Essays audiobooks
Alfie the Holiday Cat
By: Rachel Wells
Narrated by: Edward Killingback
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a fourth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures โ this time taking them a long way from homeโฆ Alfie and George just canโt seem to keep out of trouble. So when they hear that their owners have got a new holiday home, they canโt... Read more
View audiobookGods, Wasps and Stranglers
By: Mike Shanahan
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imaginations. And as author and ecologist Mike Shanahan proclaims, โThe best could be yet to come.โ Gods, Wasps and Stranglers weaves together the mythology, history and ecology of one of the worldโs most fascinatingโand... Read more
View audiobookDonโt Save Anything
By: James Salter
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
James Salter was a master. One of the greatest writers of American sentences in our literary history, his acute and glimmering portrayals of characters are built with a restrained and poetic style. The author of many memorable works of fictionโincluding Dusk, and Other Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Awardโhe is also celebrated for his... Read more
View audiobookOn Power
By: Gene Simmons
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
YOU DESERVE TO HAVE POWER.IT IS YOURS FOR THE TAKING.GENE SIMMONS IS HERE TO UNLOCK THE DOORS TO THE TEMPLE.Gene Simmons, KISS front-man, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, and master of self-invention, shares his philosophy on powerโhow to attain it, how to keep it, and how to harness it as a driving force in business and in life.As co-founder of... Read more
View audiobookOn the Decay of the Art of Lying
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a classic essay penned by Mark Twain in 1880. This narration is performed by Larry G. Jones. Read more
View audiobookNobody Knows My Name
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
James Baldwinโs Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writerโs ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwinโs controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman.... Read more
View audiobookL'Appart
By: David Lebovitz
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes.
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When David Lebovitz... Read more
Tamed and Untamed
By: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the worldโs topย animal authors,ย Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery. A Mail onย Sundayย โCritic's Pickโ Best Read of the Year "In their writing and in their lives and in their remarkable friendship, Liz and Sy break down false barriers and carry us... Read more
View audiobookA Very British Christmas
By: Rhodri Marsden
Narrated by: Rhodri Marsden, Helen Keeley & Paul Tyreman
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest parts of Christmas. With cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those whoโve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. The essential Christmas stocking filler for... Read more
View audiobookStill Happy
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Still Happy is Elizabeth's second collection of Facebook posts. Her first, Make Someone Happy, did indeed make many people happy, and so, due to popular demand, she has put together a second volume, which includes "The Book of Homer," a tribute to her beloved dog who recently died. Still Happy, like Make Someone Happy, exemplifies Berg's gift,... Read more
View audiobookWhy We Don't Suck
By: Denis Leary
Narrated by: Denis Leary
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the bestsellingย Why We Suckย comes a searing comic look at these divisive times, skewering liberals and conservatives alike with a signature dose of sarcasm and common sense.
In an America so gluten-free that a box of jelly donuts is now a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin, where college kids are more afraid of Ann Coulter than... Read more
The Great Gasbag
By: Joy Behar
Narrated by: Joy Behar
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
One of our most beloved comedians, the brilliantly witty and outspoken star of The View, hits the most unpopular President ever elected where it hurtsโand makes us laugh and cheerโin this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything thatโs wrong with the ""Orange One,"" Donald Trump.Put down the knife, lock away the gun, lay aside the noose, Joy... Read more
View audiobookThe River of Consciousness
By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Dan Woren & Kate Edgar
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.
Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers... Read more
This Book Has Balls
By: Michael Rapaport
Narrated by: Michael Rapaport
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The sports world according to Michael Rapaportโactor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanaticโfrom the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys, but minus statistics, analytics, or anything else that isnโt pure hustle in this โhell of a bookโ (Shaquille O'Neal).
In 1979, nine-year-old Michael... Read more
Stand By Your Truth
By: Rickey Smiley
Narrated by: Rickey Smiley
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part testimonial, and part life guide, Stand by Your Truth mixes Rickey Smileyโs down-home humor with the values he learned from being raised by three generations of elders, steeped in the Baptist church, and mentored by some of the most celebrated comics in the entertainment industry today.
โIโm very passionate about everything that... Read more
The New York Times: Footsteps
By: New York Times
Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous... Read more
View audiobookGolf Dreams
By: John Updike
Narrated by: John Updike
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
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Golf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: "Golf is a trip."
Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the... Read more
Courage Is Contagious
By: Nick Haramis
Narrated by: Lena Dunham, Alice Waters, Janet Mock, Issa Rae...
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributorsย and with a foreword by Lena Dunham
Michelle Obamaโs legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obamaโs equal partner in marriage and parenthood and a tireless advocate for... Read more
The Infinite Monkey Cage โ How to Build a Universe
By: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem ...
Narrated by: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince & Alexandra Feachem
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian... Read more
View audiobookSee Ya Later
By: Arron Crascall
Narrated by: Arron Crascall
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Alright guys? It's me, Arron. Or as some people call me, 'that guy with the phone, the skinny jeans and the really fat head'.
In a world that seems to be freefalling without a parachute towards utter chaos, I'm here to remind you that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. No, in fact, when life gives you lemons, make a fool out of yourself... Read more
The Christmas Chronicles
By: Nigel Slater
Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON AWARDS BEST FOOD BOOK 2018 From the BBC1 presenter and bestselling author of Eat, The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a new book featuring everything you need for the winter solstice. Read by the author, this audiobook... Read more
View audiobookWhere the Past Begins
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Daniel Halpern
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get... Read more
View audiobookF*ck Whales
By: Maddox
Narrated by: Maddox
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of satirical, crass, comedic essays from famed Internet personality and New York Times bestselling author Maddox, of the infamous website The Best Page in the Universe.
In this third book from Maddox, the reigning king of Internet satire delivers a collection of humorous, unapologetic essays in the same voice that propelled him into... Read more
Vets and Pets
By: Dava Guerin & Kevin Ferris
Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Vets and Pets tells fifteen emotional and entertaining stories of the incredible bonds between wounded warriors, veterans, and other service members and their service and companion animals. Whether these special relationships are with dogs, cats, horses, pigs, or even birds of prey, readers will discover how these remarkable animals help... Read more
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