Art audiobooks

Advice to Youth

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Larry G. Jones

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Twain wrote this essay when asked to share something with America’s youth. Though he begins in a serious tone, his advice quickly takes a turn for the satirical: “Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you.” In a similar tone, he goes on to address the... Read more

Malastrega

By: Eliana Olivotto

Narrated by: Cristina Gianni

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Malastrega: Lo scenario di questa fiaba è il bosco, un mondo tra il fantastico ed il reale dove ogni senso è colpito. L' olfatto è catturato dalla fragranza balsamica dei pini e delle resine, dai piacevoli aromi di erbe e di fiori, dalle essenze preparate dai folletti, segreti abitanti del bosco, dall' erba appena falciata, dal profumo di fieno... Read more

Ignatius Farray: Ignatius'

By: Ignatius Farray

Narrated by: Ignatius Farray

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

El homónimo Ignatius comienza con el español Ignatius Farray abriéndose a la audiencia sobre haber sido diagnosticado recientemente con una afección cardíaca. Ignatius se pregunta si la comedia conduce a problemas de salud, alcoholismo y familias disfuncionales, y se maravilla de la capacidad de los comediantes para tomar cualquier tragedia de... Read more

Communication in Marriage

By: Rina Mcnally

Narrated by: Janelle Bigham

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Communicate with clarity and confidence Use communication skills to improve marriage Improve awareness; think more clearly and communicate more concisely Know how to effectively communicate with partner You will be able to identify communication mistakes you and your partner are making which are leading to tension and arguments. You will learn... Read more

The Creative Path

By: Carolyn Schlam

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Creative Path is an inquiry into the creative process from philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and practical points of view. In this welcoming work on the creative process, Carolyn Schlam encourages the listener to embark upon his or her own journey of discovery, identity, and wonder through art. The author started her career in art... Read more

Stealing the Show

By: Joy Press

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Female writers, directors, and producers have radically transformed the television industry in recent years. Shonda Rhimes, Lena Dunham, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Mindy Kaling: These extraordinary women have shaken up the entertainment landscape, making it look like an equal opportunity dream factory.



But things weren't always this rosy. It took... Read more

Robin

By: Dave Itzkoff

Narrated by: Dave Itzkoff & Fred Berman

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author.

From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, comes the definitive audiobook biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.

From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy... Read more

Love the Home You Have

By: Melissa Michaels

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the house of your dreams is the home you have? Meet Melissa Michaels, creator of the popular blog The Inspired Room and the best contentment coach you'll ever meet. With humor and candor Melissa reveals how to transform your rooms (and your life) from plainly livable to fabulously lovable.



Like a perfectly overstuffed chair, Melissa's... Read more

Wajatta: Casual High Technology

By: Wajatta

Narrated by: Wajatta

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Wajatta (pronounced wa-Ha-ta), as the name suggests, is a mash-up of the artist’s last names. Having grown up with similar musical influences, Austrian-born Tejada and German-born Watts draw from their love of urban, electronic music. Exploring the intersection between influences and innovation, the two describe Wajatta's music as “electronic... Read more

Celestial Bodies

By: Laura Jacobs

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of ballet

As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad -- in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura... Read more

The Animated Marx Brothers

By: Matthew Hahn

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

To many people, the Marx Brothers always seemed cartoonish. Small wonder that film animators plucked their personas from their first appearances in The Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930) and caricatured them in countless animated appearances in theatrical cartoons. Their animated likenesses have since been wisecracking in television... Read more

The Girl

By: Michelle Morgan

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today.

When Marilyn... Read more

Paul Rodriguez: The Here and Wow

By: Paul Rodriguez

Narrated by: Paul Rodriguez

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, veteran comedian Paul Rodriguez hits the stage to give you his perspectives on life. From being peer pressured into believing in God to claiming to be the village idiot, Paul will make you sit back and laugh! The special was taped in downtown Los Angeles at the Palace Theater. Read more

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12

By: John Lloyd

Narrated by: Jo Brand, John Lloyd, Noel Fielding & Romesh Ra...

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses.

The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing... Read more

Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

Narrated by: David Hounslow, Harriet Walter, Nicholas Farrel...

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously black satirical comedy about the dinner party from hell.

The fastidious host, Paige, decides to throw a dinner party in honour of her husband Lars, who is celebrating the success of his pop psychology book, Beyond Belief. She carefully plans a surprise menu that will mark the occasion, and anxiously checks with the waiter she has... Read more

Anything You Can Imagine

By: Ian Nathan

Narrated by: Tristram Wymark

Length: 22 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the films, to fan adoration and,... Read more

The Military Science of Star Wars

By: George Beahm

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Military Science of Star Wars is an audiobook that will appeal to Star Wars fans everywhere

The first ever in-depth analysis of the tactics and equipment used by the heroes and villains of the Star Wars universe has arrived! Spanning all of the films, this comprehensive audiobook goes into detail about the various guerrilla tactics of the... Read more

Captive Audience

By: Lucas Mann

Narrated by: Lucas Mann

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Lord Fear and Class A comes "a tender, humane, comic, brainy, unsettling achievement” (Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship) about what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person. 

In Lucas Mann's trademark vein—fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating,... Read more

A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys

By: Mia Michaels

Narrated by: Mia Michaels

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An empowerment manifesto for creatives, misfits, innovators, and disruptors from the star of So You Think You Can Dance and creator of Broadway's Finding Neverland

A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys offers a playbook for living a creative and authentic life. Using her own story as a launching spot, and creative quizzes, charts, and lists to engage... Read more

Failure Is An Option

By: H. Jon Benjamin

Narrated by: H. Jon Benjamin

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”
—AV Club


H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.

Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like to remind everyone... Read more

The Electric Woman

By: Tessa Fontaine

Narrated by: Tessa Fontaine

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Electric Woman is Tessa Fontaine's astonishing audiobook memoir about a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery. Narrated by the author, this audiobook recounts Tessa's life on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Turns out, one lesson applies to living... Read more

Filling In This Perception Gap Can Help Low-Income Students Succeed

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For many students at LaGuardia Community College in New York, making it from the first day of school to graduation is a struggle. And they’re not alone. Part of this national problem? We don't have a good idea of who's going to college, and the ways their complex lives and extra costs can trip them up. Hari Sreenivasan reports as part of our... Read more

House of Nutter

By: Lance Richardson

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men’s fashion—and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film.
 
From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere apartment above a café catering to truck drivers,... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about the Movies - Volume 3

By: Jack Goldstein

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Which object will you find somewhere in every single scene of Fight Club? Which movie was filmed under the alias Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Imagination? Why did the directors of The Shawshank Redemption have to find a maggot that had died of natural causes? And which main Disney character has the least number of spoken lines in their film? In... Read more