Literary Nonfiction

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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 20,661 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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    • 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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    • 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 217 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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    • By: Ruth Ozeki
    • Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, best-selling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror....

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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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    • 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 62 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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    • Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
    • By: Jaime Harker
    • Narrated by: Jaime Harker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture....

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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 3 ratings
    • Nevermore brings one of America’s most enigmatic writers to the attention of a new generation of children....

    Regular price: $7.73

    • My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
    • By: Angela Sterritt
    • Narrated by: Angela Sterritt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Unbroken is an extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, written by an award-winning Gitxsan journalist who survived life on the streets against all odds....

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    • By: Jackie Torrence
    • Narrated by: Jackie Torrence
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 10-20-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • One of America's favorite African-American storytellers remembers her childhood in tender, unforgettable new stories....

    Regular price: $4.95

    • 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 1,284 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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    • On Mothers and Monsters
    • By: Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, Lizzie Davis - translator
    • Narrated by: Natalia Bilbao
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz provides an incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers—in history, literature, and pop culture—who have abandoned their children.

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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 380 ratings
    • In Mules and Men, some of the rich cultural heritage of black America is revealed and preserved....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 144 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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