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The Planets
- By: Dava Sobel
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating...
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The Planets
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-10-05
- Language: English
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The Sopranos Sessions
- By: Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall, David Chase, and others
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show's debut, Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produce The Sopranos Sessions, a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of new long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors' archival writing on the series, The Sopranos Sessions explores the show's artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connections to cinematic and television classics.
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Who chooses these narrators?!
- By Amazon Customer on 31-03-20
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The Sopranos Sessions
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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We Are Not Numbers
- The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey
- Narrated by: Ahmed Alnaouq, Sarah Agha, George Kreitem
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings...
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Reality
- By Ariala on 11-03-26
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We Are Not Numbers
- The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Ahmed Alnaouq, Sarah Agha, George Kreitem
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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How to be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- By: Lane Moore
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book. Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or...
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She really doesn’t like dudes
- By Sveinbjörn Pálsson on 17-09-20
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How to be Alone
- If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
- Narrated by: Lane Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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In Other Words
- By: Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein - translation
- Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Seeking full immersion, she decided to move to Rome with her family, for 'a trial by fire, a sort of baptism' into a new language and world. There, she began to read and to write – initially in her journal – solely in Italian.
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In Other Words
- Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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Pure Drivel
- By: Steve Martin
- Narrated by: Steve Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album! Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts...
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absolutely witty and great
- By KA ALVAREZ AGUILAR on 08-01-19
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Pure Drivel
- Narrated by: Steve Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- Language: English
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The Language of War
- By: Oleksandr Mykhed
- Narrated by: Greg Kolpakchi
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. ‘We were so happy and didn’t know it…’ A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with his wife and his dog. His parents have bought an apartment nearby. On weekends they go out for brunch, cook and see friends. Life is good; it is normal...
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A clear and gripping account of how the war unraveled in Ukraine. A must listen.
- By Anonymous on 18-10-24
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The Language of War
- Narrated by: Greg Kolpakchi
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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Poetic and Personal in the greatest way ever
- By Spike Solo Aitchison on 27-12-24
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Modern Love
- True Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption
- By: Daniel Jones
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones, Gabra Zackman, Emma Galvin, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column. A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man's promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her 70s looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships.
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Modern Love
- True Stories of Love, Loss and Redemption
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones, Gabra Zackman, Emma Galvin, Sean Runnette, Robin Miles, Kevin R. Free, Catherine Ho, Will Brill, Maggi-Meg Reed, Michael Crouch, Susan Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet
- An Essay
- By: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience...
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Eros the Bittersweet
- An Essay
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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Flush
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett. In this charming and heartfelt biography, Viginia Woolf tells his story: his early days as Miss Mitford's puppy running across the fields in wild abandon and fathering another, then the years spent in his invalid mistress' bedroom in Wimpole Street.
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Voiceover skips entire parts of the book at a time
- By Sylva on 19-03-24
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Flush
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 24-01-07
- Language: English
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A Long Game
- How to Write Fiction
- By: Elizabeth McCracken
- Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Warm, wise and full of practical tips, this book is the ideal companion to every writing life Write every day Show, don’t tell Write what you know Kill Your Darlings These are some of the most popular nuggets of advice given to writers, universally agreed to be true...
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clear and expressive, and scary.
- By Anonymous on 23-02-26
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A Long Game
- How to Write Fiction
- Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-01-26
- Language: English
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The Communist Manifesto
- Penguin Classics
- By: Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Gareth Stedman Jones - editor
- Narrated by: Arinze Kene
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones. The Communist...
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Biased text by Gareth Stedman Jones
- By Kindle Customer on 09-10-20
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The Communist Manifesto
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Arinze Kene
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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Life After Ambition
- A "Good Enough" Memoir
- By: Amil Niazi
- Narrated by: Amil Niazi
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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“Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her—and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift.” —Emma Specter, Vogue Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed...
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Life After Ambition
- A "Good Enough" Memoir
- Narrated by: Amil Niazi
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-01-26
- Language: English
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Notes from the Henhouse
- Collected Essays
- By: Elspeth Barker
- Narrated by: Raffaella Barker
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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As a teenager, Elspeth Barker had two great desires: to have a passionate love affair with a poet and to be a writer. She achieved the first when she and the poet George Barker fell in love: although he was perpetually broke, had several children by previous lovers and couldn't marry her as his first wife refused a divorce, they were extremely happy together, had five children and finally married two years before George's death. They had five children and finally married two years before George's death.
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An absolute joy!
- By Rachel Redford on 20-12-23
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Notes from the Henhouse
- Collected Essays
- Narrated by: Raffaella Barker
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-11-23
- Language: English
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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a useful introduction but ultimately boring
- By Peter Buchanan on 10-06-21
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-01-21
- Language: English
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Rural Rides
- By: William Cobbett
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.
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Excellent
- By Zadzaczadlin on 05-07-22
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Rural Rides
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- By: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before.
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-01-24
- Language: English
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Poetics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Nicholas Khan, Roy McMillan
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicholas Khan, best known for their role in Transformers. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Malcolm Heath, read by Roy McMillan. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western...
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Useful second half
- By P.K. on 29-09-23
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Poetics
- Narrated by: Nicholas Khan, Roy McMillan
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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