Best sellers
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud....
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Love this!
- By Nancy on 10-21-20
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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please
- Essays
- By: Tom Segura
- Narrated by: Tom Segura
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From Tom Segura, the massively successful stand-up comedian and cohost of chart-topping podcasts 2 Bears 1 Cave and Your Mom’s House, hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more....
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Hot sauce is the best!
- By Michael Bowen on 06-15-22
By: Tom Segura
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Finding Me
- A Memoir
- By: Viola Davis
- Narrated by: Viola Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me....
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A Glorious Listen!
- By Ajm220 on 04-27-22
By: Viola Davis
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Trevor Noah is the host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where he gleefully provides America with its nightly dose of serrated satire....
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Everyone Should Listen to This
- By Vance Creekpaum on 10-27-19
By: Trevor Noah
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Will
- By: Will Smith, Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Will Smith
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned....
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Will sure loves Will
- By Kejeco on 11-18-21
By: Will Smith, and others
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The Storyteller
- Tales of Life and Music
- By: Dave Grohl
- Narrated by: Dave Grohl
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to tell these stories....
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Written and performed masterfully, just like all Dave Gohl’s music!
- By Michael Rickard on 10-05-21
By: Dave Grohl
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud....
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Love this!
- By Nancy on 10-21-20
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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please
- Essays
- By: Tom Segura
- Narrated by: Tom Segura
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From Tom Segura, the massively successful stand-up comedian and cohost of chart-topping podcasts 2 Bears 1 Cave and Your Mom’s House, hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more....
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Hot sauce is the best!
- By Michael Bowen on 06-15-22
By: Tom Segura
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Finding Me
- A Memoir
- By: Viola Davis
- Narrated by: Viola Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me....
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A Glorious Listen!
- By Ajm220 on 04-27-22
By: Viola Davis
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Trevor Noah is the host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where he gleefully provides America with its nightly dose of serrated satire....
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Everyone Should Listen to This
- By Vance Creekpaum on 10-27-19
By: Trevor Noah
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Will
- By: Will Smith, Mark Manson
- Narrated by: Will Smith
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned....
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Will sure loves Will
- By Kejeco on 11-18-21
By: Will Smith, and others
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The Storyteller
- Tales of Life and Music
- By: Dave Grohl
- Narrated by: Dave Grohl
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to tell these stories....
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Written and performed masterfully, just like all Dave Gohl’s music!
- By Michael Rickard on 10-05-21
By: Dave Grohl
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Crying in H Mart
- A Memoir
- By: Michelle Zauner
- Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, comes an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity....
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Broken Korean
- By Tim on 04-21-21
By: Michelle Zauner
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How to Be a Boss B*tch
- Stop Apologizing for Who You Are and Get the Life You Want
- By: Christine Quinn, Rachel Holtzman
- Narrated by: Christine Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Christine Quinn, the breakout star of Netflix’s hit Selling Sunset, shows women how to unapologetically own their power in business and relationships to live the life they deserve....
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Only 30 minutes in...
- By Candy Mc on 05-17-22
By: Christine Quinn, and others
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Hello, Molly!
- A Memoir
- By: Molly Shannon, Sean Wilsey
- Narrated by: Molly Shannon
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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At age four, Molly Shannon’s world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household....
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Molly is a superstar!!!
- By Marlene on 04-29-22
By: Molly Shannon, and others
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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An investigation by Michael Pollan into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs - and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences....
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Personal
- By Robert F. Jones on 09-02-18
By: Michael Pollan
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Radical Love
- Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
- By: Zachary Levi
- Narrated by: Zachary Levi
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Radical Love is the debut memoir from Zachary Levi (Shazam!, American Underdog, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Chuck), which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate purpose....
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Incredibly honest, raw, and inspiring
- By trishinpitt on 06-30-22
By: Zachary Levi
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The Palace Papers
- Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
- By: Tina Brown
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet....
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Tina Brown reads her book
- By Karen on 04-26-22
By: Tina Brown
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I Can't Make This Up
- Life Lessons
- By: Neil Strauss - contributor, Kevin Hart
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words....
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I Feel Sorry For His Readers
- By Question Everything on 07-02-17
By: Neil Strauss - contributor, and others
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The Office BFFs
- Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
- By: Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey
- Narrated by: Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship....
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you've heard 90% already
- By Anonymous User on 05-18-22
By: Jenna Fischer, and others
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin....
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Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
- By Edward Bisch on 04-13-21
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Mean Baby
- A Memoir of Growing Up
- By: Selma Blair
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Selma Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth....
