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    • Crafting the Story Only You Could Write
    • By: Nancy Slonim Aronie
    • Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • In a culture increasingly inundated with generic AI-generated text, a well-crafted personal narrative is more important than ever, a declaration of human connection and meaning. Use Nancy’s secrets to stand out from the crowd and get your one-of-a-kind story onto the page.

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    • Personal Essays
    • By: Melissa Broder
    • Narrated by: Melissa Broder
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months....

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    • A Friendship
    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 864 ratings
    • The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan....

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    • By: Heidi Priebe
    • Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,769 ratings
    • Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next....

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    • A Personal Essay
    • By: Doreen Oliver
    • Narrated by: Doreen Oliver
    • Length: 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • Grounded is a moving personal essay about autism, race, and the sacrifices mothers make to give their children a chance at a good life, by writer and performance artist Doreen Oliver....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,531 ratings
    • David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....

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    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • 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: Lydia Davis
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive"....

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    • Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
    • By: Alice Wong
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....

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    • I Just Want to Pee Alone Series, Book 1
    • By: Some Kickass Mom Bloggers, Jen Mann - editor
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Motherhood is the toughest - and funniest - job you'll ever love. Raising kids is hard work. The pay sucks, your boss is a tyrant, and the working conditions are pitiful - you can't even take a bathroom break without being interrupted with another demand. Hear these hysterical 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 1,685 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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    • By: Jim Gaffigan
    • Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,588 ratings
    • In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....

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    • Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery and Reflection
    • By: Shahida Arabi
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this new essay collection, Shahida ArabiIn explores how narcissistic abuse in childhood can set us up for trauma repetition in adulthood, affecting how we navigate relationships, the self, and the world....

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    • A Step-by-Step Student's Guide to Effective Writing Excellence, Academic Success and Unlocking Personal Potential from High School Through College
    • By: Audrey Moon
    • Narrated by: Renee DeVault-Brisco
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • This book, 'Mastering College Essay Writing with 3-Paragraph and 5-Paragraph Essay' is to help you write college essay of 3-paragraph essay or 5-paragraph essay from the basics to many practices. Are you ready to write college essays with this book without worrying about it?

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