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The Clothing of Books
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply personal reflection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Namesake that explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer.
How do you clothe a book? Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform;... Read more
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
By: Matthew Rubery
Narrated by: Jim Denison
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edison’s recitation of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for his tinfoil phonograph in... Read more
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Fierce Reads NYC moderated by MashReads
By: Anna Banks, Marissa Meyer, Caleb Roehrig & Emma...
Narrated by: Anna Banks, Marissa Meyer, Caleb Roehrig, Emma ...
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Four fierce authors of romance, suspense, fantasy, and bestselling series for teens: Anna Banks (The Syrena Legacy series), Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles), Emma Mills (This Adventure Ends), and Caleb Roehrig (Last Seen Leaving) make a stop on their tour to present their latest novels and chat with fans. In conversation with MJ Franklin and... Read more
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Raina Telgemeier's Ghosts
By: Raina Telgemeier
Narrated by: Madeline Cohen
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of Smile, Drama, and Sisters comes to Symphony Space with her latest graphic novel, Ghosts. Two sisters move to a new town only to learn that it's haunted - and the time of year when ghosts reunite with their loved ones is fast approaching! Fans of Raina Telgemeier will love this... Read more
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Thalia Kids' Book Club: Gene Luen Yang's Paths & Portals
By: Gene Luen Yang
Narrated by: Christopher Myers
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The creator of the bestselling graphic novels American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints, and now the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, discusses the latest installment of Secret Coders with writer and illustrator Christopher Myers (Fly!). Secret Coders: Paths & Portals is the second book in the wildly entertaining new... Read more
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Thalia Book Club: Ann Patchett's State of Wonder
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Emma Straub & Alan Alda
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of Bel Canto and Truth & Beauty talks with Jane Hamilton (A Map of the World; The Short History of a Prince) and delves deeply into the backstory of her latest creation, a thought-provoking literary thriller, set deep in the Amazon jungle, with fascinating characters that defy our expectations, and chockful of suspense, romance,... Read more
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming 'notorious'
By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Narrated by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Gwen Ifill
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
For the latest NewsHour Bookshelf, Gwen Ifill sits down with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to discuss her new book, In My Own Words -- her first since she was appointed to the court. Ginsburg reflects on the origins of her reputation as “Notorious R.B.G,” how Jimmy Carter diversified the court and how the confirmation process today... Read more
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Stephen King Wants to Reach Out and Grab You — with His Writing
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King & Jeffrey Brown
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Novelist Stephen King is best known for his works of horror, but he says what scares him the most is not being able to write. Jeffrey Brown spoke with him at the Library of Congress National Book Festival about his latest novel, End of Watch, the last in a trilogy, and about writing itself -- how he lets the story go where it takes him, his... Read more
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Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you - with his writing
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Novelist Stephen King is best known for his works of horror, but he says what scares him the most is not being able to write. Jeffrey Brown spoke with him at the Library of Congress National Book Festival about his latest novel, End of Watch, the last in a trilogy, and about writing itself -- how he lets the story go where it takes him, his... Read more
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
By: Amos Oz
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 23 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve... Read more
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Understanding the Rise of the Islamic State
By: Lawrence Wright
Narrated by: Lawrence Wright & Jeffrey Brown
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
As a young man, Lawrence Wright first visited the Middle East when he taught English in Cairo. He has spent much of his life since reporting on the region -- documenting culture by sharing the stories of individuals. His new book, The Terror Years, considers the evolution of extremism and the Islamic State since 9/11. Wright sits down with... Read more
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Soul at the White Heat
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A new collection of critical and personal essays on the writing life, from National Book Award—winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.“Why do we write?”With this question, Joyce Carol Oates, in this new collection of seminal essays and criticism, begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life and all its attendant... Read more
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William Shakespeare
By: Michael W. Simmons
Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
William Shakespeare was the most brilliant writer in the history of the English language. But his life is a complete mystery to us. No biographies were written for almost a hundred years after his death. His friends, family, and all those who knew him as a poet in London’s theatrical scene died before anyone could ask them: who was Shakespeare?... Read more
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The Princess and the Goblin
By: George MacDonald
Narrated by: Stanley Green
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid "Lootie" for company. Her father the king is normally absent, and her mother is dead. Unknown to her, the nearby mines are inhabited by a... Read more
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Mario Götze
By: Julius Schreiber
Narrated by: Thomas Lang
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Am 13. Juli 2014 schrieb Mario Götze Fußballgeschichte. An diesem Tag schoss er die deutsche Nationalelf mit seinem 1:0 im WM-Finale gegen Argentinien zum Weltmeistertitel. Das Tor war der vorläufige Höhepunkt der noch jungen Karriere eines der talentiertesten Fußballer, die Deutschland je hatte. Wenn nur Pep Guardiola, sein Trainer bei den... Read more
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The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is an epic poem, written by the ancient Greek Philosopher Homer, and is considered to be the second oldest piece of western literature still in existence. Scholars believe it was written at the end of the 8th century BC. Still heavily used in schools because of its unique literary makeup and historical value, the poems follow Greek... Read more
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One Man’s Meat
By: E. B. White
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In print for over fifty years, One Man’s Meat continues to delight readers with E. B. White’s witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man’s Meat can best be described as a primer of a... Read more
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
By: Cynthia Ozick
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared—if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity—could the novel survive? In a gauntlet throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great... Read more
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Luistercursus Nederlands voor Polen
By: Willy Hemelrijk
Narrated by: Willy Hemelrijk
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Voor anderstaligen die willen of moeten inburgeren heeft Prisma laagdrempelige luistercursussen Nederlands. Hiermee kunnen ze eenvoudig Nederlands leren door te luisteren en na te zeggen. Bij uitstek geschikt dus voor wie niet of nauwelijks Nederlands spreekt of een lage leesvaardigheid heeft. De cursist krijgt in drie delen uitleg en... Read more
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The Hour of Land
By: Terry Tempest Williams
Narrated by: Terry Williams
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns... Read more
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Everybody Behaves Badly
By: Lesley M.M. Blume
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Earnest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled... Read more
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Geek Feminist Revolution
By: Kameron Hurley
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Kameron Hurley—one of the most influential young voices in science fiction and geek culture—presents The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays on Subversion, Tactical Profanity, And the Power of Media. The Geek Feminist Revolution is Bad Feminist for the Comic-Con crowd. This powerful collection of essays is about overcoming misogyny in geek culture,... Read more
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The Story of Alice
By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Following his acclaimed biography of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice... Read more
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The Secret Life of Plants — and ‘Lab Girl’ Author Hope Jahren
By: Hope Jahren
Narrated by: Hope Jahren & Jeffrey Brown
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When geobiologist Hope Jahren sat down to describe the results of her research, she found that she couldn’t relate her findings without discussing the people who made them possible, herself especially. That revelation led to her new book Lab Girl, both an investigation into the complex and thrilling lives of plants and a deeply personal memoir.... Read more
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