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The Brilliance of Selma Blair
- By Mona-Alisa on 05-22-22
By: Selma Blair
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Phil
- The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar
- By: Alan Shipnuck
- Narrated by: Alan Shipnuck
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Phil Mickelson is one of the most compelling figures in sports. For more than three decades he has been among the best golfers in the world, and his unmatched longevity was thrown into sharp relief in May 2021....
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Not a fan (anymore)
- By Ziggy on 05-23-22
By: Alan Shipnuck
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The Way I Heard It
- By: Mike Rowe
- Narrated by: Mike Rowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s number one short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, and insights....
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I could listen to Mike read all day. And I am!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-15-19
By: Mike Rowe
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All About Me!
- My Remarkable Life in Show Business
- By: Mel Brooks
- Narrated by: Mel Brooks
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words....
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Wonderful and nostalgic
- By GAT on 12-07-21
By: Mel Brooks
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Yearbook
- By: Seth Rogen
- Narrated by: Seth Rogen, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express. Hi! I’m Seth! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best....
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Thank you Seth Rogen!
- By Deb LPG on 05-16-21
By: Seth Rogen
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Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
- By: Curtis 50 Cent Jackson
- Narrated by: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback - from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable’s highest-paid executive - in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times best seller....
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The King of PETTY to Coach of the Chess team
- By Yas on 04-29-20
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We Were Dreamers
- An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
- By: Simu Liu
- Narrated by: Simu Liu
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime....
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audiobook version is amazing
- By E on 05-27-22
By: Simu Liu
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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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So good.
- By KG on 07-28-14
By: Maya Angelou
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James Patterson by James Patterson
- The Stories of My Life
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: James Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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How did a boy from small-town New York become the world’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart....
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What a joy.
- By Anna on 06-12-22
By: James Patterson
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Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
- A Memoir
- By: Bob Odenkirk
- Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bob Odenkirk’s career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a “Homeric” decades-long “odyssey” from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs to a dramatic career full of award nominations, it’s almost like there are many Bob Odenkirks....
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Meh, it’s ok—Everyman
- By Cliff909 on 03-02-22
By: Bob Odenkirk
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Broken Horses
- A Memoir
- By: Brandi Carlile
- Narrated by: Brandi Carlile
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer....
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I have almost 2000 audible books and ...
- By M. Lynn on 04-22-21
By: Brandi Carlile
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Bossypants
- By: Tina Fey
- Narrated by: Tina Fey
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: A recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV....
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Not for my generation
- By Kevin on 06-09-11
By: Tina Fey
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The Boys
- A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
- By: Ron Howard, Clint Howard
- Narrated by: Ron Howard, Clint Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Join award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and audience-favorite actor Clint Howard as they frankly and fondly share their unusual family story of navigating and surviving life as sibling child actors....
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Let’s use the GD word because we think “how could a best seller not use it.”
- By Psycho Ward on 10-13-21
By: Ron Howard, and others
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Taste
- My Life Through Food
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen....
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Should include a pdf of recipes
- By Jen Griffin on 10-23-21
By: Stanley Tucci
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Year of Yes
- How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- By: Shonda Rhimes
- Narrated by: Shonda Rhimes
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived....
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Best 7 Hours Listening to an Audio Book Ever!
- By ccreads on 02-20-16
By: Shonda Rhimes
Featured listener review
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Somebody Saved Me
- Words + Music | Vol. 27
- By: Pete Townshend
- Narrated by: Pete Townshend
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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Pete Townshend is one of the great figures in rock ‘n’ roll history. For almost 60 years, The Who have balanced the physical and the spiritual with introspective lyrics and inspirational music. But there is a part of Townshend’s story—and The Who’s—that has not been examined. These are his Words + Music. In the Audible Original Pete Townshend: Somebody Saved Me, the songwriter takes us through the period between the 1978 death of Who drummer Keith Moon and the 2002 loss of bassist John Entwistle.
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A must-listen for Pete Townshend fans and all rock fans
- By Dave Harrell on 05-06-22
New releases
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Radical Love
- Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
- By: Zachary Levi
- Narrated by: Zachary Levi
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Radical Love is the debut memoir from Zachary Levi (Shazam!, American Underdog, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Chuck), which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate purpose. Facing the scars of childhood trauma and the voices in his head that told him he would never be enough, Zac recounts the raw yet honest behind-the-scenes story of his family life, career successes, and the personal disappointments that led him to rock bottom.
