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Bestsellers
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- By: Gillian Anderson
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Anonymous
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of confessions from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?
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Love the voice actresses.
- By LDJ on 10-08-24
By: Gillian Anderson
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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Now I’m healing
- By wonderwoman0414 on 08-24-21
By: Michele Filgate
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Number-one best-selling author John Green presents a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast....
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unexpected
- By E. Collins on 05-18-21
By: John Green
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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Great except for an audio glitch
- By Rynnkins on 06-01-22
By: David Sedaris
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Danse Macabre
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In ten brilliantly written chapters, Stephen King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers.
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loved it
- By sean on 10-18-24
By: Stephen King
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Dad Is Fat
- By: Jim Gaffigan
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....
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Good for Gaffigan fans - better for expecting dads
- By Sean on 05-17-13
By: Jim Gaffigan
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- By: Gillian Anderson
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Anonymous
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of confessions from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?
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Love the voice actresses.
- By LDJ on 10-08-24
By: Gillian Anderson
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother....
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Now I’m healing
- By wonderwoman0414 on 08-24-21
By: Michele Filgate
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: John Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Number-one best-selling author John Green presents a deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast....
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unexpected
- By E. Collins on 05-18-21
By: John Green
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Happy-Go-Lucky
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....
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Great except for an audio glitch
- By Rynnkins on 06-01-22
By: David Sedaris
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Danse Macabre
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In ten brilliantly written chapters, Stephen King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers.
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loved it
- By sean on 10-18-24
By: Stephen King
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Dad Is Fat
- By: Jim Gaffigan
- Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....
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Good for Gaffigan fans - better for expecting dads
- By Sean on 05-17-13
By: Jim Gaffigan
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- By Darwin8u on 09-17-15
By: James Baldwin
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What the Dog Saw
- And Other Adventures
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience in this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of writings from The New Yorker....
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Not Gladwell's best - and a recording problem
- By Rudi on 11-26-09
By: Malcolm Gladwell
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Loving Corrections
- Emergent Strategy, Book 12
- By: adrienne maree brown, Janine de Novais
- Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown’s Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements for liberation while navigating a society deeply fractured by greed, racism, and war.
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The most beautiful offering - essential reading and re-reading for our time
- By sarah avery sullivan on 10-10-24
By: adrienne maree brown, and others
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The Best of Me
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career - as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook....
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Almost No New Material
- By Lizardectomy on 11-05-20
By: David Sedaris
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Calypso
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....
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Excellent, as always
- By Ruthie on 05-31-18
By: David Sedaris
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
- By Espanolish on 11-02-16
By: Irvin D. Yalom
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It Came from the Closet
- Queer Reflections on Horror
- By: Joe Vallese - editor, various authors
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Aven Shore, Aida Reluzco, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences....
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This is not a book about queer horror
- By Evan on 12-13-23
By: Joe Vallese - editor, and others
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Walking in My Joy
- In These Streets
- By: Jenifer Lewis
- Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul....
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Another great work from Jenifer Mfkng Lewis
- By TonyaA6 on 09-20-22
By: Jenifer Lewis
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Baggage
- Tales from a Fully Packed Life
- By: Alan Cumming
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art....
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Entertaining but a little Helter-Skelter
- By Deborah N on 11-16-21
By: Alan Cumming
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Sitting Pretty
- The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- By: Rebekah Taussig
- Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most....
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AMPLIFY this type of constructive, imaginative, and uplifting voice!!
- By Nish on 09-01-20
By: Rebekah Taussig
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Upstream
- Selected Essays
- By: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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“I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness to lose herself within the beauty of the natural world....
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Beautiful essays
- By jessica on 10-17-23
By: Mary Oliver
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....
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Heartfelt Essays, Beautifully Performed
- By Brent Holcomb on 11-23-21
By: Ann Patchett
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Little Weirds
- By: Jenny Slate
- Narrated by: Jenny Slate
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style....
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softness is earned and it is wonderful
- By Van on 12-09-19
By: Jenny Slate
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture....
