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Manboobs
- The funny and moving memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world
- By: Komail Aijazuddin
- Narrated by: Komail Aijazuddin
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world. I’m just a man, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a cake. What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America and you’re ashamed of your body...
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Manboobs
- The funny and moving memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world
- Narrated by: Komail Aijazuddin
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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Who Is Elmyr?
- Histories of an Art Forger
- By: Max Horberry
- Narrated by: Max Horberry
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Who is Elmyr? Simply put, Elmyr de Hory is known by many as the most notorious art forger of all time. He believed that if a forgery hangs in a museum for long enough - as he claimed many of his works did - it eventually becomes real. Yet, as with many fraudsters, much of the myth is exaggeration or invention.
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Came for the story, stayed for the hilarious accents
- By Howard on 26-09-24
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Who Is Elmyr?
- Histories of an Art Forger
- Narrated by: Max Horberry
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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The Lighthouse
- An Earthly Example Of How To Obtain Spiritual Fulfillment And Guidance
- By: Dwight Berry
- Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a biographical story that is both inspirational and historic in its nature. It serves to describe how important it is for us as human beings to seek to honor God in our lives and to guide others to that same blessing. I describe specific instances in my life to show others how special he is, but I also reveal how lighthouses were directly connected to those moments. I show how THE MIGHTY LIGHTHOUSE was not just a coincidental favorite interest of mine but was divinely placed in my life as a blessing that would ultimately be used to serve as a major part of my ministry.
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The Lighthouse
- An Earthly Example Of How To Obtain Spiritual Fulfillment And Guidance
- Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-04-26
- Language: English
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Seeing Like an Artist
- What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others
- By: Lincoln Perry
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In eleven essays—each framed around a specific theme—he provides new ways of seeing and appreciating art. Perry is a disarmingly charming tour guide to museums large or small. He makes even all art approachable and accessible. Along the way, he weaves in personal stories, from his own artistic journey as a painter to the days when he could sleep in his beaten-up VW Bus in the Louvre’s parking lot.
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Funny and enthusiastic
- By L on 23-03-24
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Seeing Like an Artist
- What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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Jean Renoir
- Projections of Paradise
- By: Ronald Bergan
- Narrated by: Jean Brassard
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean Renoir's career almost spans the history years of cinema - from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir, Hollywood studio productions, the Technicolor-period comedies and fast television techniques. His film The Grand Illusion remains one of the greatest movies about the effects of war.
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Jean Renoir
- Projections of Paradise
- Narrated by: Jean Brassard
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-02-16
- Language: English
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Man Ray
- The Artist and His Shadows (Jewish Lives)
- By: Arthur Lubow
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the 20th century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray’s Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art.
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Man Ray
- The Artist and His Shadows (Jewish Lives)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-06-23
- Language: English
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Cecil Beaton In His Own Words
- By: BBC, Cecil Beaton
- Narrated by: Cecil Beaton
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Cecil Beaton was a portrait and fashion photographer, as well as a diarist and Oscar-winning designer. Here he discusses his life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive: At Home: Cecil Beaton, broadcast on BBC Radio, 7th May 1957 (featuring Hywel Davies)...
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Cecil Beaton In His Own Words
- Narrated by: Cecil Beaton
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 16-03-22
- Language: English
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Vincent van Gogh
- A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Christopher Boozell
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most famous artists, and his paintings are among the world’s most valuable. The archetypal starving artist, Vincent died aged just 37 years by his own hand, poor, isolated, and, in his eyes, a failure. Yet, in Vincent’s life story we can see the evolution of a boy becoming a man becoming a great artist, whether his contemporaries could see it at the time or not.
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Vincent van Gogh
- A Life from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Christopher Boozell
- Series: Biographies of Painters, Book 2
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-05-18
- Language: English
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Adolfo Kaminsky
- A Forger's Life
- By: Sarah Kaminsky, Mike Mitchell
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 17, Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his ability to masterfully reproduce official documents with an artistic eye, he was recruited to join the Jewish underground. He soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, working tirelessly with his network to create papers that would save an estimated 14,000 men, women, and children from certain death.
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Interesting....
