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    • By: Voltaire
    • Narrated by: Donal Donnelly
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Preeminent French cynic and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) collected ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but worth saving for later development....

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    • Author of the Harry Potter Series
    • By: Jennifer Hunsicker
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,538 ratings
    • Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....

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    • A True Story Retold for Young Readers
    • By: Jeremy Dronfield
    • Narrated by: Fred Berman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Fritz Kleinmann was fourteen when the Nazis took over Vienna. Kurt, his little brother, was eight. Under Hitler’s brutal regime, their Austrian-Jewish family of six was cruelly torn apart....

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    • Tales from a Fully Packed Life
    • By: Alan Cumming
    • Narrated by: Alan Cumming
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 556 ratings
    • There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art....

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    • 3 Complete Essays on Religion
    • By: Bertrand Russell
    • Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,570 ratings
    • These three essays by Bertrand Russell allow the listener to test the concepts of the good life, morality, the existence of God, Christianity, and human nature....

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    • Essays 2000-2020
    • By: Rachel Kushner
    • Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture....

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    • By: G.G. Lake
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Red foxes prowl at night to look for food. The pointed-nosed predators hunt alone. Discover more about these clever animals, their life cycle, appearance, and diet....

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    • By: Cynthia Lord
    • Narrated by: Maria Cabezas
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • When Lily's blind dog, Lucky, slips his collar and runs away across the wide-open blueberry barrens of Eastern Maine, it's Salma Santiago who manages to catch him....

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    • By: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In print for over 50 years, One Man's Meat continues to delight listeners with E. B. White's witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm....

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    • By: Russell H. Conwell
    • Narrated by: Trevor O'Hare
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Acres of Diamonds - essay, written by Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 – December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator...

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    • How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
    • By: Joyce Sidman
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Before Carl Linnaeus began classifying organisms, before John James Audubon drew birds from the wild, before Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, there lived a 13-year-old girl named Maria Merian who loved to draw bugs....

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    • Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Reconsidered, Revised, & Expanded With Twenty-Five New Essays
    • By: Robert Fulghum
    • Narrated by: Robert Fulghum
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 394 ratings
    • Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo that became the phenomenal bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, seven million copies later...

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    • By: Sissy Spacek
    • Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots....

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    • The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods
    • By: Grace Lin
    • Narrated by: Lisa Ling
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Newbery and Caldecott honoree and New York Times bestselling author Grace Lin delivers a groundbreaking book that explores the whimsical myths and stories behind your favorite American Chinese food. From fried dumplings to fortune cookies, here are the tales behind your favorite foods....

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    • How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
    • By: Dan Heath, Chip Heath
    • Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,378 ratings
    • Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick....

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    • By: Catherine Ipcizade
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • They stomped across the land. They ate from treetops. Big dinosaurs once ruled earth. Learn about big dinosaurs and the special features that helped them survive....

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