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Missing stories
- By Adrianna A. on 11-19-20
By: Alice Wong
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Quietly Hostile
- Essays
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Samantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts....
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Extremely disappointed
- By Diana in Michigan on 07-20-23
By: Samantha Irby
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Upworthy: Good People
- Stories from the Best of Humanity
- By: Gabriel Reilich, Lucia Knell
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Piper Goodeve, Ellen Archer, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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For anyone who could use proof that the world is full of good people, this beautifully illustrated book features 101 stories of human decency from Upworthy, the beloved social media brand that reaches more than 100 million people per month.
By: Gabriel Reilich, and others
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Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- By: Jia Tolentino
- Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time....
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Couldn’t stop listening
- By Alice on 08-25-19
By: Jia Tolentino
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”
By: Joan Didion
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband....
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Entertaining, engrossing, and elucidative essays
- By Bonny on 01-07-14
By: Ann Patchett
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Be strong, not weak.
- By Wayne on 06-24-13
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Kiese Laymon’s profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience.
By: Kiese Laymon
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American Like Me
- By: America Ferrera
- Narrated by: America Ferrera, Bambadjan Bamba, Joy Cho, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures....
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Not all chapters were narrated by the corresponding author
- By Katy F. on 03-09-19
By: America Ferrera
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Bone of the Bone
- Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
- By: Sarah Smarsh
- Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America—featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction.
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A little confusion
- By dana dunn on 10-04-24
By: Sarah Smarsh
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The White Album
- Essays (FSG Classics)
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Susan Varon
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.
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You Feel Like You Are There
- By Kelly Jo on 07-15-24
By: Joan Didion
New releases
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- By: Gillian Anderson
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Anonymous
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons—some complicated, some not—so many of us don’t talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here’s the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of self-identifying women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter).
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Love the voice actresses.
- By LDJ on 10-08-24
By: Gillian Anderson
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Danse Macabre
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying.
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loved it
- By sean on 10-18-24
By: Stephen King
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Brilliant and uncompromising, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential listening. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United States—that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language.
By: Kiese Laymon
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My Life: Growing Up Native in America
- By: IllumiNative
- Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Kamali Minter, Tanis Parenteau, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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With heart, pathos, humor, and insight, twenty renowned writers, performers, athletes, and activists explore what it means to be Native American today. Through a series of essays and poems, these luminaries give voice to their individual experiences while shedding light on the depth and complexity of modern Native American identity, resiliency, and joy.
By: IllumiNative
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Thrilling Cities
- Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
- By: Ian Fleming
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas.
By: Ian Fleming
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Make It Make Sense
- The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties
- By: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Narrated by: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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S--t You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one. Make It Make Sense is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems, and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends.
By: Bel Hawkins, and others
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- By: Gillian Anderson
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Anonymous
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons—some complicated, some not—so many of us don’t talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here’s the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of self-identifying women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter).
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Love the voice actresses.
- By LDJ on 10-08-24
By: Gillian Anderson
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Danse Macabre
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying.
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loved it
- By sean on 10-18-24
By: Stephen King
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Brilliant and uncompromising, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential listening. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United States—that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language.
By: Kiese Laymon
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My Life: Growing Up Native in America
- By: IllumiNative
- Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Kamali Minter, Tanis Parenteau, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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With heart, pathos, humor, and insight, twenty renowned writers, performers, athletes, and activists explore what it means to be Native American today. Through a series of essays and poems, these luminaries give voice to their individual experiences while shedding light on the depth and complexity of modern Native American identity, resiliency, and joy.
By: IllumiNative
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Thrilling Cities
- Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
- By: Ian Fleming
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author’s Bond canon. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas.
By: Ian Fleming
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Make It Make Sense
- The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties
- By: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Narrated by: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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S--t You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one. Make It Make Sense is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems, and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends.
