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How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety
- And Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives
- By: Zachary Auburn
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The cats of America are under siege! Long gone are the good old days when a cat’s biggest worries were mean dogs or a bath. Modern cats must confront satanists, online predators, the possibility of needing to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and countless other threats to their nine...
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How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety
- And Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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Brown Album
- Essays on Exile and Identity
- By: Porochista Khakpour
- Narrated by: Porochista Khakpour
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment. Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up...
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Brown Album
- Essays on Exile and Identity
- Narrated by: Porochista Khakpour
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Mud and Stars
- Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and...
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Mud and Stars
- Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Power Within
- By: R. Balasubramaniam
- Narrated by: Mishal Verma
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Western thought on leadership is trait-oriented; it emphasizes the importance of ‘being a leader’. Indian leadership offers a contrast―it focuses on the ‘exercise of leadership’. Power Within introspects on this practice as it captures the civilizational wisdom of Bharat through the...
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Power Within
- Narrated by: Mishal Verma
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-01-25
- Language: English
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Read Your Color
- Discover Your Reading Type and Build a Life-Changing Love of Books
- By: Steven J. Reese
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Get more out of reading with this radical guide to shelf-improvement, which reveals your core preferences and helps you choose books based on why you read, not what you’ve read before. Includes the viral quiz taken by more than two million people! Read Your Color introduces a six-type system...
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Read Your Color
- Discover Your Reading Type and Build a Life-Changing Love of Books
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 03-11-26
- Language: English
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The World, the Text, and the Critic
- By: Edward W. Said
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping and intellectually rigorous work of literary criticism that moves the field forward, from one of the preeminent public scholars “[Said’s] book is relaxed and discursive, original, immensely learned, fluently written.”―John Bayley, The New York Times Book Review Edward W. Said...
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The World, the Text, and the Critic
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 21-10-25
- Language: English
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Committed
- On Meaning and Madwomen
- By: Suzanne Scanlon
- Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New...
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Committed
- On Meaning and Madwomen
- Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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Triage
- On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer...
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Triage
- On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life
- Narrated by: Richard Russo
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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Constructing a Nervous System
- A Memoir
- By: Margo Jefferson
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A...
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Constructing a Nervous System
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Influence
- Nonfictions, Etc.
- By: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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What’s a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what’s contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the “white elephant” role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing...
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The Ecstasy of Influence
- Nonfictions, Etc.
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-11-11
- Language: English
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All the Lives We Ever Lived
- Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
- By: Katharine Smyth
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE...
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All the Lives We Ever Lived
- Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-01-19
- Language: English
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Maeve's Times
- In Her Own Words
- By: Maeve Binchy
- Narrated by: Kate Binchy
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans. Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying...
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Maeve's Times
- In Her Own Words
- Narrated by: Kate Binchy
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-10-14
- Language: English
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Daemon Voices
- On Stories and Storytelling
- By: Philip Pullman
- Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Simon Mason
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling. One of the most highly acclaimed and...
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Daemon Voices
- On Stories and Storytelling
- Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Simon Mason
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Thug Notes
- A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature
- By: Sparky Sweets PhD
- Narrated by: Greg Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Sparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: Things Fall...
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Thug Notes
- A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature
- Narrated by: Greg Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 18-08-15
- Language: English
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Why We Don't Suck
- And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches
- By: Denis Leary
- Narrated by: Denis Leary
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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From the author of the bestselling Why We Suck comes a searing comic look at these divisive times, skewering liberals and conservatives alike with a signature dose of sarcasm and common sense. In an America so gluten-free that a box of jelly donuts is now a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin...
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Why We Don't Suck
- And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches
- Narrated by: Denis Leary
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-11-17
- Language: English
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- By: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.” --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast...
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The Ministry of Truth
- The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Rhyme's Rooms
- The Architecture of Poetry
- By: Brad Leithauser
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. “Anyone wanting to learn how to remodel, restore, or build a poem from the...
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Rhyme's Rooms
- The Architecture of Poetry
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-02-22
- Language: English
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Hearing Homer's Song
- The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry
- By: Robert Kanigel
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this...
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Hearing Homer's Song
- The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
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This Is Shakespeare
- By: Emma Smith
- Narrated by: Emma Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A...
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This Is Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Emma Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- By: Cathy Park Hong
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness “Brilliant . . . To read this...
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Minor Feelings
- An Asian American Reckoning
- Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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