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  • All the Beauty in the World Audiobook By Patrick Bringley cover art

    • All the Beauty in the World

    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings

    • A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

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  • The Information Audiobook By James Gleick cover art

    • The Information

    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,951 ratings

    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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  • Chasing Beauty Audiobook By Natalie Dykstra cover art

    • Chasing Beauty

    • The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
    • By: Natalie Dykstra
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings

    • Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....

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  • Flight Audiobook By Sherman Alexie cover art

    • Flight

    • By: Sherman Alexie
    • Narrated by: Adam Beach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,882 ratings
    • Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity....

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  • The Library Book Audiobook By Susan Orlean cover art

    • The Library Book

    • By: Susan Orlean
    • Narrated by: Susan Orlean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,967 ratings

    • On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....

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  • The Monuments Men Audiobook By Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter cover art

    • The Monuments Men

    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,536 ratings
    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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  • Dewey the Library Cat Audiobook By Vicki Myron, Bret Witter cover art

    • Dewey the Library Cat

    • A True Story
    • By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Abandoned in a library book-drop slot in the dead of winter, the small kitten who came to be known as Dewey Readmore Books miraculously endured the coldest night of the year....

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  • Metadata Audiobook By Jeffrey Pomerantz cover art

    • Metadata

    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata....

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  • The Library Audiobook By Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen cover art

    • The Library

    • A Fragile History
    • By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

    • Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....

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  • The Louvre Audiobook By James Gardner cover art

    • The Louvre

    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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  • The World's Strongest Librarian Audiobook By Josh Hanagarne cover art

    • The World's Strongest Librarian

    • A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
    • By: Josh Hanagarne
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,681 ratings
    • At first glance, Josh Hanagarne seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7", competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette's syndrome....

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  • Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Audiobook By Chip Colwell cover art

    • Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    • Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
    • By: Chip Colwell
    • Narrated by: Chip Colwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to recover heritage from museums across the country. Chip Colwell navigated firsthand questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists....

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  • Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu Audiobook By Joshua Hammer cover art

    • Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

    • And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
    • By: Joshua Hammer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....

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  • A Place for Everything Audiobook By Judith Flanders cover art

    • A Place for Everything

    • The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Julia Winwood
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

    • From a New York Times best-selling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia....

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  • The Devil in the Gallery Audiobook By Noah Charney cover art

    • The Devil in the Gallery

    • How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
    • By: Noah Charney
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....

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  • Syria's Secret Library Audiobook By Mike Thomson cover art

    • Syria's Secret Library

    • Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
    • By: Mike Thomson
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • The remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during the four-year siege they endured....

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  • Assembling the Dinosaur Audiobook By Lukas Rieppel cover art

    • Assembling the Dinosaur

    • By: Lukas Rieppel
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy....

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  • The Art of the Deal Audiobook By Noah Horowitz cover art

    • The Art of the Deal

    • Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
    • By: Noah Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before.....

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  • Cryptocurrency: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and More! Audiobook By Devan Hansel cover art

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  • The Object at Hand Audiobook By Beth Py-Lieberman cover art

    • The Object at Hand

    • Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections
    • By: Beth Py-Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Leanne Woodward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts.

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