Essays audiobooks
There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science
By: Leah Elson
Narrated by: Leah Elson
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, in this highly entertaining and visually appealing giftable book of real-world scientific questions and answers. How does DNA work?Does chicken noodle soup actually help with being sick?When cats purr, what is actually making the noise?Does singing to plants really help... Read more
View audiobookWild Asana
By: Alison Zak
Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever wonder about the dog in Downward Dog or the pigeon in Kapota? Rewild your yoga practice by connecting to the animals behind the asanas.
For nature-loving yogis and readers of World of Wonders and Yoga Mythology
From Downward Dog to Cobra, Wild Asana invites you into an embodied exploration of the animals that inspire familiar yoga poses.... Read more
Elogio del caminar
By: David Le Breton
Narrated by: Raúl Rodríguez
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Caminar es una evasión de la modernidad, una forma de burlarse de ella, de dejarla plantada, un atajo en el ritmo desenfrenado de nuestra vida y un modo de distanciarse, de aguzar los sentidos. David Le Breton mezcla en Elogio del caminar a Pierre Sansot y a Patrick Leigh Fermor, pero también hace que Bashô y Stevenson dialoguen sin preocuparse... Read more
View audiobookAutosuficiencia
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrated by: Max Garzón
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
¡Gratis por lanzamientos hasta 12/07/2023 !-En español neutro, narración humana- Este corto pero interesante ensayo del filósofo norteamericano Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), está entre las obras que más han influido en el expresidente de EE.UU. Barak Obama, quien reiteradamente ha recomendado su lectura a jóvenes y... Read more
View audiobookblack girl, no magic
By: Kimberly McIntosh
Narrated by: Kimberly McIntosh
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff ‘Witty, fresh and full of life’ Liv Little Kimberly McIntosh has lived a full life, with a loving family, messy friendships, mind-expanding travel and all-night... Read more
View audiobookNational Dish
By: Anya von Bremzen
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Financial Times, The Guardian, and BBC's The Food Programme
“Anya von Bremzen, already a legend of food writing and a storytelling inspiration to me, has done her best work yet. National Dish is a must-read for all those who believe in building longer tables where food is what bring us all together.” —José Andrés
“If... Read more
Adult Drama
By: Natalie Beach
Narrated by: Natalie Beach
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the writer whose New York Magazine piece "I Was Caroline Calloway" broke the internet comes a fresh, incisive, laugh-out-loud funny memoir-in-essays about the frenzied journey to adulthood.
Natalie Beach became an internet sensation when her essay on her toxic friendship with Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway went viral. Now, for the... Read more
Sobre el anarquismo - Abridged
By: Noam Chomsky & Alejandro Gibert Abós (Translator)
Narrated by: Arturo Mercado Jr.
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Con el espectro de la anarquía invocado por la derecha para sembrar el miedo, nunca ha sido más urgente una explicación convincente de la filosofía política conocida como anarquismo. Sobre el anarquismo arroja una luz muy necesaria sobre los fundamentos del pensamiento de Chomsky, específicamente su constante cuestionamiento de la legitimidad... Read more
View audiobookA Line in the World
By: Dorthe Nors
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and... Read more
View audiobookThe Art of Listening to the Heart
By: James Kenyon
Narrated by: Benjamin Stanton
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In this memoir collection, retired veterinarian James Kenyon recalls his days in veterinary practice. From heartwarming to heartbreaking and everything in between, Kenyon writes of his care for beloved family pets, livestock, and their human caretakers. His memories illustrate a true devotion and love for veterinary work, as well as a passion... Read more
View audiobookWho Killed Truth?
By: Jill Lepore
Narrated by: Jill Lepore
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Many historians and cultural observers argue we live in a post-truth world—but if truth is dead, who killed it? And how did it die? Join celebrated historian Jill Lepore as she cracks the case by examining key moments in the history of truth, doubt, and evidence across the last century. In Who Killed Truth? acclaimed Harvard historian and New... Read more
View audiobookKiss Me in the Coral Lounge
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Helen Ellis
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New York Times bestselling author paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.
"Ellis is one of our greatest living humorists, in the same league... Read more
O clarete dos tupinambás - Abridged
By: José Guilherme R. Ferreira
Narrated by: Dage Kleinertz
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
O cauim, fermentado de mandioca dos nossos indígenas, mereceu comentários de viajantes e autores dos séculos XVI e XVII. Michel de Montaigne chegou a comparar o cauim ao claret francês. Read more
View audiobookChipa com sol rachante - Abridged
By: José Guilherme R. Ferreira
Narrated by: Dage Kleinertz
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A chipa paraguaia é um alimento de conforto no país, assim como o tereré é a bebida da confraternização, a erva com água bem gelada que mata a sede e é também santo remédio. Read more
View audiobookEntre dois rios, 1600 a. C. - Abridged
By: José Guilherme R. Ferreira
Narrated by: Dage Kleinertz
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Graças à decifração de inscrições cuneiformes em tabletes de argila, encontrados entre os rios Tigre e Eufrates, é possível hoje reproduzir algumas receitas mesopotâmicas: carne cozida com muito alho. Read more
View audiobookO almofariz de Deméter - Abridged
By: José Guilherme R. Ferreira
Narrated by: Dage Kleinertz
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deméter, a deusa grega da terra cultivada, da fertilidade dos campos, espera sempre que a filha Perséfone suba do Hades para trabalhar com os grãos essenciais. O trigo do sagrado pão encabeça a lista. Read more
View audiobookA América no hambúrguer - Abridged
By: José Guilherme R. Ferreira
Narrated by: Dage Kleinertz
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Da White Castle, a primeira rede fastfood de hambúrguer dos Estados Unidos, criada em 1921, até a onda gourmet, o país sempre celebrou a carne. Ela já estava ali, nos rebanhos dos filmes de John Wayne. Read more
View audiobookZola desce ao ventre de Paris - Abridged
By: José Guilherme R. Ferreira
Narrated by: Dage Kleinertz
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Émile Zola trata em O Ventre de Paris do dia a dia do ruidoso Les Halles Centrales, com seus personagens, peixes e queijos, todos fortes. Assim compôs o retrato da burguesia gorda da sua época. Read more
View audiobookManacá - Abridged
By: Roberto Pinto
Narrated by: Marcos Damigo
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
O Manacá começou a funcionar em 1989, numa trilha do Sertãozinho de Cambury, para servir cafés-da-manhã e sanduíches para meninos e meninos das praias, como se dizia na época: Juquehy, Barra do Sahy, Baleia, Camburi e Boiçucanga. Read more
View audiobookTordesilhas - Abridged
By: Roberto Pinto
Narrated by: Marcos Damigo
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Tordesilhas, o restaurante – eleito o melhor de cozinha brasileira pelos guias Veja São Paulo, Época, Folha de S.Paulo, Estadão, Prazeres da Mesa, Gula e Go Where –, não fica longe da linha imaginária do Tratado de Tordesilhas no Brasil (latitude 23,5º, longitude 46,6º), assim como a cidade paulista de Penápolis, onde nasceu a chef Mara Salles,... Read more
View audiobookD.O.M - Abridged
By: Roberto Pinto
Narrated by: Marcos Damigo
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
O premiado D.O.M., considerado o 9º melhor do mundo pela lista da revista inglesa Restaurant (The 50 World's Best Restaurants – Edição 2015). No ano anterior, a revista apontou Alex como o melhor chef eleito por seus pares (Chef's Choice Award). Read more
View audiobookEdinho Engel - Uberlândia - Abridged
By: Roberto Pinto
Narrated by: Marcos Damigo
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Se você gosta de comida, Uberlândia ainda tem muitas feiras livres como as de antigamente, parrudas. Em um passeio pelo bairro de Santa Mônica com Edinho Engel, em um sábado, a primeira coisa que me chamou a atenção foi a variedade de tipos de quiabo: caipira, campinas, rugoso, veludo verde e amarelinho. Read more
View audiobookAmado bahia - Abridged
By: Roberto Pinto
Narrated by: Marcos Damigo
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
O restaurante Amado Bahia, de onde vos falo/escrevo, na Bahia de Amado, o Jorge, de Ogum, Oxossi, Oxalá e todos os outros santos, está situado, justamente, na costa leste da cidade, entre o bairro da Graça e a Praça da Sé, onde ficava a Catedral – que Gregório de Matos (nosso primeiro José Simão) descreveu como um palácio de bestas – em frente à... Read more
View audiobookEdinho Engel - Boemia com legumes - Abridged
By: Roberto Pinto
Narrated by: Marcos Damigo
Length: 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
O ritual de montagem das barracas se repete desde a inauguração do varejão do Ceagesp, em 1979, quando o chef Edinho Engel e seus parceiros de fuzarca da Faculdade de Sociologia da USP frequentavam o lugar em busca da famosa sopa de cebola que era servida para apaziguar comerciantes famintos e jovens boêmios Read more
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