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Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, television and radio host and actor. He currently hosts The Daily Show, a late-night television talk show on Comedy Central.

Trevor Noah

Born a Crime

Entertainment & Celebrities

Biographies & Memoirs

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards. She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, who gave her their AP Entertainer of the Year award.After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1992, Fey moved to Chicago to take classes at the improvisational comedy group The Second City, where she became a featured player in 1994. Three years later, Fey became a writer for the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). She was promoted to the position of head writer in 1999.

Tina Fey

Bossypants

Music

James Taylor

Break Shot: My First 21 Years

The Natural History of Selborne

Jerome K Jerome: The Short Stories

History

Europe

Literature & Fiction

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Women in Business

Audio Performances & Dramatizations

Science Fiction

Laurel Lefkow

Alien: Out of the Shadows

Alien III

Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Contact

The Bone Clocks

Kathryn Drysdale

The No-Show

Shattered

Fractured

Theatre of Marvels

Romance

Contemporary

Children's Audiobooks

Corey Johnson

Unspeakable

Cultural & Regional

Matthew Lewis

Too Many Reasons to Live

Sports

Andrea Deck

Mac McDonald

Rutger Hauer was a Dutch actor, writer, AIDS awareness activist and environmentalist.

Rutger Hauer

Drama & Plays

William Jacob Crystal is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Richard Mulligan's & Cathryn Damon's TV son, Jodie Dallas, on the ABC comedy-drama, Soap, and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers.

Billy Crystal

Have a Nice Day

As You Wish

Still Foolin' 'Em

The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites

Horton Hatches the Egg

Charlamagne Tha God

Black Privilege

Shook One

Education & Learning

Classics

Words, Language & Grammar

Essays

Humor & Satire

Americas

Nick Offerman is an American actor, writer, and carpenter who is best known for his breakout role as Ron Swanson in the acclaimed NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. For his work on Parks and Recreation, he received the Television Critics Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

Nick Offerman

Paddle Your Own Canoe

Twain’s Feast

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Lincoln in the Bardo

Politics & Government

Al Franken

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

The Truth (with Jokes)

Oh, the Things I Know! A Guide to Success, or, Failing That, Happiness

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthologies & Short Stories

Mindy Kaling

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Why Not Me?

The A.I. Who Loved Me

One More Thing

Kind of Hindu

B.J.Novak

The Book with No Pictures

Philosophy

Michael Schur

How to Be Perfect

Yes Please

Women

Erotica

Basketball

Paranormal

Literary History & Criticism

Health, Lifestyle & Relationships

Fantasy

Jim Frangione was born on January 26, 1958 in Hyannis, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Transamerica (2005), Heist (2001) and The Spanish Prisoner (1997).Jim has recorded over 100 audiobooks. He loves being part of the Recorded Books family. In addition to Spencer Quinn’s Chet and Bernie Mysteries and his new young adult series, the Bowser and Birdie stories, he is also the narrator for J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Series and many others. Jim is a NYC-based actor and co-artistic director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, a new play development forum in Great Barrington, MA. He’s performed on TV, in many of the plays and films of David Mamet, with NY’s Atlantic Theater Company, On and Off Broadway, and at many theaters a

Jim Frangione

The Ride of a Lifetime

Dark Lover

Lover Eternal, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 2

Lover Awakened

Lover Revealed

Norman Lear

Even This I Get to Experience

Robert Iger

Professionals & Academics

Rob Reiner

World War Z: The Complete Edition

World War Z

The Princess Bride

CenterStage

Genre Fiction

Wallace Shawn, sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American actor and playwright. Regularly seen on film and television, where he is usually cast as a comic character actor, he has pursued a parallel career as a playwright whose work is often dark, politically charged and controversial. He is widely known for his high-pitched nasal voice and slight lisp.

Wallace Shawn

Your Duck Is My Duck

Night Thoughts

Science

Science & Engineering

Cary Elwes is a celebrated English actor who starred in The Princess Bride before moving on to roles in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Glory, Days of Thunder, Twister, and Saw, among many other acclaimed performances. He will always be indebted to The Princess Bride, he says, for changing his life and giving him a career that has spanned decades. He lives in Hollywood, California, with his family.

Cary Elwes

The Demon-Haunted World

The Boy Pirate

Carol Kane

Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups

Christopher Guest

J. Edgar!

Robin Wright

Marc Maron

Hi Bob!

Attempting Normal

Any Man

The Jerusalem Syndrome

In Case We Die

Robert M. Greenberg is an American composer, pianist and musicologist. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Teaching Company.Greenberg earned a B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the faculties of UC Berkeley, Californiz State University, East Bay, and the San Franciso Conservatory of Music, where he was chairman of the Department of Music History and Literature as well as Director of the Adult Extension Division. Dr. Greenberg is currently Music Historian-in-residence with Sa

Robert Greenberg

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition

The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works

Music as a Mirror of History

Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music

Great Masters: Mozart - His Life and Music

Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and other smaller venues in the area. His ascent to fame picked up when he became a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on the Tonight Show.In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. In the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, he became a successful actor, playwright, and juggler, and eventually earned Emmy, Grammy, and American Com

Steve Martin

Born Standing Up

The Pleasure of My Company

Shopgirl

Pure Drivel

Greek Mythology: The Origins, the War and Rise of the Gods of Olympus

Politics & Activism

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and TV writer, best known as host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Conan O'Brien

Assassination Vacation

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

The World's Worst Assistant

James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that airs on ABC. Before that program, Kimmel was also well-known as co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Kimmel is also a television producer, with shows including Crank Yankers and The Andy Milonakis Show to his credit.

Jimmy Kimmel

I Take My Coffee Black

Religion & Spirituality

Christianity

Lisa Kudrow

Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA

Women's Fiction

Sarah Silverman

The Bedwetter

Judd Apatow

Will Ferrell

Computers & Technology

History & Culture

World Literature

Teen & Young Adult

Music & Performing Arts

Africa

Horror

Age & Hometown: 39 (“but in meerkat years, that’s 25!”); Manhasset, Long IslandCurrent Role: Entertaining Broadway audiences as the hysterical meerkat Timon in Disney's long-running hit The Lion King.A Familiar Voice: An accomplished voiceover actor on more than 50 audio books, Berman says the key is not to impersonate or put on voices. “I cast the book in my mind,” he explains. “I say, ‘Who is this person?’ So, in my head, Judi Dench is playing this role. I don’t want to do an impersonation of Judi Dench, but I am channeling her in that moment. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.” Berman's audio work ranges from children’s books to what he calls “fantasy romance novels”—and sometimes both in the same day. “One time, I went from th

Fred Berman

Six of Crows

The Storyteller

Crooked Kingdom

The Time Traveler's Wife

Horns

Guy Lockard

The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

Hurricanes

The Perfect Day to Boss Up

All American Boys

Ghost

Rob Lowe is an American actor. Lowe came to prominence after appearing in films such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, About Last Night..., and St. Elmo's Fire. On Television, Lowe is known for his role as Sam Seaborn on The West Wing and his role as Senator Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters. He currently appears as a main cast member of Parks and Recreation in the role of Chris Traeger.

Rob Lowe

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

Love Life

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Jessica Simpson

Open Book

Take the Lead

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist. He has frequently recorded and toured with the E Street Band. Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered around his native New Jersey. His eloquence in expressing ordinary, everyday problems has earned him numerous awards, including twenty Grammy Awards and an Academy Award, along with an international fan base. His most famous albums, Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A., epitomize his penchant for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily life. He has sold over 64 million albums in the U.S. alone.

Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run