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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 914 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 3 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 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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    • Self-Reliance

    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • Written by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

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    • Hijab Butch Blues

    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Lamya H
    • Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • 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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    • 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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    • Truth & Beauty

    • A Friendship
    • Written by: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2004-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The author of Bel Canto turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy....

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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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  • Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens cover art

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    • An Essay Collection
    • Written by: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • From one of our most iconic and influential writers comes a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....

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    • On the Genealogy of Morals

    • A Polemic
    • Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Duncan Steen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2013-06-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....

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