Literary Nonfiction

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    • How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells, Concocted Creative Nonfiction
    • By: Lee Gutkind
    • Narrated by: Lee Gutkind
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction.

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    • Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,535 ratings
    • Number-one best-selling author John Green presents a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast....

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    • The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
    • By: Phillip Lopate
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A phenomenal master class shaped by Lopate’s informative, accessible tone, and immense gift for storytelling, To Show and To Tell listens like a long walk with a favorite professor....

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    • By: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,269 ratings
    • Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

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    • The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
    • By: Lindsay Mattick
    • Narrated by: Erin Moon
    • Length: 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh....

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    • By: Khaled Hosseini
    • Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-01-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20,304 ratings
    • Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

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    • Surviving a Lost Childhood
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories....

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    • 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
    • By: Kenneth C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History Kenneth C. Davis provides a delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion.

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    • By: Claudia Tate - editor
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after....

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    • A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe
    • By: Karen Lange
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Nevermore brings one of America’s most enigmatic writers to the attention of a new generation of children....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Julie Myerson
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you're gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway.

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    • A Holocaust Testimony (Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series)
    • By: William Schiff, Rosalie Schiff, Craig Hanley
    • Narrated by: Michael Fischbein
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a surreal maze of hate....

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    • By: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Ruby Dee
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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    • Essays
    • By: Jonathan Franzen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel....

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    • Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls
    • By: Betsy Franco
    • Narrated by: Ali Ahn
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Teenage girls have a lot to say, and poet Betsy Franco shares some of it in this unique work.....

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