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    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-17
    • Language: English
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    • Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

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    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-05
    • Language: English
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    • In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English "prep school" and begins to wonder if this subliminal teaching....

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    • Strange Tales from a Strange Time
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-13
    • Language: English
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    • Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the best-selling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print....

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    • By: Cormac McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-07
    • Language: English
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    • In a post-apocalyptic America, a father and his young son walk toward the coast. Their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation....

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    • A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose from the World's Greatest Thought Leaders
    • By: Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah McArthur, Alan Mulally - foreword by
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon, Janet Metzger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
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    • The word "purpose" is big. Very big. And heavy. It carries the weight of a lifetime of work and struggle; the weight of legacy; the mass of days spent not doing something else. It's something we all grapple with at some point. Some of us find our purpose, some spend a lifetime searching....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
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    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life + The Five Great Philosophies of Life
    • By: Carl Hilty, William DeWitt Hyde
    • Narrated by: Lynnda Nelson, Douglas Wilkin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • Are you tired of chasing happiness and only to find it elusive and temporary? Do you yearn for a deeper understanding of the true meaning of life? Look no further than Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life, a book that will send you on a transformative journey toward lasting joy....

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    • Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It
    • By: Alan Kohler
    • Narrated by: Alan Kohler
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • The escalation in house prices is a pain that has altered Australian society; it has increased inequality and profoundly changed the relationship between generations. Alan Kohler tells the story of how we got into this mess – and how we might get out of it....

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    • And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
    • By: Tom Papa
    • Narrated by: Tom Papa
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • Tom Papa is a little worried about you. You seem stressed, overworked, and, frankly, a little mixed up. Everyone is fighting an overwhelming feeling that things are getting worse, that we should be doing more, that we're not good enough. Well, life isn't perfect....

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    • New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
    • By: Rick Bass
    • Narrated by: Rick Bass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction.

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    • Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    • By: Jo Walton
    • Narrated by: Nicole Poole
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is a must-listen, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers.

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    • Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
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    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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    • Notes from the Greatest Classroom
    • By: Chris Highland
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    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • A natural selection/collection of essays on Religion, Nature, Humanism and Secularism from a former minister who is now a freethinking humanist, ...

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    • A Critical Essay on Krishnamurti's Teaching and Philosophy (Great Minds Series, Book 1)
    • By: Peter Fritz Walter
    • Narrated by: Peter Fritz Walter
    • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • This is an essay on the unique teaching of J. Krishnamurti. It starts with the question "What is consciousness?" - and carefully proposes a holistic definition, after reviewing the various psychological and spiritual theories that deal with this subject....

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    • In Power 1983-1992
    • By: Alan Clark
    • Narrated by: Alan Clark
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-10
    • Language: English
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    • This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....

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