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    • The Surprising History of Women's Words
    • By: Jenni Nuttall
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the walls of Athens, where he seldom goes, by promising to share a new work by his friend and mentor, Lysias, a famous writer of speeches....

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    • The Basics
    • By: Daniel Chandler
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This third edition of the bestselling textbook has been fully revised, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language....

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    • Truths About America's Lingua Franca
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • Linguists have been studying Black English as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound "Black"....

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    • By: Zane Grey
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Zane Grey, an author synonymous with the daring tales of the Wild West, delivers an exciting tale in this phenomenal best-seller, The U.P. Trail....

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    • Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
    • By: John H. McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • This short, opinionated audiobook addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world....

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    • From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
    • By: David J. Peterson
    • Narrated by: David J. Peterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Peterson offers a captivating overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien's creations and Klingon to today's thriving global community of conlangers....

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    • What Our Words Say About Us
    • By: James W. Pennebaker
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into who we are, how we think, and what we feel....

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    • By: Henry James
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren
    • Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie....

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    • The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning....

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    • How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
    • By: Viorica Marian
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This revolutionary book goes beyond any recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its virtually limitless power....

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    • By: Gene Stratton-Porter
    • Narrated by: Rusty Nelson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The charming novel of an orphaned newspaper seller who asks nothing of the world except to "be square". The book presents a vivid description of American life in 1914....

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    • The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • This audiobook tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative....

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    • By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • Narrated by: Leonard Wilson
    • Length: 2 hrs
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie" is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847...

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    • By: A. A. Milne
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This is a fairy tale about two kings who bluster and stumble into a hilarious non-war, a princess who finds true love in an unexpected place, and a conniving, beautiful Countess....

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    • By: George MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Flo Gibson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • This is the story of the mystical travels of Diamond, a coachman's son, through distant lands and strange events while riding on the back of the beautiful North Wind....

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    • My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
    • By: Dianne Hales
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman's personal quest to speak fluent Italian....

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