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Best sellers
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- By: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard....
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An art lover’s love story
- By Lisa M. on 02-16-23
By: Patrick Bringley
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The Library Book
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....
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Had To Turn It Off
- By Meg on 01-17-19
By: Susan Orlean
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Interesting listen
- By Laurie on 12-22-09
By: Robert M. Edsel, and others
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- By A reader on 03-12-11
By: James Gleick
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....
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Stays on point
- By Alex on 04-29-23
By: Andrew Pettegree, and others
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Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
- And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
- By: Joshua Hammer
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....
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It seemed like a good idea at the time
- By Jennifer A Greenhalgh on 08-10-16
By: Joshua Hammer
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- By: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard....
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An art lover’s love story
- By Lisa M. on 02-16-23
By: Patrick Bringley
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The Library Book
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....
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Had To Turn It Off
- By Meg on 01-17-19
By: Susan Orlean
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Interesting listen
- By Laurie on 12-22-09
By: Robert M. Edsel, and others
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- By A reader on 03-12-11
By: James Gleick
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....
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Stays on point
- By Alex on 04-29-23
By: Andrew Pettegree, and others
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Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
- And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
- By: Joshua Hammer
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....
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It seemed like a good idea at the time
- By Jennifer A Greenhalgh on 08-10-16
By: Joshua Hammer
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The Art of Relevance
- By: Nina Simon
- Narrated by: Nina Simon
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people....
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Finally!
- By "kristinbeal" on 08-07-22
By: Nina Simon
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Dewey the Library Cat
- A True Story
- By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Abandoned in a library book-drop slot in the dead of winter, the small kitten who came to be known as Dewey Readmore Books miraculously endured the coldest night of the year....
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Dewey the Library Cat
- By Lucille Sullivan on 11-02-10
By: Vicki Myron, and others
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Assembling the Dinosaur
- By: Lukas Rieppel
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy....
By: Lukas Rieppel
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A Place for Everything
- The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- By: Judith Flanders
- Narrated by: Julia Winwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From a New York Times best-selling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia....
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You have to love library science
- By A. Yoshida on 10-23-21
By: Judith Flanders
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The Brutish Museums
- The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
- By: Dan Hicks
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum....
By: Dan Hicks
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- By: Christopher de Hamel
- Narrated by: Christopher de Hamel
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person....
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I've been waiting a long time for a book like this
- By Robert on 04-15-18
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GuíaBurros: Una Guía del Museo del Prado
- Sus cuadros imprescindibles y cómo mirarlos
- By: Javier Martín
- Narrated by: María José Bosch
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Esta guía propone al lector una visita al Museo del Prado con el objetivo de que pueda disfrutar de ella y aprovecharla al máximo...
By: Javier Martín
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Syria's Secret Library
- Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
- By: Mike Thomson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during the four-year siege they endured....
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Librarian approved
- By Little Willow on 10-07-21
By: Mike Thomson
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The Glossy Years
- Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
- By: Nicholas Coleridge
- Narrated by: Nicholas Coleridge
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines....
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A superfun inside look @ world of magazine editors
- By AminaRuhle on 10-05-20
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How to Win an Indian Election
- What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
- By: Shivam Shankar Singh
- Narrated by: Terry D’Souza
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by a former election campaign consultant for a major political party, How to Win an Indian Election takes listeners into the forbidden world of election war-rooms and gives them a glimpse of how strategy is formulated, what works with voters on the ground and what doesn't....
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The Secret Story of the Musée d'Orsay
- By: Emmanuelle Iger
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Sitting on the banks of the river Seine, in the very heart of Paris, the Musée d'Orsay is known worldwide for its...
By: Emmanuelle Iger
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
- Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
- By: Chip Colwell
- Narrated by: Chip Colwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to recover heritage from museums across the country. Chip Colwell navigated firsthand questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists....
By: Chip Colwell
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- By: Annie Spence
- Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. Annie Spence addresses those books directly....
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Totally captivating
- By Grace Smith on 03-24-18
By: Annie Spence
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- By: Claire Wilcox
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....
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No, the life is not told by a series of objects
- By alan on 07-03-21
By: Claire Wilcox
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Everything Explained That Is Explainable
- On the Creation of the Encyclopedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
- By: Denis Boyles
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Denis Boyles tells the amazing story of this atlas of human brilliance, a massive 29-volume, 44 million word anthology of some of the best essays written in English....
By: Denis Boyles
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Photography
- Digital SLR Crash Course! Master Digital Photography & Take Amazing Photographs for Beginners
- By: Brendon Ward
- Narrated by: Jason Lovett
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Looking to learn how to take amazing photographs? You've come to the right place....
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reading style is obnoxious ... info is good
- By Amazon Customer on 02-06-17
By: Brendon Ward
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Dewey's Nine Lives
- The Magic of a Small-town Library Cat Who Touched Millions
- By: Vicki Myron
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The cat that captured America's hearts returns, with two new tales and seven more tails....
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Better Than Expected
- By MovieGuy on 03-08-16
By: Vicki Myron
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The Devil in the Gallery
- How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
- By: Noah Charney
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....
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Good stories, poor narration.
- By Jennifer DiSabatino on 04-07-22
By: Noah Charney
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Reading Behind Bars
- A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
- By: Jill Grunenwald
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea....
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Interesting
- By Linda on 04-01-23
By: Jill Grunenwald
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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
- By: Peter Samis, Mimi Michaelson
- Narrated by: Russel Bentley
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The book describes key institutions that have opened the doors to a wider range of visitors, addresses the internal struggles to reorganize and democratize these institutions, and uses case studies, interviews of key personnel....
By: Peter Samis, and others
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The Museum
- A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
- By: Samuel J. Redman
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Museum explores the concepts of "crisis" as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty....
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FASCINATING STUFF!!!!
- By Arielle on 05-29-22
By: Samuel J. Redman
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The Art of the Deal
- Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
- By: Noah Horowitz
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before.....
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unbearable
- By David on 03-06-11
By: Noah Horowitz
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Blunt Instruments
- A Field Guide to Racist Cultural Infrastructure
- By: Kristin Hass
- Narrated by: Nadia Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future....
By: Kristin Hass
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The 73 Rules of Influencing the Interview
- Using Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Techniques
- By: Chris Delaney
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Competition for jobs is at an all-time high, with rivalry for positions coming from across the globe....
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I really liked this book!
- By David Weber on 04-24-20
By: Chris Delaney