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Incredibly honest, raw, and inspiring
- By trishinpitt on 06-30-22
By: Zachary Levi
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Swimming with the Blowfish
- Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride
- By: Jim Sonefeld
- Narrated by: Jim Sonefeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The ultimate front-row seat to the rise, fall, and rebirth of a band that was - for a time - the biggest in the world, Hootie & the Blowfish, and Jim Sonefeld’s shattering and redeeming spiritual path from addiction to recovery and a more fruitful life.
By: Jim Sonefeld
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Hearts on Fire
- Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005
- By: Michael Barclay
- Narrated by: Michael Barclay
- Length: 30 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Hearts on Fire is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s, which captured the world's attention in entirely new ways. The Canadian wave didn't just sweep over one genre or one city, it stretched from coast to coast, affecting large bands and solo performers, rock bands and DJs, and it connected to international scenes by capitalizing on new technology and old-school DIY methods.
By: Michael Barclay
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Approaching Fire
- By: Michelle Porter
- Narrated by: Michelle Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor.
By: Michelle Porter
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Access All Areas
- A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music and Culture
- By: Barbara Charone
- Narrated by: Barbara Charone
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a press officer for heavy metal bands taking the bus up to Donnington Festival with coffee, croissants and the much more popular sulfate.
By: Barbara Charone
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Behind The Door: The Real Story of Loretta Young
- The Loretta Young Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Edward J. Funk
- Narrated by: Paul Yarish
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This project began in 1990, but my life went into a different direction and was never published. Then, in 2012, Linda Lewis, Loretta Young’s daughter-in-law, called, urging me to finally bring this book to full life. I’ll be forever grateful to Loretta Young, a guarded woman by nature, who finally decided to tell a very personal story.
By: Edward J. Funk
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Radical Love
- Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
- By: Zachary Levi
- Narrated by: Zachary Levi
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Radical Love is the debut memoir from Zachary Levi (Shazam!, American Underdog, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Chuck), which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate purpose. Facing the scars of childhood trauma and the voices in his head that told him he would never be enough, Zac recounts the raw yet honest behind-the-scenes story of his family life, career successes, and the personal disappointments that led him to rock bottom.
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Incredibly honest, raw, and inspiring
- By trishinpitt on 06-30-22
By: Zachary Levi
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Swimming with the Blowfish
- Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride
- By: Jim Sonefeld
- Narrated by: Jim Sonefeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The ultimate front-row seat to the rise, fall, and rebirth of a band that was - for a time - the biggest in the world, Hootie & the Blowfish, and Jim Sonefeld’s shattering and redeeming spiritual path from addiction to recovery and a more fruitful life.
By: Jim Sonefeld
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Hearts on Fire
- Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005
- By: Michael Barclay
- Narrated by: Michael Barclay
- Length: 30 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Hearts on Fire is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s, which captured the world's attention in entirely new ways. The Canadian wave didn't just sweep over one genre or one city, it stretched from coast to coast, affecting large bands and solo performers, rock bands and DJs, and it connected to international scenes by capitalizing on new technology and old-school DIY methods.
By: Michael Barclay
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Approaching Fire
- By: Michelle Porter
- Narrated by: Michelle Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor.
By: Michelle Porter
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Access All Areas
- A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music and Culture
- By: Barbara Charone
- Narrated by: Barbara Charone
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a press officer for heavy metal bands taking the bus up to Donnington Festival with coffee, croissants and the much more popular sulfate.
By: Barbara Charone
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Behind The Door: The Real Story of Loretta Young
- The Loretta Young Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Edward J. Funk
- Narrated by: Paul Yarish
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This project began in 1990, but my life went into a different direction and was never published. Then, in 2012, Linda Lewis, Loretta Young’s daughter-in-law, called, urging me to finally bring this book to full life. I’ll be forever grateful to Loretta Young, a guarded woman by nature, who finally decided to tell a very personal story.
By: Edward J. Funk
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Jim Morrison
- A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Jim Morrison—the name still evokes an image of a rough-hewn rock star, absolutely oozing both profound intellectual wisdom as well as an inordinate amount of cool charisma. Few could encapsulate two ends of the spectrum as well as he did, but Jim Morrison was both the wild man and the soft-spoken poet. He was Mr. Mojo Risin’, ready to party, and that quiet voice searching for soft asylum all at the same time. This book examines both of these dynamic poles of Jim Morrison’s personality and more.
By: Hourly History
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Would It Surprise You to Know...?
