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  • The Practicing Stoic cover art

    • The Practicing Stoic

    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings

    • The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....

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    • Under the Duvet

    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Marian Keyes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....

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    • Love's Executioner

    • By: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • 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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    • Excitable Boy

    • Essays on Risk
    • By: Dominic Gordon
    • Narrated by: Dominic Gordon, Kyle Walmsley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas, and dark humor....

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  • On the Origin of Species cover art

    • On the Origin of Species

    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....

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    • Cultural Amnesia

    • Notes in the Margin of My Time
    • By: Clive James
    • Narrated by: Clive James
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....

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    • The Periodic Table

    • By: Primo Levi
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....

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  • The Sopranos Sessions cover art

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  • I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out cover art

    • I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out

    • True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
    • By: Lee Gutkind
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses who provide the first vital line of patient care....

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  • On Lust and Longing cover art

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    • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....

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    • Mantel Pieces

    • Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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    • Henry & June

    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Cherie Lunghi
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Anais Nin wrote her diary at the end of 1931, at the close of a sexually tumultuous and emotional year as part of a ménage a trois with fellow writer Henry Miller and his beautiful wife June Mansfield....

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    • Insomniac City

    • New York, Oliver, and Me
    • By: Bill Hayes
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by....

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    • I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying

    • A Memoir
    • By: Youngmi Mayer
    • Narrated by: Youngmi Mayer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents.

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    • Crazy Salad and Scribble, Scribble

    • Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
    • By: Nora Ephron
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays - tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit - now available in one audiobook for the first time....

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    • On Meditation

    • By: Sri M.
    • Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quiet your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation....

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    • United States: Essays 1952-1992

    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals....

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    • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

    • A Contrivance of Horror
    • By: Thomas Ligotti
    • Narrated by: Jon Padgett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.

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