Bestsellers
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.
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Poignant honesty
- By WHAM (CMatthews) on 05-01-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- By: Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea
- Narrated by: Barbara Flynn, Brendan O'Hea, Judi Dench
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra....
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Perfect for fans of Shakespeare
- By Richard A. Nathan on 04-24-24
By: Judi Dench, and others
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The Friday Afternoon Club
- A Family Memoir
- By: Griffin Dunne
- Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances....
By: Griffin Dunne
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have....
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- By Cather on 11-18-05
By: Stephen King
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The Glass Castle
- A Memoir
- By: Jeannette Walls
- Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....
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What's normal?
- By Kmrsy on 11-30-13
By: Jeannette Walls
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.
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Poignant honesty
- By WHAM (CMatthews) on 05-01-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- By: Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea
- Narrated by: Barbara Flynn, Brendan O'Hea, Judi Dench
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra....
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Perfect for fans of Shakespeare
- By Richard A. Nathan on 04-24-24
By: Judi Dench, and others
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The Friday Afternoon Club
- A Family Memoir
- By: Griffin Dunne
- Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances....
By: Griffin Dunne
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have....
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- By Cather on 11-18-05
By: Stephen King
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The Glass Castle
- A Memoir
- By: Jeannette Walls
- Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....
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What's normal?
- By Kmrsy on 11-30-13
By: Jeannette Walls
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...
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Subtly Funny Musings on Life Experiences
- By FanB14 on 09-03-12
By: David Sedaris
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....
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An Inner Journey within an External One
- By YoginiZora on 07-20-06
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Ghosted
- An American Story
- By: Nancy French
- Narrated by: Nancy French
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A compelling, thought-provoking memoir about Nancy French's journey from her family's mountain roots to success as a ghostwriter, only to be rejected by her party, church, and community....
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A profile in courage
- By Danamaz on 05-28-24
By: Nancy French
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The Distance Between Us
- A Memoir
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border....
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opened my eyes to the beauty of our stories
- By Evelyn on 09-18-20
By: Reyna Grande
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Dust Tracks on a Road
- An Autobiography
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston....
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Very nice!
- By Joi Wilson on 10-31-16
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....
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Heartfelt Essays, Beautifully Performed
- By Brent Holcomb on 11-23-21
By: Ann Patchett
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Capote's Women
- A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers....
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You need to know a bit about the players
- By Etoile NEOhio on 12-30-21
By: Laurence Leamer
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....
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Excellent book and narration
- By Kindle Customer on 06-14-11
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What Remains
- A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
- By: Carole Radziwill
- Narrated by: Carole Radziwill
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill....
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I just couldn’t finish this book
- By Cheryle Medeiros on 10-11-15
By: Carole Radziwill
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again....
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Beware of Tuesdays and October. I cried laughing
- By colin on 12-05-23
By: Matt Haig
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Running with Scissors
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away...
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NOT what I was expecting
- By Art H on 04-25-03
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The Sum of Our Days
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator....
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She does not disappoint
- By ChiChi's Rule on 06-01-22
By: Isabel Allende
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The Water Is Wide
- By: Pat Conroy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten....
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A powerful look at life of the island peoples.
- By L. W. LARSON on 04-22-23
By: Pat Conroy
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
- A Year of Food Life
- By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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When Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally-produced diet....
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mixed feelings
- By pterion on 11-15-07
By: Barbara Kingsolver, and others
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A Moveable Feast
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: James Naughton
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....
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Hemingway without being TOO Hemingway
- By Cathy Dopp on 09-20-06
By: Ernest Hemingway
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Revised and Expanded edition
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter - editor, Christopher Tolkien - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Mike Grady, Chris Smith
- Length: 29 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....
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For Tolkien fans who can't get enough (Like me)!
- By Ross on 02-29-24
By: J. R. R. Tolkien, and others
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A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life....
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If you don't like coddled, cry-babies, then avoid
- By Wayne A. Curto on 12-30-23
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: David Glass
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak....
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The most ridiculous narration
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-24
By: William Egginton
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- By: Rick Emerson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation....
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I’m from Pleasant Grove where rumors of Jay’s Journal are alive and well
- By Ruby Tuesday on 10-06-22
By: Rick Emerson
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Ian Fleming
- The Complete Man
- By: Nicholas Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers....
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A biography worthy of the creator of James Bond
- By Hoosier Writer on 05-13-24
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Shakespeare
- The World as Stage
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition....
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Too Little, Too Short
- By Charles L. Burkins on 11-30-07
By: Bill Bryson
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And Then? And Then? What Else?
- By: David Handler
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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At once a personal memoir and a literary exploration, a how-to book and a critical inquiry, a sequence of stories and a series of events, And Then? And Then? What Else? is a book not just for anyone curious about the creator of Lemony Snicket, but for anyone who loved books when they were a child.
By: David Handler
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
- Their Stories Are Better than the Bestsellers
- By: James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
- Narrated by: Tom Force, Nancy Peterson, Jenn Lee, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson....
By: James Patterson, and others
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural phenomenon The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy....
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Neil, the Universe and Douglas Adams
- By tru britty on 08-17-20
By: Neil Gaiman
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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?
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l just love Margaret Atwood.
- By Brandy Ringleb on 01-11-21
New releases
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Looking for Andy Griffith
- A Father's Journey
- By: Evan Dalton Smith
- Narrated by: Evan Dalton Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface.
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Bear with Me, Amma
- Memoirs of M.T. Vasudevan Nair
- By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Gita Krishnankutty - translator
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there.
By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, and others
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Crooked Teeth
- A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
- By: Danny Ramadan
- Narrated by: Danny Ramadan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to. Starting with his family’s humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes listeners on an epic border-crossing journey.
By: Danny Ramadan
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Arcturus Classics)
- By: Gertrude Stein
- Narrated by: Alexa Morden
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A witty and beautifully written account of the lives of Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas and a fascinating look into early 20th century Paris and the development of modernist culture.
By: Gertrude Stein
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And Then? And Then? What Else?
- By: David Handler
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire’s poetry through the countless peculiarities of his pursuit of a literary life—abject failure and startling success, breakthrough and breakdown, concordance and controversy—lit along the way by the books and culture he loved best.
By: David Handler
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Thoughts of a Kingdom Citizen
- Earth Needs Heaven
- By: Yoel ben Yisrael
- Narrated by: Yoel ben Yisrael
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In Thoughts Of A Kingdom Citizen: Earth Needs Heaven, author Yoel ben Yisrael narrates the listener through his revelatory yet liberating journey from religion to entering into the Kingdom of Heaven. The author chronicles his acutely insightful peek behind the curtain of religion and movements teeming with religiosity, in hopes that others will question their current ideology and philosophy, with the goal of seeking the Kingdom of Heaven for themselves.
By: Yoel ben Yisrael
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Looking for Andy Griffith
- A Father's Journey
- By: Evan Dalton Smith
- Narrated by: Evan Dalton Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface.
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Bear with Me, Amma
- Memoirs of M.T. Vasudevan Nair
- By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Gita Krishnankutty - translator
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there.
By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, and others
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Crooked Teeth
- A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
- By: Danny Ramadan
- Narrated by: Danny Ramadan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to. Starting with his family’s humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes listeners on an epic border-crossing journey.
By: Danny Ramadan
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Arcturus Classics)
- By: Gertrude Stein
- Narrated by: Alexa Morden
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A witty and beautifully written account of the lives of Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas and a fascinating look into early 20th century Paris and the development of modernist culture.
By: Gertrude Stein
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And Then? And Then? What Else?
- By: David Handler
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire’s poetry through the countless peculiarities of his pursuit of a literary life—abject failure and startling success, breakthrough and breakdown, concordance and controversy—lit along the way by the books and culture he loved best.
By: David Handler
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Thoughts of a Kingdom Citizen
- Earth Needs Heaven
- By: Yoel ben Yisrael
- Narrated by: Yoel ben Yisrael
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In Thoughts Of A Kingdom Citizen: Earth Needs Heaven, author Yoel ben Yisrael narrates the listener through his revelatory yet liberating journey from religion to entering into the Kingdom of Heaven. The author chronicles his acutely insightful peek behind the curtain of religion and movements teeming with religiosity, in hopes that others will question their current ideology and philosophy, with the goal of seeking the Kingdom of Heaven for themselves.
By: Yoel ben Yisrael
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Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You
- Learn techniques to sustain your writing, become motivated again, find a better fit for writing in your life.
