Bestsellers
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The Coddling of the American Mind
- How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....
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Only Praise
- By TJ on 12-02-18
By: Jonathan Haidt, and others
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Girl on Girl
- How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
- By: Sophie Gilbert
- Narrated by: Sophie Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture.
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Riveting! Well, researched…
- By LoveFromBothSides on 06-18-25
By: Sophie Gilbert
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The 50th Law
- By: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Narrated by: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent offers a "bible" for success in life and work....
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A solid and well thought out book.
- By David on 09-15-09
By: 50 Cent, and others
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When the Going Was Good
- An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
- By: Graydon Carter, James Fox - contributor
- Narrated by: Graydon Carter
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture.
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A lucky man
- By Dassha1 on 03-30-25
By: Graydon Carter, and others
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The Genius Myth
- A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Helen Lewis
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions, inspirations and distortions by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness'—and others are not.
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Brilliant analysis!
- By Terre Spencer on 06-20-25
By: Helen Lewis
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As You Wish
- Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- By: Cary Elwes, Joe Layden, Rob Reiner - foreword
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Carol Kane, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film....
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I don't normally write reviews but...
- By Anonymous on 10-18-14
By: Cary Elwes, and others
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The Coddling of the American Mind
- How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely investigation into the new "safety culture" on campus and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental health, education, and ultimately democracy....
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Only Praise
- By TJ on 12-02-18
By: Jonathan Haidt, and others
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Girl on Girl
- How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
- By: Sophie Gilbert
- Narrated by: Sophie Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture.
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Riveting! Well, researched…
- By LoveFromBothSides on 06-18-25
By: Sophie Gilbert
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The 50th Law
- By: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Narrated by: 50 Cent, Robert Greene
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent offers a "bible" for success in life and work....
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A solid and well thought out book.
- By David on 09-15-09
By: 50 Cent, and others
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When the Going Was Good
- An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines
- By: Graydon Carter, James Fox - contributor
- Narrated by: Graydon Carter
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture.
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A lucky man
- By Dassha1 on 03-30-25
By: Graydon Carter, and others
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The Genius Myth
- A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Helen Lewis
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions, inspirations and distortions by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness'—and others are not.
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Brilliant analysis!
- By Terre Spencer on 06-20-25
By: Helen Lewis
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As You Wish
- Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- By: Cary Elwes, Joe Layden, Rob Reiner - foreword
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Christopher Guest, Carol Kane, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film....
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I don't normally write reviews but...
- By Anonymous on 10-18-14
By: Cary Elwes, and others
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Unf--k Your Brain
- By: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Narrated by: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hell-bent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide....
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Untuck this recording quality
- By Martin J. Fogarty on 07-25-18
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Burn Book
- A Tech Love Story
- By: Kara Swisher
- Narrated by: Kara Swisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. This is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world....
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Let me save you 8 hours
- By Momx4 on 02-29-24
By: Kara Swisher
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Hollywood Vampires
- Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine
- By: Kelly Loudenberg, Makiko Wholey
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive new book on the infamous trial Depp v. Heard, Hollywood Vampires paints an intimate picture of what was really going on behind the viral headlines between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, with never-before-told stories from their inner circle.
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Really good listen-insightful.
- By Lorrie on 06-19-25
By: Kelly Loudenberg, and others
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- By: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrated by: Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....
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Good, but be careful
- By Shackleton on 07-03-08
By: Steven D. Levitt, and others
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Album podcast cohost.
By: Nora Princiotti
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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Great book; didn't love the reading
- By Lily on 11-02-08
By: Michael Pollan
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Cults Like Us
- Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
- By: Jane Borden
- Narrated by: Jane Borden
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Cults Like Us explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.
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Essential listening for anyone interested in understanding America’s past and present
- By Aldous Huxley on 06-09-25
By: Jane Borden
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Capitalist Realism
- Is There No Alternative?
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded....
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Mind-blowing
- By John Erlandsen on 10-04-24
By: Mark Fisher
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Algospeak
- How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
- By: Adam Aleksic
- Narrated by: Adam Aleksic
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A viral linguist’s account of the ways our vocabularies are evolving, the internet’s influence on communication, and what our use of language reveals about the modern world
By: Adam Aleksic
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Disney Adults
- Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture
- By: AJ Wolfe
- Narrated by: AJ Wolfe
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog.
