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    • Notes on the State of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 883 ratings
    • A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians....

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    • A Personal Voyage
    • By: Carl Sagan
    • Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,350 ratings
    • Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....

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    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Toni Morrison
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,385 ratings
    • The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....

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    • A Comic's Life
    • By: Steve Martin
    • Narrated by: Steve Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,735 ratings
    • In the mid-70s, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Paul Beatty
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,919 ratings
    • A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court....

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    • By: Quentin Tarantino
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Quentin Tarantino
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,166 ratings
    • The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino....

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    • Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
    • By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,695 ratings
    • Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all....

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    • The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
    • By: Eddie Jaku
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,041 ratings
    • In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....

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    • The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
    • By: Jackie Hill Perry
    • Narrated by: Jackie Hill Perry
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,516 ratings
    • In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,555 ratings
    • Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.

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    • Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power
    • By: Brené Brown
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,873 ratings
    • I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity....

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    • A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
    • By: Sy Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,561 ratings
    • The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about consciousness and the meeting of two very different minds....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 927 ratings
    • One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought....

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    • J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
    • By: Beverly Gage
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 36 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 530 ratings
    • A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape....

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    • By: Georgia Hunter
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,023 ratings
    • he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....

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    • By: Octavia E. Butler
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,988 ratings
    • A young Black woman spirals back in time to experience the horrors of slavery, while desperately seeking a way back to her own era.

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    • By: Patti Smith
    • Narrated by: Patti Smith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,051 ratings
    • Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Marcus Aurelius, Diskin Clay, Martin Hammond
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
    • Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe....

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