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Bestsellers
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The Coddling of the American Mind
- How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....
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Only Praise
- By TJ on 12-02-18
By: Jonathan Haidt, and others
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The Big Goodbye
- Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
- By: Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Sam Wasson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making....
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This book is cursed
- By Dobbs on 04-13-20
By: Sam Wasson
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The 50th Law
- By: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Narrated by: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent offers a "bible" for success in life and work....
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A solid and well thought out book.
- By David on 09-15-09
By: 50 Cent, and others
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Cue the Sun!
- The Invention of Reality TV
- By: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.
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Weak, semi-unconnected stories
- By KDN on 07-20-24
By: Emily Nussbaum
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- By: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- By Momx4 on 02-29-24
By: Kara Swisher
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....
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Good, but be careful
- By Shackleton on 07-03-08
By: Steven D. Levitt, and others
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The Coddling of the American Mind
- How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....
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Only Praise
- By TJ on 12-02-18
By: Jonathan Haidt, and others
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The Big Goodbye
- Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
- By: Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Sam Wasson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making....
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This book is cursed
- By Dobbs on 04-13-20
By: Sam Wasson
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The 50th Law
- By: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Narrated by: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent offers a "bible" for success in life and work....
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A solid and well thought out book.
- By David on 09-15-09
By: 50 Cent, and others
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Cue the Sun!
- The Invention of Reality TV
- By: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.
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Weak, semi-unconnected stories
- By KDN on 07-20-24
By: Emily Nussbaum
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- By: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- By Momx4 on 02-29-24
By: Kara Swisher
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....
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Good, but be careful
- By Shackleton on 07-03-08
By: Steven D. Levitt, and others
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Morning After the Revolution
- Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
- By: Nellie Bowles
- Narrated by: Nellie Bowles
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.
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WTAF
- By Wilmer F Zeller Jr on 05-29-24
By: Nellie Bowles
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As You Wish
- Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- By: Cary Elwes, Joe Layden, Rob Reiner - foreword
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Carol Kane, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film....
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I don't normally write reviews but...
- By Anonymous on 10-18-14
By: Cary Elwes, and others
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The Age of Magical Overthinking
- Notes on Modern Irrationality
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Amanda Montell
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.
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Nothing new
- By MS on 06-06-24
By: Amanda Montell
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Pimpology
- The 48 Laws of the Game
- By: Pimpin' Ken
- Narrated by: Mr. Gates
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Ken Ivy pulls a square's coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. Ken's lessons will serve any person in any interaction....
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Powerful Book
- By Amazon Customer on 04-23-16
By: Pimpin' Ken
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Great book; didn't love the reading
- By Lily on 11-02-08
By: Michael Pollan
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- By: Tom Wolfe
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Tom Wolfe's classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s, ushered in an era of New Journalism and defined a generation....
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Maybe it resonated with a different time and place
- By S. Phillips on 04-11-19
By: Tom Wolfe
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The Age of Grievance
- By: Frank Bruni
- Narrated by: Frank Bruni
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.
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This book lacks intellectual depth in its narrative.
- By Tremayne on 05-23-24
By: Frank Bruni
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Think Like a Freak
- The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
- By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet....
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Very little new material - deceptively short
- By Joshua on 05-15-14
By: Steven D. Levitt, and others
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Batman and Psychology
- A Dark and Stormy Knight
- By: Travis Langley
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Batman is one of the most compelling characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased since his first appearance in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us?
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good job
- By deborah mccarter on 09-14-20
By: Travis Langley
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What's Next
- A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
- By: Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack, Aaron Sorkin, and others
- Narrated by: Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of one of TV’s most beloved shows: The West Wing, as told by actors Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, and cast and crew of the hit series, spotlighting what made the show so great....
By: Melissa Fitzgerald, and others
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The Nineties
- A Book
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader.
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A Very White Middle-class Take On The Nineties
- By Umar Lee on 02-10-22
By: Chuck Klosterman
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Unlearning Shame
- How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
- By: Devon Price PhD
- Narrated by: Devon Price PhD
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism....
