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Sister Outsider

Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde

Narrated by Robin Eller
series Crossing Press Feminist #1
Unabridged

7 hours 32 min
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and ... Read more
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Long Live Latin

The Pleasures of a Useless Language

by Nicola Gardini

Narrated by Todd Portnowitz

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min
"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the sound of Latin again, so familiar and so essential to the ... Read more
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The Possessed

Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

by Elif Batuman

Narrated by Elif Batuman

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearTHE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED―ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!―TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICSNo one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac ... Read more
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So We Read On

How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

by Maureen Corrigan

Narrated by Maureen Corrigan

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min
The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't."Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover ... Read more
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Citizen

An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

Narrated by Allyson Johnson

Unabridged

1 hour 37 min
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV ... Read more
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Erasing The Black Family: How White America Is Trying to Erase Black History, Black Families and Black Successes

by Raymond Sturgis

Narrated by Books with Voices

Unabridged

23 min
Another day has come and gone, and a black family lost another black person to police brutality, a corrupt justice system, and gun violence. America has always had a system in place to terminate black people if they rise too high, or accomplish triumphs where they are absent from taking credit for. I understand black America is resilience and strong, however, how many police killings are we going ... Read more
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The Spook who Sat by the Door

by Sam Greenlee

Narrated by Dion Graham

Unabridged

5 hours 57 min
A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy.Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago ... Read more
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Trick Mirror

Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino

Narrated by Jia Tolentino

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire“A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR ... Read more
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Mythology

by Edith Hamilton

Narrated by Suzanne Toren

Unabridged

14 hours 34 min
The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.We ... Read more
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Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

Narrated by Ron Butler

Unabridged

5 hours 3 min
At last, a new audio edition of the book many havecalled James Baldwin’s most influential work!Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, whenBaldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and blackthought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowlygained strength through the words of one of the most captivating ... Read more
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The Poetic Edda

Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

by Jackson Crawford

Narrated by Jackson Crawford

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min
“The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion’s share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of ... Read more
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The Storytelling Animal

How Stories Make Us Human

by Jonathan Gottschall

Narrated by Kris Koscheski

Unabridged

5 hours 32 min
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why?In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of ... Read more
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The Source of Self-Regard

Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

by Toni Morrison

Narrated by Bahni Turpin

Unabridged

16 hours 2 min
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three ... Read more
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47 Ronin

by John Allyn Jr. and 1 more

Narrated by David Shih

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min
In 1701 young Lord Asano is goaded into attacking a corrupt official at the Japanese Court. Although the wound Asano inflicts is minimal, the Emperor's punishment is harsh: Lord Asano is ordered to commit seppuku, or ritual suicide. His lands are confiscated and his family is dishonored and exiled. His samurai retainers now become ronin, or masterless, and are dispersed. These ronin are not ... Read more
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Feel Free

Essays

by Zadie Smith

Narrated by Nikki Aumka-Bird

Unabridged

13 hours 53 min
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essaysSince she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a ... Read more
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Minor Feelings

An Asian American Reckoning

by Cathy Park Hong

Narrated by Cathy Park Hong

Unabridged

6 hours 52 min
**A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen**Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in ... Read more
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The Opposite of Loneliness

Essays and Stories

by Marina Keegan

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her ... Read more
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CBC's Canada Reads Backstage Pass

Kobo Exclusive Interviews with Authors and Panelists

by Rakuten Kobo

Narrated by Tahmoh Penikett and 9 more

Unabridged

56 min
Welcome to your behind-the-scenes pass to CBC's Canada Reads.Kobo’s very own Tracy Nesdoly will guide you through a series of interviews with the authors and panelists of this year’s battle of the books. Join us as we navigate through these eye-opening reads—books that challenge assumptions, dismantle difference, and change how we treat one another. This is the perfect complement to the debates, a ... Read more
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Une fille comme elle

by Marc LEVY

Narrated by Marc LEVY and 1 more

Unabridged

6 hours 12 min
Entrez au n° 12, Cinquième Avenue, traversez le hall, montez à bord de son antique ascenseur et demandez au liftier de vous embarquer... dans la plus délicieuse des comédies new yorkaises !À New York, sur la 5e Avenue, s'élève un petit immeuble pas tout à fait comme les autres...Ses habitants sont très attachés à leur liftier, Deepak, chargé de faire fonctionner l'ascenseur mécanique, une ... Read more
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Sexual Personae

Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

by Camille Paglia

Narrated by Emily Durante

Unabridged

35 hours 15 min
In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive ... Read more
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Black Is the Body

Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

by Emily Bernard

Narrated by Emily Bernard

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min
**WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWSONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR**In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee ... Read more
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A Tale of Love and Darkness

by Amos Oz and 1 more

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged

23 hours 53 min
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His ... Read more
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Sharp

The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

by Michelle Dean

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged

11 hours 35 min
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of ... Read more
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Gloria Whelan: Homeless Bird

by PBS NewsHour

Narrated by PBS NewsHour

Unabridged

7 min
Gloria Whelan's book Homeless Bird chronicles the story of 13-year-old Koly who entered an arranged marriage in India and became a widow. In this interview, Whelan discusses Koly's story, widows in white sarees, writing about other places, and more. ... Read more
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