- By: Denis Ledoux
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 55 mins
- Unabridged
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is a "writer's block" a sign of poor discipline! You bet it is! For some, a block will doom them to a tedious halt. It may even bring a deadly blow to the manuscript, but for others, writer's block is a temporary inconvenience. They push through to write a book that is possibly better than before. Don't Let Writer's Block Stop You will reveal how these two sorts of writers differ. You will learn to spring back—applying best practices every writer can learn to use. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN how to respect your writing discipline. why it is dangerous to talk about your writing in progress how to ...
By: Denis Ledoux
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The Art of Dying
- Writings, 2019-2022
- By: Peter Schjeldahl, Steve Martin - foreword by, Jarrett Earnest - introduction by
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”
By: Peter Schjeldahl, and others
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Frederick Douglass: Voice of Freedom
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into the extraordinary life of Frederick Douglass with the compelling biography, "Frederick Douglass: Voice of Freedom." This book offers an in-depth exploration of Douglass's journey from a life in chains to becoming one of the most influential figures in American history. Through meticulously researched narratives and vivid storytelling, the biography covers major aspects of his life and legacy. Escape from Slavery: The book opens with a dramatic recounting of Douglass's brave escape from slavery, setting the stage for his transformation into a national leader for abolition. ...
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Booker T. Washington: From Slavery to Statesman
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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"Booker T. Washington: From Slavery to Statesman" is a compelling biography that explores the profound journey of one of the most influential African American leaders in post-Civil War America. This detailed narrative captures Washington's rise from the shackles of slavery to his pivotal role as an educator and public figure. The book begins with Washington's early years of hardship and resilience, born into slavery in Virginia. It vividly details his emancipation and the transformative effects of the newfound freedom that fueled his lifelong quest for education. Readers will follow ...
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Lydia Maria Child
- A Radical American Life
- By: Lydia Moland
- Narrated by: Lydia Moland
- Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author.
By: Lydia Moland
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Passionate Persistence
- The Life of My Mother, Ruth Chew (Author of The Wednesday Witch)
- By: Eve Sprunt
- Narrated by: Patrice C. Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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If you enjoyed The Wednesday Witch, you'll be fascinated to learn more about the life of its author. Complete with entries from Ruth Chew's diaries and never-before-seen sketches from her personal notebooks, this book gives you an insight to the author behind The Wednesday Witch.
By: Eve Sprunt
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I Have Known Love
- Poems of Love and Loss
- By: Nina Bingham
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This award-winning author's approach has been described as "distinctively confessional." Her poetry is both heartbreaking and optimistic. Her personal style transports readers through a wide spectrum of emotions and introduces them to a variety of poetry genres, from delicate and romantic Shakespearean sonnets to bawdy and humorous limericks. The author's meaning is rich in visceral metaphors of desire and loss, conveyed with honesty and exquisite sensitivity. Self-deprecating about her subjective experience of love, she exposes its unrealistic goals. However, skepticism disappears as the ...
By: Nina Bingham
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The Scandal of the Century
- By: Lisa Hilton
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage.
By: Lisa Hilton
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Literature for the People
- How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse
- By: Sarah Harkness
- Narrated by: Sarah Harkness
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel and Alexander Macmillan arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers, working-class sons of a Scottish crofter, set up a publishing house that spread radical ideas on equality, science and education across the world. They also brought authors like Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy and Charles Kingsley, and poets like Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, to a mass audience. No longer would books be just for the upper classes. In Literature for the People Sarah Harkness brings to life these two amusing, warm-hearted men.
By: Sarah Harkness
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Another Sort of Freedom
- A Memoir
- By: Gurcharan Das
- Narrated by: Ashish David
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Another Sort of Freedom is a funny, moving and honest memoir of a man's struggle to break free from expectations. Gurcharan Das was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, during World War II, when Hitler, Churchill and Hirohito were bashing everyone around. His mother noted in her diary, 'This is a restless baby.' By age two he had become 'a difficult child', and by three she was calling him a 'troublemaker'. He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since.
By: Gurcharan Das
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Astrid Lindgren - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer and creator of Pippi Longstocking: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche
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Stefan Zweig - A short biography
- 5 Minutes. Short on time - long on info!
- By: George Fritsche
- Narrated by: George Fritsche
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Stefan Zweig, tragic figure and world-renowned famous German author: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!
By: George Fritsche