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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Explore the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives....
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3 out of 5 stars
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good with a few buts:)
- By Kristyna Mistrikova on 18-07-20
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,908
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902
What Does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living....
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you’re depressed, get money, a partner & family!
- By Tracey Clare Dunlop on 10-09-19
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What I Know for Sure
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,617
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,191
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,171
The inspirational wisdom of Oprah Winfrey, collected for the first time in a beautiful book....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just what I needed to hear right now
- By Ms. Laura Mercier on 04-05-16
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The Four Horsemen
- The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- By: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 316
Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the 21st century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss Hitch
- By Rachel on 23-03-19
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Explore the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives....
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3 out of 5 stars
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good with a few buts:)
- By Kristyna Mistrikova on 18-07-20
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,908
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902
What Does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living....
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you’re depressed, get money, a partner & family!
- By Tracey Clare Dunlop on 10-09-19
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What I Know for Sure
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,617
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,191
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,171
The inspirational wisdom of Oprah Winfrey, collected for the first time in a beautiful book....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just what I needed to hear right now
- By Ms. Laura Mercier on 04-05-16
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The Four Horsemen
- The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- By: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 316
Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the 21st century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I miss Hitch
- By Rachel on 23-03-19
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,093
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 952
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 948
A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book. Disappointing censorship.
- By J Gillan on 16-12-18
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Story5 out of 5 stars 327
The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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5 out of 5 stars
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loves executioner
- By fitztaylor on 26-04-16
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 186
With an introduction by Will Self. A classic work of psychology, this international best seller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic listen!
- By Kate E-J on 27-01-19
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Wow, No Thank You.
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Hello, 911? I am the first person at this party....
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved this book!
- By laughing fingers on 29-06-20
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Musicophilia
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Oliver Sacks examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A solid Oliver Sacks book
- By Thomas on 11-03-19
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Themes and Variations
- An Essay
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
In this surprising essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rewards of a book tour and his devoted readers’ worst-kept secrets....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Laugh out loud
- By Robyn on 19-05-20
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Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
In this remarkable new collection of essays, writer and critic Olivia Laing brings together a career’s worth of writing about why art - paintings, books, music - really matters....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful inspiring hopeful read
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-20
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 289
I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-17
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful! Elements of a Life Well Lived.
- By Jim Vaughan on 11-12-16
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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1 out of 5 stars
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outdated, racist and sexist views and comments.
- By Dylan E. on 26-11-18
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Diane Keaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece....
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5 out of 5 stars
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How is this book still relevant?
- By Claire Leith on 28-03-18
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 844
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 667
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 663
David Sedaris' remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Utterly wonderful!
- By Shirley on 01-11-08
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The Three Dimensions of Freedom
- By: Billy Bragg
- Narrated by: Billy Bragg
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
We live in a world where strongman politics are rising, neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties and corporations have undermined democracy....
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Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble
- Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 27
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 27
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nora Ephron-articulate, funny and intelligent
- By Sennichi on 10-10-13
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby...where have you been? Samantha Irby is your sharp-tongued best friend who can't help but tell it like it is....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely fucking brilliant
- By Mrs. I Fox on 05-11-19
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Awakenings
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients....
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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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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist's office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An essential listen for Sopranos fans.
- By NHorisk96 on 17-04-20
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The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Williams....
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Thirty Seven
- Essays on Life, Wisdom, and Masculinity
- By: Quintus Curtius
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Quintus Curtius is an attorney, writer, translator, and former marine officer. Expertly blending history, biography, philosophy, and the author's personal experience, this penetrating collection of essays achieves what one reviewer called "a perfect fluency in [a] dialogue with truth"....
![El infinito en un junco [Infinity in a Reed] cover art](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51cgzcv2-rL._SL320_.jpg)
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El infinito en un junco [Infinity in a Reed]
- La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo [The Invention of Books in the Ancient World]
- By: Irene Vallejo
- Narrated by: Elena Silva
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo....
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No Time to Spare
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines....
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Daemon Voices
- Essays on Storytelling
- By: Philip Pullman
- Narrated by: Philip Pullman
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
In over 30 essays, written over 20 years and recorded by the author himself in his home city of Oxford, one of the world's great storytellers meditates on the art of storytelling....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring, provocative lectures and thoughts.
- By K. J. Noyes on 10-09-18
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
- By: Gloria Steinem
- Narrated by: Gloria Steinem
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays.....
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature....
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2 out of 5 stars
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An incredible book, badly produced and performed
- By G. Getz on 21-01-17
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The View from the Cheap Seats
- Selected Nonfiction
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 163
This collection brings together more than 60 pieces of Neil Gaiman's outstanding nonfiction....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving, beautiful and always funny
- By Josh McCullough on 23-09-16
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Princes at War
- The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War
- By: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real people with public lives
- By Kl Love on 12-01-16
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The Book of Delights
- Essays
- By: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
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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Notes to Self
- By: Emilie Pine
- Narrated by: Emilie Pine
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. She speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just another white woman...
- By Mrs. I Fox on 09-11-19
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Making It up as I Go Along
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 377
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4 out of 5 stars 347
You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Poppsi on 29-10-17
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone should listen!
- By Anonymous User on 20-07-20
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Sister Outsider
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'....
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Citizen
- An American Lyric
- By: Claudia Rankine
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Citizen an American Lyric
- By Natasha on 18-01-19
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Appalachian Fall
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- By: Jeff Young
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A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry - and the communities left behind - in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. The past few years have highlighted the paradox at the heart of coal country. Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia’s troubles are just a taste of what the future holds for all of us?
