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Quote... Unquote
- Highlights from the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 panel show
- By: Nigel Rees
- Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying...
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A wonderful collection of BBC radio raconteurs
- By Andrew Simmons on 30-08-16
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Quote... Unquote
- Highlights from the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 panel show
- Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Terry Wogan, Glenda Jackson, Peter Ustinov, Denis Healey, David Attenborough
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-07-12
- Language: English
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Seeing Voices
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' – Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar – for to be...
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Seeing Voices
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen - editor
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience.
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Browsings
- A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
- By: Michael Dirda
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize - winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life - the perfect companion for any lover of books. Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the postmoderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace.
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Confessions of a bibliophile
- By Graham G Grant on 31-08-23
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Browsings
- A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-08-15
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Interesting look into the life and inspirations of a great author
- By Grace on 23-04-25
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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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Money, Sex, War, Karma
- Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
- By: David R. Loy
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In little time, Loy has become one of the most powerful advocates of the Buddhist worldview, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world. In this, his most accessible work to date, he offers sharp and even shockingly clear presentations of oft-misunderstood Buddhist staples - the working of karma, the nature of self, the causes of trouble on both the individual and societal levels - and the real reasons behind our collective sense of "never enough", whether it's time, money, sex, security...even war.
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a great argument
- By a lisa on 04-11-23
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Money, Sex, War, Karma
- Notes for a Buddhist Revolution
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-04-16
- Language: English
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Geschichte eines Deutschen. Die Erinnerungen 1914-1933
- By: Sebastian Haffner
- Narrated by: Sebastian Haffner, Walter Kreye
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Sebastian Haffners "Geschichte eines Deutschen" handelt von einem Jungen aus bürgerlicher Familie, der den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges als Zerstörung seines Ferienidylls empfindet. Der die galoppierende Inflation 1923 beobachtet, mit ihren jugendlichen Aktienspekulanten und hilflosen Vätern, ihrem Januskopf von Hunger und Verschwendung...
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Faszinierender Zeitzeugenbericht
- By JRCM on 26-06-20
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Geschichte eines Deutschen. Die Erinnerungen 1914-1933
- Narrated by: Sebastian Haffner, Walter Kreye
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 17-08-07
- Language: German
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Walk in My Combat Boots
- True Stories from the Battlefront
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton _______ Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories usually only...
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A little disappointed
- By Matt.G. on 25-04-21
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Walk in My Combat Boots
- True Stories from the Battlefront
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-02-21
- Language: English
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History Matters
- By: David McCullough, Dorie McCullough Lawson, Michael Hill, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Dorie McCullough Lawson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays—many never published before—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals. History Matters...
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History Matters
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Dorie McCullough Lawson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 16-09-25
- Language: English
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a "powerful site for intervention, challenge and change." And intervene, challenge, and change is what hooks does best.
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Battles and Transformations
- By: Édouard Louis, Tash Aw - translator
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Brought to you by Penguin. Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of...
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Beautiful
- By Sandra on 22-11-22
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A Woman’s Battles and Transformations
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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Upworthy: Good People
- Stories from the Best of Humanity
- By: Gabriel Reilich, Lucia Knell
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Piper Goodeve, Ellen Archer, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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For anyone who could use proof that the world is full of good people, this beautifully illustrated book features 101 stories of human decency from Upworthy, the beloved social media brand that reaches more than 100 million people per month.
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Upworthy: Good People
- Stories from the Best of Humanity
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Piper Goodeve, Ellen Archer, Kevin R. Free, Janina Edwards, Gregory Connors, Landon Woodson, Gabriel Reilich, Lucia Knell
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Sullivan's Island
- A Lowcountry Tale
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Born and raised in idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and characteristic Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, a sometimes resentful teenage daughter, and a heart that aches with painful, poignant memories. And as Susan faces her uncertain future, she realizes that she must go back to her past. To the beachfront house where her sister welcomes her with open arms.
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Amazing
- By Frankie Doodle on 25-01-24
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Sullivan's Island
- A Lowcountry Tale
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 22-10-08
- Language: English
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Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X
- The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal...
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Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X
- The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-05-17
- Language: English
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Imaginary Homelands
- Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expanse of topics; including the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, the Labour Party, Palestinian identity, contemporary film and late-20th century race, religion and politics.
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Imaginary Homelands
- Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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What Is Art?
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance31
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Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is not independent of its moral content.
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Lacks translations
- By Nelson F. on 17-12-21
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What Is Art?
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-08-08
- Language: English
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Salvador
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror - its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.
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Salvador
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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To Obama
- With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
- By: Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Narrated by: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Every day, President Obama received 10,000 letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read 10 of them before going to bed. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency. Together they reveal the diary of a nation. They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, with anger, fear and respect. To Obama is an intimate look at one man's relationship with the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.
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Wonderful insight into the world of a great man
- By Miss Sacha A Ferreira on 29-10-18
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To Obama
- With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair
- Narrated by: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Sullivan Jones, full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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How to Read Now
- By: Elaine Castillo
- Narrated by: Elaine Castillo
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.
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Powerful and incisive
- By Eliza on 19-06-24
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How to Read Now
- Narrated by: Elaine Castillo
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-12-22
- Language: English
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- By: Nesta Helen Webster
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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Sound interesting? Listen to Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and learn about the author's views on politics, history, and the occult.
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loads of facts and unbiased should be taught in schools
- By Dan jenkins on 10-05-25
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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