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    • Warm and Joyful Animal Tales
    • By: James Herriot
    • Narrated by: Jim Dale
    • Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • Children have always found a delightful friend in James Herriot. His award-winning stories for young children bring the farmyard world of Herriot's Yorkshire to vibrant life. Here, in James Herriot's Treasury for Children, we find all of his books for children collected in one beautiful volume....

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    • In These Streets
    • By: Jenifer Lewis
    • Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,629 ratings
    • 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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    • Selected Nonfiction
    • By: Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,463 ratings
    • The View from the Cheap Seats brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of Neil Gaiman's outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,946 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • And Other Essays
    • By: David Foster Wallace
    • Narrated by: David Foster Wallace, Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 578 ratings
    • Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures....

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    • 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control
    • By: Dana K. White
    • Narrated by: Dana K. White
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 926 ratings
    • Traditional organizing advice never worked for decluttering expert and self-proclaimed recovering slob Dana K. White. Is it possible, she wondered, to get organized without color coding my sock drawer? As Dana let go of the need for perfection, she discovered the joy of having an organized house....

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    • An Essay
    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,822 ratings
    • In this surprising essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rewards of a book tour and his devoted readers’ worst-kept secrets....

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    • Essays
    • By: Samantha Irby
    • Narrated by: Samantha Irby
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Anna Kendrick
    • Narrated by: Anna Kendrick
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18,729 ratings
    • A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect....

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    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,693 ratings
    • 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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    • Strange Tales from a Strange Time
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 387 ratings
    • Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the best-selling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print....

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    • By: Jenny Slate
    • Narrated by: Jenny Slate
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,101 ratings
    • 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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    • Essays by the Minimalists
    • By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
    • Narrated by: Justin Malik
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 809 ratings
    • This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....

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    • By: Tina Fey
    • Narrated by: Tina Fey
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60,518 ratings
    • Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: A recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV....

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    • By: Kurt Vonnegut
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 632 ratings
    • One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general....

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    • Selected Essays
    • By: Mary Oliver
    • Narrated by: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • “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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    • By: Kiese Laymon
    • Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,047 ratings
    • A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Erika L. Sánchez
    • Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 417 ratings
    • Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy....

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    • By: Quinta Brunson
    • Narrated by: Quinta Brunson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 784 ratings
    • From comedian Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary) comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays about trying to make it when you're struggling, the importance of staying true to your roots, and how she's redefined humor online....

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    • Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
    • By: John O'Donohue, Krista Tippett - foreword
    • Narrated by: Pat O'Donohue
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • John O’Donohue’s friend and frequent collaborator John Quinn collects a series of talks and essays from the poet-philosopher on humanity’s relationship with the land, the ache of absence, our place in an often mysterious universe, and the great adventure of death itself....

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