Bestsellers
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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....
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Not funny but still worthy
- By H. Winslow on 06-17-24
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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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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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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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....
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Not funny but still worthy
- By H. Winslow on 06-17-24
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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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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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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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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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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Triumph of Life
- By Donna Ponte on 04-17-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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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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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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On Drinking
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....
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Don't read this sober
- By Lowball on 03-02-19
By: Charles Bukowski
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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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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic....
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Post election tonic for the soul
- By LynneKLR on 11-11-16
By: Maya Angelou
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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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Sun and Steel
- By: Yukio Mishima
- Narrated by: Matthew Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them....
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SNOOZEFEST
- By Ivan Rueda on 04-17-21
By: Yukio Mishima
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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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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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Survival Is a Promise
- The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
- By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Narrated by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Audre Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde and offers a new understanding of her life, work, and enduring impact.
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love in the mi·nu·ti·ae of Lorde
- By Regina Brown on 09-07-24
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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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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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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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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- By: Katherine Rundell
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death....
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Oh but the narration…
- By David Benjamin on 01-01-23
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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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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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Letter to My Daughter
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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Wisdom that not only experience can give...
- By Theodore on 09-17-11
By: Maya Angelou
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The Liars' Club
- A Memoir
- By: Mary Karr
- Narrated by: Mary Karr
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation....
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Awful narration
- By JG, Shreveport, LA on 12-10-23
By: Mary Karr
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A Wilder Shore
- The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
- By: Camille Peri
- Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages?
By: Camille Peri
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North reflects on his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times.
By: Richard Flanagan
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Men We Reaped
- A Memoir
- By: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life - to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly Black men....
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Tough but important
- By Jermell Powell on 09-26-21
By: Jesmyn Ward
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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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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
By: Richard Flanagan
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Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Expert on Wickedness
- By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie, Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond. Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories.
By: Mark Aldridge, and others
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They wound their way up the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by day and camped along the shores at night.
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Getting Away with Murder
- My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Lynda La Plante, Helen Mirren, Simon Callow, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The memoir covers La Plante's entire life, from her youth growing up in Merseyside to studying at RADA alongside Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt. It explores "the exasperation [La Plante] felt at the limited roles available for female actors" - something that led to her writing "Widows" and "Prime Suspect" for television.
By: Lynda La Plante
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The World She Edited
- Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
- By: Amy Reading
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent.
By: Amy Reading
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Wish I Was Here
- By: M. John Harrison
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: “A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.” Are these notebooks records of failed presence?
By: M. John Harrison
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
By: Richard Flanagan
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Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Expert on Wickedness
- By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie, Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond. Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories.
By: Mark Aldridge, and others
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They wound their way up the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by day and camped along the shores at night.
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Getting Away with Murder
- My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Lynda La Plante, Helen Mirren, Simon Callow, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The memoir covers La Plante's entire life, from her youth growing up in Merseyside to studying at RADA alongside Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt. It explores "the exasperation [La Plante] felt at the limited roles available for female actors" - something that led to her writing "Widows" and "Prime Suspect" for television.
By: Lynda La Plante
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The World She Edited
- Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
- By: Amy Reading
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent.
By: Amy Reading
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Wish I Was Here
- By: M. John Harrison
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: “A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.” Are these notebooks records of failed presence?
By: M. John Harrison
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- By: Simon Russell Beale
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes that rendered him half-blind, he has been captivated by Shakespeare.
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La hermana menor
- Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo
- By: Mariana Enriquez
- Narrated by: Mara Brenner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de "una limpia cocina literaria", en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada.
By: Mariana Enriquez
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Sobre literatura y vida
- By: Anton Chejov, Jesús García Gabaldón - traductor
- Narrated by: Israel Elejalde
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Autor irrepetible, forjador de un nuevo modo de ver y contar, maestro del cuento, la literatura en Chéjov se filtra en cada palabra que esculpía, más allá de su obra de ficción: "la literatura es mi amante". Amor, vida y literatura. Eso es lo que el lector disfrutará con esta compilación de cartas y aforismos en los que la figura de Chéjov aumenta, crece y nos atraviesa porque quizá no haya mejor lectura que internarse en la mente, en las palabras secretas, en la sensibilidad de un genio.
