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    Why We Make Things and Why It Matters

    The Education of a Craftsman

    by Peter Korn ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature andrewards of creative practice. We follow his search for meaning as anIvy-educated child of the middle class who finds employment as a novicecarpenter on Nantucket, transitions to self-employment as a designer and maker offine furniture, takes a turn at teaching and administration at Colorado’sAnderson Ranch Arts Center, and then founds a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Leonardo da Vinci

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Alfred Molina ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 1 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Unpredictable, Benevolent, Brilliant Revolution, The

    by Rob Brezsny ...
    Narrated by Justine Willis Toms ...

    Unabridged

    56 min

    Rob Brezsny is a self-acclaimed "perpetrator of sacred uproar" who revels in the limitless possibilities in the chaos that surrounds us. He envisions a world where each of us is a "rapturist," stealing one another's pain and spreading outrageous joy everywhere. Mr. Brezsny's words are thrilling and heady, but somehow also grounded in the reality of everyday life. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How to Disappear

    Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

    by Akiko Busch ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Rise of the Dragon

    An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Volume One

    by George R. R. Martin, Linda Antonsson, Elio M. García Jr ...
    Narrated by Harry Lloyd ...
    series The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlords to survive Valyria’s Doom is a tale of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Clanlands

    Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

    by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish ...
    Narrated by Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish, Diana Gabaldon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    Winner of the Audie Award 2022 for Best History/Biography Audiobook. Earphones Award Winner 2021.A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.Narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with a foreword written and read by Diana Gabaldon.From their faithful camper van to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Ikigai

    The Japanese Life Philosophy to Finding Happiness and Peacefulness

    by Sosuke Takahashi ...
    Narrated by Eric LaCord ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    Your Life Purpose Is Closer Than You Think - Here's How To Find It And Transform Your LifeWhat if your life was like the smooth but powerful flow of clear water?What if you woke up full of energy every morning, looking forward to the day ahead?What if you never had to fight procrastination or look for motivation again?Ever heard of ikigai? This complex Japanese concept is usuall... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rembrandt Is in the Wind

    Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

    by Russ Ramsey ...
    Narrated by Zach Hoffman, John Behrens ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists?Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Louvre

    The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum

    by James Gardner ...
    Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 47 min

    The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum More than 7,000 years ago, men and women camped on a spot called le Louvre for reasons unknown; a clay quarry and a vineyard supported a society there in the first centuries AD. A ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    William Blake vs the World

    by John Higgs ...
    Narrated by John Higgs ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    A glittering stream of revelatory light . . . Fascinating' THE TIMES'Rich, complex and original' TOM HOLLAND'One of the best books on Blake I have ever read' DAVID KEENAN'Absolutely wonderful!' TERRY GILLIAM'An alchemical dream of a book' SALENA GODDEN'Tells us a great deal about all human imagination' ROBIN INCE***Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Flower Diary

    In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door

    by Molly Peacock ...
    Narrated by Alicia Payne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    “Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey MurderMolly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    All The Little Things

    A tense and gripping thriller with an unforgettable ending

    by Sarah Lawton ...
    Narrated by Katie Villa ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    Never trust anyone. Never trust yourself.Rachel has made poor decisions in the past, but she has always tried her best for her daughter. When Vivian needed a fresh start, Rachel didn't hesitate to move them far from London. She just wishes she could shake the nagging doubt that Vivian is hiding something.Vivian isn't like other teenagers. On the surface she seems the same as her friends, but she ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    New Kings of the World

    Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop

    by Fatima Bhutto ...
    Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...
    series Columbia Global Reports

    Unabridged

    6 hours 2 min

    A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald's, and blue jeans. This is an audiobook about these new arbiters of mass culture arising from the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition

    A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

    by Nikki Sixx ...
    Narrated by Ross Marquand, Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    In honor of the ten-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx’s definitive and bestselling memoir on drug addiction is reissued with exclusive new content. This shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious memoir explores Nikki’s yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction. Now more than ever, with opioid addiction ravaging our country and rising by twenty percent in the past year ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    by Emmanouil Kalkanis ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    At Home

    A Short History of Private Life

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Narrated by Bill Bryson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 33 min

    From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wretched of the Earth, The

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Narrated by Sebastain Brown ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it found a new readership in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the centering of narratives interrogating race by Black writers. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Design of Everyday Things

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Don Norman ...
    Narrated by Neil Hellegers ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics.Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.The fault, argues this ingenious -- even liberating -- book, lies not in ourselves, but in product ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Goodbye, Things

    The New Japanese Minimalism

    by Fumio Sasaki ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    The bestselling phenomenon from Japan, with irresistible appeal to fans of Marie Kondo, that argues there is happiness in a minimalist lifeFumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo―he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Leonardo da Vinci

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Alfred Molina ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 12 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ninth Street Women

    Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

    by Mary Gabriel ...
    Narrated by Lisa Stathoplos ...

    Unabridged

    40 hours 12 min

    Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How to Be an Artist

    by Jerry Saltz ...
    Narrated by Jerry Saltz ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    "Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve MartinArt has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    William Butler Yeats

    Nobel Prize Winning Poet

    by History Nerds ...
    Narrated by Wayne Farrell ...
    Audiobook 4 - Celtic Heroes and Legends

    Unabridged

    1 hour 50 min

    Yeats is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language writers of the 20th century. A hero of the pen rather than the sword. A Nobel Prize winner for Literature and a two-term senator of the Irish Free State, Yeats lived a full, active life that combined poetry and politics.Unlike other modernists who dabbled in free verse, Yeats was a master of standard verse styles, as well. The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    All The Beauty in the World

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

    by Patrick Bringley ...
    Narrated by Patrick Bringley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD