Essays audiobooks

Los enemigos

By: Kiko Amat

Narrated by: Kiko Amat

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Después de su Revancha, Kiko Amat reflexiona sobre los cimientos de la enemistad: el odio de clase, la desvalidez infantil... y la omnipresencia de la violencia. Este libro es un manual para comprender la enemistad, la fijación con lo antipódico, las acciones por despecho y el odio (con ocasional elevación) que suele acompañarlas. También es una... Read more

Doctors and Distillers

By: Camper English

Narrated by: Joanna Carpenter

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the cocktail book of the year, if not the decade.” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants

“A fascinating book that makes a brilliant historical case for what I’ve been saying all along: alcohol is good for you…okay maybe it’s not... Read more

Life Lessons from the Heart of Horses

By: Kathy Pike

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring true stories of how horses teach humans and heal their hearts.



Horses are sensitive creatures with hearts ten times larger than humans and much more to share with us than meets the eye. Life Lessons from the Heart of Horses offers poignant short stories about the trials and tribulations of befriending horses. Equine expert Kathy Pike... Read more

Rookie Mistakes

By: Kelly Bandas

Narrated by: Kelly Bandas

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.In her highly anticipated nonfiction debut, comedian Kelly Bandas uses her trademark humor to recount stories of growing up and becoming a semifunctional adult in a dysfunctional world.Raised in a devoutly Catholic home, Kelly Bandas spent her entire childhood trying hard not to tick off “the man” or the Lord. And for the most... Read more

Six Walks

By: Ben Shattuck

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to... Read more

Rebel With A Clause

By: Ellen Jovin

Narrated by: Ellen Jovin

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor.... Read more

How to Cuss in Western

By: Michael P. Branch

Narrated by: David Marantz

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Where nature writing meets humor—a raucous, hilarious look at life in the high desert of Nevada, from the author of Raising Wild and Rants from the HillEdward Abbey encouraged his readers to “be loyal to what you love, be true to the Earth, and fight your enemies with passion and laughter.” Here is Michael Branch’s response. Full of clear-eyed... Read more

Life of the Mind Interrupted

By: Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right.“I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’”In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment... Read more

Patna Oka Prema Katha

By: Abdulla Khan

Narrated by: Santosh Ralapalli

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"శప్తభూమి రాయలసీమ చరిత్ర నేపథ్యంగా రాసిన నవల. రాయల కాల తదనంతరం సుమారు 18వ శతాబ్దం నాటి అనంతపుర సంస్థాన అధికార రాజకీయాలు. అప్పటి జీవితము చిత్రించిన చారిత్రాత్మక నవల. హండే రాజుల కాలంనాటి సంఘటనలు, కక్షలు, కార్పణ్యాల మధ్య నలిగిన ప్రజల జీవితాల, పాలెగాళ్ల దౌర్జన్యాల సమాహారం శప్తభూమి. ఈ నవలలోని చారిత్రక పాత్రలను సమీక్షించుకుంటున్నప్పుడు ఎక్కువమంది... Read more

Ciencia, anticiencia y sus alrededores

By: Fedro Carlos Guillén

Narrated by: Pedro De Tavira Egurrola

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

El conocimiento científico no es un tesoro reservado a personas con inteligencias superiores, sino algo a lo que cualquiera con sentido común puede acceder. Para demostrarlo, aquí se reunen algunas de las inquietudes de Fedro Carlos Guillén, científico y escritor, cuya intención es compartir su curiosidad con los lectores de una manera fresca y... Read more

The Life Fantastic

By: Noa Menhaim

Narrated by: Jenny Funnell

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of highly entertaining, mind-blowing and incredibly wide-ranging essays will make readers see western culture as they've never seen it before. From monsters to witches and ancient libraries to lost islands, The Life Fantastic seeks to trace the origins of ideas, their surprising paths and unexpected ways in which they interact... Read more

Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses

By: Kathy Pike

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses explores and celebrates the relationship and bond possible between horses and humans. Each chapter offers a life lesson about trusting one's instincts, honestly addressing emotions, achieving clarity in communications, and releasing negative thoughts.



Because survival depends on being highly tuned to the... Read more

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, Second Edition

By: Marcelo Gleiser

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicistMarcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. As a world-famous theoretical physicist with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it... Read more

Eat Up!

By: Ruby Tandoh

Narrated by: Ruby Tandoh

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this bestselling tour de force of a culinary manifesto, Great British Bake Off alum and former Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh will help you fall back in love with food—from a great selection of recipes to straight-talking, sympathetic advice on mental health and body image
 
“I read it greedily.” —Nigella Lawson

Ruby Tandoh implores us to enjoy... Read more

Coasting

By: Jonathan Raban

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an... Read more

The Unwritten Book

By: Samantha Hunt

Narrated by: Samantha Hunt & Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Dark Dark comes a genre-bending work of nonfiction explores the idea of haunting—writ large.“I carry each book I’ve ever read with me, just as I carry my dead—those things that aren’t really there, those things that shape everything I am.”A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book... Read more

Imagine a City

By: Mark Vanhoenacker

Narrated by: Kyle Soller

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This love letter to the cities of the world—from the airline pilot–author of Skyfaring—is "a journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives" (Alain de Botton, author of The Art of Travel).

In his small New... Read more

Holding the Center

By: Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Narrated by: Kirk Magoon

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of Heckler’s lessons arise from his life as a... Read more

Warming Up Julia Child

By: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life—the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career.Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television show The French Chef required a team of innovators to bring out her unique presence and... Read more

Khabaar

By: Madhushree Ghosh

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These... Read more

أمريكا والبروباجندا الأرمنية

By: أحمد الشرقاوي

Narrated by: محمد الحكيم

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

هنري مورجنثاو سفير الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في الآستانة منذ نوفمبر 1913 م، وكتابه الأشهر "قصة السفير مورجنثاو" كان أول الأناجيل الأربعة للقضية الأرمنية مع القس الألماني ليبسوس، واللورد الإنجليزي برايس، وضابط المخابرات أرنولد توينبي(وادعاءات المذابح، التي تعرضوا لها في الدولة العثمانية.) كما كان الكتاب أقوى وسائل البروباجندا التي اعتمد عليها... Read more

From Odessa With Love

By: Vladislav Davidzon

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. The 2014 "Revolution of Dignity" heralded a tremendous transformation of Ukrainian politics and society that has... Read more

Ensayos

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon

Length: 23 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Los textos capitales de Michel de Montaigne, el gran inventor del ensayo moderno. Traducciones de Constantino Román y Salamero, Carlos Thiebaut, José Miguel Marinas y Gonzalo Torné En 1571, tras sufrir un accidente montando a caballo, Michel de Montaigne abandona su posición como magistrado de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo y empezar a... Read more

Temas lentos

By: Alan Pauls

Narrated by: Mario De Candia

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Amplia recopilación de textos sobre arte, cine y literatura que incluyen diarios de viaje, crónicas, conferencias, columnas de opinión, prólogos, intervenciones periodísticas leídos y publicados en diversos espacios y medios de España y Latinoamérica durante dos décadas, desde fines de los años 90.
Como esas embriagantes versiones en... Read more