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هُوتْ مارُوك
By: یاسین عدنان
Narrated by: حمدي التايه
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
بعد ثلاثة عناوين قصصية، يُرسِّخ الشاعر والإعلامي المغربي ياسين عدنان قدميه في أرض السرد بإصدار روايته الأولى (هوت ماروك). روايةٌ عن المغرب وتحوّلاته. عن مراكش (الحاضرة / البستان) وما تتعرّض له من ترييفٍ واغتيالٍ للأشجار. عن الجامعة وحراكها الطّلابي. عن مضارب الإنترنت وقُطّاع طرُقها الرقمية. عن أحوال الناس وطبائع البشر. عن السياسة والصحافة. عن... Read more
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حياة معطّلة
By: عبده وازن
Narrated by: محمود ربيعي
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
هناك من يترك كرسياً وراءه هناك من يترك باقة ورد, هناك من يترك كتاباً مفتوحاً, هناك من يترك ناياً, هناك من يترك أيقونة, هناك من يترك مرآة, وجهاً في مرآة. - ديوان. Read more
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Craft in the Real World
By: Matthew Salesses
Narrated by: Matthew Salesses
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review).
The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind;... Read more
No Fear Shakespeare Audiobook: Hamlet
By: SparkNotes
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Jonathan Davis, Imani Jade Powers,...
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!
Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.
Each No Fear guide contains:
The complete text of the original play
A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language
A... Read more
Rascha und die Tür zum Himmel (Ungekürzt)
By: Julia Willmann
Narrated by: Christoph Maria Herbst
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Rafael!", rief Mama. "Ima hat angerufen. Du kannst hin, wenn du magst. Es klang irgendwie wichtig." "Au ja", rief ich zurück. Und schon war ich draußen. Um Ima zu sehen, brauchte ich zum Glück ja nur rausflitzen aus unserem Haus, rechtsrum, linksrum, geradeaus, hoch, wieder runter, um die Ecke und so weiter. Im Linoleumflur war wie immer nichts... Read more
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The Hedgehog and the Fox
By: Isaiah Berlin
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling audiobook narrated by Peter Kenny presents Isaiah Berlin's acclaimed essay on Tolstoy and historical understanding
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo... Read more
Creation Myths and Legends of the Indigenous People of Alaska
By: NORAH ROMNEY
Narrated by: Rosie Dunjay
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
LONG, long ago, in the days of the animal people, Raven-at-the-head-of-Nass became angry. He said, "Let rain pour down all over the world. Let people die of starvation." At once, it became so stormy people could not get food, so they began to starve. Their canoes were also broken up, their houses fell in upon them, and they suffered very much.... Read more
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The Myths and Legends Of Ancient China
By: HENRY ROMANO
Narrated by: Bill Shanks
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The concept of dualism is well illustrated by the Chinese pantheon. Whether as the result of the co-operation of the yin and the yang or of the final dissolution of P’an Ku, human beings came into existence. To the primitive mind the body and its shadow, an object and its reflection in water, real life and dream life, sensibility and... Read more
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Literary Pursuits
By: Sarah Dillon & Corin Throsby
Narrated by: Sarah Dillon & Corin Throsby
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Literary detectives Sarah Dillon and Corin Throsby investigate the stories behind the stories of nine great novels
In this engrossing series, Drs Sarah Dillon and Corin Throsby set off on a quest to discover how some of our most famous, best-loved books were written. What was happening in the author's lives, and how did that influence the process... Read more
Training for Catastrophe
By: Lindsay Thomas
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal,... Read more
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La Reine Margot
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
La Reine Margot is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action, and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world’s greatest and best-loved storytellers. Read more
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The Epic Creation Myths of Indigenous America
By: NORAH ROMNEY
Narrated by: Po Shai An Kia
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The mythologies of the Indigenous Americans are infinitely richer in creative and deluge myths than those of any other group in the two hemispheres. Tales which deal with the origin of man are exceedingly frequent and exhibit every phase of the type of creative story. Although many of these are similar to European and Asiatic myths of the same... Read more
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The World of Bob Dylan
By: Sean Latham
Narrated by: Kerry Shale, John Chancer, Barbara Barnes, Ian ...
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Bob Dylan is a singular figure defined by a lifetime of creative invention that has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. This book provides a lively, accessible look at his art and music as seen by leading rock and pop critics and music scholars. The chapters are carefully integrated so that readers can take quick... Read more
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Nothing Personal
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: No
James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.
Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin’s deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black... Read more
Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman
By: Tabitha Kenlon
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
As long as people have been writing books, authors have been using them to create misrepresentations of women. From medieval reality show-style wife tests to twenty-first century dating guides based on two-hundred-year-old novels, Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman takes readers on a guided tour of advice on what women should and... Read more
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De grootste historische raadsels
By: Alles over historia
Narrated by: Jeroen Kramer
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
De Bijbel staat vol namen van allang vergeten mensen en verhalen over bloedige veldslagen, rampen en helden die zichzelf opofferen. Maar is dat allemaal pure fantasie, of liggen er werkelijke gebeurtenissen aan ten grondslag? Hoe zit het met koning Arthur? Was hij de eerste koning van Engeland of een mythische figuur die de oorlogvoerende... Read more
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An Experiment in Criticism
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Richard Elwood
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the... Read more
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Dos soledades
By: Mario Vargas Llosa & Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Ramsés Ramos, John Alex Toro, Johan Gamarra, Ju...
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
La conversación perdida entre dos Premios Nobel, dos de los máximos exponentes de la literatura universal El origen del boom en las palabras de sus protagonistas En septiembre de 1967, unos jóvenes Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa se reunieron en Lima para hablar de literatura latinoamericana. El primerohabía vendido ya miles de... Read more
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Giving A Damn
By: Patricia Williams
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
‘I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins. Ideas honed in slavery – of the otherness, the boorishness, the inferiority of thy neighbour – have continued to travel through American society.’ The story of... Read more
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Hearing Homer's Song
By: Robert Kanigel
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature.
In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a... Read more
How Dead Languages Work
By: Coulter H. George
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This volume celebrates six such languages—Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew—by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral... Read more
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You Are What You Read
By: Robert DiYanni
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite... Read more
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
By: Gail Crowther
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—“the friendship and rivalry that the pair shared—not to mention the titular cocktails at a Boston hotel—is explored in fascinating detail” (Town & Country).
Introduced at a poetry workshop in Boston University,... Read more
Radical Vision
By: Soyica Diggs Colbert
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Diggs Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a "rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work."
Colbert argues that the success of... Read more