Non Resident Bihari
By: Shashikant Mishra
Narrated by: Saiyam
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
क्या होता है जब बिहार में किसी भी थोड़े सम्पन्न परिवार में बच्चे का जन्म होता है? उसके जन्मते ही उसके बिहार छूटने का दिन क्यों तय हो जाता है? जब सभी जानते हैं कि मूंछ की रेख उभरने से पहले उसको अनजान लोगों के बीच चले जाना है— तब भी क्यों उसको गोलू-मोलू-दुलारा बना के पाला जाता है? वही 'दुलारा बच्चा' जब आख़िरकार ट्रेन में बिठाकर बिहार से बाहर भेज... Read more
View audiobookMasiosare, nuestro extraño enemigo
By: Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
Narrated by: Jaime Alberto Carrilllo & Juan Miguel Zunzunegui
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Después del éxito rotundo de Los mitos que nos dieron traumas, llega la esperada segunda parte. México necesita una transformación. Sólo tú puedes hacerla. Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nuevamente nos quita la venda de los ojos para hacernos responsables del país y de sus circunstancias. Masiosare se esconde en el pasado, en la profundidad de... Read more
View audiobookGandi Baat
By: Kshitij Roy
Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
एक लड़का था— कुछ लोफर, लफुआ, दीवाना-सा! जिसका दिल था नए रैपर में वही पुराना— शहीदाना। शहर पटना पूरा अपना लगे उसे! लड़की थी अलबेली-सी, सोचने का कारखाना, हिम्मत की एनीटाइम लोडेड गन जैसी, पुरानी जीन्स और एकदम नया गाना! दिल्ली शहर में मौसम था अन्ना आन्दोलन का, चुनाव के घुमड़ रहे थे बादल। डेजी आई पढऩे एलएसआर में। बन गई ड्रमर। गोल्डन आया डेजी के पीछे... Read more
View audiobookConspiracy Theories
By: Wesley Jones
Narrated by: Rick Paradis
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Crazy conspiracies you may have never heard before You’ve probably heard of the Illuminati, of the Denver Airport, or Area 51, but there are a lot more conspiracy theories out there. Some simply remained theories, and others turned out to be real. After all, not everybody makes things up from scratch, do they? Most theories are based on a... Read more
View audiobookMadame Claude
By: William Stadiem
Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Madame Claude, by renowned social historian William Stadiem, is a magnificent audiobook about the brilliant, complicated, and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.
In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles... Read more
Ants Among Elephants
By: Sujatha Gidla
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary—and yet how typical—her... Read more
View audiobookMoan
By: Emma Koenig
Narrated by: Emma Koenig, Rachel Bloom, Chloe Cannon, Melani...
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine you could give an essay entitled How to Make Me Come to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that.
Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a... Read more
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
By: A. D. Jameson
Narrated by: A. D. Jameson & Holter Graham
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over.
Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the... Read more
Harvey Milk
By: Lillian Faderman
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time... Read more
View audiobookSeeing like a State
By: James C. Scott
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural “modernization” in the Tropics―the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do... Read more
View audiobookThe Vory
By: Mark Galeotti
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.
... Read more
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration
By: John Zmirak & Al Perrotta
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Building “the Wall” would cost less than half of what we spend to educate illegal immigrants every year Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $116 billion a year 62 percent of naturalized immigrants are for the Democrats; only 25 percent are for the Republicans Competition from immigrants costs American workers $450 billion a year The... Read more
View audiobookSpeech in Favor of Capital Punishment
By: John Stuart Mill
Narrated by: Peter Quest
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
John Stuart Mill is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the Victorian Era. In this speech, he defends the practice of capital punishment. He states, “I defend this penalty, when confined to atrocious cases, on the very ground on which it is commonly attacked—on that of humanity to the criminal; as beyond comparison the least... Read more
View audiobookMemphis midwives work to address racial disparities
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
More women in America die from pregnancy-related complications than in any other developed country in the world, and black women are most affected. NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano reports on one clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, where midwives are working to facilitate better outcomes by bringing holistic care to women of color. Read more
View audiobookScarred by war, Yemen’s children carry burdens beyond their years
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Yemen, some of the most vulnerable victims are the 2 million children on the brink of starvation, or those who lost limbs during the fighting. In Aden, many children have been fit with prosthetic limbs, but with rudimentary materials and old technology, they are sometimes barely functional. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in... Read more
View audiobookSurvival is a struggle in the rubble of Yemen’s war
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
With its infrastructure broken, the constant threat of starvation and a failed state, Yemen is on the brink of collapse. Less than half of its health facilities are functional amid a health crisis that has seen epidemics of preventable and largely eradicated diseases like cholera. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in partnership with... Read more
View audiobookEgyptian Mythology
By: Bernard Hayes
Narrated by: Zachary Dylan Brown
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn more about the ancient beliefs of Egypt, with its rituals, fallacies, and conclusions. This audiobook is dedicated to exploring the gods and goddesses the Egyptians feared and worshiped. This guide includes subtopics such as: The entire story of the creation of the world and human race the Egyptians embraced. Backgrounds and legendary... Read more
View audiobookCops and Robbers
By: Ant Anstead
Narrated by: Ant Anstead
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking. The British Police Force’s... Read more
View audiobookInner City Pressure
By: Dan Hancox
Narrated by: Ash Hunter
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is... Read more
View audiobookChinese Mythology
By: Bernard Hayes
Narrated by: Zachary Dylan Brown
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Some of us may be familiar with Chinese mythology, and to others, it’s a complete mystery. The Chinese had a lot of gods and goddesses, and in this ancient, historical country, with all the empires and dynasties, a plethora of legends and stories developed. Listen to Chinese mythology and learn about subtopics such as: The meaning of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Left Behind
By: Robert Wuthnow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a... Read more
View audiobookNative American Mythology
By: Bernard Hayes
Narrated by: Zachary Dylan Brown
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Stretching from the north to the south of the Western Hemisphere, the indigenous Americans have a long-forgotten history, and with that, myths, legends, and stories that have been passed on through generations. Many of them were in tune with nature and had their rituals, beliefs, and mythological creatures. In this guide, you’ll hear... Read more
View audiobookCrate Digger
By: Bob Suren
Narrated by: Bob Suren
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records he loves and reissue them, open a record store, start a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of... Read more
View audiobookFrom Broken Glass
By: Steve Ross
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and... Read more