- By Janet Jones on 19-08-23
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Adolfo Kaminsky
- A Forger's Life
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-02-17
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
- From A to B and Back Again
- By: Andy Warhol
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities—from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—gathered in an ongoing bash.
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
- From A to B and Back Again
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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An Emergency in Slow Motion
- The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
- By: William Todd Schultz
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide at the age of 48, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work. In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal struggles of Diane Arbus.
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I had no idea??
- By Cathy and Fiona Glanville on 26-11-15
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An Emergency in Slow Motion
- The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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I Always Knew
- A Memoir
- By: Barbara Chase-Riboud
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud’s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.
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I Always Knew
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Albert & the Whale
- By: Philip Hoare
- Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In Albert & the Whale, Philip Hoare sets out to discover why Dürer's art endures. He encounters medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and queer soul rebels, ambassadorial whales and enigmatic pop artists. He witnesses the miraculous birth of Dürer's fantastical rhinoceros and his hermaphroditic hare, and he traces the fate of the star-crossed leviathan that the artist pursued. And as the author swims from Europe to America and beyond, these prophetic artists and downed angels provoke awkward questions.
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Interesting book which can’t completely satisfy without the google engine
- By Vaclav Ceska on 13-07-21
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Albert & the Whale
- Narrated by: Paul Hilliar
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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Raffaello. Una vita felice
- By: Antonio Forcellino
- Narrated by: Graziano Piazza
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Avido di piacere non meno che di conoscenza, Raffaello Sanzio intuisce molto presto che soltanto nella Roma libera, felice e sfrenatamente sensuale di Giulio II e Leone X il suo talento potrà essere apprezzato. Vi arriva venticinquenne, la incarna e la seduce diventando nel giro di pochi mesi la stella più brillante del suo firmamento intellettuale. La morte, a soli 37 anni, lascia la città nella disperazione che segue la scomparsa di un principe ammirato e amato.
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Raffaello. Una vita felice
- Narrated by: Graziano Piazza
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-10-21
- Language: Italian
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Almost Anywhere
- Road-Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, Recovery, and Nonsense
- By: Krista Schlyer
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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What do you do when your world ends? At 28 years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her - one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog - and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.
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Almost Anywhere
- Road-Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, Recovery, and Nonsense
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-12-15
- Language: English
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
- By: John Callahan
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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In 1972, at the age of 21, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine and made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of 12, the accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. After extensive physical therapy, he was eventually able to grasp a pen in his right hand and make rudimentary drawings. By 1978, Callahan had sworn off drinking for good and begun to draw cartoons. Over the next three decades, Callahan would become one of the nation's most beloved cartoonists.
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John
- By Linda T on 18-04-23
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-07-18
- Language: English
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A House in St John’s Wood
- In Search of My Parents
- By: Matthew Spender
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender’s extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father’s copious unpublished archives. Stephen Spender’s life was a vivid prism on the twentieth...
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A House in St John's Wood
- By S Riaz on 02-03-23
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A House in St John’s Wood
- In Search of My Parents
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-15
- Language: English
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Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl
- By: Claire Dederer
- Narrated by: Claire Dederer
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers of HOW TO BE A WOMAN and I'M NOT WITH THE BAND. 'Claire Dederer is not only a brilliant author, but an honest and brave one' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of EAT...
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Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl
- Narrated by: Claire Dederer
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
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Billion Dollar Painter
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
- By: G. Eric Kuskey
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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G. Eric Kuskey, former colleague of Thomas Kinkade and close friend until the artist's death in 2012, tells Kinkade's story for the first time, from his art's humble beginnings on a sidewalk in Carmel, California, to his five-house compound in Monte Sereno. It's a tale of addiction and grief, of losing control, and ultimately, of the price of our dreams.
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The exploitation of a unique talent
- By MINDWELLER on 22-06-24
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Billion Dollar Painter
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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The Paper Garden
- An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
- By: Molly Peacock
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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In The Paper Garden, celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper “mosaick” flowers still revered today.
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Gorgeous Language & Inspirational
- By Mai Black on 29-12-22
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The Paper Garden
- An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-06-12
- Language: English
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