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Researched explanations & concrete applications.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-24
By: Devon Price PhD
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One Summer
- America, 1927
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country....
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Why 1927?
- By Mark on 10-18-13
By: Bill Bryson
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded....
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Still relevant today
- By Alexis Chavez on 07-09-24
By: Mark Fisher
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From Cradle to Stage
- Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
- By: Virginia Grohl
- Narrated by: Dave Grohl, Virginia Grohl
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl - former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters - From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves....
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I absolutely loved this!
- By Bethmax on 05-18-17
By: Virginia Grohl
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How to Break Up with Your Phone
- The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
- By: Catherine Price
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone....
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No PDF? No problem.
- By Kate on 09-29-18
By: Catherine Price
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The Psychopath Test
- A Journey Through the Madness Industry
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....
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Interesting because it comes to more than one conclusion
- By Laura J on 06-20-23
By: Jon Ronson
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PIHKAL
- A Chemical Love Story
- By: Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders, Petrea Burchard
- Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander (better known as “Sasha”) and Ann Shulgin’s PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs....
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Very Insightful
- By Stefan Jernberg on 01-09-22
By: Alexander Shulgin, and others
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My Body
- By: Emily Ratajkowski
- Narrated by: Emily Ratajkowski
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time, presents a deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity....
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so vain..
- By Emily Valdez on 01-10-22
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The Last Action Heroes
- The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
- By: Nick de Semlyen
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Action Heroes is the behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, First Blood, The Terminator, and more....
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Fantastic!
- By Alan on 07-17-23
By: Nick de Semlyen
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Rage Becomes Her
- The Power of Women's Anger
- By: Soraya Chemaly
- Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A transformative audiobook urging 21st-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change....
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Holy Raging Hell
- By Enid Quimby on 10-17-18
By: Soraya Chemaly
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All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words
- Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle
- By: Peter Brown, Steven Gaines
- Narrated by: Adam Stevens, Anthony Howell, Ben Jacobson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time, from never-before-seen interviews....
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Absolutely Riveting!!
- By C. Beegan on 04-29-24
By: Peter Brown, and others
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The House of Kennedy
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs". And they do - but at a price....
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Nothing New
- By Placeholder on 04-23-20
By: James Patterson
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide
- Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
- By: James Fadiman PhD
- Narrated by: Ross Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use....
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Psychotherapist: ketamine trained.
- By Sean on 09-16-22
New releases
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Dark Night of the Bat
- By: Philip Gardiner
- Narrated by: Philip Gardiner
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries man has feared the bat. Its seeming ability to traverse between the world has inspired tales of terrible horror but also stories of great hope. This is the tale of the age-old Bat Man from Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s creation in 1939 to Dracula and even further back into time than most realize. Re-live the rise of the Batman era, from the very beginnings to the modern age and in so doing understand how this creation has taken on a life of its own.
By: Philip Gardiner
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Squirrel!: A Gift of Knowledge and Wisdom
- By: Jeff W. Godwin
- Narrated by: Jeff W Godwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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"WOW!! I didn't know that!!" - this is what I predict you will say literally hundreds of times as you listen to this book. In fact, in the humblest sort of way, I am confident that you will learn more from this book about the world we live in and interacting with our fellow human beings than you did in all your years of high school and college. I really wish someone would have given me this book before I left school and entered the real world.
By: Jeff W. Godwin
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The Survivors
- By: Steve Braunias
- Narrated by: Steve Braunias
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of human nature—unusual stories of how people choose to survive their own lives, and their decisions, desires, impulses... and failings.
By: Steve Braunias
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Sonic Bonds: A Journey into Wondrous Radio
- By: Siue Moffat
- Narrated by: Siue Moffat
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Invisible sonic transmissions are all around, bonding you to other human beings! The world of radio is vast and might surprise you! From hardboiled detectives to pirate broadcasters, Sonic Bonds is a personal book/zine journey that rides the waves from the 1940s to present day, showing just how magical this technology is. Popular music, anarchist DJs, emergency broadcasts, African American history, underground culture, speculative fiction dramas... radio reflects all the things that make us interesting and human.