By: AJ Wolfe
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- By: Tom Wolfe
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Tom Wolfe's classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s, ushered in an era of New Journalism and defined a generation....
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Maybe it resonated with a different time and place
- By S. Phillips on 04-11-19
By: Tom Wolfe
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Happy, Happy, Happy
- My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
- By: Phil Robertson
- Narrated by: Al Robertson, Phil Robertson
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business....
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"Redneck" does not necessarily mean unintelligent
- By calluna13 on 06-02-13
By: Phil Robertson
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You Didn't Hear This from Me
- (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
- By: Kelsey McKinney
- Narrated by: Kelsey McKinney
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From the host of the Normal Gossip podcast, a delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with gossip that weaves together journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir.
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Breaking down gossip
- By JASmall on 04-30-25
By: Kelsey McKinney
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Pimpology
- The 48 Laws of the Game
- By: Pimpin' Ken
- Narrated by: Mr. Gates
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Ken Ivy pulls a square's coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. Ken's lessons will serve any person in any interaction....
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Powerful Book
- By Amazon Customer on 04-23-16
By: Pimpin' Ken
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The End of Woke
- How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory investigation into the rise and fall of the 'woke' movement and how we can prevent it from happening again.
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Great book
- By rachel on 06-03-25
By: Andrew Doyle
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.
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Christine is great
- By darren on 11-24-24
By: Christine Rosen
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Cell Phone and Screen Addiction Mastery: A 12-Step Guide to Get back Your Time!:
- A Practical Science and Psychological Based Guide to Identifying, Solving & Recovering from Screen Addictions
- By: Gabrielle Townsend
- Narrated by: Jacki Giardina
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In a world of social media and 24/7 news, screen addiction is a very real problem...but with the right guidance, you can escape its clutches and reclaim your life....
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Another great.
- By Louis on 01-02-23
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What's Next
- A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
- By: Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack, Aaron Sorkin - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office with Fitzgerald and McCormack as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew in a lively and colorful “backstage pass” to the timeless series.
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The actual authors reading their book!
- By AG Roy on 08-27-24
By: Melissa Fitzgerald, and others
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Pseudoscience
- An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
- By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.
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Same old stories…waste of time to read.
- By Kelly on 05-20-25
By: Lydia Kang MD, and others
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The Psychopath Test
- A Journey Through the Madness Industry
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....
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Painfully out of dated
- By Heather Wagner on 06-24-23
By: Jon Ronson
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The Nineties
- A Book
- By: Chuck Klosterman
- Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader.
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A Very White Middle-class Take On The Nineties
- By Umar Lee on 02-10-22
By: Chuck Klosterman
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- By: Jeff Weiss
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears.
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The monster is us
- By Megan on 06-19-25
By: Jeff Weiss
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The Comfort Book
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library Matt Haig comes a new uplifting book, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement....
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Best book ever!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-30-21
By: Matt Haig
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Last Night at the Viper Room
- River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
- By: Gavin Edwards
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Hollywood was built on beautiful and complicated matinee idols: James Dean and Marlon Brando are classic examples, but in the 1990s, the actor who embodied that archetype was River Phoenix....
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Story A, Gossip B+, Performance/Story Cohesion D+
- By Cate on 10-28-13
By: Gavin Edwards
New releases
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The Genius Myth
- A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Helen Lewis
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate. In The Genius Myth, Helen Lewis unearths how this one word has shaped (and distorted) our ideas of success and achievement. Ultimately, argues Lewis, the modern idea of genius—a single preternaturally gifted individual, usually white and male, exempt from social niceties and sometimes even the law—has run its course.
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Brilliant analysis!
- By Terre Spencer on 06-20-25
By: Helen Lewis
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Hollywood Vampires
- Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine
- By: Kelly Loudenberg, Makiko Wholey
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive new book on the infamous trial Depp v. Heard, Hollywood Vampires paints an intimate picture of what was really going on behind the viral headlines between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, with never-before-told stories from their inner circle.
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Really good listen-insightful.
- By Lorrie on 06-19-25
By: Kelly Loudenberg, and others
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The End of Woke
- How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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It is no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Activists in the 'woke' movement have claimed to be on the right side of history, and yet their approach has been intolerant, intemperate and, above all, illiberal. Having dominated the western world for the past fifteen years, there are clear signs the woke are now losing their power. The re-election of Donald Trump, the scaling back of DEI initiatives, and a growing awareness of the threats to women's sex-based rights has stirred a counter-revolution. But is this truly the end of woke? Or have the culture wars merely evolved?