By: Anton Chejov, and others
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Brother-Souls
- John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation
- By: Ann Charters, Samuel Charters
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
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John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were—in Holmes's words—"Brother Souls." Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes.
By: Ann Charters, and others
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Seeing Beyond the Shadows
- By: Meredith Leigh Burton
- Narrated by: Meredith Leigh Burton
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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Seeing Beyond the Shadows provides a window into the life of a blind individual. Burton addresses some of the obstacles that people with visual impairments encounter, such as the issue of transportation, the low employment problem, and the overall lack of opportunities that impede progress. She provides firsthand accounts of her own experiences navigating these obstacles and relates her faith journey as she has come to rely on God’s guidance.
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Underfoot in Show Business
- By: Helene Hanff
- Narrated by: Karen Commins
- Length: 6 hrs
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In her spirited, witty, and vastly entertaining first memoir, Helene Hanff recalls her ingenuous attempts to crash Broadway in the early forties as one of “the other 999.” Helene warmly tells stories about her life before she wrote the beloved and bestselling book 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD. Naive, nearsighted, frequently penniless but hopelessly stagestruck, she found her life governed by Flanagan’s Law: “No matter what happens to you, it’s unexpected.”
By: Helene Hanff
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Some Unfinished Chaos
- The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- By: Arthur Krystal
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unusual biography Krystal gives us not only the peripatetic and turbulent life of a cultural icon but also the intellectual sweep of a period in history that created our modern America. Some Unfinished Chaos delivers a nuanced portrait of a man whose various sides embodied the trends, passions, and pursuits of the imperfect society that both glorified and dismissed him.
By: Arthur Krystal
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How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them
- How to Think Series
- By: Dai George
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.
By: Dai George
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Oh Mother, What Did You Do?
- Pose and Repose in the Life, Letters and Poetry of Thom Gunn
- By: Graham Dixon
- Narrated by: Graham Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Gay icon, great poet, leather daddy, eccentric professor, English, American, biker, non-driver, drug addict, hedonist, intellectual, enigmatic, friendly, Everyman, one-of-a-kind, brother, roommate, HIV-negative, paradigmatic AIDS writer, Nazi belt wearer, Jeff Dahmer scholar, Guggenheim Genius, secret philanthropist, Formalist, Existentialist, prolific letter writer, some-sort-of-an-angel...Thom Gunn was all of these and more... But hovering above these figures lay the memory of his mother.
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A mirror to a fascinating poet's life
- By Amazon Customer on 09-17-24
By: Graham Dixon
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La batalla por el templo [The Battle for the Temple]
- By: Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum
- Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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La Batalla por el Templo es un viaje a la vida de Jacobo Grinberg narrado por él mismo, desde su infancia y juventud, pasando por la enfermedad de su madre —misma que lo motivó a dedicarse al estudio del cerebro y la conciencia—, hasta su vínculo con su esposa, Lizette, y su hija, Estusha. Así como sus momentos más formativos y clave a lo largo de su trayectoria laboral, sus largos años de trabajo a lado de chamanes como Pachita, cabalistas en Israel y demás sabios de tradiciones antiguas, que lo llevaron a ser el extraordinario hombre que fue.
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Die Leuchttürme der Stevensons
- By: Sabine Weiß
- Narrated by: Konstantin Marsch
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Vom schwarzen Schaf der Familie zum weltberühmten Schriftsteller - ein packendes Hörbuch über eine Leuchtturmbauer-Dynastie und die frühen Jahre Robert Louis Stevensons, Autor von DIE SCHATZINSEL und DR. JEKYLL UND MR. HYDE. Schottland, 1868. Der fast 18-jährige Robert Louis Stevenson träumt von einem Leben als Schriftsteller. Eine Zeitlang lässt sein Vater ihn gewähren, doch als Robert sein Studium vernachlässigt und sich unstandesgemäß verliebt, muss er Edinburgh verlassen.
By: Sabine Weiß
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Die Leuchttürme der Stevensons
- By: Sabine Weiß
- Narrated by: Konstantin Marsch
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Vom schwarzen Schaf der Familie zum weltberühmten Schriftsteller - ein packendes Hörbuch über eine Leuchtturmbauer-Dynastie und die frühen Jahre Robert Louis Stevensons, Autor von DIE SCHATZINSEL und DR. JEKYLL UND MR. HYDE. Schottland, 1868. Der fast 18-jährige Robert Louis Stevenson träumt von einem Leben als Schriftsteller. Eine Zeitlang lässt sein Vater ihn gewähren, doch als Robert sein Studium vernachlässigt und sich unstandesgemäß verliebt, muss er Edinburgh verlassen.
