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The World's Best Short Stories
- 127 Funny Short Stories About Unbelievable Stuff that Actually Happened
- Narrated by: Robin LaRose
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Publisher's summary
Do you want to be entertained by strange, unique and interesting true stories?
Or maybe just have a laugh?
The World's Best Short Stories is a compendium of crazy and oddly funny stories from different periods across human history. You’ll learn about pompous politicians, admirable animals, and some very strange oddballs!
The book provides the listener with an easily accessible entrance into some of the most important aspects of human history. The stories are packed with humor and jokes to offer up even the grumpiest of listeners a wry smile.
The stories carefully selected for the book are typically areas that the average listener won’t have heard of before, though many of them are set in familiar periods of history which helps the listener build from their own base of knowledge.
In this book you will find:
- 127 exciting stories from different periods and locations across history.
- Boiled-down information from the words of a historian to help plug holes in your knowledge.
- Strange accounts, showing an underside of humanity that isn’t discussed in more traditional academic circles.
- A little extra touch of wit and humor, to keep you entertained along the way.
This book is supposed to help people access new information in a way that isn’t overwhelming or complicated but is instead funny and simple.
The book has some mature themes, though it remains suitable for young teenagers and older, as long as whoever listens to the book is just immature enough to be able to laugh at the sillier side of life and history.
If you’re looking for the perfect gift item or just a casual listen or light-hearted pause-resister, then The World's Best Short Stories is the audiobook for you.
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The Story Behind
- The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
- By: Emily Prokop
- Narrated by: Emily Prokop
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11
Many of us learn about the major inventions that shape our world. But we too often overlook the objects we use every day. In The Story Behind, Emily Prokop, creator of the Webby Award nominated podcast, explores the who, how, and huh? of everything from Band-Aids to bubble gum; hypnosis to Hula Hoops; and lullabies to lead pipes. Along the way, she demonstrates how the major events of history - from wars, plagues and revolutions to historic achievements and discoveries - have influenced some of the world’s most pervasive inventions.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One third of the book is repeated after initial description of subject under “TLDR” ..?
- By Dogs Land on 03-25-24
By: Emily Prokop
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True Facts That Sound Like Bulls#*t: 500 Insane-but-True Facts That Will Shock and Impress Your Friends
- By: Shane Carley
- Narrated by: Chris Barton
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Prove your awesomeness - or bolster your stockpile of conversation starters! Either way, prove you’re the smartest schmuck in the room with over 500 absurdly real facts! With over 500 outrageous and real facts on everything from hippo sweat to stars in the galaxy, you're sure to impress your friends, stump your colleagues, and crush the trivia night competition! Discover insane-but-true factoids and prove you really do know it all! Test out the true or false questions covering the gamut of science, sports, history, pop culture, and a potpourri of others.
By: Shane Carley
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How to Survive a Freakin’ Bear Attack
- And 127 Other Survival Hacks You'll Hopefully Never Need
- By: Bill O'Neill
- Narrated by: Robin LaRose
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Hopefully, you’ll never need to know how to flee a sinking ship or a burning building, or be in any kind of situation where you might need to safely package up a severed body part or perform abdominal surgery on yourself. But given that we never quite know what’s around the corner the hints and tips included here may one day – hopefully! –come in useful.
By: Bill O'Neill
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Shadow Jumper
- A Mystery Adventure Book for Children and Teens Aged 10-14
- By: J M Forster
- Narrated by: Gary Murrell
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
Jack Phillips's allergy to sunshine confines him to the shadows, leaving him lonely, and at risk of life-threatening burns every time he steps into the light. Shadow jumping on the rooftops at dusk, makes him feel alive. And free. But Jack's condition is suddenly worse than ever, and only his missing scientist dad can save him. As Jack and his new friend, Beth, begin their frantic search and delve into his dad's past for clues, they have no idea what they are about to uncover.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Well Written Children's Book!
- By Myztikal on 10-04-17
By: J M Forster
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Learn a Lot While You Sit on the Pot
- Funny Bathroom Trivia Book for Adults & Older Teens (Things to Do While You Poo Series)
- By: Alex Smart
- Narrated by: Michael Mau
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Learn a Lot While You Sit on the Pot is a family-friendly volume packed with amusing anecdotes, surprising facts, and big splashes of fun. Including science stories, British slang, and other thrilling tidbits, Smart deftly offers a unique gag or holiday gift for teens and adults. If discovering famous plumbers and gross body details sounds delightful, waiting for things to happen in the loo will bring you joy.
