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A Summer with Montaigne
- On the Art of Living Well
- By: Antoine Compagnon
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Michel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short, erudite, and lively chapters written over a single summer, Antoine Compagnon seeks answers to that question. In A Summer with Montaigne, Compagnon invites his listeners to join him as he strolls through Montaigne’s key contributions to our understanding of what is good and worthwhile in life.
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A Summer with Montaigne
- On the Art of Living Well
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-03-23
- Language: English
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Black Like Us
- A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
- By: Donald Weise - editor, Devon W. Carbado - editor, Dwight A. McBride - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Ray Eller, Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and authors whom listeners may be surprised to learn were "in the life", Black Like Us is the most comprehensive collection of fiction by African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual writers ever published.
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Black Like Us
- A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction
- Narrated by: Robin Ray Eller, Ron Butler, Bahni Turpin, Mirron Willis, Lisa Pitts, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-12-12
- Language: English
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
- A Memoir in Essays
- By: Damon Young
- Narrated by: Damon Young
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing Black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.
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Brilliant and honest
- By Penelope on 05-05-23
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
- A Memoir in Essays
- Narrated by: Damon Young
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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Le mie risposte alle grandi domande
- By: Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: Daniele Crasti
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Per tutta la vita, Stephen Hawking si è dedicato a indagare il mondo attraverso la lente della fisica, maneggiando concetti complicatissimi in bilico tra scienza e filosofia: dalla natura dei buchi neri all'origine del tempo, fino alla ricerca di un senso per la nostra esperienza su questo sperduto pianeta, ai confini di una remota galassia sospesa nell'impressionante vastità del cosmo.
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Le ambizioni sbagliate
- By Blind Boy on 13-05-20
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Le mie risposte alle grandi domande
- Narrated by: Daniele Crasti
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 27-02-19
- Language: Italian
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Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich
- By: Radhakrishnan Pillai
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Chanakya's Arthashastra is an unrivalled political treatise that has been used by scholars, academics and leaders across the world. In Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich, Radhakrishnan Pillai brings out the inherent lessons from Arthashastra to present a strategic and practical way of wealth creation. This is a holistic study, written for anyone and everyone.
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Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich
- Narrated by: Sumit Kaul
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Ignited Minds
- By: A. P. J. Kalam
- Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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India has unmatched talent and ambition with an inherent tendency to work hard; then what is it that keeps India from overtaking the world? Why does India as a nation settle for the ordinary when the extraordinary is well within reach? Dr. Kalam shares his dream of a nation that is unrivaled, he discusses how he has, from his experience, met such skilled people whose visions can transform the nation.
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Ignited Minds
- Narrated by: Pradeep Kumar
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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Sad Happens
- By: Brandon Stosuy
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Reena Dutt, Cynthia Farrell, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry—and the circumstances in which we shed a tear—are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances.
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Sad Happens
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Reena Dutt, Cynthia Farrell, Em Grosland, Nikki Massoud, George Newbern, André Santana, Eric Yang, Brandon Stosuy
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-11-23
- Language: English
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Las puertas de la percepción
- Sonido 3D
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Audiolibro producido con sonido 3D. El mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Las puertas de la percepción es un ensayo escrito por Aldous Huxley, publicado en 1954. En este trabajo, Huxley detalla sus experiencias al consumir la sustancia psicodélica mescalina. A lo largo del ensayo, reflexiona sobre la naturaleza de la realidad, la conciencia y la percepción. Profundiza en cómo ciertas sustancias pueden alterar nuestra percepción del mundo, lo que le lleva a ponderar los límites entre el ser interno y la realidad externa.
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Las puertas de la percepción
- Sonido 3D
- Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 26-01-24
- Language: Spanish
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A mi a bánat
- By: Péter Esterházy
- Narrated by: Péter Esterházy
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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A szövegek többnyire a 20. század legvégén íródtak, de 10-20 év irodalomban nem (nagyon) számít, vagy ha számít, az nem számít; Pilinszky az Pilinszky, Kertész az Kertész, Goethe az Goethe. A rózsa az... de azt most hagyjuk. Hogy mi a bánat van itten most, arra közvetlen választ nem kapunk. Sokféle bánat van, egy részük ráadásul öröm is. "Így megy ez."
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A mi a bánat
- Narrated by: Péter Esterházy
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-05-20
- Language: Hungarian
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Usos amorosos de la postguerra española
- By: Carmen Martín Gaite
- Narrated by: Mercè Montalá
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Un relato agridulce y entretenidísimo escrito con mano maestra. Una obra mayor del ensayismo en castellano. Tras una investigación exhaustiva que comprende consultorios sentimentales, revistas del corazón y discursos políticos, Carmen Martín Gaite reconstruye aquí la historia doméstica de los primeros años de postguerra, una etapa sombría donde la restricción y el racionamiento impuestos por Franco afectaron decisivamente a los usos amorosos de aquel tiempo. Educada para aparentar y no para vivir su vida, la mujer de la época, sirvienta del hogar, enfocó el matrimonio como objetivo excluyente.
