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  • What the Dog Saw cover art

    • What the Dog Saw

    • And Other Adventures
    • Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2009-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings

    • 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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    • The Inconvenient Indian

    • A Curious Account of Native People in North America
    • Written by: Thomas King
    • Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 917 ratings

    • The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America....

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    • The Best of Me

    • Written by: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings

    • 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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    • The Anthropocene Reviewed

    • Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
    • Written by: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings

    • 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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    • Les millionnaires ne sont pas ceux que vous croyez

    • Written by: Nicolas Bérubé
    • Narrated by: Pierre Corriveau
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-03
    • Language: French
    • 5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings

    • Comment décririez-vous la vie d'un millionnaire ? Conduirait-il un VUS électrique ? Habiterait-il un loft haut perché ou une maison avec des tourelles ? Sur les relevés de ses cartes de crédit, trouverait-on des achats de vêtements chics....

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    • Happy-Go-Lucky

    • Written by: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings

    • 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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    • Calypso

    • Written by: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 553 ratings

    • With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....

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    • Danse Macabre

    • Written by: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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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    • The Myth of Sisyphus

    • Written by: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

    • One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought....

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    • The Fire Next Time

    • Written by: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2008-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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  • Y en n'aura pas de miracle! cover art

    • Y en n'aura pas de miracle!

    • Written by: Geneviève Gagnon
    • Narrated by: Geneviève Gagnon
    • Series: Cours Toutoune, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: French
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • L'ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour arrêter de se trouver des excuses, pour garder sa motivation et pour mettre de côté ses complexes, même si on a les bras mous et les cuisses dépendantes affectives.

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    • Love's Executioner

    • Written by: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 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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    • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    • Picador Modern Classics
    • Written by: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Maya Hawke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-05
    • Language: English
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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.”

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    • Little Weirds

    • Written by: Jenny Slate
    • Narrated by: Jenny Slate
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 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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  • These Precious Days cover art

    • These Precious Days

    • Essays
    • Written by: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • “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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    • Le Naufrage des civilisations

    • Written by: Amin Maalouf
    • Narrated by: Stéphane Boucher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-15
    • Language: French
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Il faut prêter attention aux analyses d'Amin Maalouf : ses intuitions se révèlent des prédictions, tant il semble avoir la prescience...

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    • Daemon Voices

    • On Stories and Storytelling
    • Written by: Philip Pullman
    • Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Simon Mason
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • One of the best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story. Daemon Voices is both a revelation of the writing mind and the methods of a great contemporary master and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself....

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    • Dad Is Fat

    • Written by: Jim Gaffigan
    • Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2013-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • 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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    • The Friedrich Nietzsche Collection

    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
    • Length: 51 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has influenced philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Oswald Spengler, George Grant, Emil Cioran, Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Jacques Derrida, Leo Strauss, Max Scheler, Michel Foucault, and Bernard Williams....

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  • Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens cover art

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