judd
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life
To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter,... Read more
The Traveling Feast
By: Rick Bass
Narrated by: Rick Bass
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this "rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute" (New York Times Book Review).
From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has... Read more
Alone Time
By: Stephanie Rosenbloom
Narrated by: Stephanie Rosenbloom
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times
A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo
In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative,... Read more
Travel Tales: Women Alone — The #MeToo of Travel!
By: Michael Brein
Narrated by: Gary Roelofs & Rose Dupouy
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
THIS SERIESThese are the true travel tales of solo women travelers being sexually harassed and assaulted in their travels around the world and what some of them were able to do about it! This is a book about how to survive as a solo woman traveler abroad.They are shouting “Me Too!” to you through these pages! No one should be subjected to the... Read more
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See You Again in Pyongyang
By: Travis Jeppesen
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and... Read more
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Teacher Misery
By: Jane Morris
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Teacher Misery perfectly encapsulates the comical misery that has become the teaching profession. Jane Morris's strange, funny, and sometimes unbelievable teaching experiences are told through a collection of short stories, essays and artifacts including real emails from parents, students and administrators. From the parents who blame their... Read more
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There Are No Grown-ups
By: Pamela Druckerman
Narrated by: Pamela Druckerman
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The best-selling author of BRINGING UP BÉBÉ investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.
When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever.
Yet... Read more