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Tales of Two Planets
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Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced.
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My Life as a Villainess
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Laura Lippman's first job in journalism was a rookie reporter in Waco, Texas. Two decades later she left her first husband, quit the newspaper business and became a full-time novelist. Her fiction has always centred on complicated women, paying unique attention to the intricacies of their flaws, their vulnerability and their empowerment. Now, finally, Lippman has turned her gimlet eye on a new subject: herself.
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Tomboyland
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Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It's a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bars and trucks on blocks are as much a part of the landscape as rivers and lakes and farms. Where girls are girls and boys are boys, where women are mothers and wives, where one is taught to work hard and live between the lines.
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Incisive, wide-ranging and witty, it explores the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives. Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we’ve been sold and the ones we tell ourselves - from happiness to wellness, womanhood to consumerism - in ways that are both surprising and reassuring.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good with a few buts:)
- By Kristyna Mistrikova on 18-07-20
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Sister Outsider
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
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The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity and includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'.
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Appalachian Fall
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Tales of Two Planets
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Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced.
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My Life as a Villainess
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Laura Lippman's first job in journalism was a rookie reporter in Waco, Texas. Two decades later she left her first husband, quit the newspaper business and became a full-time novelist. Her fiction has always centred on complicated women, paying unique attention to the intricacies of their flaws, their vulnerability and their empowerment. Now, finally, Lippman has turned her gimlet eye on a new subject: herself.
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Tomboyland
- By: Melissa Faliveno
- Narrated by: Melissa Faliveno
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It's a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bars and trucks on blocks are as much a part of the landscape as rivers and lakes and farms. Where girls are girls and boys are boys, where women are mothers and wives, where one is taught to work hard and live between the lines.
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Incisive, wide-ranging and witty, it explores the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives. Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we’ve been sold and the ones we tell ourselves - from happiness to wellness, womanhood to consumerism - in ways that are both surprising and reassuring.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good with a few buts:)
- By Kristyna Mistrikova on 18-07-20
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Sister Outsider
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity and includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'.
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Siyasi Muslims
- By: Hilal Ahmed
- Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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What are Muslim issues? Is it only about triple talaq? Are Muslims truly nationalists? Or do they continue to remain just an other in India? While these questions intrigue us, we seldom debate to find pragmatic answers to these queries. Examining the everydayness of Muslims in contemporary India, Hilal Ahmed offers an evocative story of politics and Islam in India, which goes beyond the given narratives of Muslim victimhood and Islamic separation.
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The Inner Coast
- Essays
- By: Donovan Hohn
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing in the grand American tradition of Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez, Donovan Hohn is an "adventurous, inquisitive, and brightly illuminating writer" (New York Times). Since the publication of Moby-Duck a decade ago, Hohn has been widely hailed for his prize-winning essays on the borderlands between the natural and the human. The Inner Coast collects 10 of his best, many of them originally published in such magazines as the New York Times Magazine and Harper's.
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On Mother
- Little Books on Big Ideas
- By: Sarah Ferguson
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Sarah Ferguson's homage to her mother and a reflection on mothers and daughters. A mother's love over decades and across continents. The sudden death of Sarah's mother reveals their relationship with poignant clarity and shows her the individual who existed beyond motherhood.
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement.
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On Doubt
- Little Books on Big Ideas
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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When society seems to demand confidence and certainty, how much courage does it take to admit doubt, especially self-doubt? In this personal essay, one of Australia's most respected journalists argues in favour of a doubtful mind. Her classic personal essay carries a message about the value of truth, scrutiny and accountability - a much-needed antidote to fake news. Donald Trump, the post-truth world and the instability of Australian politics are all examined in this fresh take on her prescient essay on the media and political trends that define our times.
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How to Die
- A Book About Being Alive
- By: Ray Robertson
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.
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On Disruption
- Little Books on Big Ideas
- By: Katherine Murphy
- Narrated by: Katherine Tonkin
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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On Disruption is a report on the effects the internet has had on the foundations of life - what has happened, will it keep happening? The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. On Disruption is a report from the coalface of that change: what has happened, will it keep happening, and is there any way out of the chaos?
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The ISIS Peril
- The World’s Most Feared Terror Group and its Shadow on South Asia
- By: Kabir Taneja
- Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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As early as 2014, after the fall of Mosul, maps of ISIS showing a desire to take over South Asia started to appear on social media. But how far has that borne fruit? Or has it always been more of an ill-conceived chimera? One of the shortcomings of our understanding of ISIS in India - and indeed in South Asia - is that neither the media nor the public discourse seems to know what ISIS itself is. The militant group has eclipsed Al Qaeda to become the most feared terror group in the West, and it continues to expand its influence, despite losing the territory it had captured.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask
- By: T. R. Raghunandan
- Narrated by: Arish Bhiwandiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Lack of awe, bordering on civilized disrespect, is a most effective learning tool. In this humorous, practical book, T.R. Raghunandan aims to deconstruct the structure of the bureaucracy and how it functions, for the understanding of the common person and replaces the anxiety that people feel when they step into a government office with a healthy dollop of irreverence.
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Whose Story Is This?
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and insightful commentators today, Solnit appraises the voices that are emerging, why they matter and the obstacles they face in making themselves heard.
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles
- Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light
- By: Steffie Nelson - editor
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, Xe Sands
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Didion a sensation - Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five - while bringing together some of the finest voices of today's Los Angeles and beyond. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note; personal memoir and social commentary; cultural history and literary critique.
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone should listen!
- By Anonymous User on 20-07-20