By: Siue Moffat
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The Genius of Judy
- How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
- By: Rachelle Bergstein
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn to them? And why are we still talking about them now in the 21st century? In The Genius of Judy, her remarkable story is revealed as never before, beginning with her as a mother of two searching for purpose outside of her home in 1960s suburban New Jersey.
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Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body
- Pop Classics, Book 11
- By: Fredrick Blichert
- Narrated by: Imran Sheikh
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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With insight into the genre’s cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer’s Body as a cult classic.
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Dark Night of the Bat
- By: Philip Gardiner
- Narrated by: Philip Gardiner
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries man has feared the bat. Its seeming ability to traverse between the world has inspired tales of terrible horror but also stories of great hope. This is the tale of the age-old Bat Man from Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s creation in 1939 to Dracula and even further back into time than most realize. Re-live the rise of the Batman era, from the very beginnings to the modern age and in so doing understand how this creation has taken on a life of its own.
By: Philip Gardiner
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Squirrel!: A Gift of Knowledge and Wisdom
- By: Jeff W. Godwin
- Narrated by: Jeff W Godwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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"WOW!! I didn't know that!!" - this is what I predict you will say literally hundreds of times as you listen to this book. In fact, in the humblest sort of way, I am confident that you will learn more from this book about the world we live in and interacting with our fellow human beings than you did in all your years of high school and college. I really wish someone would have given me this book before I left school and entered the real world.
By: Jeff W. Godwin
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The Survivors
- By: Steve Braunias
- Narrated by: Steve Braunias
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of human nature—unusual stories of how people choose to survive their own lives, and their decisions, desires, impulses... and failings.
By: Steve Braunias
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Sonic Bonds: A Journey into Wondrous Radio
- By: Siue Moffat
- Narrated by: Siue Moffat
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Invisible sonic transmissions are all around, bonding you to other human beings! The world of radio is vast and might surprise you! From hardboiled detectives to pirate broadcasters, Sonic Bonds is a personal book/zine journey that rides the waves from the 1940s to present day, showing just how magical this technology is. Popular music, anarchist DJs, emergency broadcasts, African American history, underground culture, speculative fiction dramas... radio reflects all the things that make us interesting and human.
By: Siue Moffat
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The Genius of Judy
- How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
- By: Rachelle Bergstein
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn to them? And why are we still talking about them now in the 21st century? In The Genius of Judy, her remarkable story is revealed as never before, beginning with her as a mother of two searching for purpose outside of her home in 1960s suburban New Jersey.
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Extra Salty: Jennifer's Body
- Pop Classics, Book 11
- By: Fredrick Blichert
- Narrated by: Imran Sheikh
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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With insight into the genre’s cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer’s Body as a cult classic.
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Staging Gender
- Unmasking Butler's Performativity Paradigm
- By: The Curious Philosopher
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive deep into the ever-evolving landscape of gender with Staging Gender - Unmasking Butler's Performativity Paradigm. Whether you're a seasoned gender scholar or a curious newbie, this book offers a clear, engaging, and jargon-free exploration of the complexities surrounding gender norms, identities, and expressions. From the roots of traditional gender roles to the revolutionary insights of Judith Butler, we embark on a journey that critiques societal norms, delves into the digital age's impact on gender, and envisions a future of boundless possibilities. With real-world examples, ...
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Posthuman Folklore
- By: Tok Thompson
- Narrated by: Ryan Voss
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Posthuman Folklore is the first work of its kind: both an overview of posthumanism as it applies to folklore studies and an investigation of “vernacular posthumanisms”, the ways in which people are increasingly performing the posthuman. Posthumanism calls for a close investigation of what is meant by the term “human” and a rethinking of this, our most basic ontological category. What, exactly, is human? What, exactly, am I?
By: Tok Thompson
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Imperiled Whiteness
- How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America
- By: Penelope Ingram
- Narrated by: Penelope Ingram
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white nationalism and neo-Nazi movements in the Obama-to-Trump era. As politicians on the right stoked anxieties about whites “losing ground” and “being left behind,” media platforms turned whiteness into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace.
