Bestsellers
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs
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Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.
By: Jessica Urlichs
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Why Fathers Cry at Night
- A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with....
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Loved it.
- By Tonja on 06-01-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Slug
- And Other Things I've Been Told to Hate
- By: Hollie McNish
- Narrated by: Hollie McNish, Gemma Cairney
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and present, through Hollie's driving, funny, hopeful poetry and prose....
By: Hollie McNish
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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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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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deep
- By Araceli on 04-17-24
By: Melody Godfred
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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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From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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The Calm, Serene Tone of Her Voice
- By Tom on 05-31-24
By: Ada Limón
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One Wild Word Away
- By: Geffrey Davis
- Narrated by: Geffrey Davis
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present.
By: Geffrey Davis
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.
By: Jessica Urlichs
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Why Fathers Cry at Night
- A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with....
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Loved it.
- By Tonja on 06-01-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Slug
- And Other Things I've Been Told to Hate
- By: Hollie McNish
- Narrated by: Hollie McNish, Gemma Cairney
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and present, through Hollie's driving, funny, hopeful poetry and prose....
By: Hollie McNish
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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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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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deep
- By Araceli on 04-17-24
By: Melody Godfred
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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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From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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The Calm, Serene Tone of Her Voice
- By Tom on 05-31-24
By: Ada Limón
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One Wild Word Away
- By: Geffrey Davis
- Narrated by: Geffrey Davis
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe and cut a ragged seam between past and present.
By: Geffrey Davis
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The Prophet
- By: Kahlil Gibran
- Narrated by: Michael Goodrick
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published...
By: Kahlil Gibran
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Canopy
- Poems
- By: Linda Gregerson
- Narrated by: Linda Gregerson
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Linda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem....
By: Linda Gregerson
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Goldenrod
- Poems
- By: Maggie Smith
- Narrated by: Maggie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory....
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Powerful Collection
- By BookishMarginalia on 07-28-21
By: Maggie Smith
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Water, Water
- Poems
- By: Billy Collins
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.
By: Billy Collins
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Poukahangatus
- Poems
- By: Tayi Tibble
- Narrated by: Tayi Tibble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation....
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It was not well written
- By Rita Marie on 08-19-24
By: Tayi Tibble
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Nobody Told Me
- Poetry and Parenthood
- By: Hollie McNish
- Narrated by: Hollie McNish
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobody Told Me is a collection of poems and stories taken from Hollie's diaries - one person's thoughts on raising a child in modern Britain....
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Amazing! Loved it, it could not be better!
- By Anne on 04-27-18
By: Hollie McNish
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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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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 Nathan 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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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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I Had a Brother Once
- A Poem, A Memoir
- By: Adam Mansbach
- Narrated by: Adam Mansbach
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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I Had A Brother Once is a brilliant, genre-defying work - both memoir and epic poem - about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss....
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The words, poetry of grief
- By Sally Morsbach on 11-23-23
By: Adam Mansbach
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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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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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Promises of Gold
- By: José Olivarez, David Ruano
- Narrated by: José Olivarez
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on....
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I laughed thru my tears and cried thru my laughter
- By NG on 04-27-23
By: José Olivarez, and others
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Love and Life
- Poems About You and Me
- By: Ziri Dafranchi
- Narrated by: Matt Church
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful collection of easily-relatable and heart-warming poems exploring the true meaning of love and life, and the relationship between the two. Get ready for a remarkable voyage.
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“Without love everything else is tasteless”
- By Cynthia Hoosier on 07-06-24
By: Ziri Dafranchi
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The Maze and Her Path
- My Mother and Alzheimer's, a Book of Verse
- By: Henry Walker
- Narrated by: Henry Hott Walker
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Clara Jean Beaman Walker was the third of seven children born to Cora and Clarence Beaman in Knoxville, TN, in 1910. Considered to be “Little Mother” by her siblings, she always gave her best to her birth family and to the family she created with her husband, John Albert Walker....
By: Henry Walker
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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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With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood....
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Oh my
- By Ruben on 01-29-23
By: Warsan Shire
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Root Fractures
- Poems
- By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
- Narrated by: Diana Khoi Nguyen
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant....
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The Death of Sitting Bear
- New and Selected Poems
- By: N. Scott Momaday
- Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most important and unique voices in American letters, distinguished poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller N. Scott Momaday was born into the Kiowa tribe and grew up on Indian reservations in the Southwest....
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His voice, words and life are truly treasures
- By Elle Claire on 03-10-20
By: N. Scott Momaday
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Made of Rivers
- By: Emory Hall
- Narrated by: Emory Hall
- Length: 46 mins
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Emory Hall’s debut poetry collection follows the anatomy of a river, swelling with loss and grief, and dances with the sacred waters of transformation and motherhood.
By: Emory Hall
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Lessons in Love
- A Poetic Autobiography
- By: Penny Fleckenstein
- Narrated by: Penny Fleckenstein
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The 72 poems in this book cover many types of love: for the author’s three guide dogs, for her six children, for her parents and grandparents, for God and nature, for her many friends, and in a handful of light-hearted selections, for food....
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Poems of Parenting
- By: Loryn Brantz
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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A must-have book for all new and soon-to-be parents, this illustrated collection of tender, funny, radically honest poems about parenthood, based on a series of popular Instagram posts, is the perfect baby shower or Mother’s Day gift.
By: Loryn Brantz
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What Kind of Woman
- Poems
- By: Kate Baer
- Narrated by: Kate Baer
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend....
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Honest, unflinching, gorgeous poetry
- By kmap on 08-26-22
By: Kate Baer
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If My Body Could Speak
- By: Blythe Baird
- Narrated by: Blythe Baird
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Blythe Baird’s If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and triumphs....
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Beautiful. Raw. Real.
- By Theresa J. Hin on 05-15-21
By: Blythe Baird
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If They Come for Us
- Poems
- By: Fatimah Asghar
- Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Fatimah Asghar, a poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls, captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing using poems that bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion....
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Exceptional!
- By Kris De Leon on 04-10-20
By: Fatimah Asghar
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I'll Fly Away
- By: Rudy Francisco
- Narrated by: Rudy Francisco
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Francisco has created a collection of poems that savor the day-to-day, treating it as worship, turning it into an opportunity to plant new seeds of growth....
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Moving
- By Kimberly K on 08-17-24
By: Rudy Francisco
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The Perseverance
- By: Raymond Antrobus
- Narrated by: Raymond Antrobus
- Length: 49 mins
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The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories....
By: Raymond Antrobus