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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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This telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-26-24
- Language: English
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Finding and Building SuperFan 09-26-2024
- Length: 58 mins
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SuperFans can become an author’s best friend. Finding, feeding, and growing them is what authors need to do. The questions are: -Who are they? -Where are they? -What does an author need to do to feed them? -How can an author increase the number? Your takeaways include: •Understanding the buying power base of a SuperFan for an author. •Learning that SuperFans are responsible for 50% of all book sales. •The majority of SuperFans are women. •Where to connect with SuperFans. •How often SuperFans buy books. •Where SuperFans hang out. •How to find SuperFan communities to connect with...
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Finding and Building SuperFan 09-26-2024
- 09-27-24
- Author U Your Guide to Book Publishing
- Length: 58 mins
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The CIA Book Club
- By: Charlie English
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. From copies of Orwell to Agatha Christie, the Western effort was to undermine the censorship of the Soviet bloc, offer different visions of thought and culture to the people, and build relationships with real readers in the East. Historian Charlie English follows the characters of the era, with Bucharest-born George Minden at the narrative’s heart.
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The CIA Book Club
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-13-25
- Language: English
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Didion and Babitz
- By: Lili Anolik
- Narrated by: Lili Anolik
- Length: 13 hrs
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Joan Didion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She’s remained opaque, elusive. Until now. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz’s brilliance of observation, Babitz’s incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz’s diary-like letters—letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you don’t read them so much as breathe them—as the key to unlocking Didion.
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Didion and Babitz
- Narrated by: Lili Anolik
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 11-12-24
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm
- A Biography
- By: Ann Schmiesing
- Narrated by: Eve Matheson
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses.
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The Brothers Grimm
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Eve Matheson
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-29-24
- Language: English
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American Scary
- A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
- By: Jeremy Dauber
- Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
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In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the listener to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, drawing a surprising through-line between the lingering influence of the European Gothic, the enslaved insurrection tales propagated by slaveholders, and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans, among many others.
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American Scary
- A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
- Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-01-24
- Language: English
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Salvage
- Readings from the Wreck
- By: Dionne Brand
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not.
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Salvage
- Readings from the Wreck
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-01-24
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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In The Truth and Beauty, Andrew Klavan explored how the work of great poets helps illuminate the truth of the gospels. Now, the award-winning screenwriter and crime novelist turns his attention to the dark side of human nature to discover how we might find joy and beauty in the world while still being clear-eyed about the evil found in it. The Kingdom of Cain looks at three murders in history—including the first murder, Cain's killing of his brother, Abel—and at the art created from imaginative engagement with those horrific events by artists ranging from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Kingdom of Cain
- Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book
- The Literature behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
- By: Rachel Feder
- Narrated by: Tiffany Tatreau
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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From the childhood nostalgia of Peter Pan in Speak Now to the haunted halls of Rebecca in Evermore, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are packed with literary connections. Make sure you’re catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influenced her songwriting. Let a literature professor and a musical theater artist guide you through the Swift canon—from Shakespeare to Dickinson to the Brontë sisters. Learn what “New Romantics” has to do with the old Romantics, get to know the Gothic monsters haunting Midnights, and spot Taylor’s many Great Gatsby references.
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Taylor Swift by the Book
- The Literature behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
- Narrated by: Tiffany Tatreau
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor
- A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form
- By: Thomas C. Foster
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 12 hrs
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Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today’s masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers and listeners through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel.
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor
- A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator.
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Third Edition)
- A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from The Great Gatsby to The Hate You Give
- By: Thomas C. Foster
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 10 hrs
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While books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings beneath the surface. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the practiced analytical eye—and the literary codes—of a college professor. What does it mean when a protagonist is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? Thomas C. Foster provides answers to these questions as he explores every aspect of fiction, from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Third Edition)
- A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from The Great Gatsby to The Hate You Give
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 11-05-24
- Language: English
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The World in Books
- 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon, Kenneth C. Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading—and a fantastic introduction to some of the most thought-provoking, profound, and interesting nonfiction works of all time. From Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to bell hooks’s All About Love, as well as such recent classics as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists, Davis’s guide suggests a world of nonfiction books and explains just why they’re so historically meaningful and culturally relevant today.
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The World in Books
- 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon, Kenneth C. Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-08-24
- Language: English
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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
- By: Richard Schoch
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs
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Following the arc of Sondheim’s career, How Sondheim Can Change Your Life is rich with stories about productions and iconic performers, deep readings of his music and lyrics, and insights into his creative process. But more than that, it reveals how Sondheim’s works can enrich our own lives.
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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 11-19-24
- Language: English
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Didion & Babitz
- By: Lili Anolik
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters, as the key to unlocking Didion. Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring. It was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz.
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Didion & Babitz
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-14-24
- Language: English
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Goddess with a Thousand Faces
- By: Jasmine Elmer
- Narrated by: Jasmine Elmer, Nerissa Bradley
- Length: 10 hrs
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This is a historical journey like no other - unlike every other book on the subject, Goddess with a Thousand Faces transcends geographical boundaries and breaks down cultural barriers. From Rangda in Bali, to Freyja in Iceland and more recognisable faces such as the Greek goddess Artemis, it is a work of true inclusion - listeners are invited to consider these dazzling goddesses as part of a cultural cannon of human femininity; regardless of race, sex, or gender. Goddess with a Thousand Faces asks us to interrogate our past through a fresh new lens.
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Goddess with a Thousand Faces
- Narrated by: Jasmine Elmer, Nerissa Bradley
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 10-17-24
- Language: English
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The War for Middle-Earth
- J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945
- By: Joseph Loconte
- Narrated by: Greg Marston
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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In the years leading up to the Second World War, authors J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis—who both fought in the trenches of WWI—saw the world descending once again into a human catastrophe. This book tells the story of how the crucible of war brought them together in friendship and inspired them to engage their Christian imagination to confront the darkest forces of their age.
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The War for Middle-Earth
- J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945
- Narrated by: Greg Marston
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
- By: Gail Crowther
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz
- Length: 7 hrs
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The glamorous extravagances and devastating lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker—from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband’s suicide. Parker’s involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before.
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 10-15-24
- Language: English
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Culture Creep
- Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
- By: Alice Bolin
- Length: 12 hrs
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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.
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Culture Creep
- Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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The Queen's Path
- A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty
- By: Stacey Simmons PhD
- Narrated by: Stacey Simmons PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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In this book, psychotherapist Dr. Stacey Simmons explores the tracks women are placed on that turn them against themselves at a young age. Using fairy tales, stories, films, television, musicals, and the lives of her patients, Dr. Simmons reveals an ancient pattern hidden in plain sight for over a thousand years. She named it The Queen’s Path, and in this book she explains how it has been used against women for millennia, and how women can turn the pattern to their advantage, and use it themselves to overcome obstacles and become the rightful queens of their own lives.
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The Queen's Path
- A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty
- Narrated by: Stacey Simmons PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-05-24
- Language: English
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