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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 288 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 912 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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    • Danse Macabre

    • Written by: Stephen King
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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 Practicing Stoic

    • Written by: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • How to Be Alone

    • If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
    • Written by: Lane Moore
    • Narrated by: Lane Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who'd rather you not....

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    • 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 62 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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    • 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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    • 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 45 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 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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    • Return of the Primitive

    • The Anti-Industrial Revolution
    • Written by: Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2009-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for....

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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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    • How to Be Alone

    • Essays
    • Written by: Jonathan Franzen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2013-01-29
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel....

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    • Orthodoxy

    • Written by: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2006-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford....

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    • Dear Dolly

    • Collected Wisdom
    • Written by: Dolly Alderton
    • Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • For years, New York Times bestselling author Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth, and wit with the diverse universe of fans who have turned to her “Dear Dolly” column seeking guidance on a host of life problems....

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    • I'll Show Myself Out

    • Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
    • Written by: Jessi Klein
    • Narrated by: Jessi Klein
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It....

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    • Fraud

    • Written by: David Rakoff
    • Narrated by: David Rakoff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2001-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers...

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    • Upstream

    • Selected Essays
    • Written by: Mary Oliver
    • Narrated by: Hala Alyan, Joy Sullivan, Kate Baer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-18
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • “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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