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Shiksa Goddess - Abridged
By: Wendy Wasserstein
Narrated by: Wendy Wasserstein
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein' s mid-life... Read more
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Die 4. Wahrheit über Deutschland
By: Diverse Autoren
Narrated by: Diverse Sprecher
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Die nun seit 1997 erscheinende Compilation von WortArt. Ein Querschnitt der letztjährigen Neuveröffentlichungen aus dem Genre Kabarett und Comedy. Eine Auswahl der besten Programmausschnitte diverser Künstler aus den Jahren 2000 - 2001. Read more
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Wenn Worte reden könnten - oder 14 Tage im Leben einer Stunde
By: Jochen Malmsheimer
Narrated by: Jochen Malmsheimer
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Als Künstler ist man, von wem auch immer, gehalten, den drängendsten Menschheitsfragen, nach dem "Wieso" und "Warum" etwa oder dem "Wann eigentlich?" unserer Existenz nachzugehen. Doch was soll man mit der Zeit zwischen Mittagsschlaf und den 18:00-Uhr-Nachrichten anfangen, wenn diese Fragen beantwortet sind? Wer, wie ich es als Preis einer... Read more
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Napalm and Silly Putty - Abridged
By: George Carlin
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
He's the inventor of Past-Tense TV (featuring "Got Smart," "Father Knew Best," and "It Was Left to Beaver"); the tireless crusader for such charities as the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, Children of Parents with Bad Teeth, and the State Hospital for Those Who Felt All Right About a Year Ago; founder of the George Carlin Book Club... Read more
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Ivan El Imbecil Y Otros Cuentos
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Guillermo Piedrahita
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Aventuras cómicas de Ivan: León Tolstoi es mejor recordado por sus novelas inmensas épicos como "Ana Karenina" y sobre todo "La guerra y la paz" y nos hacen olvidar las historias deliciosas que, con espíritu pedagógico, que escribió sobre confeccionados leyendas rusas. Uno de los más famosos es la historia de Iván, el imbécil, que gracias a su... Read more
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Ich bin nichts. Ich hab nichts. Aber ich lach mich tot.
By: Matthias Beltz
Narrated by: Matthias Beltz
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Matthias Beltz schrieb "ich bin nichts. ich hab nichts. aber ich lach mich tot." zunächst als Theaterstück. Für das Hörstück arbeitete er die Parts für Gerd Knebel und sich um. Die schöngeistige, oberlehrerhafte Diktion Eigenbrods brauchte für ein Hörstück unbedingt das lebendige Hessisch, das dem Volk aufs Maul schaut. Ohne die auflockernden... Read more
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Stella in Heaven - Abridged
By: Art Buchwald
Narrated by: Elliott Gould
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Roger Folger, age 61, recently lost his wife, Stella, but her spirit hasn't wandered far. In an all-too-earthly way, Roger converses with her disembodied voice in the privacy of the home they shared for many years, and you can bet Stella talks back. Roger fills her in on the latest about their kids and neighbors, while she tells Roger what... Read more
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Shopgirl
By: Steve Martin
Narrated by: Steve Martin
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY STEVE MARTIN
IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."
Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost... Read more
Natural Blonde - Abridged
By: Liz Smith
Narrated by: Liz Smith
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and... Read more
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The Man Who Ate the 747
By: Ben Sherwood
Narrated by: David Schramm
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the greatest love, ever....
J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed... Read more
Flashman and the Tiger
By: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The inimitable and appallingly appealing Flashy is back, in a long-awaited new installment of The Flashman Papers.
When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. Now,... Read more
Definitely Above Average
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.
After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. This new collection gathers the warmest, funniest, most affectionate examples: dance tunes and comedy with sound effects; songs featuring Chet Atkins,... Read more
Lord Emsworth and Others
By: Jean G Mathurin, Diane M. Dresback, RE Johnston...
Narrated by: Nigel Lambert
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Contained here are nine glorious episodes from the idyllic world of Wodehouse. There’s a crime wave which broke out towards the middle of a fine summer afternoon and was to rock Blandings Castle to its foundations, Ukridge appears on Corky’s doorstep at three in the morning, wearing his yellow mackintosh and requesting a whisky and soda, while... Read more
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Babyhood
By: Paul Reiser
Narrated by: Paul Reiser
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
I'm going to be totally honest. This is not the kind of audiobook that can help you. It's not a "how-to," a "when-to," or a "what-to-expect." It's not even endorsed by anyone remotely connected to the medical profession. (Although a cousin of mine who sells carpeting to doctors' offices not only found it "insightful" and "informative," but... Read more
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In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that... Read more
I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!
By: Al Franken
Narrated by: Al Franken
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The ultimate meditation book, not to be grandiose...
Take a hilarious, healing journey with Stuart Smalley as he careens down the road to Recovery. For one entire year Stuart recorded an affirmation a day...except when he had taken to his bed (but that's Okay)...and the result is the most entertaining and indispensable meditation book ever.
From... Read more
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."
--Thomas Pynchon
In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.
Switters is a contradiction for all... Read more
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens—as he later put it, "it was... Read more
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Abridged
By: Helen Fielding
Narrated by: Tracie Bennett
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.)
Monday 27 January:
"7:15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male, thereby proving am not love pariah as recently feared."... Read more
The End of the Road - Abridged
By: Tom Bodett
Narrated by: Tom Bodett
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Culled from Bodett's syndicated radio show, these interconnected stories captures the essence of life in America--especially Homer, Alaska, the sort of place where the keys are left in the snowplow in case someone gets stuck after hours. Read more
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A Walk in the Woods - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to... Read more
Little Green Men - Abridged
By: Christopher Buckley
Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common.
The reluctant hero of this... Read more
Thank You For Smoking - Abridged
By: Christopher Buckley
Narrated by: John Glover
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The... Read more
Why Not Me? - Abridged
By: Al Franken
Narrated by: Al Franken
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Updated with more on the real race in 2000!
First came Theodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office...
Why Not Me?
...chronicles the dramatic rise and dizzying fall of Al Franken, who would become the first Jewish president... Read more