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Great book
- By rachel on 06-03-25
By: Andrew Doyle
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Low-rise jeans, butterfly clips, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and Paris Hilton’s nights out. The early 2000s were a time of major moments in fashion, media, celebrity culture, and especially music. The aughts were a particularly fruitful era for female artists—still the only decade in the history of recorded music when women made up more than half the list of highest-grossing performers—and especially pop stars. Artists such as Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Beyoncé were leading the charge—their success not only leading to a new respect for female artists, but for pop stardom itself.
By: Nora Princiotti
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- By: Jeff Weiss
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history.”
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The monster is us
- By Megan on 06-19-25
By: Jeff Weiss
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We Tell Ourselves Stories
- Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
- By: Alissa Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Alissa Wilkinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this cultural biography, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking. As a young girl, Didion was infatuated with John Wayne and his on-screen bravado, and was fascinated by her California pioneer ancestry and the infamous Donner Party. The mythos that preoccupied her early years continued to influence her work as a magazine writer and film critic in New York, offering glimmers of the many stories Didion told herself that would come to unravel over the course of her career. But out west, show business beckoned.
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Interesting Approach to Didion but narration lacki
- By G on 06-21-25
By: Alissa Wilkinson
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The Genius Myth
- A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Helen Lewis
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate. In The Genius Myth, Helen Lewis unearths how this one word has shaped (and distorted) our ideas of success and achievement. Ultimately, argues Lewis, the modern idea of genius—a single preternaturally gifted individual, usually white and male, exempt from social niceties and sometimes even the law—has run its course.
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Brilliant analysis!
- By Terre Spencer on 06-20-25
By: Helen Lewis
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Hollywood Vampires
- Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine
- By: Kelly Loudenberg, Makiko Wholey
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive new book on the infamous trial Depp v. Heard, Hollywood Vampires paints an intimate picture of what was really going on behind the viral headlines between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, with never-before-told stories from their inner circle.
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Really good listen-insightful.
- By Lorrie on 06-19-25
By: Kelly Loudenberg, and others
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The End of Woke
- How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution
- By: Andrew Doyle
- Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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It is no secret that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Activists in the 'woke' movement have claimed to be on the right side of history, and yet their approach has been intolerant, intemperate and, above all, illiberal. Having dominated the western world for the past fifteen years, there are clear signs the woke are now losing their power. The re-election of Donald Trump, the scaling back of DEI initiatives, and a growing awareness of the threats to women's sex-based rights has stirred a counter-revolution. But is this truly the end of woke? Or have the culture wars merely evolved?
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Great book
- By rachel on 06-03-25
By: Andrew Doyle
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Low-rise jeans, butterfly clips, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and Paris Hilton’s nights out. The early 2000s were a time of major moments in fashion, media, celebrity culture, and especially music. The aughts were a particularly fruitful era for female artists—still the only decade in the history of recorded music when women made up more than half the list of highest-grossing performers—and especially pop stars. Artists such as Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Beyoncé were leading the charge—their success not only leading to a new respect for female artists, but for pop stardom itself.
By: Nora Princiotti
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- By: Jeff Weiss
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history.”
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The monster is us
- By Megan on 06-19-25
By: Jeff Weiss
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We Tell Ourselves Stories
- Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
- By: Alissa Wilkinson
- Narrated by: Alissa Wilkinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this cultural biography, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking. As a young girl, Didion was infatuated with John Wayne and his on-screen bravado, and was fascinated by her California pioneer ancestry and the infamous Donner Party. The mythos that preoccupied her early years continued to influence her work as a magazine writer and film critic in New York, offering glimmers of the many stories Didion told herself that would come to unravel over the course of her career. But out west, show business beckoned.
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- By G on 06-21-25
By: Alissa Wilkinson
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What Is Wrong with Men
- Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything
- By: Jessa Crispin
- Narrated by: Jessa Crispin
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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How to be a Man? That question—and all the anxiety, anger, and resentment it stirs up—is the starting point for a crisis in masculinity that today manifests as misogyny, nativism, and corporate greed; gives rise to incels and mass shooters; and leads to panic over the rights of women and minorities. According to Jessa Crispin, it is the most important question of our time, and the answer to it might be found in an unlikely place: the films of Michael Douglas.
