Literature Commentary

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • A Personal Narrative
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • "If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life...

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    • A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee
    • By: Tom Coyne
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking-averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending 16 weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland....

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    • Blanche White Series, Book 1
    • By: Barbara Neely
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Series: Blanche White Series, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 459 ratings
    • Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. Then there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect....

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    • What It Is and What It Isn't
    • By: Florence Nightingale
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing....

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    • Pure City
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • The Venetians' language and way of thinking set them aside from the rest of Italy. They are an island people, linked to the sea and to the tides rather than the land....

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    • By: Lawrence Block
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a 60-year career. Over the years, Block has written extensively for magazines and periodicals....

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    • Reading God’s Word the Way It Was Written For You
    • By: Five Stones Press
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • DID YOU KNOW? The Bible was not originally divided into numbered chapters and verses. This was man-made and done for convenience of looking up and ...

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    • Essays and Arguments
    • By: David Foster Wallace
    • Narrated by: Paul Garcia
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 855 ratings
    • David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the best-selling Infinite Jest....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ayobami Adebayo
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,808 ratings
    • An electrifying novel of enormous emotional power, Stay with Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family....

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    • One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
    • By: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,989 ratings
    • She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

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    • By: W. G. Sebald
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher....

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    • A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
    • By: Anjan Sundaram
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries....

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    • Or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,491 ratings
    • In June 1867, Mark Twain set out for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle steamer Quaker City....

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    • By: Julius Caesar
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 834 ratings
    • Julius Caesar wrote his exciting Commentaries during some of the most grueling campaigns ever undertaken by a Roman army....

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    • By: Michael Ondaatje
    • Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. He records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India"....

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings
    • The Log from the Sea of Cortez is the exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts....

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