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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrator Alex Jennings, Jon Cartwright
Duration 5h 18m
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881–1885; the first three parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his ‘campaign against morality’, in which Nietzsche explored the ethical consequences of the ‘death of God’. Heavily critical not only o...
View BookAuthor Walter Tevis
Narrator Amy Landon
Duration 11h 51m
When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to en...
View BookBridgerton Book 2: The Viscount Who Loved Me
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 2
Duration 12h 23m
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better... -Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814 But this time t...
View BookAuthor Dolly Parton
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 18m
A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-culture icon. In this exclusive audio performance, the ten-time Grammy Award–winning artist weaves her words w...
View BookAuthor Elena Ferrante
Narrator Marisa Tomei
Duration 10h 21m
Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can s...
View BookBridgerton Book 3: An Offer From a Gentleman
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 3
Duration 12h 22m
Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Bene...
View BookBridgerton Book 4: Romancing Mister Bridgerton
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 4
Duration 13h 17m
Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she...
View BookAuthor Lydia Millet
Narrator Xe Sands
Duration 5h 34m
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and...
View BookBridgerton Book 5: To Sir Phillip, With Love
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 5
Duration 10h 26m
Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do w...
View BookBridgerton Book 6: When He Was Wicked
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 6
Duration 11h 30m
In every life there is a turning point . . . A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing...
View BookBridgerton Book 1: The Duke and I
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
Duration 12h 9m
Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry-though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon's h...
View BookBridgerton Book 7: It's in His Kiss
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 7
Duration 11h 11m
Meet Our Hero . . . Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past . . . and the key to his future. The problem is—it's written in Italian, of which Gareth spea...
View BookBridgerton Book 8: On the Way to the Wedding
Author Julia Quinn
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
SeriesBridgerton, Book 8
Duration 13h
Bestselling author Julia Quinns popular and critically acclaimed Bridgerton novels have won a loyal following. This tale closes the Regency-era saga with the story of Gregory, the last unmarried Bridgerton. Gregory has been patiently waiting for his turn at love, and when he sees beautiful Hermione Watson, he is sure he has fo...
View BookAuthor Peter May
Narrator Peter Forbes
Duration 8h 41m
Written over fifteen years ago, this prescient, suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop of a capital city in quarantine, and explores human experience in the grip of a killer virus. 'They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to...
View BookAuthor Darren Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Narrator Dan Woren
Duration 17h 55m
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?Simply, no. None of these...
View BookAuthor Walter Isaacson
Narrator Malcolm Hillgartner
Duration 34h 30m
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative a...
View BookAuthor Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrator Various
Duration 18h 4m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leadership written and read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with additional narration from Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make t...
View BookAuthor Mark Miodownik
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 6h 53m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, read by Daniel Weyman. A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists Everything is made of something... From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matter...
View BookAuthor Lisa Jewell
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 10h 25m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell, read by Emma Gregory.You think you have the perfect life.You're successful. Attractive. Well liked. And you've just got married for the third time. But that's OK because everyone's happy. Your children are happy. You're happy. And so is your new wife. Bu...
View BookAuthor Sairish Hussain
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 15h 34m
Your roots can always lead you home... Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his wife's death. Saahil and Zahra, his two small children, are relying on him. Amjad vows to love and protect them always. Years later, Saahil and his best friend, Ehsan, have finished university and are celebrating with...
View BookAuthor Julian Baggini
Narrator The Author
Duration 12h 45m
All cultures are different, and have different ways of thinking. In How the World Thinks, Julian Baggini travels the globe to provide a hugely wide-ranging map of human thought. He shows us how distinct branches of philosophy flowered simultaneously in China, India and Ancient Greece, growing from local myths and stories - and how contemporary cult...
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