Art audiobooks

A Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This anniversary release features highlights from 25 years on the air, including favorite monologues like "Truckstop," "Gospel Birds" and "Pontoon Boat," plus brand-new stories never before available on audio. Also includes a special bonus collection of 25 toe-tapping tunes with down-home music from long-time show regulars, including Butch... Read more

Chanting:  The Sound of Spirit

By: Robert Gass

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The magic of chanting has a calming, awakening and sometimes even consciousness-altering mystery about it.  From singing hymns together in church to learning nursery songs in kindergarten, we’ve all experienced the joy and resonance chanting can bring.  In his early days as a rock musician, Robert Gass tapped into "the tribal music of the... Read more

Braces - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of... Read more

Listening for the Crack of Dawn - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Donald Davis was born into a southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. He grew up listening to his father and his Uncle Frank tell stories of their boyhood, all the while taking in the details of his own childhood experience. These stories of growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s are funny and true, nostalgic and bittersweet. The... Read more

Big-Screen Drive-In Theater - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The drive-in is dying. People can blame the demise on cable television, luxury theaters with sound systems so technical NASA engineers are needed to install them, or on a host of other modern conveniences and distractions. In reality, the drive-in operator of the Sulpher Springs Big-Screen Drive-In Theater hired a young Donald Davis to work his... Read more

Miss Daisy - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady babysitter are the heroines in these new digital studio recordings of Donald Davis' two all-time most-requested stories. "It was the 42nd year she had taught fourth grade", yet there was nothing routine about Miss Daisy or her methods. Rather than settle for textbook work (Miss Daisy left textbooks in... Read more

The Grand Canyon - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If you have never ridden a mule along a 48-inch wide trail whose ledge drops off, in places, 700 feet to the Colorado River, straight down, you may have difficulty picturing the temporary insanity that leads otherwise responsible adults to sign away the remainder of their natural life expectancy just for the chance to see the Grand Canyon's... Read more

The Painted Word

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world, a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism... Read more

Christian Dior

By: Marie-France Pochna

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy.Born... Read more

Rodin

By: Frederic V. Grunfeld

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 27 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more

Pure Drivel

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Steve Martin

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

Steve Martin's talent has always defied definition: an actor who's kept us riveted for over 25 years, a razor-sharp screenwriter, an acclaimed playwright. In this ingeniously funny collection of humorous riffs, those who thought Martin's gifts were confined to the screen will discover what readers... Read more

More News from Lake Wobegon: Love

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Love includes "Truckstop," "Uncle Al's Gift," "Rotten Apples," and "The Wise Men." Read more

Taiko Drumming: Bringing Rhythm To Life

By: Heidi Varian

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone who has heard the thunderous power of these magnificent drums recognizes a compelling spiritual force at work.  Heidi Varian speaks of her teacher, Grandmaster Sensei Seiichi Tanaka:  "To be his age and to play with that much spirit and power makes you realize it has to be more than just physical strength--it has to come from somewhere... Read more

Garrison Keillor Comedy Gift Pack

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Home Comedy and Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.


Prairie Home Comedy Contents:
Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The In and Out Cat... Read more

Life These Days

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for Best Short Stories Wherever Garrison Keillor's imagination takes him, the road back to Lake Wobegon is always a delightful one. His story collections about "the little town that time forgot" are his most popular; this Lake Wobegon collection features 11 wonderful stories recorded from live radio... Read more

The Ultimate Vision Quest

By: Carol Adrienne, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you get excited about the idea of finding your true purpose in life, you will enjoy this fascinating dialogue with Carol Adrienne.  She says, "Our life purpose is like a magnetic field that draws us toward a particular experience that we need at that time to develop a characteristic or change a point of view." Read more

The Art Of Leadership

By: James Autry & Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on the wisdom of the world's oldest leadership manual, the Tao Te Ching, James Autry and Stephen Mitchell discuss how to transform the workplace.  Says Autry, "Where does leadership begin?  On the inside.  The transition from management--knowing what to do--to leadership--knowing how to be--is a transition from the external to the... Read more

Prairie Home Comedy

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-four of the best-loved, most-requested songs and sketches from the original radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

Contents:

Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am a Tenor; Car Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The... Read more

News from Lake Wobegon: Spring

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the spring season.

Includes: "Me and Choir," "A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen," and "Letter from Jim." Read more

Doing What You Love And Loving What You Do - Part Ii

By: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Narrated by: Jacqui Dunne

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is Part II of an evocative interview aimed at finding our true passion and integrating it into our life, both on and off the job. It's about finding joy, taking initiative and making the jump. But before you leap, Justine says, "There is an art to choosing well." Read more

Doing What You Love And Loving What You Do - Part I

By: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Narrated by: Jacqui Dunne

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To actually be paid for doing what you love would be a dream come true.  But how do you discover your passion?  And how do you find a way to bring that spirit into the workplace?  Justine and Michael Toms, co-founders of New Dimensions Radio and New Dimensions Broadcasting Network, are living proof that it can be done. Read more

Body And Soul

By: Gabrielle Roth

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Movement is one of the most ancient and profound ways to connect with the inner core of our being.  Trance dance teacher Gabrielle Roth says, “The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body.”  Roth has helped thousands find the joy of bringing spirit back into the body, and the energy, power and sense of aliveness that movement can bring... Read more

Dirty Jokes and Beer - Abridged

By: Drew Carey

Narrated by: Drew Carey

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

We all know Drew Carey from his award-winning stand-up career, and his hit
television show, but do we really Drew Carey, the person? In his first book, the
bawdy and irreverent DIRTY JOKES AND BEER, find out about all the many sides to
this misunderstood Hollywood star:

The Health Conscious Drew:... Read more

No Limits: The Zen of Creativity

By: Natalie Goldberg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With no formal instruction in either writing or painting, Goldberg credits Zen with teaching her “how to paint, how to write and how to be in the world.” Being present, paying attention, with no good or bad, creates the "freedom to paint the worst painting in America." Discover that there are no limits to your creativity with a woman who... Read more