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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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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 - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office with Fitzgerald and McCormack as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew in a lively and colorful “backstage pass” to the timeless series.
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The actual authors reading their book!
- By AG Roy on 08-27-24
By: Melissa Fitzgerald, and others
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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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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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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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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 - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office with Fitzgerald and McCormack as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew in a lively and colorful “backstage pass” to the timeless series.
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The actual authors reading their book!
- By AG Roy on 08-27-24
By: Melissa Fitzgerald, and others
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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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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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Overall
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Performance
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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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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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Danse Macabre
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In ten brilliantly written chapters, Stephen King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers.
By: Stephen King
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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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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 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 Comfort Book
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library Matt Haig comes a new uplifting book, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement....
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Best book ever!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-30-21
By: Matt Haig
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.
By: Christine Rosen
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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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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 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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The Author has definitely stumbled on some very important issues in the Irrationality present in 21st Century.
- By Tom on 08-07-24
By: Amanda Montell
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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
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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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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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Brilliant skewering of both sides of the culture war over the past 8 years
- By RB on 05-28-24
By: Nellie Bowles
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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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Complete waste of a Credit
- By Pikminfan on 06-13-24
By: Devon Price PhD
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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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Strangeland
- How Britain Stopped Making Sense
- By: Jon Sopel
- Narrated by: Jon Sopel
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, Strangeland is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.
By: Jon Sopel
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data....
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Leave out the politics please
- By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others
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Stumbling Toward Utopia
- How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream
- By: Timothy Goeglein
- Narrated by: Joel Detlefsen
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stumbling Toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how those philosophies and policies have led to the cataclysm America faces today.
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Excellent and not so excellent
- By bzmomof8 on 09-25-24
By: Timothy Goeglein
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
New releases
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control.
By: Christine Rosen
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You Are What You Watch
- How Movies and TV Affect Everything
- By: Walt Hickey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter Hickey proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.
By: Walt Hickey
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All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot
- By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price
- Narrated by: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. From the Pussycat Dolls to Victoria’s Secret, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion to Lara Bingle, the media of the 2000s was littered with high profile examples of hotness as the highest form of social currency. Is it any wonder a girl growing up in that era might believe “good looks” were as integral to womanhood as having a pulse?
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Stuck Culture
- The Great Stagnation
- By: Marcus Lears
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you tired of feeling like you're living in a cultural time loop? Welcome to "Stuck Culture: The Great Stagnation," a riveting exploration of why our society seems frozen in time. Dive into a world where algorithms dictate our tastes, Hollywood churns out endless remakes, and fashion trends from two decades ago dominate our closets. This eye-opening book unravels the complex web of forces keeping us trapped in a nostalgic bubble: • Discover how tech giants and media conglomerates are stifling creativity for profit • Uncover the psychological comfort we find in familiar content—and ...
By: Marcus Lears
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Strangeland
- How Britain Stopped Making Sense
- By: Jon Sopel
- Narrated by: Jon Sopel
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In Strangeland, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to? In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours.
By: Jon Sopel
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Century of Song
- 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
- By: Noah Lefevre
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Noah Lefevre, creator of Polyphonic, explores how our favorite music does more than entertain. From Aretha Franklin carving out her own space in what had been considered a man's world by reworking the chauvinistic lyrics to the 1967's hit "Respect," to Doja Cat's successful backlash against toxic fans of the digital age; from a broken amplifier on "Rocket 88" ushering in the distorted sounds of rock n' roll, to Kendrick Lamar's release of "Alright," which became the unofficial anthem to the BLM protests-each song mirrors the strife, change and progress of our country's narrative.
By: Noah Lefevre
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control.
By: Christine Rosen
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You Are What You Watch
- How Movies and TV Affect Everything
- By: Walt Hickey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter Hickey proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.
By: Walt Hickey
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All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot
- By: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price
- Narrated by: Lucinda 'Froomes' Price
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. From the Pussycat Dolls to Victoria’s Secret, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion to Lara Bingle, the media of the 2000s was littered with high profile examples of hotness as the highest form of social currency. Is it any wonder a girl growing up in that era might believe “good looks” were as integral to womanhood as having a pulse?