By: Alex Smart
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The Best Short Stories 2023
- The O. Henry Prize Winners
- By: Lauren Groff - editor, Jenny Minton Quigley - editor
- Narrated by: Lauren Groff, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including several stories in translation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Every story is overwhelmingly melancholy.
- By Jane S. on 10-31-23
By: Lauren Groff - editor, and others
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The Ultimate Bathroom Reader
- Interesting Stories, Fun Facts and Just Crazy Weird Stuff to Keep You Entertained on the Crapper! (Perfect Gag Gift)
- By: Bill O'Neill
- Narrated by: Robin LaRose
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
Who doesn’t love a bit of random trivia now and then? Or, for that matter, who doesn’t enjoy plucking some obscure tidbit of information from the back of their mind and dropping it into conversation? Get The Ultimate Bathroom Reader, your ultimate source of interesting facts about a wide range of diverse topics. This audiobook is truly a quick-listen packed with information from cover to cover. All of these facts, plus hundreds more, are listed here, in simple, bite-size chunks - with a few pop quizzes thrown in just to keep your brain ticking over.
By: Bill O'Neill
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50 Greatest Short Stories
- By: Terry O'Brien - editor, Terry O'Brien - introduction
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance2 out of 5 stars 11
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 11
Selected from the best of the world's short fiction, 50 Great Short Stories brings together writings by great masters of the genre. Carefully picked for their timeless quality, listeners are sure to be delighted by the inclusion of such favourites as 'The Gift of the Magi', 'The Lady with the Dog', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Rain' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', to name but a few.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed
- By Nicole Singer on 12-14-18
By: Terry O'Brien - editor, and others
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The World's Best Classic Short Stories
- By: O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, and others
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 63
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 61
A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I just can't listen to this narrator
- By Jennifer Greenberg on 09-04-16
By: O. Henry, and others
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Interesting Facts for Curious Minds
- 1572 Random but Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture and Everything in Between
- By: Jordan Moore
- Narrated by: Robin LaRose
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Interesting Facts For Curious Minds gives you the answer to all these and many, many more questions that I know have crossed your mind from time to time. This book is divided into 63 chapters by topic for your convenience, bringing you a nice mix of science, history, pop culture, and all sorts of stuff in between. Each chapter contains 25 concise yet engaging factoids that are sure to make you think and at times laugh.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- By Cycleash on 12-28-22
By: Jordan Moore
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The Mental Floss History of the World
- An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
- By: Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
- Narrated by: Johny Heller
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 563
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 368
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Story4 out of 5 stars 366
About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization. Everything since then, as they say, is history. Just in case you were sleeping in class that day, the geniuses at mental_floss magazine have put together a hilarious (and historically accurate) primer on everything you need to know---and that means the good stuff.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant and Funny. What more could you want?
- By Septimus MacGhilleglas on 01-22-09
By: Steve Wiegand, and others
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021
- By: Lee Child - editor and introduction, Otto Penzler - series editor
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Lee Child selects the 20 best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more. Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international best seller Lee Child has selected the 20 most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing collection.
- By STEFANY C. on 11-27-21
By: Lee Child - editor and introduction, and others
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F*cking History
- 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School
- By: The Captain
- Narrated by: The Captain
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 296
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Story4 out of 5 stars 297
The entries in this compulsively listenable book bridge past and present with topics like getting ghosted, handling haters, and why dog owners rule (sorry, cat people). Along the way you'll get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's sex life, dating rituals in Ancient Greece, catfishing in 500 BC, medieval flirting techniques, and squad goals from Catherine the Great.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By J Lewis on 03-28-21
By: The Captain
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Super Interesting Facts for Smart Kids
- 1272 Fun Facts About Science, Animals, Earth and Everything in Between
- By: Jordan Moore
- Narrated by: Robin LaRose
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Did you know that only around a quarter of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand? And did you know that cash machines in Vatican City have an option to read their instructions in Latin? Did you know tug-of-war and rope climbing used to be official Olympic sports? There is no denying that the world is super interesting, and these Super Interesting Facts for Smart Kids prove precisely that!
By: Jordan Moore
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,832
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,758
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,747
A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
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5 out of 5 stars
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HE'S A CUP OF COFFEE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-10-15
By: Stephen King
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Stuff You Should Know
- An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
- By: Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant
- Narrated by: Chuck Bryant, Josh Clark
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 415
From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fails as an audio book.
- By Sarah H on 12-10-20
By: Josh Clark, and others
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An Elephant in the Garden
- By: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrated by: Fiona Clarke
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 273
It’s 1944. Elizabeth's father is fighting with the German army on the eastern front. Her mother works at Dresden zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her… and then the bombs start to fall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story!!
- By MPofahl on 03-26-19
By: Michael Morpurgo