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    • From "I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends" to "Who All Gon' Be There?"
    • By: jarrett hill, Tre'vell Anderson
    • Narrated by: jarrett hill, Tre'vell Anderson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Black vernacular doesn’t often get its due—despite its enormous influence on mainstream culture—but Historically Black Phrases is here to give Black language its flowers....

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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 9 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: Tom Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong....

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    • By: Jean Webster
    • Narrated by: Anne Hancock
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • This delightful sequel to Webster's Daddy Long-Legs centers on socialite Sallie McBride, who reluctantly agrees to become director of an orphan asylum....

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    • An American Novel
    • By: Sinclair Lewis
    • Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Job is one of Sinclair Lewis' earliest novels. Concerning the exploits of a 1920s career woman, it is one of the first novels about feminism....

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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Swift's allegorical satire about religion and politics follows the lives of three brothers, Martin, Peter, and Jack, each of who represents a faction of the Christian faith....

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    • By: Gene Stratton-Porter
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • This novel, set in 1920s California, tells the tale of Linda Strong who shares her father’s love for the beauty of nature in California. When her parents suddenly pass away, she is left with her sister Eileen, a huge house, and much wealth....

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    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Here is Daniel Defoe's honest portrayal of one woman's struggle for economic survival in an unsympathetic world....

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    • How English Conversation Works
    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously....

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    • A Story for Lovers
    • By: Sinclair Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ric Reitz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sinclair Lewis' last distinctive pulp novel, The Innocents, follows a longtime married couple as they vacation away from their home in New York City....

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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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    • An Interactive Guide to Developing a Cockney Accent for the Stage or Screen
    • By: Stephanie Lam
    • Narrated by: Malcom Cameron, Brandon Mier, Brian Furlong, Olivia Mornet
    • Length: 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • This is the ideal way to quickly master the Cockney (British) accent using a combination of approaches from pronunciation and oral posture techniques to dialect development (Cockney rhyming slang) and practice exercises....

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    • By: Thomas Hardy
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • The Woodlanders is vintage Hardy. The story revolves around the young woman Grace Melbury, who returns to the leafy world of Little Hintock....

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    • A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
    • By: Christopher Stevens
    • Narrated by: Michael Healy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue....

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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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    • A Brief History of Swearing
    • By: Melissa Mohr
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene....

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    • By: H. Beam Piper
    • Narrated by: Harry Shaw
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins....

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    • By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs tells us the story of the lost English prince, Richard, whom fate turns into an outlaw preying on the nobility of England....

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    • By: Mikhail Lermontov
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • In A Hero of Our Time, Grigory Pechorin is a bored, self-centered, and cynical young army officer who believes in nothing. With impunity he toys with the love of women and the goodwill of men....

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