By: Sabine Weiß
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Die Geschichten in uns
- Vom Schreiben und vom Leben
- By: Benedict Wells
- Narrated by: Benedict Wells
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Ein Buch wie eine persönliche Begegnung, ein Hörbuch wie eine private Live-Lesung. Benedict Wells erzählt von der Faszination des Schreibens und gibt einen tiefen Einblick in sein Leben, von seiner Kindheit bis zu seinen ersten Veröffentlichungen. Anhand eigener und anderer Werke zeigt er anschaulich, wie ein Roman entsteht, was fesselnde Geschichten ausmacht und wie man mit Rückschlägen umgeht. Ein berührendes, lebenskluges und humorvolles Buch – für alle, die Literatur lieben oder selbst schreiben wollen.
By: Benedict Wells
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Los más geniales amigos imaginarios
- By: Flor Aguilera
- Narrated by: Ana Ragasol, Carlos Vásquez, Stephanie Preller, and others
- Length: 53 mins
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Muchos hemos tenido amigos imaginarios, aunque sean en nuestros sueños. Algunos los imaginamos tan raros como si fueran extraterrestres; otros se ven tan parecidos a nosotros que hasta podrían ser de la familia. Eso le pasó a Fernando Pessoa, el poeta portugués que llevó este juego un paso más allá, creando no uno, ni dos, sino ¡más de sesenta amigos imaginarios!, cada uno con nombre, personalidad e, incluso, características físicas e historias propias, pero parecidos a él en una cosa: escribían literatura.
By: Flor Aguilera
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Большой налет
- By: Дэшилл Хэммет
- Narrated by: Сергей Чонишвили
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Дэшилл Хэммет по праву считается одним из самых известных американских авторов "крутой" детективной литературы, а его рассказы и романы были признаны лучшими из когда-либо написанных детективных историй. Именно Хэммет является создателем полюбившегося многим популярного персонажа - безымянного следователя, который фигурирует в десятках его рассказов, в том числе и в тех, что представлены в этом сборнике. Вас ждут захватывающие истории о леденящих кровь преступлениях, происходящих на мрачных улицах Америки времен Сухого закона и в тенистых переулках городов, охваченных преступностью.
By: Дэшилл Хэммет
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Let’s talk… Schiller (German Edition)
- 10 Meisterwerke von Friedrich (von) Schiller unterhaltsam zusammengefasst, damit Sie beim nächsten Smalltalk glänzen können
- By: Alexander M. Hofmann
- Narrated by: Birgit Eimermacher
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Im Film Die Feuerzangenbowle wird im Deutschunterricht folgende Frage gestellt: In welchem Akt und welcher Szene spricht wer zu wem die Worte: »Das war kein Heldenstück, Octavio!«?“ - eine Frage, deren Antwort der Film uns bis heute schuldig bleibt.
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A Penned Life
- Poetry of Paul Bellany
- By: Paul Bellany
- Narrated by: Paul Bellany
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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I am a proud father and a family man. A Scotsman. A Londoner. A countryside-townie. A patriot. A rebel and a gentleman. A child of the seventies. A graduate from the school of hard knocks. A cat and dog lover. An aficionado of music and books. I am an outsider. I am a maverick, often outspoken and sometimes controversial. I am a warrior and worrier. An overthinker. I am both a success and a failure. I am intensely prolific.
By: Paul Bellany
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Ледяная тетрадь
- By: Андрей Рубанов
- Narrated by: Филипп Матвеев-Витовский
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Эта книга — историческая публицистика. Биография Аввакума Петрова (1620–1682), одного из первых русских писателей, — сделанная из сегодняшнего дня, для современного читателя. Комментарий к судьбе Аввакума, его трагедии и его победе. От начала изложенных событий и до конца — 400 лет российской и мировой истории. Абсолютно пристрастный, спорный, субъективный, провокативный, прямой, личный взгляд Андрея Рубанова.
By: Андрей Рубанов