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    Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 56 min

    "Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.” – The OdysseyExperience the stunning Greek poetry of Homer in this collection of his two major works: The Iliad and The Odyssey. These epic poems are beloved for their presentation of Greek ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Theory of the Leisure Class

    by Thorstein Veblen ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    In this, his best-known work, the controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen appropriates Darwin’s theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. For Veblen, the shallowness and superficiality observed in society results from the tendency to believe that true accomplishment lies in arriving at a condition of ostentatious wealth and status. In developing his ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Practicing Stoic

    by Ward Farnsworth ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone—the most valuable wisdom of ages past made ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Journal of a Trapper

    Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834–1843

    by Osborne Russell ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the lucrative salmon and fur trade. Beginning at the age of twenty, he detailed the life of a trapper in his journal and recorded his adventures through treacherous terrain, encounters with dangerous wildlife, and confrontations with the natives of the Rockies.Osbourne would remain ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Who We Are and How We Got Here

    Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

    by David Reich ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human historyGeneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry.In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Socratic Method

    A Practitioner’s Handbook

    by Ward Farnsworth ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions.About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Constantine’s Sword

    The Church and the Jews; A History

    by James Carroll ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 22 min

    In a bold and moving book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has provoked in his own life as a Catholic. More than a chronicle of religion, this dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    My Bright Abyss

    Meditation of a Modern Believer

    by Christian Wiman ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 44 min

    Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith―responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Philosophy and Real Politics

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 3 min

    Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Stan Getz

    A Life in Jazz

    by Donald Maggin ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 48 min

    Long before the success of his bossa nova Grammy winner “The Girl from Ipanema,” Stan Getz was a fixture in the pantheon of jazz greats. From his recording of “Early Autumn” with the Woody Herman band in 1949, which catapulted him to stardom at age twenty-two, to the 1961 jazz/classical masterpiece “Focus,” to the 1990 release of “Apasionado,” Getz’s forty-nine-year career is a tale of enduring ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Caroline

    by Adrian Spratt ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    In 1980s New York City, young lawyer Nick Coleman meets free spirit Caroline Sedlak in an evening fiction writing course. A vivacious fixture at a Greenwich Village bar, she remains mysterious about her life until their teacher reads her story submission to the class, and Nick realizes that a darker past lurks beneath her happy-go-lucky exterior. Nick must confront demons of his own while ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Soul’s Code

    In Search of Character and Calling

    by James Hillman ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 55 min

    Plato called it “daimon,” the Romans “genius,” the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality, our modern culture refuses to accept that a unique soul guides each of us from birth, shaping the course of our lives. In this ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook