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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography
By: A.J.A. Symons
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A.J.A. Symons discovered Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh in 1925 and became consumed with fascination for its eccentric author, aka ‘Baron Corvo’. His ‘quest’ takes the form of an irresistible detective story, the twists and turns of his investigation into Rolfe’s unfortunate life resulting in a groundbreaking form of biography that... Read more
View audiobookTurnaround Time
By: Oscar Munoz & Brian DeSplinter
Narrated by: Oscar Munoz & Christopher Salazar
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Wall Street Journal BestsellerGo behind the scenes with the CEO who led United Airlines’ remarkable turnaround. Around the world and around the clock, the people of United Airlines are locked in a struggle against time to ensure your aircraft lands and takes off for another flight safely and efficiently. This “turnaround time” is the heartbeat... Read more
View audiobookThe Gallic War
By: Julius Caesar
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures of the ancient Roman world. A skilful general and leading politician of the late Roman Republic, he secured a 10-year proconsular command in the province of Gaul, during which he accumulated both wealth and power. A core text in the teaching of Latin in schools, The Gallic War gives a unique... Read more
View audiobookWhere To from Here
By: Bill Morneau
Narrated by: Bill Morneau
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bill Morneau’s experience as Canada’s finance minister crystalized his vision for the country’s potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that Canada can — and must — become. Much of the world reacted with surprise and admiration to the results of... Read more
View audiobookHow to Starve Cancer...without starving yourself
By: Jane McLelland
Narrated by: Nano Nagle
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane McLelland dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive. Rather than aiming to cure cancer, which in many cases is unachievable, Jane's approach was to stop it growing. Remarkably her approach not only stopped it growing, it disappeared altogether. There are... Read more
View audiobookThe Ship Beneath the Ice
By: Mensun Bound
Narrated by: Mensun Bound & Charles Armstrong
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's... Read more
View audiobookThe Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth II
By: Pearson Phillips
Narrated by: Nanette Newman
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen huge changes in the lifestyle and expectations of peoples and nations. She has proved to be the constitutional monarch par excellence – while primarily a figurehead she has guided the concept of monarchy through difficult times, both national and personal. And even when her family has been rocked by... Read more
View audiobookThe Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I
By: Elizabeth Jenkins
Narrated by: Karen Archer
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout her vivid life, Elizabeth I was the centre of a complicated web of political intrigue that made up the Elizabethan constitution. Elizabeth Jenkins, in her classic biography, reveals the woman behind the skilful politician, showing her belief in personal sacrifice to secure peace for the country she loved more than any man. Read more
View audiobookThe Water Is Wide
By: Pat Conroy
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail.” —Charleston News and CourierYamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river, it was accessible only by boat. But for the handful of families that lived on Yamacraw,... Read more
View audiobookTears Over Russia
By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more
View audiobookElizabeth Taylor
By: Kate Andersen Brower
Narrated by: Eleanor Caudill
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor’s glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and... Read more
View audiobookNew York Jew
By: Alfred Kazin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more
View audiobookBarkley
By: Timothy Bella
Narrated by: Korey Jackson
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
*A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022*
The definitive biography of Charles Barkley, exploring his early childhood, his storied NBA career, and his enduring legacy as a provocative voice in American pop culture
He’s one of the most interesting American athletes in the past fifty years. Passionate, candid, iconoclastic, and gifted both on and off... Read more
God, Family, Country
By: Craig Morgan & Jim DeFelice
Narrated by: Craig Morgan
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
Country music icon, army veteran, father, outdoorsman—Craig Morgan shares all aspects of his life, revealing stories even his most avid fans don’t know.Written with Jim DeFelice, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller American SniperIn 1989, as US news outlets declared an end to Operation Just Cause, Craig Morgan was part of an elite group... Read more
View audiobookBlood & Ink
By: Joe Pompeo
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century.On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New... Read more
View audiobookWild Ride
By: Hayley Arceneaux
Narrated by: Hayley Arceneaux
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The youngest American to ever orbit the earth—cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux—shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen.
“A potent reminder to all of us that nothing on earth—or in the heavens, for that matter—can keep us from becoming commanders of our own destiny.”—Marlo Thomas, actor,... Read more
My Jewish Year
By: Abigail Pogrebin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism.
Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized... Read more
Fatherhood by Papa B
By: Bode Aboderin
Narrated by: Bode Aboderin
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A relatable and practical guide, shaking up the narrative on what it means to be a present-day father
Father of three, Motivational Speaker and Influencer Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B) is on a mission to show the world that Black fatherhood is not only compatible with ambition, but can inspire, nourish and amplify it too.
Doing away with the negative... Read more
Elvis and Me
By: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
Narrated by: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the major motion picture Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola, this New York Times bestseller reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own... Read more
View audiobookThe Sky Is for Everyone
By: Virginia Trimble & David A. Weintraub
Narrated by: Kate Harper, Katherine Fenton, Kaliswa Brewster...
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This inspiring audiobook shares the stories of trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe
Features a prelude, chapter introductions, and postlude read by Kaliswa Brewster
With additional narration by Marnie Chesterton, Katherine Fenton, Pooneh Ghoddoosi, and Kate Harper
The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of... Read more
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
By: Scott Hershovitz
Narrated by: Scott Hershovitz
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR Best Book of 2022 * One of Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of May
“This amazing new book . . . takes us on a journey through classic and contemporary philosophy powered by questions like ‘What do we have the right to do? When is it okay to do this or that?’ They explore punishment and authority and sex and gender and race and the... Read more
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
By: Stuart Ross
Narrated by: Stuart Ross
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “real” in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with... Read more
View audiobookShe's Unlikeable
By: Aparna Shewakramani
Narrated by: Aparna Shewakramani
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
When Aparna Shewakramani appeared on Netflix’s hit series Indian Matchmaking, it soon became clear that Aparna knew what she wanted. But all stories are told through certain lenses—and her story is no exception. Being on a reality show made Aparna feel like a character. Her decisiveness and sense of self-worth led viewers to see her as a very... Read more
View audiobookUncommon Measure
By: Natalie Hodges
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance... Read more
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