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Stuck Culture
- The Great Stagnation
- By: Marcus Lears
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Are you tired of feeling like you're living in a cultural time loop? Welcome to "Stuck Culture: The Great Stagnation," a riveting exploration of why our society seems frozen in time. Dive into a world where algorithms dictate our tastes, Hollywood churns out endless remakes, and fashion trends from two decades ago dominate our closets. This eye-opening book unravels the complex web of forces keeping us trapped in a nostalgic bubble: • Discover how tech giants and media conglomerates are stifling creativity for profit • Uncover the psychological comfort we find in familiar content—and ...
By: Marcus Lears
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Strangeland
- How Britain Stopped Making Sense
- By: Jon Sopel
- Narrated by: Jon Sopel
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In Strangeland, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to? In the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours.
By: Jon Sopel
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Century of Song
- 101 Songs That Shaped American Music
- By: Noah Lefevre
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Noah Lefevre, creator of Polyphonic, explores how our favorite music does more than entertain. From Aretha Franklin carving out her own space in what had been considered a man's world by reworking the chauvinistic lyrics to the 1967's hit "Respect," to Doja Cat's successful backlash against toxic fans of the digital age; from a broken amplifier on "Rocket 88" ushering in the distorted sounds of rock n' roll, to Kendrick Lamar's release of "Alright," which became the unofficial anthem to the BLM protests-each song mirrors the strife, change and progress of our country's narrative.
By: Noah Lefevre
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Mimetic Desire
- The Hidden Driver of Culture and Conflict
- By: Peter Whitmore
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Unveil the Hidden Force Shaping Your Desires and Driving Society Are your deepest desires truly your own? Or are they secretly sculpted by the world around you? Prepare to embark on a mind-bending journey into the heart of human motivation with "Mimetic Desire: The Hidden Driver of Culture and Conflict." This groundbreaking exploration reveals the invisible threads that weave our wants, needs, and aspirations into the very fabric of society. Discover how: • Your "personal" choices may be anything but • Social media amplifies our copycat tendencies • Rivalries and conflicts sprout from...
By: Peter Whitmore
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C'mon, Get Happy
- The Making of Summer Stock
- By: David Fantle, Tom Johnson, Savion Glover - foreword by
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. In C'mon, Get Happy, authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture. The production coincided at a critical point in the careers of Kelly and an emotionally spent Garland. Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris just one year later, was at the peak of his abilities.
By: David Fantle, and others
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Precious
- The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
- By: Helen Molesworth
- Narrated by: Helen Molesworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Helen Molesworth has been captivated by precious stones since early childhood but she struggled to join the gemstone industry, having no connections to the few family-run companies that have dominated the field for centuries. She persevered, and more than two decades later, Molesworth is now an international authority hired to appraise the extraordinary jewelry of such clients as the British royal family. Precious is packed with inside stories about fabulous jewels associated with generations of celebrities.
By: Helen Molesworth
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Stumbling Toward Utopia
- How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream
- By: Timothy Goeglein
- Narrated by: Joel Detlefsen
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stumbling Toward Utopia, author Tim Goeglein looks at the philosophies and policies that led to the societal earthquake of the1960s and how those philosophies and policies have led to the cataclysm America faces today.
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Excellent and not so excellent
- By bzmomof8 on 09-25-24
By: Timothy Goeglein
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Bibliotherapy
- Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life
- By: Molly Masters
- Narrated by: Molly Masters
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Through turbulent times, stories keep us afloat. Books, particularly, console and guide us, feed our souls and open our eyes to worlds, possibilities and experiences we have never considered before. Many of us have been self-medicating with books for years without identifying the practice as ‘bibliotherapy’. Celebrate the positive impact books can have on our lives with this collection of carefully curated suggestions for each life stage.
By: Molly Masters
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To the Limit
- The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
- By: Michael Crawley
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Michael Crawley immerses himself in various endurance cultures and asks what makes enduring together meaningful to people. He learns how Nepalese runners face different challenges depending on their location up a mountain, from those in the lowlands and ‘middle hills’ to Sherpas from the Solu Khumbu, and observes Tarahumara ultrarunners’ ability to cover extreme distances on highly technical terrain. But he also delves into the history of Dance Marathons, six-day pedestrianism races in Madison Square Gardens and the unique Enhanced Games.
By: Michael Crawley