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The Spellshop
By: Sarah Beth Durst
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love.
Join Kiela the librarian and her assistant, Caz the sentient spider plant, as they navigate the low stakes market of illegal spellmaking and the high risk business of starting... Read more
The Bookshop
By: Evan Friss
Narrated by: Jay Myers
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times
"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book."
—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic
An affectionate and engaging... Read more
Burnout
By: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead
“A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its intersectionality.”—Bustle
This... Read more
How to Protect Bookstores and Why
By: Danny Caine
Narrated by: Danny Caine
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Why bookstores matter, and how we can help Can bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and sources of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our communities. Danny Caine, author of the... Read more
View audiobookWork Won't Love You Back
By: Sarah Jaffe
Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more
How to Resist Amazon and Why
By: Danny Caine
Narrated by: Danny Caine
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas,... Read more
View audiobookWriting an Identity Not Your Own
By: Alex Temblador
Narrated by: Alex Temblador
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.
Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It’s not a subject that’s generally taught in creative writing programs, and there are so few craft books and online... Read more
Once Upon a Tome
By: Oliver Darkshire
Narrated by: Oliver Darkshire
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a... Read more
View audiobookReturn to Nature
By: Emma Loewe
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the new science and ancient wisdom on why nature makes us healthier and happier in body and soul from the co-author of The Spirit Almanac and mindbodygreen’s Senior Sustainability Editor.For centuries, we have known that getting outside is good for us. Yet we have become increasingly disconnected from the earth that nourishes us, with... Read more
View audiobookSeven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
By: Shaun Bythell
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers by the curmudgeonly shop owner and author of Confessions of a Bookseller. Shaun Bythell knows them all—from the “Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)” to the “Parents Secretly after Free Childcare.” The business of books has never been funnier.In a... Read more
View audiobookWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Books
By: Leah Price
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more
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