Bestsellers
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....
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Classic in Historical Mysteries
- By Kelly on 09-05-19
By: Graham Hancock
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Kingdom of Cain, crime novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the evil of murder in film and literature can point us to ways of living honestly, beautifully, and even joyfully in a dark world.
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Stunningly Beautiful
- By Amazon Customer on 05-30-25
By: Andrew Klavan
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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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Homer and His Iliad
- By: Robin Lane Fox
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem....
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Masterful!
- By J. C. Weaver on 01-08-24
By: Robin Lane Fox
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen
- By: Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon....
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Audio level problems
- By David on 04-10-19
By: Hendrik Groen, and others
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The Crucible
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....
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Abridged Version
- By Michael G. Stoffel on 05-07-12
By: Arthur Miller
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....
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Classic in Historical Mysteries
- By Kelly on 09-05-19
By: Graham Hancock
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In The Kingdom of Cain, crime novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the evil of murder in film and literature can point us to ways of living honestly, beautifully, and even joyfully in a dark world.
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Stunningly Beautiful
- By Amazon Customer on 05-30-25
By: Andrew Klavan
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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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Homer and His Iliad
- By: Robin Lane Fox
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem....
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Masterful!
- By J. C. Weaver on 01-08-24
By: Robin Lane Fox
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen
- By: Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon....
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Audio level problems
- By David on 04-10-19
By: Hendrik Groen, and others
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The Crucible
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....
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Abridged Version
- By Michael G. Stoffel on 05-07-12
By: Arthur Miller
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Mythology
- By: Edith Hamilton
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Mythology succeeds like no other audiobook in bringing to life for the modern listener the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture....
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Good reading of classical myths
- By Kathi on 03-18-13
By: Edith Hamilton
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners
- Listen for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Javier Marzan
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and, most importantly, enjoyment....
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Can return the book.?
- By Dustin Graves on 04-07-23
By: Olly Richards
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”
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The vivid imagery.
- By Anne on 03-20-25
By: Joan Didion
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Gilgamesh
- A New English Version
- By: Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell energizes a heroic tale so old it predates Homer's Iliad by more than a millennium....
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A defense of this "translation"
- By George on 07-16-08
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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 on 09-20-06
By: Ernest Hemingway
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- By: Willie Lynch
- Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood
- Length: 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making....
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Sancofa
- By colin on 10-25-15
By: Willie Lynch
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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Butchery of the language
- By Sigurdur J. on 03-26-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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Dumbledore
- The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration
- By: Irvin Khaytman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant investigation into the motivations and methods, Dumbledore dives between the lines of the Harry Potter books to create a portrait of the controversial Headmaster....
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Interesting and informative, but...
- By James Fields on 08-31-23
By: Irvin Khaytman
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The World of All Souls
- The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life
- By: Deborah Harkness
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Deborah Harkness, Steve West, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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All Souls fans have been captivated from the start by the many sources of inspiration Harkness draws on in her novels. Here, with her signature historian's touch, she offers an encyclopedic look at the series, complete with synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and more....
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Not AT ALL what I hoped for or expected.
- By ZR. on 05-08-18
By: Deborah Harkness
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
- A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
- By: Rebecca Romney
- Narrated by: Rebecca Romney
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars comes an enthralling literary adventure that introduces listeners to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen—and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.
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Now I Have to Buy More Books
- By M. McCurdy on 03-19-25
By: Rebecca Romney
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.
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Reader Beware
- By Anonymous User on 04-11-25
By: Thomas Ligotti
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....
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Masterful Essayist
- By Andre on 09-30-16
By: James Baldwin
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- By Jefferson on 02-13-11
By: Walter Mosley
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The World in Books
- 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon, Kenneth C. Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A bestselling historian takes listeners on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world’s most influential writers—from Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to bell hooks, and Marcus Aurelius to Joan Didion.
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An enticing, concise overview.
- By Sean Faircloth on 11-10-24
By: Kenneth C. Davis
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Didion and Babitz
- By: Lili Anolik
- Narrated by: Lili Anolik, Emma Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive novel” (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions—and antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.
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I’m still Team Joan
- By Dorothy L. Lipman on 11-16-24
By: Lili Anolik
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The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
- By: Dorothy Scarborough
- Narrated by: Ben Tucker
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Scholar of the macabre Dorothy Scarborough provides us with the first comprehensive overview of supernatural fiction in literary history, a book originally written as her dissertation for her Ph.D. at Columbia University, and later so universally praised that it was published widely in print.
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The Anatomy of Genres
- How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works
- By: John Truby
- Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story John Truby provides a guide to understanding the major genres of the story world.
