Litteraturforskning
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Sedaris, DavidHachette Audio 2022 UnabridgedAn Audie Award Winner David Sedaris, the "champion storyteller," (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back w...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed : Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Green, JohnBooks on Tape 2021 Unabridged“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling...
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Pandora's Jar : Women in the Greek Myths
Haynes, NatalieHarperAudio 2022 Unabridged"Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!"—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid...
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The Best of Me
Sedaris, DavidHachette Audio 2020 Unabridged"Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review David Sedaris's best stories and essays, spanning...
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Novelist as a Vocation
Murakami, HarukiBooks on Tape 2022 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, No...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain : In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Saunders, GeorgeBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedFrom the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and wh...
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Didion, JoanPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2021*A New York Times Best Seller* From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subj...
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Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century: Unabridged Selections
Wong, AliceBooks on Tape 2020 UnabridgedOne in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now,...
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Year of the Monkey
Smith, PattiPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019 UnabridgedFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one t...
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The Book Collectors : A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
Minoui, Delphine; Vergnaud, Lara; Massoud, NikkiPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2020 Unabridged"An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." ―Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besiege...
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White
Easton Ellis, BretPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019 UnabridgedOwn it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear. White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than...
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Look Alive Out There : Essays
Crosley, SloaneMacmillan Audio 2018 UnabridgedThis program is read by the author Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass...
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Sister Outsider--Essays and Speeches : Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
Lorde, AudreTantor Media, Inc. 2016 UnabridgedPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this ch...
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M train
Smith, PattiAlfred A. Knopf 2015National Best Seller From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she h...
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A rare recording of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien, J. R. R.Listen & Live Audio 2011A recording of Tolkien reading several of his poems. Listen as Tolkien reads The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," "The Mewlips," "The Hoard," "Perry-The-Winkle," and "The Man in the Mo...
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My Southern Journey
Bragg, RickBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2015From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly o...
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The letters of Jane Austen,
Austen, JaneTHE LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN. Jane Austen, was born in Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman and was the seventh of eight children. The family lived a quiet life t...
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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
Scottoline, LisaMacmillan Audio 2010At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa shows the humorous side of life from a woman's perspect...
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Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition
The Great Courses 2004 UnabridgedFrom the anonymous author of the Epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia to William Faulkner writing about Mississippi 3,600 years later, many of Western culture's greatest figure...
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Three Weeks with My Brother
Sparks, Nicholas; Sparks, MichaHachette Audiobooks 2004In January 2003, Nick Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 35 and 36, respectively, they we...