By: Bel Hawkins, and others
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Sämtliche Reiseblätter
- By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Die „Reiseblätter“ bestehen ausschließlich aus Briefen Goethes, in welchen er Freunden, Sympathisanten, Geistesverwandten und anderen nahestehenden Menschen seine Gedanken mitteilt. Da Goethes Intellekt sich gerne und ausgiebig mit interdisziplinären Gegenständen auseinandersetzte, wird der geneigte Zuhörer mit Themen aus Wissenschaft, Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Gesellschaft konfrontiert, in welchen das persönliche Verständnis und Verhältnis des Autors dazu im Vordergrund steht.
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The Geography of the Imagination
- Forty Essays
- By: Guy Davenport, John Jeremiah Sullivan - introduction
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
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Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport serves as the listener's guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present-pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking.
By: Guy Davenport, and others
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Sobre literatura y vida
- By: Anton Chejov, Jesús García Gabaldón - traductor
- Narrated by: Israel Elejalde
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Autor irrepetible, forjador de un nuevo modo de ver y contar, maestro del cuento, la literatura en Chéjov se filtra en cada palabra que esculpía, más allá de su obra de ficción: "la literatura es mi amante". Amor, vida y literatura. Eso es lo que el lector disfrutará con esta compilación de cartas y aforismos en los que la figura de Chéjov aumenta, crece y nos atraviesa porque quizá no haya mejor lectura que internarse en la mente, en las palabras secretas, en la sensibilidad de un genio.
By: Anton Chejov, and others
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Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen 8
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Man sieht sich gedrungen wünschen zu wollen und sagen zu können, dass nach der akustischen Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsches „Unzeitgemäßen Betrachtungen“ jeder ein Stück klüger wird als er war – doch leider belehren uns Vergangenheit und Gegenwart eines besseren und lassen diesen unausgesprochenen frommen Wunsch wie eine Seifenblase im Orkan im Entstehungs-Ansatz zerplatzen. Je konkreter und klarer Gedanken formuliert werden, desto schwieriger sind sie zu verstehen.
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With Every Great Breath
- New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
- By: Rick Bass
- Narrated by: Rick Bass
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us.
By: Rick Bass
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マリコ、アニバーサリー
- By: 林 真理子
- Narrated by: 仲村 かおり
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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会議に執筆、今年もマリコは大忙し。去年から勤め人となったマリコは年始から大忙し。元気を出すためしっかりお餅を食べて、朝ドラの「舞い上がれ!」はかかさない。理事長になって初めての卒業式。
By: 林 真理子
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昭和の僕らはバカでした - “小学46年生”に突き刺さる!「超ノスタルジックエッセイ」 -
- By: 仲曽良 ハミ
- Narrated by: デジタルボイス
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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ファミコン、ミニ四駆、ビックリマン……このワードに“ピン!”ときたあなたにおすすめです!
By: 仲曽良 ハミ
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あなたの言葉を
- By: 辻村 深月
- Narrated by: 寺西 はる
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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「辻村さんは大人なのに、どうして子どもの気持ちがわかるのですか?」あの時、のみこんだひと言。いま感じている気持ち。その言葉はいつか必ず、あなたを助けてくれる。
By: 辻村 深月
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Sämtliche Studentenbeichten
- By: Otto Julius Bierbaum
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Otto Julius Bierbaum, der als erster Mensch den Brenner mit einem Automobil überquert hat (zusammen mit seiner Frau und Chauffeur), findet in der Cassette seines Großvaters schriftliche Relikte (fast) längst vergangener Tage und lässt anhand dieser seine Twen- und Studienjahre Revue passieren. Verflossene Liebschaften, Männerfreundschaften, Rauf- und Saufgelage, amouröse Stelldicheins, verwegene Helden- wie Schandtaten und Abenteuer aus (fast) vergessenen oder verdrängten Zeiten.
