Bestsellers
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The Carrying
- Poems
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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Ada reading her work is a must listen!
- By C. Beale on 05-11-24
By: Ada Limón
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They Bloom Because of You
- Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Sunday Times bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs returns with a new collection of beautifully observed poems about the ever-evolving journey of motherhood—the hard, the magic, and the fleeting. The love you have for your children Only deepens as they grow As poet Jessica...
By: Jessica Urlichs
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The Night Before Christmas
- By: Clement Moore, Charles Santore
- Narrated by: Jeff Bridges
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance27
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Story27
The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with this #1 New York Times bestselling edition of the classic poem read by Jeff Bridges. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...
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The Dude makes an excellent Santa!
- By FrogfaceAmazon Customer on 12-26-22
By: Clement Moore, and others
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Tender
- By: Harry Baker
- Narrated by: Harry Baker
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Tender captures all the tiny, fragile, perfect moments of new life and, with it, new parenthood. Full of sleepless wonder and with his characteristic wit and warmth, Harry Baker offers snapshots into the intense first 100 days with his son as they get to know each other.
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An original work narrated by the author
- By katie on 03-12-26
By: Harry Baker
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Encountering Maternal Silence
- Writing Strategies for Negotiating Margins of Mothering in Contemporary Canadian Prairie Women’s Poetry
- By: Kelly M. Brown
- Narrated by: Emily McIntyre
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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This study explores how contemporary Canadian Prairie women poets negotiate the silences, gaps, and margins surrounding maternal experience through innovative writing strategies.
By: Kelly M. Brown
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Room Swept Home
- By: Remica Bingham-Risher
- Narrated by: Remica Bingham-Risher
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Braiding meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection of poems treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, and women's rights....
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Perfection
- By Amazon Customer on 03-19-24
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The Carrying
- Poems
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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Ada reading her work is a must listen!
- By C. Beale on 05-11-24
By: Ada Limón
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They Bloom Because of You
- Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Sunday Times bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs returns with a new collection of beautifully observed poems about the ever-evolving journey of motherhood—the hard, the magic, and the fleeting. The love you have for your children Only deepens as they grow As poet Jessica...
By: Jessica Urlichs
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The Night Before Christmas
- By: Clement Moore, Charles Santore
- Narrated by: Jeff Bridges
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance27
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Story27
The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with this #1 New York Times bestselling edition of the classic poem read by Jeff Bridges. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...
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The Dude makes an excellent Santa!
- By FrogfaceAmazon Customer on 12-26-22
By: Clement Moore, and others
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Tender
- By: Harry Baker
- Narrated by: Harry Baker
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Tender captures all the tiny, fragile, perfect moments of new life and, with it, new parenthood. Full of sleepless wonder and with his characteristic wit and warmth, Harry Baker offers snapshots into the intense first 100 days with his son as they get to know each other.
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An original work narrated by the author
- By katie on 03-12-26
By: Harry Baker
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Encountering Maternal Silence
- Writing Strategies for Negotiating Margins of Mothering in Contemporary Canadian Prairie Women’s Poetry
- By: Kelly M. Brown
- Narrated by: Emily McIntyre
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
This study explores how contemporary Canadian Prairie women poets negotiate the silences, gaps, and margins surrounding maternal experience through innovative writing strategies.
By: Kelly M. Brown
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Room Swept Home
- By: Remica Bingham-Risher
- Narrated by: Remica Bingham-Risher
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Braiding meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection of poems treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, and women's rights....
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Perfection
- By Amazon Customer on 03-19-24
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other
- A Poetry Unbound Collection
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves.
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love this guy's voice
- By Bevdotcom on 08-09-25
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Walking Gentry Home
- A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
- By: Alora Young
- Narrated by: Alora Young
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Story9
An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history...
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Powerful poetry read by the author.
- By C. Venters on 01-26-23
By: Alora Young
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Night Watch
- Poems
- By: Kevin Young
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American...
By: Kevin Young
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Love Poems for Married People
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people. Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People takes the poetic...
By: John Kenney
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The Beauty of the Husband
- A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
- By: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beauty of the Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.
By: Anne Carson
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No Matter the Wreckage
- By: Sarah Kay
- Narrated by: Sarah Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall156
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Performance142
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Story141
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B,"Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. No Matter the Wreckage presents listeners with new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's talent for celebrating family, love, travel, and...
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Loved it!
- By Viviana on 05-30-20
By: Sarah Kay
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, Peter Jones - introduction, E. V. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance45
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Story45
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after...
