Essay Essays
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The Deadline
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Jill Lepore
- Narrateur(s): Jill Lepore
- Durée: 22 h et 30 min
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Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness.
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The Deadline
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): Jill Lepore
- Durée: 22 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2023-08-29
- Langue: Anglais
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The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented—but armed—aimlessness....
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My Mother and Other Wild Animals
- An Essay
- Auteur(s): Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Sean Greer
- Durée: 56 min
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Andrew Sean Greer can’t wait to get home to San Francisco after a writer’s residency in Kansas. But when his mother, Sandra, decides to come along for the ride, he has a new goal: get her to crack a smile at every stop, whether breathtaking or breathtakingly kitschy. He’s always known his mother to be as efficient and serious as a chemist (which she happens to be), always in gray, eyebrow cocked, and handling challenges with grace. To mix things up, Andrew develops an elaborate itinerary of planned chaos.
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My Mother and Other Wild Animals
- An Essay
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Sean Greer
- Durée: 56 min
- Date de publication: 2024-04-16
- Langue: Anglais
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A mother and son embark on the road trip of a lifetime in a charming, poignant essay about making memories, facing fears, and donning fried-egg costumes by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Too Funny!
- 101 Hilarious Stories to Brighten Your Days (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
- Auteur(s): Amy Newmark
- Narrateur(s): William DeMeritt, Yinka Ladeinde
- Durée: 8 h et 20 min
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Chicken Soup for the Soul has gathered some great storytellers to document the mishaps and misadventures of everyday life and celebrate humanity’s ability to laugh at itself. There’s no holding back in this book, so prepare for lots of good, clean (and not so clean) fun. This is storytelling at its funniest! No one is safe in these true stories—from spouses to parents to children to colleagues to friends. And the funniest stories are the ones about the writers’ own mishaps and most embarrassing moments.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Too Funny!
- 101 Hilarious Stories to Brighten Your Days (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
- Narrateur(s): William DeMeritt, Yinka Ladeinde
- Durée: 8 h et 20 min
- Date de publication: 2024-08-30
- Langue: Anglais
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You’ll be laughing your way through these feel-good stories that will bring some sunshine into your life!
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Auteur(s): Zadie Smith
- Narrateur(s): Zadie Smith
- Durée: 1 h et 51 min
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Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality - or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it?
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Narrateur(s): Zadie Smith
- Durée: 1 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time....
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The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told
- Auteur(s): Jay Cassell - editor
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 32 h et 45 min
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Follow the trails of hunters - the original storytellers - as they interpret signs, examine tracks, and chase and catch their prey (or fail to). Listeners can curl up with the best authentic hunting fiction and non-fiction, bringing the great Mount Kenya and the prairies of the American Bison into your living room. From Theodore Roosevelt and Gene Hill to Rick Bass and Charles Dickens, remember classic hunting tales and discover new stories of hunters’ luck, camaraderie, and use of smarts on the trail.
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Hunting stories?
- Écrit par Sandy Kim le 2021-12-13
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The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 32 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2013-02-14
- Langue: Anglais
- Top hunters and writers contribute to this exciting new adventure series....
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26 Marathons
- What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
- Auteur(s): Meb Keflezighi, Scott Douglas
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
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When Meb Keflezighi - the first person in history to win both the Boston and New York City marathons as well as an Olympic marathon medal - ran his final marathon in New York in 2017, it marked the end of an extraordinary distance-running career. Meb's last marathon was also his 26th, and each of those marathons has come with its own unique challenges, rewards, and outcomes. In 26 Marathons, Meb takes listeners on those legendary races, along every hill, bend, and unexpected turn of events that made each marathon an exceptional learning experience, and a fascinating story.
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loved it!!
