Essays audiobooks

Road to the Dales - Abridged

By: Gervase Phinn

Narrated by: Gervase Phinn

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad,
Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This audiobook is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal... Read more

The Taliban Shuffle

By: Kim Barker

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.

From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the “dry” city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11... Read more

Idiot America

By: Charles P. Pierce

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist's caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.The three Great Premises of Idiot America:– Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units. – Anything can be true if someone... Read more

Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans

By: Hunter Davies

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

'I am fascinated by people turning their daft dreams into a reality. How did they do it and why?'

Driven by his own passion for collecting Hunter Davies has packed his notepad and set off in search of Britain's maddest museums. As he explores these hidden gems he soon discovers that they are everywhere and that they celebrate just about... Read more

Comrades

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.

Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them... Read more

Wait Til Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were... Read more

Then Everything Changed

By: Jeff Greenfield

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Jeff Greenfield

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and brilliantly entertaining tour de force of American politics from one of journalism's most acclaimed commentators.History turns on a dime. A missed meeting, a different choice of words, and the outcome changes dramatically. Nowhere is this truer than in the field where Jeff Greenfield has spent most of his working life, American... Read more

Lettres à Reynaldo Hahn

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Michel Fau

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcel Proust avait 23 ans lorsqu'il rencontra le musicien Reynaldo Hahn dans le salon parisien de Mme Madeleine Lemaire, en 1894. Les deux jeunes gens ignoraient alors qu'ils deviendraient pour le premier, l'un des plus grands écrivains français et pour l'autre, l'un des compositeurs les plus courus du XXe siècle. Pendant deux ans, ils vont... Read more

Dresdner Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Neue Ausgrabungen weisen auf eine Besiedlung des Elbtals durch die Slawen im 7. Jahrhundert hin. Dabei geht der Name auf das slawische Wort für Sumpfwald zurück. Um 929 von der Burg Meißen unterworfen, entwickelte sich die Stadtbevölkerung so geschwind, dass es zur Germanisierung und 1206 schließlich zur ersten urkundlichen Erwähnung von Dresden... Read more

Rollback

By: Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In his blockbuster new book Rollback, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., offers the first critical analysis of the 2010 midterm elections and answers the number-one question on conservatives' minds: How do we roll back the liberal policies and big government programs that Obama/Pelosi/Reid rushed through Congress before the... Read more

A Widow's Story

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Ellen Parker

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award,... Read more

Trier Sagen und Legenden

By: Erhard Schmied

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Das heutige Trier geht aus einer römischen Stadtgründung mit dem Namen Augusta Treverorum vor über 2000 Jahren hervor. Der Sage nach soll 1300 Jahre vor der Gründung Roms Trebeta, der Sohn des Königs Ninus, einen Ort an der Mosel mit dem Namen Treberis gegründet haben. Zur Zeit Konstantin des Großen wurden bedeutsame Bauwerke, wie die heutige... Read more

Lübecker Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Liubice, die Liebliche, nannten Slawen den zu Zeiten Karls des Großen (748-814) gegründeten Ort, der auf der Altstadtinsel im Norden des heutigen Lübecks lag. 1143 verlieh Graf von Schauenburg und Holstein einer Siedlung, die etwa einen halben Kilometer entfernt von dem Ort Liubice auf dem Hügel Bucu lag das Stadtrecht und gab ihr den Namen... Read more

The Pioneer Woman

By: Ree Drummond

Narrated by: Ree Drummond

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.
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Reality is Broken

By: Jane McGonigal

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the U.S. will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for this mass exodus to virtual worlds is that videogames are increasingly fulfilling genuine human needs. In this groundbreaking exploration of... Read more

Al Jaffee's Mad Life

By: Mary-Lou Weisman

Narrated by: Allen Rickman

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the great cartoonists of our time.” –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth

The remarkable story of one of America’s most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations. Jaffe’s career in cartooning stretches back to 1941—with early humor pieces for Timely Comics, a precursor to Marvel Comics—but the... Read more

Bird Cloud

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the... Read more

The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison

Narrated by: Michael Edwards

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, the US Constitution was to become law only if ratified by nine of the thirteen states then comprising the United States. The eighty-five letters in support of the Constitution collected here have become recognized as the most important political science work ever written in the... Read more

Roseannearchy

By: Roseanne Barr

Narrated by: Roseanne Barr

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection of hilarious and provocative essays by New York Times bestselling author and television pioneer Roseanne Barr as she takes on world leaders, militant feminists, and even Satan.

From the Hollywood hot seat to her Hawaiian macadamia nut farm, bestselling author and television star Roseanne Barr isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty!

As... Read more

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

By: Patton Oswalt

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratatouille) and television (The King of Queens and The United States of Tara), but also beloved for his ascerbic, highly eloquent, and wildly funny... Read more

Disaster Preparedness

By: Heather Havrilesky

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a stunningly perceptive, hilarious memoir of the transformative humiliation of childhood—and adulthood—from a truly original, already beloved voice.When Heather Havrilesky was a kid in the seventies, it seemed there were only disaster movies. Burning towers, devouring earthquakes, careening airliners, alien pod invasions. To be prepared,... Read more

The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and... Read more

Freiburger Sagen und Legenden

By: Christine Giersberg

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Freiburg im Breisgau ist die viertgrößte Stadt Baden-Württembergs und die südlichste Großstadt Deutschlands. Der mitten in der Altstadt gelegene Schlossberg blickt auf eine 2000jährige bewegte Geschichte zurück. Vermutlich errichteten schon die Römer hier einen Wachturm. Im 10. Jahrhundert erbauten die aus Schwaben stammenden Herzöge von... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mississippi River, known as “America’s river,” and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The popularity of Twain’s steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century.A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life... Read more