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Bruttezza
- By: Moshtari Hilal
- Narrated by: Valentina De Marchi
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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In questo saggio dirompente e suggestivo, l’artista tedesca di origine afghana Moshtari Hilal prosegue in forma scritta – ma anche attraverso disegni e fotografie – la sua indagine sugli aspetti sociali e politici delle categorie estetiche. Secondo Hilal, infatti, la “bruttezza” è un fatto sociale, politico, persino economico, indubbiamente legato alla razzializzazione degli individui. Hilal sostiene che la bruttezza, così come la razza, non sia qualcosa che esista sul piano della realtà, ma piuttosto una categoria politico-economica utile a veicolare l’odio nei confronti di corpi e identità non conformi.
By: Moshtari Hilal
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Streiten
- By: Svenja Flaßpöhler
- Narrated by: Svenja Flaßpöhler
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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"Sich zu streiten heißt, Unversöhnlichkeit zuzulassen." Svenja Flaßpöhler gilt als streitlustig, als jemand, die gerne angreifbare Positionen vertritt. Doch in ihr wohnt eine ganz andere Erfahrung: die eines Trennungskinds, das mit der Angst vor Streit und Eskalation aufgewachsen ist. In ihrem persönlich-philosophischen Essay zeigt sie, dass über das Streiten nachzudenken vor allem heißt, sich von Illusionen zu befreien. Ein Streit ist kein herrschaftsfreier Diskurs, sondern es geht um Macht: Vernichtung ist immer als Möglichkeit präsent.
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 5
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 48 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
By: Karl Kraus
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 4
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 55 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
By: Karl Kraus
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 3
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
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Aufsätze 1914-1925 Teil 2
- By: Karl Kraus
- Narrated by: Friedrich Frieden
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Karl Kraus gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aphoristiker deutscher Sprache. Ob berühmte Schriftsteller oder die Presse - nichts und niemand wurde von der gnadenlosen Kritik seiner Feder verschont. Bekannte Künstler wie Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Thomas Mann und andere zollten ihm Respekt, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde in Kunst und Gesellschaft war enorm. Als Vorleser hinterließ er aufgrund seiner Sprachgewalt und Persönlichkeit angeblich einen äußerst außergewöhnlichen Eindruck.
By: Karl Kraus
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L'Icône immolée [The Immolated Icon]
- By: Lionel Froissart
- Narrated by: Marc Wilhelm
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Trente ans après sa disparition, le nom d'Ayrton Senna résonne toujours sur les circuits du monde entier. Comme pour les plus grandes dates de l'histoire récente, beaucoup d'anonymes et bien sûr tous les amateurs de Formule 1 se souviennent où ils étaient et ce qu'ils faisaient le 1er mai 1994 lorsqu'ils ont appris que le champion brésilien venait de se tuer sur le circuit d'Imola.
By: Lionel Froissart
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Eu quero a árvore que existe [I Want the Tree That Exists]
- Seis reflexões para o mundo real [Six Reflections for the Real World]
- By: larinha
- Narrated by: larinha
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Eu quero a árvore que existe é uma coletânea de seis ensaios que representam diferentes facetas da nossa ânsia de descobrir e desfrutar a realidade que nos cerca. Em textos repletos de delicadeza e lucidez, larinha divide conosco sua visão única da existência, numa conversa franca e aberta que passeia pelo que há de mais profundo e de mais banal na jornada de todos nós.
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Reflexões de uma geração
- By Gabriel Ferrari Wagnitz on 10-18-24
By: larinha
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L'età grande
- By: Gabriella Caramore
- Narrated by: Gabriella Caramore
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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Alla vecchiaia comunemente si pensa come a una stagione di triste declino, d’immobilità, di giorni vuoti. Oppure, oggi più che mai, come a un’età in cui ancora tutto è possibile, in un prolungamento indefinito della giovinezza. Ma non appena laceriamo il velo dei tabù e dei luoghi comuni, l’"età grande" spalanca davanti a noi paesaggi inesplorati. Nel suo nuovo libro Gabriella Caramore fa esattamente questo: risponde all’esigenza di spingere lo sguardo tra le fenditure del tempo, ponendosi in ascolto "della propria carne e del proprio sentire".