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10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
By: Benjamin Wiker
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Offering a “CliffsNotes guide” to some of the most important literary works of our time, Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. This book features a range of works, from classics such as... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
By: Aimee Bender
Narrated by: Heidi Julavits & Lillo Wei
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Aimee Bender sits down with Heidi Julavits to discuss her book, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Lillo Wei reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
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Wes Moore: The Other Wes moore
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, The Other Wes Moore which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles
By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Rick Riordan, Matthew Cody & Sonia Manzano
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) sits down with Matthew Cody to discuss his novel The Kane Chronicles. Sonia Manzano reads an excerpt. Read more
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Tim O'Brien
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Thirty five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien's collection of stories about an American platoon, The Things They Carried, is being reissued as it celebrates its own 20th anniversary. Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about the experiences that led him to write the book. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Pam Muñoz Ryan's The Dreamer
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Narrated by: Pam Munoz Ryan, Madeline Cohen & Rita Wolf
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Pam Munoz Ryan sits down with Madeline Cohen to discuss her book, The Dreamer. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Rereading Middlemarch with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesey
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, Hope Davis & Marg...
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt, and Margot Livesey once again convene to discuss George Eliot's classic novel, Middlemarch. Hope Davis reads an excerpt from the book. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: David Levithan and John Green's Will Grayson, Will Grayson
By: David Levithan & John Green
Narrated by: David Levithan & John Green
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Green (An Abundance of Katherines) and Levithan (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Executive Editorial Director at Scholastic) discuss their collaborative novel with teens ages 14 and up. In the book, they alternate chapters, each lending his own unique voice to two teens named Will Grayson, one of them gay and one of them straight. The event... Read more
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Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus
By: Katherine Elkins
Narrated by: Katherine Elkins
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time,... Read more
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Talking about Detective Fiction
By: P. D. James
Narrated by: Diana Bishop
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D.... Read more
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Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and Colm Toibin's Brooklyn
By: Colum McCann & Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Isaiah Sheffer & Michael Cerveris
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Isaiah Sheffer sits down with two great contemporary authors, Colum McCann and Colm Toibin, to discuss their books, Let the Great World Spin and Brooklyn. Michael Cerveris reads excerpts from the two novels. Read more
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Michael Lewis: The Big Short
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Jeffrey Brown takes a look inside the doomsday machine of the subprime lending crisis with author Michael Lewis in a conversation about his new book, The Big Short. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: A Conversation with Laurie Halse Anderson
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Narrated by: Maureen Johnson
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The two-time National Book Award finalist (Speak and Chains) talks with Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes) about the compelling novels that have earned her numerous awards and fans of all ages. Her latest release, Forge (the sequel to Chains) is a gripping story filled with plot twists and unforgettable characters. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Peter and the Sword of Mercy
By: Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Narrated by: Matthew Cody
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson sit with Matthew Cody to discuss and read from their children's book Peter and the Sword of Mercy. Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Kate DiCamillo's The Magician's Elephant
By: Kate DiCamillo
Narrated by: Lisa Von Drasek & Rita Wolf
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Kate DiCamillo (Because of Winn-Dixie) sits down with Lisa Von Drasek to discuss her book The Magician's Elephant. Rita Wolf reads an excerpt. Read more
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James McGrath Morris
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
PBS Newshour’s Jeffrey Brown talks to biographer James McGrath Morris – a former Missourinet reporter – about Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, his biography on Joseph Pulitzer, the media baron who helped shape the news business. Read more
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Liebe, Lust und Leidenschaft - Abridged
By: Barbara Vinken
Narrated by: Barbara Vinken
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Die Liebe wir alle glauben, sie zu kennen. Und doch scheint jeder anders zu lieben: die Leidenschaft der Sappho lässt sie erglühend erzittern und raubt ihr das Bewusstsein. Didos rasende Liebe zu ihrem Ein und Alles Aeneas führt nach dem Liebesverrat zum Selbstmord. Der vom Eros begeisterte Platoniker vervollkommnet sein Ich und steigt durch die... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Walter Dean Myers' Riot
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Madeline Cohen
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The two-time National Book Award finalist discusses his historical novel about the New York City Draft Riots in 1863 with middle graders and teens, ages 12 and up. The event includes a discussion with the audience.
Performance playlist: Reading with the Audience by Walter Dean Myers, then conversation between Walter Dean Myers and Madeline Cohen. Read more
J.D. Salinger: An Appreciation
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The enigmatic American author, best known for The Catcher in the Rye, died at age 91. Jim Lehrer talks with experts about Salinger’s influence on American literature. Read more
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Ein knochenharter Job oder Wie ich half, Gott zu retten (Ungekürzt)
By: Barry Jonsberg
Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Hörbuchspaß mit Hund: Ein turbulentes Öko-Abenteuer. Was für ein hässlicher Hund! Aber Marcus schafft es nicht, sich dem Drängen des sprechenden Tieres zu widersetzen. Blacky braucht seine Hilfe bei der Befreiung einer gefangenen Echse, deren Art vom Aussterben bedroht ist. Doch wie rettet man "Gott" aus einem Terrarium? Gemeinsam mit seinem... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Thomas Mallon's Yours Ever and John Freeman's The Tyranny of E-mail
By: Thomas Mallon & John Freeman
Narrated by: Thomas Mallon & John Freeman
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom Mallon joins John Freeman to discuss their books, Mallon's Yours Ever and Freeman's Tyranny of E-Mail. Read more
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Peniel Joseph: Dark Days, Bright Nights
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In observance of Martin Luther King Day in 2010, Ray Suarez speaks with historian Peniel Joseph about his book Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. Read more
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Galgen mit Blitzableiter
By: Richard Grasshoff
Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Lichtenbergs sprühender Witz kann in einem Hörbuch nicht in der Aneinanderreihung seiner brillanten Aphorismen vermittelt werden; diese müssen eingebettet sein in eine "Geschichte“ - was liegt also näher, als die Lebensgeschichte Lichtenbergs mit seinen Aphorismen zu verbinden? Dieses Hörbuch gibt also einen Einblick in das Leben des großartigen... Read more
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Heaven in a Wild Flower: The British Romantic Poets
By: Adam Potkay
Narrated by: Adam Potkay
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Professor Adam Potkay brings his renowned expertise on the Romantic era to bear on the period's principal poets. Providing detailed analysis of the lives and works of literary luminaries such as Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, Professor Potkay examines the nature of Romantic poetry and provides insight... Read more
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