American Essays

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    • A Novel
    • By: Robin Yocum
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,706 ratings
    • Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio....

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    • Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades....

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    • Essays on Excess
    • By: Emily Mester
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • What if we explored our relationship to consumption with the same depth and feeling we use to tell stories of great loves and losses?

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    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media....

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    • Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
    • By: Audre Lorde
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 748 ratings
    • Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature....

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    • Essays
    • By: Kiese Laymon
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity....

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    • American Crises (and Essays)
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home....

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    • Our Post-American Future
    • By: Hugh White
    • Narrated by: Hugh White
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • What is Australia’s place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American future? In an era of rising danger for all, and dramatic choices for Australia, Hugh White explores how the world is changing and Australia should respond…

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    • By: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about is of general interest....

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    • Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer
    • By: Luis J. Rodriguez
    • Narrated by: Luis J. Rodriguez
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-19
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook compiles Ralph Waldo Emerson's most important works: "The American Scholar", "The Divinity School Address", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "The Poet", and "Thoreau". The audiobook is expertly read by Daniel Adam Day. Published by American Renaissance Books....

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    • American Writers on Fly Fishing
    • By: Robert DeMott - editor
    • Narrated by: Brian Morris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Jim Harrison, Pam Houston, Ted Leeson, Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, and more, share stories of fly fishing and life on the river....

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    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter....

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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
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    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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    • Essays
    • By: Elissa Washuta
    • Narrated by: Kyla García
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic....

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