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Artists, Architects & Photographers Audiobooks

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    Schulz and Peanuts

    by David Michaelis ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Abridged

    12 hours 44 min

    Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us an in-depth biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts.It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest beginnings to realize his dream of creating a newspaper comic ... Read more

    $26.99 USD $4.99 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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    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

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    The Lonely City

    Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

    by Olivia Laing ...
    Narrated by Susan Lyons ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    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

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    Robin Williams

    When the Laughter Stops 1951 - 2014

    by Emily Herbert ...
    Narrated by Marston York ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 21 min

    With his twinkling eyes, boundless energy and unrivalled natural wit, Robin Williams was the comedian who brought laughter to a generation.Through roles in cherished films such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Jumanji, Aladdin and Hook, he became the genial face of family comedy. His child-like enthusiasm was infectious, sweeping viewers away. Allied to his lightning-quick improvisation and ability to riff ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $12.99 USD

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    Anna

    The Biography

    by Amy Odell ...
    Narrated by Imogen Church ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 29 min

    This definitive New York Times bestselling biography of Anna Wintour, now featuring a new afterword, follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in media.As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    31 min

    Here is Jon Krakauer’s portrait of the iconoclastic architect Christopher Alexander, whose revolutionary human-centered approach has shaken the foundations of modern architecture.Krakauer delves into Alexander’s life and career, from his theories on a timeless “pattern language” that could be used to create buildings and towns that were simultaneously more livable and more beautiful, to his belief ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    Recovered, Not Cured, A journey through schizophrenia

    by Rich Mclean, Richard Mclean ...
    Narrated by Rich Mclean, Richard Mclean ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 10 min

    A compelling visual and verbal journey exploring the author's experience of schizophrenia: the first signs, reactions from friends and family, how he sought help, the challenges of recovery.Edinburgh, 1994 I am crouching in an alleyway. They can't see me here, so for the moment I am safe. There must be hundreds of loudspeakers projecting secret messages at me, and umpteen video cameras tracking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Essential Vonnegut Interviews

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $4.99 USD

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    The Woman I Wanted to Be

    by Diane von Furstenberg ...
    Narrated by Diane von Furstenberg ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll want to take notes” (People).Diane von Furstenberg started with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be—in her words, “the kind of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

    by Dito Montiel ...
    Narrated by Jason Collins ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    Orlandito “Dito” Montiel grew up wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses, and at times getting near much graver trouble. Entering adulthood in the eighties, he escapes into the underground and punk ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Drawn Testimony

    My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist

    by Jane Rosenberg ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom sketch artist, for fans of Lab Girl and Working StiffJane Rosenberg is America's pre-eminent courtroom sketch artist. For over forty years, she's been at the heart of the story, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system. From mob bosses to fallen titans of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    I Always Knew

    A Memoir

    by Barbara Chase-Riboud ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 10 min

    The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as toldthrough four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother. through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother.Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduating from Yale’s Schoolof Design and Architecture, she moved to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Living Biographies of Great Painters

    by Henry Thomas, Dana Lee Thomas ...
    Narrated by Pat Bottino ...
    series The Living Biographies Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Make it Happen: How to be an Activist

    by Amika George ...
    Narrated by Amika George ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    ‘Make It Happen reminds us that people of any age can create change in their communities. From finding allies to setting goals, everyone who wants to contribute to a better future can learn from Amika's book.’ Malala YousafzaiNow, more than ever, we know that the world needs to change.And you can be the one to make it happen.As a teenager, Amika George successfully launched a campaign that pushed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Supla - Um jovem Papito

    by Supla, Supla ...
    Narrated by Supla ...

    Abridged

    12 min

    Escritos com bom humor e o estilo peculiar, os textos são como conversas em mesas de bar, causos contados por aquele que viveu essas peripécias, num tom despojado e original. E todos são ilustrados por fotos: o registro visual de uma vida rock and roll! Neste minilivro, Supla conta, em tom sincero, histórias de sua juventude. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Blue Territory

    A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell

    by Robin Lippincott ...
    Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    A poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painterA contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell is not as well known as her male counterparts, not only because she was a woman but also because she spent most of her working life in France. Still, in 2013 Bloomberg listed Mitchell as the best-selling female artist of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Walk Through Walls

    A Memoir

    by Marina Abramovic ...
    Narrated by Marina Abramovic ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 56 min

    “I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Une vie d’adulte

    by James Hyndman ...
    Narrated by James Hyndman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 39 min

    À l’origine de ce récit, il y a un journal tenu il y a une douzaine d’années. L’acteur y consignait observations, réminiscences, réflexions et instantanés de vie, composant au fil des pages une déambulation sans itinéraire défini, à la manière de Journal intime, le film de Nanni Moretti. Famille, enfance, errances, folie, Graal amoureux, besoin des mots pour se construire, ces vingt-sept chapitres ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Peter Max & Swami Satchidananda

    A Match Made In Heaven

    by Sripad Jagannatha Das ...
    Narrated by Sripad Jagannatha Das, Raj Rass ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    "Swami Satchidananda was a true inspiration to me. His teachings on spirituality, yoga, and meditation opened my eyes to new ways of thinking and living. He had a profound impact on my life and my art, and I am grateful for the time we spent together. His friendship was a gift that I will always treasure." - Peter Max"Peter was not just a gifted artist but a beautiful human being. His art was a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    You Say to Brick

    The Life of Louis Kahn

    by Wendy Lesser ...
    Narrated by Will Damron ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 8 min

    Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. Perfectly complementing ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    In Montparnasse

    The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí

    by Sue Roe ...
    Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 36 min

    **"Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." - The Times (UK)As she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse.**In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Leben und Werk (Ungekürzt)

    by Christian Liederer ...
    Narrated by Axel Thielmann ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 31 min

    Sein Name steht stellvertretend für die deutsche Literatur überhaupt: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Seine Werke sind fester Bestandteil nicht nur des deutschen, sondern des weltliterarischen Kanons, alle Schüler werden mit ihnen konfrontiert, und Wendungen, Aussprüche und Verse aus seinen Texten sind aus dem deutschen Sprachgebrauch nicht mehr wegzudenken. Welcher Mensch aber verbirgt sich hinter ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus