Personal Essay

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    • Crafting the Story Only You Could Write
    • Written by: Nancy Slonim Aronie
    • Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-22
    • Language: English
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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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    • Written by: Heidi Priebe
    • Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next....

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    • 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 2 ratings
    • 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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    • Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition
    • Written by: Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett
    • Narrated by: Brennen Blotner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2023-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The fifth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America continues a 25-year tradition of collating Warren Buffett's philosophy in a historic collaboration between Mr. Buffett and Prof. Lawrence Cunningham....

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    • 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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    • Personal Essays
    • Written by: Melissa Broder
    • Narrated by: Melissa Broder
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months....

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    • 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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    • Lessons for Corporate America
    • Written by: Lawrence A. Cunningham
    • Narrated by: Brennen Blotner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-06
    • Language: English
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    • A modern classic, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America is the book Buffett autographs most and likes best....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • Essays
    • Written by: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2019-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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    • 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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    • The Official Biography
    • Written by: Rob Wilkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....

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    • And Other Reasons to Stay Alive
    • Written by: Tom Papa
    • Narrated by: Tom Papa
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Tom Papa is a little worried about you. You seem stressed, overworked, and, frankly, a little mixed up. Everyone is fighting an overwhelming feeling that things are getting worse, that we should be doing more, that we're not good enough. Well, life isn't perfect....

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    • Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
    • Written by: Alice Wong
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-30
    • Language: English
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    • From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....

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    • Essays
    • Written by: Anna Prushinskaya
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-15
    • Language: English
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    • Anna Prushinskaya explores the deep life shifts of pregnancy, birth and motherhood in the United States, a world away from the author's Soviet homeland. Prushinskaya captures the inherent togetherness of motherhood alongside its accompanying estrangement....

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    • Nothing Like I Imagined
    • Written by: Mindy Kaling
    • Narrated by: Mindy Kaling
    • Series: Nothing Like I Imagined
    • Length: 21 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • What if only kind of knowing your family’s heritage is actually kind of lame? For Mindy Kaling, the number one bestselling author of Why Not Me?, the search for an answer begins with an Edible Arrangement of chocolate-covered strawberries and a Hindu priest....

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    • How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life
    • Written by: Gaur Gopal Das
    • Narrated by: Gaur Gopal Das
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • While navigating their way through Mumbai's horrendous traffic, Gaur Gopal Das and his wealthy young friend, Harry, get talking, delving into concepts ranging from the human condition to finding one's purpose in life and the key to lasting happiness....

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