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Amazing insights
- By Anonymous User on 06-16-25
By: Jessa Crispin
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Culture Creep
- Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
- By: Alice Bolin
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive our popular obsessions are brilliantly cataloged, contextualized, and questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself.
By: Alice Bolin
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The Cancel Culture Panic
- How an American Obsession Went Global
- By: Adrian Daub
- Narrated by: Eric Burgher
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic, showing that, though its object is fuzzy, talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism. There are plenty of conservative voices who gin up worries about cancel culture to advance their agendas. But more remarkable perhaps is that it is centrist, even left-leaning, media that have taken up the rallying cry and really defined the outlines of what cancel culture is supposed to be.
By: Adrian Daub
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Trust Your Gut: 10 Universal Signs You Might Be Getting Conned
- Con Men, Scams, Phishing and Other Disgusting Practices and How to Get Ahead of Them, Book 1
- By: Alsden Keir
- Narrated by: Michael Robinson
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When people think of scams, they often imagine dramatic heists or strangers tricking someone into wiring money overseas. But the truth is, cons come in many forms—and they aren’t always about money. You can be conned into giving away personal information, compromising your time, handing over control, or even entering relationships under false pretenses.
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Trusting Your Gut Is More Important Than Ever
- By Leta Chen on 06-11-25
By: Alsden Keir
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More Than a Shirt
- How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power
- By: Joey D'Urso
- Narrated by: Joey D'Urso
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Football is the world's most popular sport, and the shirts worn by teams and their supporters are its greatest means of cultural expression. Every year clubs launch new kits with increasingly extravagant marketing campaigns and convoluted explanations of how their designs reflect their history and local community. But football shirts are much more than just a symbol of which club we support.
By: Joey D'Urso
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The News Quiz: Gems from the Archive
- Highlights from the Topical Radio 4 Panel Show
- By: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Various
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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The News Quiz made its debut on Radio 4 in 1977, and decades later it's still playfully making and breaking the headlines of our daily news. If you enjoy your news humorously grilled, with a side order of biting wit, these 14 gems of vintage episodes will be exactly to your taste.
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Affluenza (3rd Edition)
- How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back
- By: Thomas H. Naylor, John de Graaf, David Wann
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this book can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague.
By: Thomas H. Naylor, and others
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Diddy Trial: Kid Cudi’s Dramatic Day in Court
- Leather Jacket, Laid-Back Attitude, Hilarious
- By: Anton Volney
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 mins
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Grammy-winning artist Kid Cudi took the stand in a Manhattan federal courtroom to deliver one of the most gripping testimonies of the decade — and it felt more like a scene from a psychological thriller than real life. Wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans, Cudi recounted a chilling night in December: a panicked phone call from Cassie, a confrontation with Sean “Diddy” Combs, and a sequence of events that ended with his Porsche torched by what looked like a Molotov cocktail. Inside the courtroom, his voice cracked as he recalled: A midnight escape to the Sunset Marquis A call ...
By: Anton Volney
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American Oddities - Roadside Wonders
- A Nostalgic Journey to Giant Dinosaurs, Muffler Men, and the Golden Age of Americana Kitsch
- By: James Calloway
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Remember the thrill of the open road? The anticipation of what bizarre, oversized, or wonderfully weird wonder awaited just around the next bend? Embark on a captivating expedition with "American Oddities - Roadside Wonders: A Nostalgic Journey to Giant Dinosaurs, Muffler Men, and the Golden Age of Americana Kitsch." This is your ultimate guide to the unforgettable, often outlandish, attractions that defined a unique era of American travel and ingenuity. Back when the automobile first empowered the average family to explore, the American highway became a canvas for creativity, commerce, and...
By: James Calloway
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The Psychology of Bluey
- Remember, I'm Always Here for You
- By: Anthony Bean
- Narrated by: Erik Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Psychology of Bluey" delves into the vibrant world of the beloved Australian animated series, exploring the intricate layers of emotional intelligence, family dynamics, and societal values woven into its storytelling. With each episode, Bluey and her family embark on adventures that are not just playful escapades but lessons in resilience, empathy, and the complexities of human emotions. This book offers an in-depth analysis of how the series impacts both young minds and adult viewers, making profound observations on parenting, childhood development, and the power of imaginative play.
