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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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Post-colonial memories of a British girl
- By Amazon Kunde on 14-02-18
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-12-03
- Language: English
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- By: Marion Turner
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life - yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker.
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An unsuitable book for audio
- By Rachel Redford on 14-08-19
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-05-19
- Language: English
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These Fevered Days
- Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
- By: Martha Ackmann
- Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready" - and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home" (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent toward publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson's life through 10 decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet.
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vivid storytelling.
- By Paul Frankael on 30-04-24
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These Fevered Days
- Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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My Friend Leonard
- By: James Frey
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict, "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces.
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Fantastic Book
- By CHINNY on 27-06-22
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My Friend Leonard
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-10-05
- Language: English
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Life as We Know It (Can Be)
- Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
- By: Bill Weir
- Narrated by: Bill Weir
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of change. As the first Chief Climate Correspondent in network news, he is immersed in the latest scientific warnings and breakthroughs while often on the frontlines of disasters, natural and manmade. After the birth of his son in April 2020, Bill began distilling these experiences into a series of Earth Day letters to his boy, weaving together worry and wonder into a poignant reminder that a better future can still be written.
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Life as We Know It (Can Be)
- Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World
- Narrated by: Bill Weir
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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This House of Sky
- Landscapes of a Western Mind
- By: Ivan Doig
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.
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This House of Sky
- Landscapes of a Western Mind
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-12-09
- Language: English
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Girl Boy Girl
- How I Became JT Leroy
- By: Savannah Knoop
- Narrated by: Kristen Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT's fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay male-ex-truck stop prostitute turned literary wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco whose sister-in-law wrote the books.
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The narration is Excellent
- By Sonny Taylor on 29-12-20
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Girl Boy Girl
- How I Became JT Leroy
- Narrated by: Kristen Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-08-18
- Language: English
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His Ownself
- A Semi-Memoir
- By: Dan Jenkins
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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The colorful, sentimental, funny, affectionate, cantankerous memoir by the most colorful, funniest, most cantankerous-- and probably the most revered-- sportswriter of the last fifty years. Dan Jenkins is accepted as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) golf writer of all time, wrote beloved bestselling novels and abused more corporate expense accounts than anyone who ever lived. It's a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of old-time sportswriting-- and the glory days of sports.
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His Ownself
- A Semi-Memoir
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-03-14
- 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
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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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Curiosity
- By: Alberto Manguel
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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Tracing 25 centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the present day, Manguel dedicates each of his chapters to a single character - ranging from our best-known thinkers, scientists, and artists to seemingly minor figures of whom we know little more than one inspired utterance - in whom he identifies a particular way of asking the question "why?"
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Curiosity
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-04-15
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Jack Kerouac's archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped, adding depth to his lifework and our understanding of the man. This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Jack's adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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The Opposite of Fate
- Memories of a Writing Life
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Amy Tan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Amy Tan has touched millions of people with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists.
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Very interesting
- By bc1056 on 09-10-23
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The Opposite of Fate
- Memories of a Writing Life
- Narrated by: Amy Tan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 22-02-16
- Language: English
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Tony Hillerman
- A Life
- By: James McGrath Morris
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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The author of 18 spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience of millions. His best-selling novels added Navajo Tribal Police detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the pantheon of American fictional detectives.
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Entertaining and thought provoking
- By Annie on 28-01-23
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Tony Hillerman
- A Life
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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Becoming George Orwell
- Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
- By: John Rodden
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon.
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An American perspective!
- By Seayeaitch on 04-05-24
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Becoming George Orwell
- Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-02-20
- Language: English
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Chester B. Himes
- A Biography
- By: Lawrence P. Jackson
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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In this biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social injustice. In absorbing detail, Jackson explores Chester Himes's middle-class origins, eight years in prison, painful odyssey as a Black World War II-era artist, and escape to Europe, where Himes became internationally famous for his Harlem detective series.
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Chester B. Himes
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-07-17
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith
- Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
- By: Patricia Highsmith, Anna von Planta
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 41 hrs and 50 mins
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Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks posthumously discovered behind Highsmith’s linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta—traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who “[worked] like mad to be something”.
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Patricia Highsmith
- Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 41 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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Roughing It
- A Personal Narrative
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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"If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life which I have not read of in books or experienced in person," wrote Mark Twain, and now you can share in that experience. The beloved American humorist spent seven years on a "pleasure trip" through the untamed wilderness of Nevada. Twain intended to spend three months touring silver mines, but the lure of rough terrain and comfortable clothes proved irresistible - as will this vibrant travelogue.
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Loved it
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-10
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Roughing It
- A Personal Narrative
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 25-03-02
- Language: English
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Soldier
- A Poet's Childhood
- By: June Jordan
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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World-renowned poet and Professor of African American Studies at U.C., Berkeley, June Jordan writes a deeply personal memoir of her formative years. June recalls her childhood experiences and reveals the duality of her parents’ influence on her stellar achievement as a poet. The first 12 years in Harlem were both peaceful and tumultuous for June, as she was raised the daughter of dirt-poor West Indian immigrants.
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Soldier
- A Poet's Childhood
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 23-04-13
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away in pursuit of his dream. Life on the mighty river for Twain consisted of paddleboats and history, poker games and gamblers, larger-than-life characters and outlandish festivals like Mardi Gras. Twain recorded it all with his keen eye for detail and biting wit.
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Mark Twain at his best
- By Mister Peridot on 02-12-17
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Life on the Mississippi
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-07-99
- Language: English
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American Mirror
- The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
- By: Deborah Solomon
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
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"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. But who was this man who served as our unofficial "artist in chief" and bolstered our country's national identity?
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American Mirror
- The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 22-11-13
- Language: English
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