By: Penelope Ingram
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Die Hot with a Vengeance
- Essays on Vanity
- By: Sable Yong
- Narrated by: Sable Yong
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural zeitgeist, and how to shift the focus to use both for powerful tools for self-exploration, interpersonal connection, and cultural change.
By: Sable Yong
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Unapologetic Expression
- The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion
- By: André Marmot
- Narrated by: André Marmot, Saffron Coomber, Theo Solomon
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on eighty-six interviews with key architects of this jazz renaissance and those who came before them—from Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd to Gilles Peterson, Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss — Unapologetic Expression captures the radical spirit of a vital British musical movement.
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For Followers of Today's UK Jazz Scene
- By Ann Arbor on 07-22-24
By: André Marmot
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You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!
- Life Lessons from the Movie A Christmas Story
- By: Quentin Schultze
- Narrated by: Quentin Schultze
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Audiobook includes a special foreword on "Jerry Seinfeld, Jean Shepherd, and Compassionate Humor," by the author-narrator. For the first time, author Quentin Schultze, who taught storytelling with screenwriter Jean Shepherd, reveals the “secret” parables that Shepherd included in his screenplay for A Christmas Story. Now you won't need a decoder ring to learn why the Old Man’s leg lamp is his “trophy wife,” why the bully is named “Scut,” why there is a “Bumpus” in all of us, why Mom and the kids give a “Bronx cheer” after singing “Jingle Bells” in the Olds, and so much more.
By: Quentin Schultze
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Weird, Whacky, & Sometimes Cool Vol 2: A Book of Interesting Things, One Surprise at a Time
- By: Inked Crown Publishing
- Narrated by: Tim Silhavy
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into "Weird, Whacky, and Sometimes Cool 2: A Book of Interesting Things, One Surprise at a Time" and explore the most astonishing corners of our world. From the culinary quirks of melon-flavored curry and banana beer to the awe-inspiring natural spectacles of Bolivia's mirror-like salt flats and the mysterious Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan, this book is a treasure trove of the globe's most extraordinary phenomena. Each chapter is a journey into the vivid and the vibrant, bringing to life cultural practices, natural wonders, and human innovations that are seldom seen.
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Blood and Lightning
- On Becoming a Tattooer
- By: Dustin Kiskaddon
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Dustin Kiskaddon draws on his own apprenticeship with Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, and takes us behind the scenes into the complex world of professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio.
By: Dustin Kiskaddon
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Cue the Sun!
- The Invention of Reality TV
- By: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.
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Weak, semi-unconnected stories
- By KDN on 07-20-24
By: Emily Nussbaum
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Ain't No Place for a Hero: Borderlands
- Pop Classics
- By: Kaitlin Tremblay
- Narrated by: Krys Janae
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment.
By: Kaitlin Tremblay
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The Myth of Making It
- A Workplace Reckoning
- By: Samhita Mukhopadhyay
- Narrated by: Samhita Mukhopadhyay
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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“As I sat in the front row that day, I was 80% faking it with a 100% real Gucci bag.” Samhita Mukhopadhyay had finally made it: she had her dream job, dream clothes—dream life. But time and time again, she found herself sacrificing time with family and friends, paying too much for lattes, and limping home after working for twelve hours a day. Success didn't come without costs, right? Or so she kept telling herself. The Myth of Making It is a field guide and manifesto for all of us who are tired, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of hustle culture.
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Traveling for Tay Tay
- The Unofficial Guide on How to See Taylor Swift's Eras Tour
- By: Olivia James
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Rendell
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Are you a die-hard Swiftie desperate to experience the magic of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour but feeling crushed by the astronomically high ticket prices? Don't let the astronomically high ticket prices keep you from experiencing this once-in-a-lifetime event! The Eras tour is absolutely amazing and not to be missed! In this book, savvy travel expert and fellow Swiftie Olivia James shares with you the strategies she used to see Taylor Swift perform live in Paris, France, for thousands of dollars less than what it would have cost to see her perform in the United States.
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things I hadn't ever thought about
- By Brian on 07-22-24
By: Olivia James