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Necropolis
- Gaunt’s Ghosts, Book 3
- By: Dan Abnett
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2,712
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On the world of Verghast, a grinding war between two hive cities - one loyal to the Imperium, the other fallen to the worship of the Dark Gods - is bolstered by the forces of the Astra Militarum, spearheaded by the Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only. But bitter rivalries and treachery threaten to derail the defence of Vervunhive, and it falls to Gaunt to take command of the Imperial forces and forge victory from an almost certain defeat.
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Simply awesome!
- By Anonymous on 06-02-20
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Necropolis
- Gaunt’s Ghosts, Book 3
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Gaunt's Ghosts, Book 3
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-30-20
- Language: English
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Necropolis
- The Gatekeepers, Book 4
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall211
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Performance163
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Story164
The spellbinding fourth novel in the Gatekeepers series, Necropolis continues the saga of Matt and his fellow Gatekeepers. The sinister corporation known as Nightrise is gathering strength - as are the Old Ones who will let loose their dark powers upon an unsuspecting world. Into the fray, Matt and three of his comrades head to Hong Kong to locate a girl named Scarlet - the final Gatekeeper. Is she the key to stopping the rise of evil?
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Edge of the Seat Good!
- By sheri mccue on 01-06-24
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Necropolis
- The Gatekeepers, Book 4
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Gatekeepers, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-07-09
- Language: English
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Saturn Returns
- Astropolis, Book 1
- By: Sean Williams
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Sean Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 878th millennium of human history, Imre Bergamasc awakens after 150,000 years to the realization that he has been the victim of an elaborate murder plot - one that has destroyed the intergalactic transport milieu known as the Continuum. But now that Imre has been reborn, he will stop at nothing to help bring forth the rebirth of the galaxy.
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Slow to start, then a bit confusing
- By Steven on 02-04-08
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Saturn Returns
- Astropolis, Book 1
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Sean Williams
- Series: Astropolis, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-08-08
- Language: English
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Necropolis
- Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
- By: Kathryn Olivarius
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans's strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, what Kathryn Olivarius terms "immunocapital." Whereas immunity conferred privilege on whites, it relegated enslaved people to the most grueling labor.
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Engrossing
- By Michelle Luco on 06-25-25
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Necropolis
- Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-27-22
- Language: English
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Necropolis
- Whyborne & Griffin, Volume 4
- By: Jordan L. Hawk
- Narrated by: Julian G. Simmons
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall405
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Performance370
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Story369
Introverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they've established. Until, that is, a man who seems as much animal as human tries to murder Whyborne in the museum. Amidst the ancient ruins of the pharaohs, they must join Christine and face betrayal, murder, and a legendary sorceress risen from the dead.
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Favourite so far
- By Jennifer on 07-18-14
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Necropolis
- Whyborne & Griffin, Volume 4
- Narrated by: Julian G. Simmons
- Series: Whyborne & Griffin, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-19-14
- Language: English
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Earth Ascendant
- Astropolis, Book 2
- By: Sean Williams
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance17
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Story18
Imre Bergamasc's life has been nothing if not interesting. Returning from the grave to rule the galaxy, one might be tempted to say that he's taken the worst the universe could throw at him and emerged triumphant. But Imre's problems are only beginning.
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Vast improvement
- By Cody Konior on 09-17-24
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Earth Ascendant
- Astropolis, Book 2
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Series: Astropolis, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-22-08
- Language: English
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The Grand Conjunction
- Astropolis, Book 3
- By: Sean Williams
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
Six hundred thousand years after Imre Bergamasc's abdication, the Host rules the supposedly peaceful galaxy. But revolution is fomenting - and Imre's unexpected return may be all it takes to light the final fuse.
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A poor third attempt
- By SharkHunterSFO on 03-29-12
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The Grand Conjunction
- Astropolis, Book 3
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Series: Astropolis, Book 3
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-20-12
- Language: English
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Cenotaxis
- Astropolis Book 1.5
- By: Sean Williams
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Sean Williams
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance16
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Story18
In the far future, in the aftermath of a mysterious galactic catastrophe, a false prophet comes face to face with his greatest adversary yet: a man who thinks he's God - and might very well be right. While the battle for Earth rages around them, they face off, one wanting to conquer the world and the other to redeem it. The victory may well decide the future of the galaxy, and of humanity itself.
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Don't Start in the Middle
- By David on 02-25-08
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Cenotaxis
- Astropolis Book 1.5
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Sean Williams
- Series: Astropolis, Book 1.5
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-08-08
- Language: English
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Necropolis
- By: Michael Dempsey
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall173
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Performance158
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Story158
NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife Elise were killed in a hold-up gone wrong. Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift. Supposedly the unintended side-effect of a botched biological terrorist attack and carried by a ubiquitous retrovirus, the Shift jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like Donner must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York's most hated minority.
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'Necropolis' Rocked My World
- By HEIDI on 01-19-12
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Necropolis
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-04-11
- Language: English
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Astropolis : 5 jours de rave à Brest
- Length: 1 min
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C’est le plus vieux festival de musiques électroniques en France encore en activité, j’ai nommé Astropolis. Il se déroule au bois de Keroual, à côté de Brest mais aussi dans plusieurs endroits emblématiques de la ville et rassemble entre 10 et 30 000 personnes chaque année. Ce pilier des festivals technos et de musiques électroniques a démarré en 1995. Au départ, c'était juste une rave clandestine dans un champ du Finistère. Il faut savoir qu’à l’époque, les raves étaient mal perçues et réprimées par le gouvernement en place. L’année d’après pourtant, ...
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Astropolis : 5 jours de rave à Brest
- 06-28-24
- Nova le matin
- Length: 1 min
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Necropolis
- Royal Sorceress Series, Book 3
- By: Christopher G. Nuttall
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance46
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Story46
The Royal Sorceress, Lady Gwendolyn Crichton, will be responsible for the Empire's magical resources when the time comes. Still struggling to overcome prejudice within the Royal College of Sorcerers, she has at least earned the gratitude of much of the aristocracy, if not their respect. Just when Gwen needs to be firmly focussed on training new sorcerers, her adopted daughter Olivia, the only known living necromancer, is kidnapped.
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Necropolis
- Royal Sorceress Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Series: The Royal Sorceress Series, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-28-18
- Language: English
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A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P.Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece.
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The construction of the House of Morgan
- By Darwin8u on 10-22-18
By: Ron Chernow
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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
- By: James Williams
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance26
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Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this "attention economy", we need to recognize the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control.
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Listen now
- By Andrew Lenards on 10-10-19
By: James Williams
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The Attention Merchants
- The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
- By: Tim Wu
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall737
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Performance635
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From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time. Feeling...
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It's Been Sold
- By Mr. Ess on 10-24-16
By: Tim Wu