- By: Ronnie Archer-Morgan, Janet Gleeson
- Narrated by: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Born in the '50s to a Sierra Leoneon mother battling mental health problems, Ronnie spent his childhood in and out of care. After difficult beginnings, marked by abuse, racism and brushes with both criminals and the police, he got into music, managing to get DJ gigs and, later, as a celebrity hairdresser for Vidal Sassoon and Smile in the height of '70s London. A flair for spotting antiques led him to start his own Knightsbridge gallery, ultimately becoming one of the most respected figures in the industry, culminating in a regular spot as an expert on Antiques Roadshow.
By: Ronnie Archer-Morgan, and others
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R. D. Burman: The Man, the Music
- By: Balaji Vittal, Anirudha Bhattacharjee
- Narrated by: Nimisha Sirohi
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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To a nation fed on classical music, the advent of Rahul Dev Burman with his repertoire of Western beats was a godsend. RD revolutionized Hindi film music in the 1970s, and with his emphasis on rhythm and beats, this Pied Piper of Hindi film music had young India swinging to his tunes. At the same time, this genius proved his many detractors who criticized him for corrupting popular taste wrong by composing some of the most influential raga-based songs in Hindi cinema and showing an immense comfort with all kinds of music, including Indian folk.
By: Balaji Vittal, and others
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
- By: William Goldman
- Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the best-selling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and more.
By: William Goldman
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Black Heart Fades Blue, Vol. 3
- Black Heart Fades Blue Series, Book 3
- By: Jerry A. Lang
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart.
By: Jerry A. Lang
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A Likely Lad
- By: Peter Doherty, Simon Spence
- Narrated by: Ben Elliot
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories—bad boy and public enemy. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rimbaud. Musically, he has defined the past twenty years of indie rock with his sound, lyrics, lifestyle and aesthetic. Since The Libertines rose to international fame, Doherty has proved endlessly fascinating. A whirlwind of controversy and scandal has tailed him ever since the early 2000s, so much so that all too often his talents as a songwriter and performer have been overlooked; for every award and accolade, there is a scathing review.
By: Peter Doherty, and others
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Being Elvis
- A Lonely Life
- By: Ray Connolly
- Narrated by: Russell Bentley
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star, there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he could share the burden of being himself—of being Elvis. On the outside, he was all charm, sex appeal, outrageously confident on stage and stunningly gifted in the recording studio. To his fans, he seemed to have it all. He was Elvis. With his voice and style influencing succeeding generations of musicians, he should have been free to sing any song he liked. But he wasn't free.
By: Ray Connolly
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Turn Around and Take a Bow!
- By: Mike Dixon, Anthony Cherry - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Dixon, Anthony Cherry - foreword
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Mike Dixon has been involved in the British music industry for over 40 years and has been a musical director for more than 20 West End productions. His career has taken him all over the world, working with some of the most iconic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The book follows his journey as his exciting and eclectic musical career develops. From his early musical experiences in Plymouth, studying at Trinity College of Music, to conducting in the Royal Albert Hall, with plenty of humor along the way, it is a little peek behind the scenes into the world of entertainment.
By: Mike Dixon, and others
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Be My Baby
- By: Ronnie Spector
- Narrated by: Rosie Perez
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Ronnie Spector’s first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, ‘Be My Baby’, stunned the world and shot girl group The Ronettes to stardom. No one could sing as clearly, as emotively as Ronnie. But her voice was soon drowned out in Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, and lost in Ronnie and Phil’s ensuing romance and marriage. Ronnie had to fight tooth and nail to wrest back control of her life, her music and her legacy. And while she regained her footing, Ronnie found herself recording with Stevie Van Zandt, partying with David Bowie and touring with Bruce Springsteen.
By: Ronnie Spector
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The Roaring Brook Fiddler
- Creative Life on the Wings of an Empath
- By: Julie Lyonn Lieberman
- Narrated by: Julie Lyonn Lieberman
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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What if you could read a book packed with uncommon originality, while simultaneously attending a concert of critically acclaimed original music? Julie Lyonn Lieberman has created a literary album that focuses on her profound journey through life’s epic challenges. With passion, the family code, and her sixth sense as her guide, she forged a creative life against all odds…fueled by her passionate dedication to make a difference in the world.
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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please
- Essays
- By: Tom Segura
- Narrated by: Tom Segura
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Tom Segura is known for his twisted takes and irreverent comedic voice. But after a few years of crazy tours and churning out podcasts weekly, all while parenting two young children, he desperately needs a second to himself. It’s not that he hates his friends and family—he’s not a monster—he’s just beat. In this collection of stories, Tom combines his signature curmudgeonly humor with a revealing look at some of the ridiculous situations that shaped him and the ludicrous characters who always seem to seek him out.