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The Practicing Stoic
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone - the most valuable wisdom of ages past made available for our times, and for all time.
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A treasure trove
- By Mjl on 07-08-21
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The Practicing Stoic
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 25-12-18
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging
- By: Jessica J. Lee
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.
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Dispersals
- On Plants, Borders and Belonging
- Narrated by: Jessica J. Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most.
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latest and possibly last excellent work by maestro
- By Julian Konczak on 19-06-22
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-06-22
- Language: English
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Taking in the parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo and the purchase of a human skeleton, and culminating in a brilliant account of his attempt to quit smoking - in Tokyo - David Sedaris' sixth story collection is a fresh masterpiece of comic writing.
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Utterly wonderful!
- By Peewiglet on 01-11-08
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-09-08
- Language: English
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The Best of Me
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; two never-before-collected stories, 'Unbuttoned' and 'Undecided'; and a new interview with David Sedaris.
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Touching, funny, brilliant.
- By AmazonCustomer on 09-11-20
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The Best of Me
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
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Over the course of his distinguished entertainment career, Alan Bennett has received multiple awards and honours, including two BAFTAs, four Laurence Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George, and a British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2006. In this four-part collection of his remarkable Untold Stories, the acclaimed writer considers his childhood, career, and the current state of the world with his customary blend of wit and poignancy.
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Liked
- By Janie on 18-02-23
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Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
- Read by Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 08-12-22
- Language: English
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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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. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires and motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist.
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Wonderful book - one quibble about recording
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-19
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Love's Executioner
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 18-04-16
- Language: English
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- The Uncollected Columns
- By: Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne - editor
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - More features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured, violent relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry reading circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly-veiled autobiography to purely fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down-and-out sports promoters - climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure among French filmmakers.
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- The Uncollected Columns
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Orwell: The Essays
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers.
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This is writing
- By tony on 03-11-22
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Orwell: The Essays
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
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Fallen Leaves
- Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone who has sought meaning in life or the council of a wise friend in navigating life's journey. From 1968 to 1978, Will Durant made four public allusions to the existence of Fallen Leaves. One, in 1975, hinted at its contents: "a not very serious book that answers the questions of what I think about government, life, death, and God."
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Very out of touch
- By Joshua on 04-04-22
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Fallen Leaves
- Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-12-14
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance
- The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 48 mins
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Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living. Now, historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz has deftly and faithfully retained the most powerful ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson's original classic, and reintroduced this work in this one-of-a-kind condensation. Listenable within the space of an average commute or lunch hour, the experience of Self-Reliance may represent a true turning point in your life.
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Mastery
- By Anonymous User on 28-03-23
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Self-Reliance
- The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 08-12-17
- Language: English
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centred planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu - on a five-star scale.
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More of the podcast
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-21
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
- By: Walter Rodney
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale.
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Fantastic 🙌🏿
- By Jaciah Gibson on 12-11-23
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The Groundings with My Brothers
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-12-20
- Language: English
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
- Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos - in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and revealing visionary possibilities in their stead.
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Pronunciation please!
- By Custard on 17-11-21
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Dancing at the Edge of the World
- Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter writer who could never finish a painting; to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker and storyteller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his work.
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Fathers and Sons
- By Rachel Redford on 26-11-18
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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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. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
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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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Reasons to Stay Alive
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-03-15
- Language: English
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These Precious Days
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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'Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success and what it all means. Ranging from the personal to the sublime, each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew.
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The best book I will read all year 02.01.22
- By agentk on 04-01-22
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These Precious Days
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 23-11-21
- Language: English
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.
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The ugly voice of Audible spoils every book.
- By Julia on 23-07-22
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out
- True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
- By: Lee Gutkind
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first "sticks", first births, and first deaths and reflect on what gets them though long, demanding shifts and keeps them in the profession.
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Loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 19-01-17
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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out
- True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-08-15
- Language: English
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