- Écrit par Lisa le 2019-07-04
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26 Marathons
- What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
- Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
- Durée: 6 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2019-03-19
- Langue: Anglais
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26 Marathons offers the wisdom Meb Keflezighi has gleaned about life, family, identity, and faith in addition to tips about running, training, and nutrition. He shows runners of all levels how to apply the lessons he's learned to their own running and lives....
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Scaachi Koul
- Narrateur(s): Scaachi Koul
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
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In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages, and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to dealing with Internet trolls, to feeling out of place at an Indian wedding (as an Indian woman), to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant parents and bled down a generation.
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Funny and relatable
- Écrit par r le 2023-06-20
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): Scaachi Koul
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2017-09-28
- Langue: Anglais
- In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages, and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada....
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Lamya H
- Narrateur(s): Ashraf Shirazi
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her.
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Cheffe d'oeuvre
- Écrit par Gaby Gagné le 2023-08-20
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- Narrateur(s): Ashraf Shirazi
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
- Date de publication: 2023-02-07
- Langue: Anglais
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When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown.
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A Macat Analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Auteur(s): Nick Broten
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 1 h et 39 min
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One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most controversial too. This 1798 work inspired naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to develop the theory of natural selection. But it has also sparked criticism - Karl Marx famously called Malthus a "lackey of the bourgeoisie." Yet this hasn't stopped leading present-day environmentalists from taking up Malthus's ideas.
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A Macat Analysis of Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Narrateur(s): Macat.com
- Durée: 1 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2016-06-06
- Langue: Anglais
- One of the most influential books on economics ever written, Thomas Robert Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most controversial too....
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Auteur(s): Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
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For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence urgently require rethinking.
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good philosophical book
- Écrit par Glen Barber le 2023-08-07
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
- Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
- Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2021-08-24
- Langue: Anglais
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From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....
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A Companion of Esoteric Essays on Occult Subjects Such as Freemasonry, the Tarot, Hermetic and Rosicrucian Literature, the Kabbalah, Theosophy, Alchemy and More
- Auteur(s): Eliphas Levi, William Wynn Westcott, Franz Hartmann, Autres
- Narrateur(s): Michael Strader, Sandra Brautigam
- Durée: 10 h et 22 min
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This is a collection of 21 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, which include Hermeticism, alchemy, magic, the Kabbalah, ancient wisdom and philosophy, the Tarot, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, and spiritualism, by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects.
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A Companion of Esoteric Essays on Occult Subjects Such as Freemasonry, the Tarot, Hermetic and Rosicrucian Literature, the Kabbalah, Theosophy, Alchemy and More
- Narrateur(s): Michael Strader, Sandra Brautigam
- Durée: 10 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2018-11-29
- Langue: Anglais
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This is a collection of 21 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects....
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Pulphead
- Essays
- Auteur(s): John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Narrateur(s): John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Durée: 11 h et 57 min
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In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - how we really (no, really) live now.
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Pulphead
- Essays
- Narrateur(s): John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Durée: 11 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2020-05-19
- Langue: Anglais
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In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture....
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Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay
- Crafting the Story Only You Could Write
- Auteur(s): Nancy Slonim Aronie
- Narrateur(s): Morgan Hallett
- Durée: 7 h et 22 min
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Everyone has a story, and helping people tell their stories has been Nancy Slonim Aronie’s life mission. Building on her acclaimed Memoir as Medicine, this new guide tackles the short personal essay. With warmth and humor, Nancy provides prompts, inspiration, and hard-won wisdom to empower you to write an unforgettable narrative. You’ll learn to begin with an irresistible hook (“kill ’em with the first line”) and employ compelling direct quotes, drama, vulnerability, universal themes, and self-reflection to get readers into your corner.
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Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay
- Crafting the Story Only You Could Write
- Narrateur(s): Morgan Hallett
- Durée: 7 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2024-10-22
- Langue: Anglais
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In a culture increasingly inundated with generic AI-generated text, a well-crafted personal narrative is more important than ever, a declaration of human connection and meaning. Use Nancy’s secrets to stand out from the crowd and get your one-of-a-kind story onto the page.
