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    • A Novel
    • By: Kelly Rimmer
    • Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Ann Marie Gideon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,547 ratings
    • For fans of All the Light We Cannot See—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip.

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    • The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,071 ratings
    • On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the US 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle....

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    • When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
    • By: Clayton M. Christensen
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,724 ratings
    • Innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership....

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    • The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,245 ratings
    • Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

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    • By: Adam Smith
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,542 ratings
    • The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism....

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    • Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
    • By: Jamie Raskin
    • Narrated by: Jamie Raskin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,109 ratings
    • In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life....

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    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard....

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    • By: Ulysses S. Grant
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 29 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,526 ratings
    • Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president....

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    • Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World
    • By: Massimo Pigliucci, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Professor Massimo Pigliucci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 640 ratings
    • Distilled to its essence, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy known as Stoicism is a philosophy of personal betterment. Professor Pigliucci has designed these 25 lessons as an enlightening introduction to the basics of Stoic philosophy....

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    • A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066
    • By: Marc Morris
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 835 ratings
    • A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national best-selling author Marc Morris....

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    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 910 ratings
    • American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 900 ratings
    • When Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had already become the most admired person in the US and one of the most unlikely celebrities to capture the world’s imagination....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ocean Vuong
    • Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,335 ratings
    • Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling....

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    • The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
    • By: Eddie Jaku
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,986 ratings
    • In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life....

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    • An American Slave
    • By: Frederick Douglass
    • Narrated by: Raymond Hearn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,272 ratings
    • This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom....

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    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,663 ratings
    • Attacking the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts....

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    • The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
    • By: Elise Loehnen
    • Narrated by: Elise Loehnen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Journalist Elise Loehnen explores the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered “good,” revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live....

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    • The Fall of the Soviet Union
    • By: Vladislav M. Zubok
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world....

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