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 171 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 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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    • 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: Lydia Davis
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-07
    • Language: English
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    • Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, "Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive"....

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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: 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 on Fly Fishing and the Transformative Power of Nature
    • Written by: John Dietsch, Paul VanDevelder - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jim Denison
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-08
    • Language: English
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    • John Dietsch - fly fishing coordinator and stuntman for Brad Pitt on the timeless film A River Runs Through It - explores our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigates its transformative and healing power in the face of loss....

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    • Notes from a Woman Who Has Finally Found It
    • Written by: Shauna M. Ahern
    • Narrated by: Shauna M. Ahern
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2019-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Like so many American women, Shauna M. Ahern spent decades feeling not good enough about her body, about money, and about her worth in this culture. For a decade, with the help of her husband, she ran a successful food blog....

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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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    • A Book About Being Alive
    • Written by: Ray Robertson
    • Narrated by: Graham Rowat
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death....

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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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    • 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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    • Written by: Courtney Zoffness
    • Narrated by: Courtney Zoffness
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past - biologically, culturally, spiritually - and what we pass on to our children....

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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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    • 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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