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    • By: Paul Lynch
    • Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist....

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    • By: M. Doreal
    • Narrated by: John Marino
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,347 ratings
    • The history of the tablets translated in the following book is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years.

      The writer is....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ocean Vuong
    • Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,361 ratings
    • Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling....

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    • By: John Scalzi
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Series: The Old Man’s War Series, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27,453 ratings
    • John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space....

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    • By: Adam Smith
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548 ratings
    • The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sue Monk Kidd
    • Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, Sue Monk Kidd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,867 ratings
    • An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings....

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    • A New English Version
    • By: Stephen Mitchell - translator
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,016 ratings
    • Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell energizes a heroic tale so old it predates Homer's Iliad by more than a millennium....

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    • A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 783 ratings
    • Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

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    • A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
    • By: Lulu Miller
    • Narrated by: Lulu Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,263 ratings
    • David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished, many might have given up....

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    • Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
    • By: Vivek Ramaswamy
    • Narrated by: Vivek Ramaswamy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,934 ratings
    • A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism....

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    • By: Jeremy Robinson
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Series: Infinite Timeline, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,795 ratings
    • Dan Delgado is a private investigator. When it comes to finding cheating spouses, corporate thieves, or runaway teenagers, he’s unenthusiastic, and unmatched. As a former San Francisco detective, he misses more meaningful work....

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    • Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better
    • By: Lyn Alden
    • Narrated by: Guy Swann
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....

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    • The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
    • By: Dr. David R. Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Dr. David R. Hawkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,240 ratings
    • Analyzing the nature of human thought and consciousness itself, the author makes available to everyone the key to penetrating the last barrier to the advancement of civilization and science....

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    • The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,766 ratings
    • In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project....

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    • By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,083 ratings
    • Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts....

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    • How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,147 ratings
    • A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination....

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    • By: Barbara Kingsolver
    • Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
    • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,212 ratings
    • Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at 17....

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    • The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
    • By: Benjamin Lorr
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Lorr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,741 ratings
    • In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store....

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    • Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
    • By: Fei-Fei Li
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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