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Audible is not the best medium for this book
- By Ken on 02-13-25
By: John Truby
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
- The Legends and Mythologies That Inspired Robert Jordan
- By: Michael Livingston, Harriet McDougal - contributor, Robert Jordan
- Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Take a deep dive into the real-world history and mythology that inspired the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. Origins of The Wheel of Time will provide exciting knowledge and insights to both new and longtime fans....
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Agenda driven ideological bend.
- By Maxwell on 06-19-23
By: Michael Livingston, and others
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One in a Millennial
- On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
- By: Kate Kennedy
- Narrated by: Kate Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist: One in a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned....
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Don’t waste a credit
- By Andrea on 05-08-24
By: Kate Kennedy
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Divine Might
- Goddesses in Greek Myth
- By: Natalie Haynes
- Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin....
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Natalie Haynes makes me feel cool about being a Greek mythology nerd.
- By Anna E Campbell on 02-15-24
By: Natalie Haynes
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Pandora's Jar
- Women in the Greek Myths
- By: Natalie Haynes
- Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters....
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The Golden Age Continues
- By Stefan Filipovits on 03-29-22
By: Natalie Haynes
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Consider the Lobster
- And Other Essays
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures....
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How this differs from the other version
- By Jonathan Penley on 12-26-17
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Short Stories in French for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Richard Simcott
- Narrated by: Louis Bernard
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment....
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not for beginners
- By J. Crowley on 08-22-21
By: Olly Richards, and others
New releases
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the dark side of human nature to discover how we might find joy and beauty in the world while still being clear-eyed about the evil found in it. The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history—including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel—and at the art created from imaginative engagement with those horrific events by artists ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alfred Hitchcock.
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Stunningly Beautiful
- By Amazon Customer on 05-30-25
By: Andrew Klavan
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Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight
- The Highs and Lows of the Twilight Saga
- By: Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Why does the Twilight saga continue to inspire both passionate fandom and heated critique? In Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight, Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher unpacks the cultural obsession with Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and the supernatural love story that redefined YA literature and pop culture forever.
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What A Riot
- By R mason on 06-01-25
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On James Baldwin
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.
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Favorite living writer speaking of favorite all time writer
- By JAH on 05-30-25
By: Colm Toibin
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P = d.t
- Outline of a Theory of Power
- By: Jorge Majfud
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In P=dt, Outline of a Theory of Power, the author develops the historical dynamics that link hegemonic, imperial powers with tolerance of diversity and dissent from power throughout history. This relationship is expressed in the formula P = d.t. Before and after periods of crisis in two different global systems, this is a zero-sum equilibrium: P - d.t = 0.
By: Jorge Majfud
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How to Read a Book
- Unlocking the Mind’s Hidden Stage
- By: Elias Vorne PhD
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the transformative power of reading with How to Read a Book: Unlocking the Mind’s Hidden Stage by Dr. Elias Vorne, PhD—the only guide you’ll ever need to master the art of reading any book, from novels to textbooks, memoirs to poetry. In a distracted world where skimming and scrolling dominate, this book is your blueprint to becoming a lifelong reader, equipping you with the mindset and tools to extract wisdom, emotion, and insight from every page. Whether you’re a student, professional, or curious learner, this is your key to making reading an invaluable, life-changing skill...
By: Elias Vorne PhD
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Epic of the Earth
- Reading Homer's "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World
- By: Edith Hall
- Narrated by: Edith Hall
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The roots of today's environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity's past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer's Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the dangers posed by the destruction of the natural landscape. Underlying Homer's account of brutal military operations, alliances, and cataclysmic struggle is a palpable understanding that the direction in which humanity was headed could create a world that was uninhabitable.
By: Edith Hall
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the dark side of human nature to discover how we might find joy and beauty in the world while still being clear-eyed about the evil found in it. The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history—including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel—and at the art created from imaginative engagement with those horrific events by artists ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alfred Hitchcock.
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Stunningly Beautiful
- By Amazon Customer on 05-30-25
By: Andrew Klavan
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Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight
- The Highs and Lows of the Twilight Saga
- By: Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Why does the Twilight saga continue to inspire both passionate fandom and heated critique? In Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight, Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher unpacks the cultural obsession with Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and the supernatural love story that redefined YA literature and pop culture forever.
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What A Riot
- By R mason on 06-01-25
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On James Baldwin
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.
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Favorite living writer speaking of favorite all time writer
- By JAH on 05-30-25
By: Colm Toibin
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P = d.t
- Outline of a Theory of Power
- By: Jorge Majfud
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In P=dt, Outline of a Theory of Power, the author develops the historical dynamics that link hegemonic, imperial powers with tolerance of diversity and dissent from power throughout history. This relationship is expressed in the formula P = d.t. Before and after periods of crisis in two different global systems, this is a zero-sum equilibrium: P - d.t = 0.
By: Jorge Majfud
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How to Read a Book
- Unlocking the Mind’s Hidden Stage
- By: Elias Vorne PhD
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Unlock the transformative power of reading with How to Read a Book: Unlocking the Mind’s Hidden Stage by Dr. Elias Vorne, PhD—the only guide you’ll ever need to master the art of reading any book, from novels to textbooks, memoirs to poetry. In a distracted world where skimming and scrolling dominate, this book is your blueprint to becoming a lifelong reader, equipping you with the mindset and tools to extract wisdom, emotion, and insight from every page. Whether you’re a student, professional, or curious learner, this is your key to making reading an invaluable, life-changing skill...
By: Elias Vorne PhD
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Epic of the Earth
- Reading Homer's "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World
- By: Edith Hall
- Narrated by: Edith Hall
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The roots of today's environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity's past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer's Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the dangers posed by the destruction of the natural landscape. Underlying Homer's account of brutal military operations, alliances, and cataclysmic struggle is a palpable understanding that the direction in which humanity was headed could create a world that was uninhabitable.
By: Edith Hall
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The Narration of the Invisible
- A Political Theory of Semantic Fields
- By: Jorge Majfud
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This study on the struggle over semantic fields in social narrative was originally published as a thesis by the University of Georgia in 2005. Since then, political and social events and new technologies, such as social media, have confirmed the political and historical relevance of the semantic struggle (even under the ever-present influence of production and consumption systems) presented in this book. No significant changes have been made to the overall study in this new edition. Despite its successes and failures, the author has decided to present this new English edition of The ...
By: Jorge Majfud
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Keys to Tetouan
- By: Mois Benarroch
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Keys to Tetouan: A Saga of Resilience, Identity, and Heritage. *Keys to Tetouan* by **Mois Benarroch** is a sweeping historical fiction novel that traces the harrowing journey of the Benzimra family, Sephardic Jews forced to flee the Spanish Inquisition and rebuild their lives in Tetouan, Morocco. Spanning generations, the story intertwines personal resilience with cultural upheaval, as the family navigates exile, survival, and the enduring quest to preserve their identity. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Tetouan—a city alive with tradition and conflict—the novel illuminates a ...
By: Mois Benarroch
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The Six-Figure Soulmate
- A Self-Aware Woman’s Guide to Upgrading Her Love Life
- By: Ombra dei Monti
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Stop Settling. Start Curating. A handbook for women who bring the vibe and expect more than vibes in return. Tired of dating men who think “emotional availability” is a podcast topic and “ambition” means eventually getting their passport? This is your permission slip to raise the bar and then velvet rope it off. The Six-Figure Soulmate isn’t about chasing a man with money. It’s about becoming the woman who doesn’t chase anyone, because she knows her presence is the luxury. This book is your unapologetically smart, slightly spicy guide to finding real partnership… preferably ...
By: Ombra dei Monti
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Vientos de otras eras
- By: Cristina M. Franconetti
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cuál es el instante preciso en que se desencadena el inicio de una nueva era? En el místico antiguo Egipto, Nerthi, una niña marcada por la tragedia, se refugia en un templo donde la magia ancestral y los susurros de los dioses la guían para conjurar un hechizo de protección que perdurará en el tiempo. Miles de años después, el pasado y el presente colisionan en una aventura desbordante de intriga, poder y revelaciones que te dejará sin aliento. Esta novela no solo te desvelará los secretos que entrelazan las almas, sino que también te permitirá ...
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Souvenir
- By: Rolf Potts, Cedar Van Tassel - illustrator
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples—from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop—travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation.
By: Rolf Potts, and others
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Republic of Mars
- By: Sam Sammane
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Two hundred meters beneath Mars’s blood-red desert, Port Hope thrives on flawless routines: recycled air, mag-lev pulses, hydroponic glow, and the unshakable promise that “humanity’s best days lie ahead.” Until its architect—visionary billionaire Edward Moss—is found dead behind biometric steel. Veteran investigator Peter Dash lives by instinct; rookie partner Farah Ram lives by data. Together they have forty-eight hours to track a phantom through treason-proof servers, mag-plasma weapons, and the simmering propaganda that keeps the bunker united. Every lead tightens a noose ...
By: Sam Sammane
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy
- By: D. J. Butler
- Narrated by: Gary Lane
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Science fiction and fantasy comprise some of the great works of the human imagination—and some of the most abhorrent. This is your Politically Incorrect Guide® to a literary tradition that is a key to understanding the modern world.