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Usos amorosos de la postguerra española
- Narrated by: Mercè Montalá
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-03-24
- Language: Spanish
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
- By: P.J. O'Rourke
- Narrated by: Rob McQuay
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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P.J. O'Rourke traces his development from hippie protester to conservative grouch to jaded humorist. Along the way, we are privy to his strange, twisted days as editor in chief of National Lampoon, as well as the in-depth looks at appropriate sports for middle-aged Republicans, namely those which can be engaged in with a smuggled Havana between the teeth - fly-fishing, bird hunting, deep-sea fishing, and of course, golf. Plus, you'll hear O'Rourke's take on the Virtues of Automobiles - because what good was oil doing sitting in the ground for millions of years? - and many other hilarious rants in this off-the-wall collection by America's premier political humorist.
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Don't
- By William on 11-04-06
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
- Narrated by: Rob McQuay
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Narrated by: Angela Vossköhler
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Briefe an einen jungen Dichter ist eine Sammlung von Briefen Rainer Maria Rilkes, die 1929 im Insel Verlag als Nummer 406 der Insel-Bücherei erschien. Die Briefe an einen jungen Dichter wurden aus der Veröffentlichung der übrigen Briefe ausgegliedert und diesen vorangestellt, weil sich die Herausgeberinnen erhofften, auf diesem Wege mehr Aufmerksamkeit für Rilkes moderne Haltung zur Orientierung im Leben zu erlangen, während sowohl der Kommunismus als auch der Nationalsozialismus an Boden gewannen. Die Texte grenzen sich von politischen Ideologien ebenso ab wie von der Religion.
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Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
- Narrated by: Angela Vossköhler
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-03-24
- Language: German
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I miti del nostro tempo
- Opere XIX
- By: Umberto Galimberti
- Narrated by: Donato Sbodio
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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Culto della giovinezza, idolatria dell'intelligenza, ossessione della crescita economica, tirannia della moda: sono alcuni dei miti di oggi che Umberto Galimberti passa in rassegna per smontarli e denunciarne la natura ingannevole, mostrando come i falsi miti siano in realtà "idee malate", non avvertite come tali, e quindi tanto più capaci di diffondere i loro effetti nefasti senza trovare la minima resistenza. Sono i miti del nostro tempo, le idee che più di altre ci pervadono e ci plasmano come individui e come società.
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I miti del nostro tempo
- Opere XIX
- Narrated by: Donato Sbodio
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 21-06-22
- Language: Italian
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The Souls of Black Folk
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history, laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. Some of the essays in the book were even previously published by the Atlantic Monthly magazine. When writing, Du Bois drew from his personal experiences as an African-American in America to highlight the issues of prejudice that were still going on into the 20th century.
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Love it
- By Michael Gayle on 02-06-17
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The Souls of Black Folk
- Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-11-16
- Language: English
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The Best American Short Stories 2022
- Best American
- By: Andrew Sean Greer - editor, Heidi Pitlor - series editor
- Narrated by: Andrew Sean Greer, Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
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The Best American Short Stories 2022
- Best American
- Narrated by: Andrew Sean Greer, Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyos, Cherise Boothe, Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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How to Be a Beta Male
- By: Robert Crampton
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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From rom coms to wrestling and fatherhood to fist fights, Robert Crampton's How to Be a Beta Male is a brilliantly funny and sometimes moving insight into being a modern-day bloke. Robert Crampton has been writing his Beta Male column for The Times since 2001. A much-loved weekly insight into modern masculinity - whatever that might mean - Beta Male strives to unlock the secrets of contemporary relationships in all their frequent glory, occasional frustration and ongoing complexity.
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How to Be a Beta Male
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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Dharma Artha Kama Moksha [Dharma Meaning Work Salvation]
- 40 Insights for Happiness
- By: Devdutt Pattanaik
- Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these four Hindu shastras provide a framework within which human action, its purposes and consequences, can be defined; together, they validate human existence and give it meaning.
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One of the best on the topic
- By Shishya on 20-06-24
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Dharma Artha Kama Moksha [Dharma Meaning Work Salvation]
- 40 Insights for Happiness
- Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-01-22
- Language: English
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Hard to Love
- Essays and Confessions
- By: Briallen Hopper
- Narrated by: Holly Linneman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Briallen Hopper's Hard to Love honours the categories of loves and relationships beyond marriage, the ones that are often treated as invisible or seen as secondary - friendships, kinship with adult siblings, care teams that form in times of illness, or various alternative family formations. She also values difficult and amorphous loves like loving a challenging job or inanimate objects that can't love you back.
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Hard to Love
- Essays and Confessions
- Narrated by: Holly Linneman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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How Far You Have Come
- Musings on Beauty and Courage
- By: Morgan Harper Nichols
- Narrated by: Morgan Nichols
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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How Far You Have Come is an exquisite collection of poetry and essays from best-selling artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols. In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. Morgan weaves together personal reflections with her signature poems, encouraging you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as experiences of reconciliation, unity, and hope.
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How Far You Have Come
- Musings on Beauty and Courage
- Narrated by: Morgan Nichols
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
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