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Surf Is Where You Find It
- Auteur(s): Gerry Lopez
- Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
- Durée: 12 h et 28 min
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Written by one of the most revered surfers of his generation, Gerry Lopez's Surf Is Where You Find It is a collection of stories about a lifetime of surfing. But more than that, it is a collection of stories about the lessons learned from surfing. It presents 38 stories about those who have been influential in the sport - surfing anytime, anywhere, and in any way.
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Surf Is Where You Find It
- Narrateur(s): Danny Campbell
- Série: Patagonia
- Durée: 12 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2017-04-04
- Langue: Anglais
- Written by one of the most revered surfers of his generation, Gerry Lopez's Surf Is Where You Find It is a collection of stories about a lifetime of surfing....
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Browsings
- A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
- Auteur(s): Michael Dirda
- Narrateur(s): John Lescault
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
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From Pulitzer Prize - winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life - the perfect companion for any lover of books. Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the postmoderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace.
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Browsings
- A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books
- Narrateur(s): John Lescault
- Durée: 6 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2015-08-15
- Langue: Anglais
- From Pulitzer Prize - winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life - the perfect companion for any lover of books....
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Celebrity Fish Talk
- Tales of Fishing from an All-Star Cast
- Auteur(s): Dave Strege
- Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
- Durée: 5 h et 44 min
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Few sports combine adrenaline, precision, and athletic skill like fishing. Now fans of this timeless activity can celebrate their passion with celebrities across the globe in Celebrity Fish Talk. In this unique treasure trove of stories, author David Strege will amuse and amaze listeners while feeding the public’s insatiable appetite for peeking into the private lives of stars from Hollywood, TV, music, and sports.
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Celebrity Fish Talk
- Tales of Fishing from an All-Star Cast
- Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
- Durée: 5 h et 44 min
- Date de publication: 2013-01-03
- Langue: Anglais
- Few sports combine adrenaline, precision, and athletic skill like fishing....
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Bright Rivers
- Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing
- Auteur(s): Nick Lyons
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Holland
- Durée: 5 h et 5 min
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Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters. A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright Rivers, Lyons recounts the sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious experiences of his expeditions to the Delaware, Beaverkill, Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone rivers, sharing reminiscences of trout taken, released, and sometimes lost.
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Bright Rivers
- Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Holland
- Durée: 5 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2014-03-18
- Langue: Anglais
- Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters....
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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
- Auteur(s): Iceberg Slim
- Narrateur(s): Bobby Spears
- Durée: 3 h et 57 min
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Offering brutal, difficult-to-swallow tales from the underground, this audiobook exposes the author's inner workings in a way none of his others have, resulting in a straight-out, heartfelt confession.
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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
- Narrateur(s): Bobby Spears
- Durée: 3 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2014-10-07
- Langue: Anglais
- Offering brutal, difficult-to-swallow tales from the underground, this audiobook exposes the author's inner workings in a way none of his others have, resulting in a heartfelt confession....
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
- Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
- Auteur(s): Meghan Daum
- Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
- Durée: 7 h et 40 min
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One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis" and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all - a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children - before their biological clocks stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life.
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many theories on one choice
- Écrit par Patrick Fairbanks le 2021-07-31
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
- Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
- Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
- Durée: 7 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2015-08-18
- Langue: Anglais
- One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis" and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all....
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The Mark Twain Complete Collection
- All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography
- Auteur(s): Mark Twain
- Narrateur(s): Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay, Autres
- Durée: 280 h et 21 min
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.
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The Mark Twain Complete Collection
- All 12 Novels; The Complete Short Stories; Travel Writing; Essays; and Chapters from My Autobiography
- Narrateur(s): Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay, Todd Kramer
- Durée: 280 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2024-07-29
- Langue: Anglais
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This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking travel writing....
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