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Make It Scream, Make It Burn
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book.
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie... Read more »
Across That Bridge
By: John Lewis
Narrated by: Keith David
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography.
In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change... Read more »
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
By: Jim Holt
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From Jim Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, an entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right... Read more »
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Silence
By: Erling Kagge & Becky L. Crook
Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
What is silence?
Where can it be found?
Why is it now more important than ever?
In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and... Read more »
Witness
By: Ariel Burger
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protege and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.
The world remembers Elie Wiesel-Nobel laureate, activist,... Read more »
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
By: Daniel Kahneman
Narrated by: Patrick Egan
Length: 20 hours
Abridged: No
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first... Read more »
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The End is Always Near
By: Dan Carlin
Narrated by: Dan Carlin
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.
Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or regress? No... Read more »
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Why Marx Was Right
By: Terry Eagleton
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a... Read more »
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Buddhist Boot Camp
By: Timber Hawkeye
Narrated by: Timber Hawkeye
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Buddhism is all about training the mind, and boot camp is an ideal training method for this generation's short attention span. The chapters in this small book can be read in any order, and are simple and easy to understand. Each story, inspirational quote, and teaching offers mindfulness-enhancing techniques that anyone can relate to. You don't... Read more »
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The Art of Living
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Gabra Zackman
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh—one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today—reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer... Read more »
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The Power of Meaning
By: Emily Esfahani Smith
Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.
Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monastery or page through dusty volumes to discover life’s secrets. The truth is, there are untapped sources of meaning... Read more »
Finite and Infinite Games
By: James Carse
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be... Read more »
Grandstanding
By: Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a debate forward, but to look a certain way—incensed, or compassionate, or committed to a cause.... Read more »
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Entitled
By: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl
“Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable.”—Rebecca Traister
In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for... Read more »
Fathoms
By: Rebecca Giggs
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“[A] delving, haunted and poetic debut.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A work of bright and careful genius.” —Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails
“Fathoms took my breath away. Every page is suffused with magic and meaning.” —Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes
A gorgeous meditation on the... Read more »
Sophie's World
By: Jostein Gaarder & Paulette Møller
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? From that strange—but irresistible—beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with these and other questions that explore matters both small and large, some that take her mind far... Read more »
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How to Be a Stoic
By: Massimo Pigliucci
Narrated by: Peter Coleman
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of How to Live and How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today
Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers... Read more »
The Second Mountain
By: David Brooks
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.
“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post
Every so often, you meet... Read more »
Skin in the Game
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world,... Read more »
To Shape a New World
By: Tommie Shelby, Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry & Brandon M. Terry
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles & Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 16 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Martin Luther King Jr. may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King's writings and political... Read more »
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12 Rules for Life
By: Jordan B. Peterson & Norman Doidge, M.D.
Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.
Humorous, surprising and... Read more »
The Second Sex
By: Simone De Beauvoir, Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Judith Thurman
Length: 39 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME
Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English... Read more »
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: David Foster Wallace
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was.
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the... Read more »
Madness and Civilization
By: Michel Foucault
Narrated by: Dave Gillies
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might... Read more »
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