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A good read
- By Tad Davis on 10-15-19
By: Homer, and others
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The Tower
- By: W. B. Yeats
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology of twenty poems was Yeats's first major collection after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.
By: W. B. Yeats
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I Place You into the Fire
- Poems
- By: Rebecca Thomas
- Narrated by: Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Mi'kmaw, three similarly shaped words have drastically different meanings: kesalul means "I love you"; kesa'lul means "I hurt you"; and ke'sa'lul means "I put you into the fire"....
By: Rebecca Thomas
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'The words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary' - Giovanna Fletcher 'Beautifully heartfelt, inspiringly poignant and therapeutically validating' - Anna Mathur Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and...
By: Jessica Urlichs
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
- Poems
- By: Misha Collins
- Narrated by: Misha Collins
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance37
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Story37
This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys....
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Love, Life and Garbage Trucks
- By Susan T Vigilante on 12-07-23
By: Misha Collins
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My Childhood in Pieces
- A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
- By: Edward Hirsch
- Narrated by: Edward Hirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age. “My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them...
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Taking me back
- By Jack C. Doppelt on 08-03-25
By: Edward Hirsch
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Self Love Poetry
- For Thinkers & Feelers
- By: Melody Godfred
- Narrated by: Melody Godfred
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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Story23
Melody Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme....
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relatable, moving, & enlightening
- By MzAri on 12-24-25
By: Melody Godfred
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Without Wings It's hard to Fly
- Free Verse Poems on Life Experiences
- By: K. De'Nise
- Narrated by: Michelle Howard
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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This book of Free Verse poems tells stories of growing up. When we share our growing-up experiences, a window is open for children to learn about life, family, friendship, and faith. These stories can impart invaluable lessons and morals, helping them navigate their life journeys.
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A moving and memorable read
- By Anonymous on 03-26-26
By: K. De'Nise
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The Shift
- Poetry for a New Perspective
- By: Melody Godfred
- Narrated by: Melody Godfred
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Story1
Each pair of poems inspires a shift from the old way of thinking to the new: from guilt to gratitude, resistance to surrender, and fear to love....
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Personable piece and performance
- By Anonymous on 02-17-26
By: Melody Godfred
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Dear Mother
- Poems on the hot mess of motherhood
- By: Bunmi Laditan
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance17
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Story17
The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler, capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among...
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Loved this book!
- By JT on 04-04-19
By: Bunmi Laditan
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Death by Living
- Life Is Meant to Be Spent
- By: N. D. Wilson
- Narrated by: N. D. Wilson
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance167
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Story167
A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life. In this astoundingly unique audiobook, best-selling author N. D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live, we must recognize that we are dying....
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Phenomenal non-fiction narrative!
- By Cedarland on 07-05-20
By: N. D. Wilson
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Life, Love and Loss
- Poems for Every Hurdle on Life’s Highway
- By: Donna Ashworth
- Narrated by: Donna Ashworth
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
After the bestselling I Wish I Knew, Donna Ashworth has now produced an extraordinary three-volume collection of poems that will touch and inspire every listener in the ups and downs we all face in love, in life and in loss....
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amazing
- By Judy Von Zuben aka Reaper's Kitchen on 08-30-24
By: Donna Ashworth
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A Peculiar People
- By: Steven Willis
- Narrated by: Steven Willis
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts an entire cast of characters, showcasing their struggles, identities, & underlying emotions....
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Every white man should listen to this until he gets it.
- By Erla Champ-Gibson on 08-22-25
By: Steven Willis
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The Hurting Kind
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Story17
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón....
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The Beauty of her insights
- By Tom on 07-30-24
By: Ada Limón
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What Is Autism?
- By: Damien Rist
- Narrated by: April's Voice
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
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What is Autism? is a collection of poems that explains what Autism is as well as other things associated with it....
By: Damien Rist
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Billy Collins Live
- A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005
- By: Billy Collins, Bill Murray - introduction
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance133
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Story128
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most...
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Does Not Get Better Than This
- By Mel on 09-27-10
By: Billy Collins, and others
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Poems
- By: Warsan Shire
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Story29
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist...
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The poems
- By Anne on 04-02-25
By: Warsan Shire
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When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance
- Poems
- By: Joan Baez
- Narrated by: Joan Baez
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez.
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what a poet she is
- By J. J. on 03-16-26
By: Joan Baez