Audiobooks narrated by Ellen Burstyn

Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up

"KIRKUS EARPHONES AWARD WINNER Read by Ellen Burstyn The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us believers. We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that wonder with friends and loved ones. In this beautiful volume, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen reveals she had an evangelical response to learning poetry even as a child and would memorize and recite the works of Edna St Vincent Millay to envelope herself in the poet's deeper emotional landscape. As Burstyn continued her epic rise through film and theater-eventually winning an Oscar, a Tony, a BAFTA, and an Emmy-poetry gave voice to her experience as no other literary art form could. She never went anywhere without her curated "poetry pack." While waiting on set, in rehearsal, on a train, or just relaxing, she found comfort in verse. For nearly nine decades, poetry has led Ellen on a life of adventure, from a pilgrimage to Rumi's birthplace to a friendship with Maya Angelou, during which the poet read her work in Ellen's movie trailer, to selecting the poems to join her in love, in motherhood and in grief. Poetry Says It Better takes us on our own adventure, featuring work by: - W.B. Yeats - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Rainer Maria Rilke - Mary Oliver - Kaveh Akbar - William Wordsworth - Rumi - Edgar Allen Poe - And more Poetry Says It Better is a perfect daily companion for everyone looking to deepen and add meaning to their life experience. Throughout, Burstyn's charming voice and luminous insights help readers meet her in this poetic celebration-soul to soul."

Ellen Burstyn (Author), Ellen Burstyn (Narrator)

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The Land of Sweet Forever: The beautiful collection from the bestselling literary great and author of To Kill a Mockingbird

"Brought to you by Penguin. *Narrated by Academy, Tony and Primetime Emmy Award winner Ellen Burstyn* From the beloved bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous collection of newly discovered writing, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind behind To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s never-before-seen short stories and published nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life. This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee’s appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee’s life and to her two novels. 'A writer with something significant to say' NEW YORK TIMES 'A rare literary phenomenon' VOGUE '[She changed] the way we saw each other, and then the way we saw ourselves' PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA © Harper Lee 2025 (P) Harper Collins Publishers 2025"

Harper Lee (Author), Ellen Burstyn, Hillary Huber (Narrator)

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Conversations with God, Book III: An Uncommon Dialogue

"Conversations with God is Neale Donald Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God that began while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and much to his surprise, even shock, God answered him. In Book 3, this powerful and inspirational dialogue expands as readers enter into an adventurous exploration of life, gain a better understanding of the universe, and fully develop a personal relationship with God."

Neale Donald Walsch (Author), Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, Neale Donald Walsch (Narrator)

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Conversations with God, Book II: An Uncommon Dialogue

"Conversations with God is Neale Donald Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God that began while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and to his surprise, even shock, God answered him. Book 1 illustrates how to make our relationship with God more personal. Book 2 discusses both the personal and global challenges many of us face, exploring such topics as how listeners can shape their futures, help build a new society, and play a role in creating a loving consciousness on a global scale."

Neale Donald Walsch (Author), Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, Neale Donald Walsch (Narrator)

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Conversations with God, Book I: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1

"Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence, and God would provide clear, understandable answers? It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. Conversations with God is Neale Donald Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God, beginning in 1992 while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and much to his surprise, even shock, God answered him. Focusing on the universal truths that influence all life, Conversations with God offers a picture of the could be better. Conversations with God challenges us to push past the imagined boundaries of what we believe ourselves capable and look instead to all that we can attain as co-creators with God."

Neale Donald Walsch (Author), Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, Neale Donald Walsch (Narrator)

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Communion with God

"In 1992, Neale Donald Walsch—depressed, in poor health, unhappy with his life—wrote an angry letter to God. His frustrated questions—What does it take to make life work? What have I done to deserve a life of such continuing struggle?—poured out onto a yellow legal pad. Before he was through, his pen stayed suspended over the paper, and a reply was whispered into his mind by a voiceless voice:"Do you really want an answer to all these questions, or are you just venting?" So began an uncommon conversation—a powerful, inspiring dialogue between God and man that has touched the minds, hearts, lives, and souls of millions of people around the world. Communion with God is the latest in a series of books chronicling Walsch's extraordinary experience."

Neale Donald Walsch (Author), Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn (Narrator)

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Jataka Tales

"Jataka Tales is a compilation of stories from an ancient collection of famous legends about the former lives of the Buddha on his long road to enlightenment. Suggestive of Aesop, these beloved fables are fragments of epics and hero tales arising from deep in the collective Indian past. They present challenging circumstances for humans and animals alike, events which elicit courage and the capacity to love. Centered in one of the world's oldest cities on the Ganges River, these delightful stories tell of dramatic adventures resolved by nonviolent, compassionate means and of acts of sacrifice inspired by the noble example of others."

Noor Inayat Khan (Author), Ellen Burstyn (Narrator)

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I Send a Voice

"One of the most definitive accounts of the training and work of a Pipe Carrier, I Send a Voice is a gripping first-person account inside a Native American sweat lodge ceremony. Evelyn Eaton writes of her resolve to become worthy of participating in this healing ritual as she embraces the whole length of 'the hero's journey.' Through tests and ordeals inside and outside of the lodge while following the shamanic spiritual path, she arrives at her ultimate request— a healing pipe of her own. For anyone with an interest in Native American culture, shamanic rituals, or holistic healing, this essential work provides unique insights."

Evelyn Eaton (Author), Ellen Burstyn (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Ellen Burstyn

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