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I agree with the author Quidditch is silly!
- By Ashlee on 05-27-25
By: D. J. Butler
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The Signal-Man
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 33 mins
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"The Signal-Man" is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains.
By: Charles Dickens
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Shopping Mall
- By: Matthew Newton
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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The mall near Mat thew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center’s, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero’s zombie opus Dawn of the Dead.
By: Matthew Newton
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Silence
- By: John Biguenet
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist’s final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture—in short, as an object we both do and do not recognize. Concluding with the prospects for its future in a world burgeoning with noise, Biguenet asks whether we should desire or fear silence—or if it is even ours to choose.
By: John Biguenet
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Hotel
- By: Joanna Walsh
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy…hotels are where our desires go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation, this book visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies—the spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and alienation, hotels.
By: Joanna Walsh
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The Prince Machiavelli - Complete Edition: The New Modern English Translation (Translated and Annotated)
- By: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Narrated by: Adam Nelson
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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For over 500 years, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli has been one of the most influential—and controversial—works ever written on leadership, politics, and human nature. This Complete Edition brings Machiavelli’s insights to today’s listener with a faithful line-by-line modernization that keeps the original tone, structure, and message fully intact. Designed to be both accessible and authentic, this edition allows modern listeners to engage directly with Machiavelli’s ideas—without the barriers of outdated language or dense phrasing.
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Stroller
- By: Amanda Parrish Morgan
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although its association with wealth dates back to the invention of the first pram in the 1700s, in recent decades, four-figure strollers have become not just status symbols but cultural identifiers.
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Blackface
- By: Professor Ayanna Thompson
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren’t there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread—sometimes it’s tied into a noose—that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism.
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Earth
- By: Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon, Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world.
By: Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and others
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Bookshelf
- By: Lydia Pyne
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence.
By: Lydia Pyne
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Hood
- By: Alison Kinney
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless—with deadly results.
By: Alison Kinney
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Magazine
- Object Lessons
- By: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Narrated by: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy — until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Here is a tribute to all that magazines were, from their origins in London and on Ben Franklin’s press; through their boom — enabled by new technologies — as creators of a new media aesthetic and a new mass culture; into their opulent days in advertising-supported conglomerates; and finally to their fall at the hands of the internet.
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
- Ancient Lives
- By: Peter Stothard
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial world around him. Horace is famed for his fine phrases, lyric sex, and guidance on how to live, but he was a poet maddened by war, and many of his most self-revealing poems have rarely been seen. He could be sublime and obscene, amusing and abusive, a model of moderation and anything but.
By: Peter Stothard
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Literatur und Lüge 10
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Obligatorischer Absatz: Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
By: Karl Kraus
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 17
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
By: Karl Kraus
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Jaron auf den Spuren des Glücks
- By: Fabian Grolimund, Stefanie Rietzler
- Narrated by: Kai Taschner
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Schlechter könnte es für den jungen Fuchs Jaron nicht laufen: Sein strenger Vater zwingt ihn, Fußball zu spielen, obwohl ihm das Training überhaupt nicht gefällt. Sein bester Freund verbringt plötzlich lieber Zeit mit zwei Fieslingen, die Jaron ständig ärgern. Und dann steckt ihn die Lehrerin für die große Projektarbeit auch noch in eine Mädchengruppe! Doch dort verkündet das freche Hasenmädchen Lotte: "Wir erforschen, was glücklich macht!" Sie reißt den betrübten Jaron mit - in eine abenteuerliche Suche nach dem Glück.
By: Fabian Grolimund, and others
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Exploring Twilight Fans and Social Media
- A Resource for Teachers and Students
- By: Denmon Michael
- Narrated by: Ryder De La Rosa
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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The purpose of this study is to understand how a new medium (Facebook) is used by Twilight literature fans and how users are gratified through their use of the new medium. Fans are categorized in one of two forms (consumer-fans and producer-fans) and a two by two matrix is developed to categorize these two fan types. In relation to media, the age of a targeted audience determines the content. It has however become a blurred line in literature and film, in which case content that was intended for a younger audience is attracting the attention of an older audience (and vice versa).
By: Denmon Michael
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The Complete Original Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2: The Sign of the Four: with Summary and Analysis
- By: Isaac Philipson
- Narrated by: Cad Delworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes is back in one of his most gripping and high-stakes cases, The Sign of the Four. When a beautiful and mysterious woman seeks Holmes' help in uncovering the truth behind her father's disappearance and a series of anonymous gifts, the great detective and his steadfast companion, Dr. Watson, are pulled into a web of deception, murder, and long-buried secrets.
By: Isaac Philipson