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The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world — everything from "artnapping", in which an artwork is held hostage and only returned for a ransom, to forgery and tax fraud.
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From the authors of False Pictures, Real Money (about the Beltracchi art forgery case), Art & Crime includes a chapter on art owned by Donald Trump. It is a thoroughly researched, explosive, and highly topical book that uncovers the extraordinary and multifarious thefts of art and cultural objects around the world.
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De: Laney Salisbury, y otros
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The Map Thief
- The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
- De: Michael Blanding
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 702
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 617
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 622
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers - both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.
Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief - until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Study of the Strangeness of People
- De Carole T. en 12-10-14
De: Michael Blanding
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Reefer Madness
- Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Eric Schlosser
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 396
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays - pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Investigative Journalism
- De Boulderite en 06-25-03
De: Eric Schlosser
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Prince of Darkness
- The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
- De: Shane White
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. He wheeled and dealed in the lily-white business world, he married a White woman, he bought a mansion in rural New Jersey, he owned railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride, and generally he set his White contemporaries' teeth on edge when he wasn't just plain outsmarting them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not A Nice Man, But A Smart One!
- De AlTonya en 07-28-17
De: Shane White
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The Wizard of Lies
- Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
- De: Diana B. Henriques
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 16 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 786
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 671
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 669
Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion. Many have speculated about what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story - until now. Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times has written the definitive book on the man and his scheme.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of 3 madoff books
- De Angela willis en 03-18-13
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb
- The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
- De: Noah Charney
- Narrado por: John Allen Nelson
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the 10 most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
- De Jody R. Nathan en 01-04-12
De: Noah Charney
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The Match King
- Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
- De: Frank Partnoy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 184
At the height of the roaring 20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after Kreuger's suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent Depression era history-biography
- De Donovan R. en 06-17-10
De: Frank Partnoy
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The Orpheus Clock
- The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
- De: Simon Goodman
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
The Gutmanns, as they were known, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They also amassed a magnificent, world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, Guardi, and many, many others. But the Nazi regime snatched from them everything they had worked to build: their remarkable art, their immense wealth, their prominent social standing, and their very lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece of 21st Century History
- De Daniel J. Nyíri en 09-18-19
De: Simon Goodman
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The Bettencourt Affair
- The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
- De: Tom Sancton
- Narrado por: Amanda Carlin
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 360
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 325
Heiress to the nearly 40-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the 14th wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At 94, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city - and involving the most glamorous industry - in the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Juicy Chronicle
- De Jean en 10-24-17
De: Tom Sancton
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Queen of Thieves
- The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
- De: J. North Conway
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she accumulated great wealth and power inconceivable for women engaged in business, legitimate or otherwise.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a bit repetitive
- De Andy en 09-19-14
De: J. North Conway
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The Gardner Heist
- The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- De: Ulrich Boser
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 104
After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Amanda D. en 05-21-19
De: Ulrich Boser
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God's Bankers
- A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
- De: Gerald Posner
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 21 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 476
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 423
From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this audiobook is about the church's accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets across the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The book was really good till it wasn't.
- De Dr. JSH en 06-05-16
De: Gerald Posner
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The Billionaire's Vinegar
- The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
- De: Benjamin Wallace
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 577
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 465
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 464
It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux - one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson - went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turned wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soon arose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not just for enophiles
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De: Benjamin Wallace
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Too Good to Be True
- The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
- De: Erin Arvedlund
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Erin Arvedlund, the financial reporter who questioned the amazing returns of Bernie Madoff's hedge funds way back in 2001, traces the life of the infamous swindler and addresses the tough questions surrounding the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't add much more that a lot of details.
- De Robert en 11-07-10
De: Erin Arvedlund
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The Quiet Don
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- De: Matt Birkbeck
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 168
Secretive - even reclusive - Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. His reach extended far beyond the coal country of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and quaint Amish farms near Lancaster. Bufalino had a hand in global, national, and local politics of the largest American cities, many of its major industries, and controlled the powerful Teamsters Union. His influence also reached the highest levels of Pennsylvania government and halls of Congress, and his legacy left a culture of corruption that continues to this day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important But Edited By Lawyers?
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De: Matt Birkbeck
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Picasso's War
- How Modern Art Came to America
- De: Hugh Eakin
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 120
In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Better Books on Picasso Available
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De: Hugh Eakin
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The Mob and the City
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- De: C. Alexander Hortis
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 453
Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard one to rate....
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Chain of Title
- How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
- De: David Dayen
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 572
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 507
In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history - a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: Millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Capital Corruption and Greed
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De: David Dayen
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- 04-07-23
Probably good, but not what I wanted
I DNFed this book. While it certainly has commendable qualities, the simple fact was that it wasn’t what I was looking for. I expected a rich exposé but instead this book reads more like a compilation. “So then this crime was committed, and then this crime was committed, and then this crime was committed…” just a list with very detailed points. Now if that’s what you’re after then I would recommend this. There were definitely fun parts about it. But I was looking for something else, something more like an investigation into how art crimes paid for some criminal enterprise or something.
Note that I did return it after listening to one hour so maybe the rest of the book was different.
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