Essays audiobooks

Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and ... Read more

Petersburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Petersburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging... Read more

Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Gettysburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging narratives... Read more

The Call of the Weird - Abridged

By: Louis Theroux

Narrated by: Louis Theroux

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America.

For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the... Read more

Schmucks! - Abridged

By: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

Narrated by: Jackie Mason

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, former federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney, Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everyone else who really gets on their nerves. Schmucks! combines Mason's and Felder's nails-to-the-wall political satire—impeccable timing with insightful... Read more

Grace (Eventually)

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything

"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times)

In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and... Read more

No Retreat, No Surrender - Abridged

By: Tom DeLay & Stephen Mansfield

Narrated by: Tom DeLay

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics. Read more

Crossing Open Ground - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crossing Open Ground is a collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez. It's food for the spirit from perhaps the finest nature writer of our time. Read more

American Notes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1842, Charles Dickens visited America. His reception was somewhat colder than that which usually greeted him – already a successful author in both Britain and the U.S. This lack of enthusiasm from the Americans was partly due to his criticism of the pirating of English books in that country and partly due to his outspoken distaste for the... Read more

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio listeners test their knowledge against a panel of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world: Adam Felber; Roy Blount, Jr.; Paula Poundstone; Mo Rocca; Roxanne Roberts; Charlie Pierce; and others.
 
This two-disk set features highlights from... Read more

Tales from the Ballpark

By: Mike Shannon

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Shannon takes you behind the scenes into the ballpark, the clubhouse, and the minor leagues in this memorable collection of anecdotes about America's pastime. Tales from the Ballpark contains more than 125 priceless stories from some of baseball's greatest players and storytellers, including legendary Hall of Famers Ralph Kiner and Bob... Read more

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls

By: Edward E. Leslie

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 21 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson to Alive! and Adrift, tales of survival have always captivated readers. This powerful collection chronicles the remarkable true stories of real-life maroons, castaways, and other survivors as they struggle to endure against insurmountable odds. From the 1500s to the present, in the most isolated... Read more

Augusta

By: Steve Eubanks

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Augusta National Golf Club, founded in 1933 and home to the prestigious Masters Tournament, is an American icon shrouded in intrigue. Co-designed by legends Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie, Augusta boasts gorgeous fairways and perfectly manicured greens, set against a breathtaking backdrop of azaleas and pines. Behind the wondrous scenes... Read more

Pitching in a Pinch

By: Christy Mathewson

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Christy "Matty" Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the "Five Immortals," he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World... Read more

Tales from the Dugout

By: Mike Shannon

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This memorable collection of anecdotes about America's national pastime will take you into the dugout, clubhouse, and press box with some of the game's greatest players and storytellers. From Hall-of-Famers Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays to the always-quotable Casey Stengel, to modern-day stars Ken Griffey, Jr. and Larry Walker, Tales from the... Read more

Come On Seabiscuit!

By: Ralph Moody

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Who would have believed that a knobby-kneed little colt named Seabiscuit would become one of the most celebrated racehorses of all time? Although Seabiscuit was the grandson of the legendary Man O' War, he was neither handsome nor graceful. His head was too big, his legs were too short, and his gallop was awkward.During the depths of the Great... Read more

For the New Intellectual

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.”—Ayn RandOne of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy of rational self-interest that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a... Read more

Piece By Piece

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This original recording—his first—features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Read more

Green Hills of Africa

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Josh Lucas

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

When it was first... Read more

What Would MacGyver Do?

By: Brendan Vaughan

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier & Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

You're driving on a deserted road when your car dies. Your cell phone isn't getting service. All you have on hand are a gum wrapper and a wire hanger.


Or maybe you're living in a building without central air conditioning in July. You can't afford an AC; all you have access to are a fan and a bucket of water.



In such times of desperation, many... Read more

Essential Vonnegut Interviews

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to... Read more

No Shortcuts to the Top

By: Ed Viesturs & David Roberts

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much... Read more

Nürnberger Sagen und Legenden

By: Marco Kirchner

Narrated by: Marco Kirchner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Rund um die alte Reichsstadt Nürnberg ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Sagen, die heute leider weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Der passionierte Geschichtenerzähler Marco Kirchner hat sie zusammengetragen und haucht ihnen neues Leben ein. Packend berichtet er davon, wie der goldene Ring in das Brunnengitter kam, warum des abends um... Read more

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud funny.”

Some say that... Read more