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    • Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: Elisa Gabbert
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world....

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman....

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    • The Essential Wendell Berry
    • By: Wendell Berry
    • Narrated by: Nick Offerman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities....

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    • By: William Gibson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary best sellers Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History....

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    • Your Guide to Passing the Bar Exam
    • By: Edmond Aruffo
    • Narrated by: Edmond Aruffo
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Bar candidates are required to memorize massive quantities of law, frequently written by some of the the world's best authors—the justices of the United States Supreme Court. Mining the rule of law from complex decisions is no easy feat. Enter this audiobook....

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    • A Selection
    • By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....

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    • A Confessional
    • By: Isaac Fitzgerald
    • Narrated by: Isaac Fitzgerald
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England....

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    • Or Counsels Civil and Moral
    • By: Francis Bacon
    • Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Francis Bacon (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Albans, Attorney General and then Lord Chancellor of England, was an immensely learned, clever and ambitious man, with considerable political influence....

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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 749 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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    • Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across....

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    • Essays
    • By: Alexandra Petri
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency....

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    • An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
    • By: James Burnham
    • Narrated by: Phillip J. Sawtelle
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even "suicidal" tendencies....

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    • The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
    • By: Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers - translator, Richard Howard - translator
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • When Mythologies first appeared in English in 1972, it was immediately recognized as one of the most significant works in French theory - yet nearly half of the essays were missing....

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