It's Not Okay
By: Andi Dorfman
Narrated by: Andi Dorfman
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Andi Dorfman, the beloved finalist of season eighteen of The Bachelor who infamously rejected Juan Pablo and went on to star on season ten of The Bachelorette, dishes about what it’s like to live out a love story—and its collapse—in front of the cameras, offering hard-won advice for moving on after a break-up, public or not.
Andi talks candidly... Read more
Mother Tongue
By: Christine Gilbert
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
One woman's quest to learn Mandarin in Beijing, Arabic in Beirut, and Spanish in Mexico, with her young family along for the ride. Imagine negotiating for a replacement carburetor in rural Mexico with words you're secretly pulling from a pocket dictionary. Imagine your two-year-old asking for more niunai at dinner-a Mandarin word for milk that... Read more
View audiobookShrill
By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you -- writer and humoristLindy West... Read more
American Rhapsody
By: Claudia Roth Pierpont
Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth... Read more
View audiobookDave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore
By: Dave Hill
Narrated by: Dave Hill
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about anywhere. It’s your call, really.
These days, Dave... Read more
The One True Barbecue
By: Rien Fertel
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Whole hog barbecue is a culinary art form that is both disappearing and experiencing a renaissance. In The One True Barbecue, Rien Fertel chronicles the uniquely southern art of whole hog barbecue—America's original barbecue—through the professional pitmasters who make a living firing, smoking, flipping, and cooking 200-plus pound pigs.
More... Read more
Here Is New York
By: E. B. White
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: Summer 2016 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It’s a royal rendezvous for Vanity Fair’s Summer issue! Ahead of the Queen’s 90th birthday, read three intimate reminiscences of her inner majesty, a chronicle of Prince Charlotte’s first year, and about her royal highnesses’ most loyal subjects—her corgis.Plus: Inside Twitter’s $10 billion identity crisisThe mystery of the Ivy League’s Bernie... Read more
View audiobookTiger Heart
By: Katrell Christie
Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Katrell Christie was a thirty-something artist turned roller-derby rebel who opened a tea shop in Atlanta. Barely two years later, her life would make a drastic change--and so would the lives of a group of girls half a world away.
"I chose the name of my tea shop--Dr. Bombay's Underwater Tea Party--because it sounded whimsical. India wasn't part... Read more
Out of My League
By: George Plimpton
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called "beautifully observed and incredibly conceived" includes a foreword from Jane Leavy and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.
The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism, Out of My League chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a... Read more
Old Age
By: Michael Kinsley
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."
The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history—are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it... Read more
Mad Ducks and Bears
By: George Plimpton
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.
In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and... Read more
Shadow Box
By: George Plimpton
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism -- stepping into the ring against a champion boxer -- in Shadow Box, repackaged and including never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.
Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him... Read more
Open Net
By: George Plimpton
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
George Plimpton takes to the ice with the Boston Bruins in this memorable portrait of the rough-and-tumble world of professional hockey, repackaged and featuring a foreword from Denis Leary and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives.
In Open Net, George Plimpton takes to the ice as goalie for his beloved Boston Bruins. After... Read more
The Bogey Man
By: George Plimpton
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
George Plimpton chronicles his month spent on the PGA tour in The Bogey Man, repackaged and including a foreword by Rick Reilly and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives.
What happens when a weekend athlete -- of average skill at best -- joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, one of the finest participatory sports... Read more
One for the Record
By: George Plimpton
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The inside story of Hank Aaron's chase for the home run record, repackaged and with a foreword by Bob Costas and new material from the Plimpton Archives.
In One For the Record, George Plimpton recounts Hank Aaron's thrilling race to become the new home run champion. Amidst media frenzy and death threats, Aaron sought to beat Babe Ruth's record.... Read more
Approval Junkie
By: Faith Salie
Narrated by: Faith Salie
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approval
Faith Salie has done it all in the name of validation. Whether she’s trying to impress her parents with a perfect GPA, undergoing... Read more
Far and Away
By: Andrew Solomon
Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
Length: 22 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).
Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political,... Read more
Your Song Changed My Life
By: Bob Boilen
Narrated by: Bob Boilen
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR... Read more
View audiobookCRUSH
By: Cathy Alter & Dave Singleton
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Lynde Houck
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.You never forget your first crush . . .CRUSH brings together stories of heartbreak, humiliation,... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: May 2016 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Special Sisters Issue with America's kid sister, Amy Schumer! She's smart, funny, and loyal—so why is she such a lightning rod? Plus: Love stories (and even some hate stories) from high-profile sisters The intimate bond between Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret The rivalry between Jackie O and Lee Radziwill Plus: Olivia De Havilland,... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: January–March 2016 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 19 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more
View audiobookIst Shakespeare tot?
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Leander Haußmann
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Twain fragt: War William Shakespeare wirklich der Dichter, für den wir ihn halten? Ein Dichter ohne Bücher? Ein Autor, der nicht einen Brief schrieb? Ein gefeierter Dramatiker und Schauspieler, an den sich kurz nach seinem Tod schon niemand mehr erinnert? Das Leben eines gewissen William Shakespeare aus dem englischen Provinzort Stratford... Read more
View audiobookBilly Connolly's Tracks Across America
By: Billy Connolly
Narrated by: David Monteath
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic trip across America with much-loved national treasure and comedy legend, Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly has spent much of his life in the United States, where he now lives. It's a country he knows and loves a great deal, but even someone as well-travelled as Billy can always discover new things about such a vast nation. So he's off on the... Read more