Essays audiobooks
The Point of It All
By: Charles Krauthammer
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Daniel Krauthammer
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future... Read more
View audiobookIn Search of the Canary Tree
By: Lauren E. Oakes
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes... Read more
El vértigo horizontal
By: Juan Villoro
Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
La estructura de este libro es un zapping de la memoria y la observación. Las secciones que dan orden a los fragmentos aluden a una manera de habitar la Ciudad de México, todas ejercidas por el autor, quien sobrevivió para contarla. Así, "Vivir en la ciudad" describe escenas de la vida diaria, pasajes de la infancia del autor (las casas vacías... Read more
View audiobookNew Voices: The Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize 2018
By: Yiming Ma, Kit Fan, Savannah Burney, Jason Deel...
Narrated by: Yiming Ma, Kit Fan, Savannah Burney, Jason Deel...
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Writers shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize read their shortlisted stories Collected here are the six best stories chosen by the judging panel of the Guardian 4th Estate BAME short story prize 2018. In them you’ll encounter a range of lives and situations: an armless swimmer representing... Read more
View audiobookDance for Two
By: Alan Lightman
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams presents a collection of essays, written over the past twenty years, that displays his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into ringing harmony. Sometimes provocative, sometimes fanciful, always elegantly conceived and written, these meditations offer listeners a... Read more
View audiobookThe Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
By: Thomas Morris
Narrated by: Thomas Morris & Ruper Farley
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.
A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in... Read more
Counting Sheep
By: Axel Lindén
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Norwegian Wood meets The Tao of Pooh in this philosophical, witty, and heartwarming collection of daily observations from a Swedish academic-turned-sheep farmer who finds peace and meaning outside the hustle and bustle of modern, urban life.
One of the fun things about keeping sheep is that now and then it feels like something other than a job... Read more
Smart Ass
By: Margaret Winslow
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City. She met midlife agita not head-on, but ass-on, fulfilling a childhood curiosity about donkeys by answering a for-sale ad for a "Large White Saddle Donkey" in the American Donkey and Mule Society's magazine,... Read more
View audiobookFilms from the Future
By: Andrew Maynard
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn how movies reveal the future of technology
Fans of The Science of Interstellar, The Second Machine Age, and Physics of the Future will love Films from the Future.
Science, technology, and society: In Films from the Future, former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science fiction movies with his expertise on emerging... Read more
Estambul
By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: Jordi Varela
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
El hermoso retrato de una ciudad y de una vida -la ciudad de Estambul y vida del Premio Nobel de Literatura OrhanPamuk-, ambas fascinantes por igual. Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio... Read more
View audiobookLa fois où j'ai écrit un livre
By: Rosalie Bonenfant
Narrated by: Rosalie Bonenfant
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
D’abord présentées sur les ondes d’Énergie puis de Rouge FM, les chroniques de Rosalie Bonenfant ont conquis des dizaines de milliers d’auditeurs. Tantôt mordantes et cyniques, tantôt intimistes et sensibles, les « humeurs » de Rosalie ne rejoignent pas que les gens de sa génération mais tous les Québécois, de l’adolescent au boomer… à... Read more
View audiobookThe Grandmaster
By: Brin-Jonathan Butler
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“A bravura performance…An entertaining book” (Kirkus Reviews) about the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world’s geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport.
The first week of November 2016, hundreds of people descended on New York... Read more
The Binge
By: Maria K
Narrated by: Shannon Riddle
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BINGE is more than just a cookbook. It is an endlessly amusing, semi-biographical, all-around irreverent discussion of all things food with a stack of delicious recipes thrown in for good measure Read more
View audiobookAnother Fine Mess
By: Tim Moore
Narrated by: Tim Moore
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Another Fine Mess, written and read by Tim Moore.
Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him... Read more
Rising
By: Elizabeth Rush
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways.In this highly original work of lyrical... Read more
View audiobookCongratulations, Who Are You Again?
By: Harrison Scott Key
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This funny and wise new memoir from Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will inspire laughter and hope for anyone who’s ever been possessed by a dream of what they want to be when they grow up.Little-known author Mark Twain once said that the two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the... Read more
View audiobookHow to be Alone
By: Lane Moore
Narrated by: Lane Moore
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.
Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was... Read more
Drinking from the Trough
By: Mary Carlson, DVM
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Carlson didn't plan to become a veterinarian, let alone the caretaker of many cats, two huskies, and horses (some with manners, some without). A suburban Chicago girl, she only knew about the American West from her uncle's stories. But thanks to him, she moved to Colorado for college—and, after falling in love with a veterinary student,... Read more
View audiobookHijos de las estrellas
By: María Teresa Ruiz
Narrated by: Javiera Del Pino
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Edición revisada, aumentada y con nuevas imágenes
En Hijos de las estrellas, la reconocida astrónoma María Teresa Ruiz condensa generosamente el conocimiento que existe sobre el universo, explicando en qué parte de este estamos así como cuándo y cómo llegamos aquí. Al mismo tiempo, describe con precisión y amenidad los métodos, técnicas e... Read more
Making of a CEO
By: Sandeep Krishnan
Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Making of a CEO is the result of interviews and analysis of top-level CEOs across various sectors. The book has it genesis in a popular course Krishnan taught at IIMB, where the students interviewed and analysed twenty CEOs to learn how they charted a clear path to the top.
The book explores nuances of leading in different contexts... Read more
A Biography Of Innovations
By: R. Gopalakrishnan
Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
R. Gopalakrishnan, the bestselling author of The Case of the Bonsai Manager, explores how concepts turn into ideas, which then become prototypes, models and products. Defining thought as the ancestor of innovation; as without thought, there could be no innovation, he explores the impending questions such as - What happens next? How can you take... Read more
View audiobookPaperback Crush
By: Gabrielle Moss
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the ’80s and ’90sEvery twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The... Read more
View audiobookThe Perils Of Being Moderately Famous
By: Soha Ali Khan
Narrated by: Mary Joseph
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What is it like to be known as Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi's daughter?
Or to have a mother as famous as Sharmila Tagore?
Or to be recognized as Saif Ali Khan's sister?
Or as Kareena Kapoor's sister-in-law?
And where do I stand among them?
Actor Soha Ali Khan's debut book is at heart a brilliant collection of personal essays where she... Read more
Someday a Bird Will Poop on You
By: Sue Salvi
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A little book with a big message . . . for when life hits us with a splat.
Someday a bird will poop on all of us. But that's okay. In a world of bad news, fake news, delays, disappointments, trash talk, and tweets, things are bound to get a little poopy.
What matters is not how big the mess is, but how well you react to it. Someday a Bird Will... Read more