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    • A True Story
    • By: Joanne Lee, Ann Cusack
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,361 ratings
    • For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of three newborn babies hidden in her wardrobe. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal....

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    • And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
    • By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,244 ratings
    • How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....

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    • Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
    • By: Amanda Ripley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ripley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 698 ratings
    • In this book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free....

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    • The Horrific True Story of a Girl's Life in the Hands of Sex Traffickers
    • By: Caitlin Spencer
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 943 ratings
    • From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again....

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    • Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
    • By: Christopher R. Browning
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,832 ratings
    • Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....

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    • The Shocking True Story of Surviving and Evil Nun's Care Home from Hell
    • By: Marie Hargreaves
    • Narrated by: Dorothy Lawrence
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday....

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    • On Homecoming and Belonging
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,195 ratings
    • Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning....

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    • Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake
    • By: Tim Larkin
    • Narrated by: Tim Larkin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,015 ratings
    • In this essential new book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives....

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    • By: Joe McGinniss
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 27 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 895 ratings
    • Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children....

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    • The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
    • By: Peter Vronsky
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000)....

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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,345 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
    • By: Kathleen Hale
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true-crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet....

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    • The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
    • By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Narrated by: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,960 ratings
    • The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed"....

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    • The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror
    • By: Edward Keyes
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 741 ratings
    • In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, 19-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan....

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    • Serial Killers
    • By: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 750 ratings
    • Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century..

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    • Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
    • By: Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda
    • Narrated by: Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,783 ratings
    • The tales in I Will Find You will shock you like the best horror stories - divulging insights into the actions, motivations, and proclivities of nature's most dangerous species....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • Abducted by Traffickers. Sold as a Sex Slave. This Is My True Story.
    • By: Sarah Forsyth, Tim Tate
    • Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. After overcoming the hurt and heartbreak of a horrific childhood, Sarah managed to build a new life for herself as a nursery nurse. Then, one day, she spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a crèche in Amsterdam...

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    • The True Rise-and-Fall Story of a New Jersey Mob Family
    • By: Greg B. Smith
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • For years, the DeCavalcantes labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York - the likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos. Dismissed by the big-city capos, the DeCavalcantes finally came into their own when they found their lives mirrored in The Sopranos....

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