By: Anthony Bean
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Be the Bombshell
- What Love Island Teaches Us About Dating
- By: Rebecca Jennings
- Narrated by: Rebecca Jennings
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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In this unofficial title, Rebecca Jennings takes the most iconic and unforgettable moments from Love Island to remind us dating should be fun—not just tolerable. A witty love letter to Love Island superfans, hopeless romantics, and serial swipers, Be the Bombshell will teach you to demand what you want unapologetically and to tell the difference between what’s worth the compromise and what’s settling for less than you deserve.
By: Rebecca Jennings
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This Will Make Gamers Sh*t Their Pants
- A Side Quest Through the Games That Raised Us
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Rebecca Heddinger
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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"This isn't just nostalgia. It's a resurrection." From the kid who made a game out of life itself, this book is a power-up for anyone who ever thought games were just games.
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A short but comfortable time
- By Paul Richardson on 06-18-25
By: James Johnson
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No Such Thing as Normal
- Disorders, Diagnoses, and the Limits of Psychiatry
- By: Marieke Bigg
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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No Such Thing as Normal is a deeply researched, timely, essential book that will shine a light on the psychiatric industry: its genesis, its obsession with often ineffective, over-medicalised treatments, and its relationship with a pharmaceutical industry driven by profitability rather than meaningful social welfare and change.
By: Marieke Bigg
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Paranormal Investigators Series Two
- The Night Stalker, The Demonologist, The Skeptic, and The Believer
- By: Leo Hardy, Rodney Cannon
- Narrated by: Jim Pilot
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The paranormal investigator series picks up with what we are calling series two. This series will feature more Famous investigators both real and fictional. This book will explore not only the lives of these investigators but their specialized fields of study. Collin de Plancy, like most other demonologists who came before him, followed the tradition of cataloging demons according to their names and titles. Dictionnaire Infernal is his most renowned work. Reginald Scot wasn't at first convinced of the idea of witches.
By: Leo Hardy, and others
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Big Tobacco versus the World
- How We Let Tobacco Take Over the World — and How We’re Taking It Back
- By: Bill Jordan
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Big Tobacco Versus the World Cigarettes: the only consumer product that kills half its loyal customers when used exactly as intended. Yet somehow, for over a century, they’ve been marketed with charm, sophistication, cowboy hats, and cartoon camels. What gives? Big Tobacco Versus the World is a wry, sharp-eyed look at how a global industry managed to hook billions, bury the evidence, and keep the profits rolling while the bodies piled up. It’s a tale of manipulation, addiction, denial, and the people fighting back with facts, lawsuits, and a lot more stamina than a chain-smoker’s ...
By: Bill Jordan
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La gran mentira de la autoayuda
- By: Nolan Pierce
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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¿Por qué no eres rico ni feliz si has leído todos los libros de autoayuda? Este libro es una bofetada directa a la industria que te ha hecho creer que el problema eres tú. La mentira de la autoayuda revela cómo los gurús del desarrollo personal se han enriquecido vendiendo frases vacías, cursos inútiles y promesas mágicas que nunca cumplen. No es otro libro para motivarte, es una invitación a ver la realidad sin anestesia. Con estilo claro y contundente, Daniel Prescott desmonta los mitosmás repetidos de la autoayuda moderna: el culto al pensamiento positivo, la obsesión con la ...
By: Nolan Pierce
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Lost and Found
- How Meaningless Living Is Destroying Us and Three Keys to Fix It
- By: Mark D’Souza MD
- Narrated by: Mark D'Souza MD
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Lost and Found, by Dr. Mark D’Souza, ventures deep into this quandary, addressing the poignant disconnects of our modern era. As workplaces remain trapped in a cacophony of disagreements, the world witnesses an opioid crisis showing no signs of remission. Drawing upon his extensive experience in medical practice and rich insights from philosophy, psychology, and literature, Dr. D’Souza traces this descent into chaos, marking Nietzsche’s assertion of the “death of God” as a pivotal moment in the annals of philosophical and societal thought.
By: Mark D’Souza MD
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The Ultimate TV & Film Quiz Book
- 400 Challenging Questions on Soaps, Sitcoms, Reality Shows, Netflix Hits & More!
- By: Victoria Ashcroft
- Narrated by: Jane Charles
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Lights, camera, quiz time! This book is your ultimate backstage pass to the world of television and film. Packed with 400 challenging and entertaining questions across 10 exciting chapters, it will take you on a thrilling journey through decades of iconic TV shows and blockbuster films. From classic British soaps like EastEnders to modern Netflix hits, cult sitcoms, and unforgettable reality TV moments, this book has something for every fan.