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    • By: Edwin Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Rick Rohan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,268 ratings
    • First published in 1923, this lightly fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time....

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    • The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
    • By: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 841 ratings
    • Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of Cornelius Vanderbilt to the fall of his progeny....

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    • Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
    • By: Gene Kranz
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,178 ratings
    • Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

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    • By: Homer Hickam
    • Narrated by: Frank Muller
    • Series: Coalwood, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Homer Hickam is the #1 New York Times best-selling author whose life inspired the critically acclaimed film October Sky....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
    • By: Dana Thomas
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • In her groundbreaking work Gods and Kings, acclaimed journalist Dana Thomas tells the true story of McQueen and Galliano. In so doing she reveals the relentless world of couture....

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    • Magical Fusion, Book 2
    • By: Jonathan Brooks
    • Narrated by: Miles Meili
    • Series: Magical Fusion, Book 2
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • After being kicked out of Crystalview Academy by Dean Wilburt, Larek and his new friends are forced to journey south where he is to continue his studies in yet another Academy named Copperleaf....

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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....

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    • Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
    • By: David Gessner
    • Narrated by: Brian O'Neil
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • A homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it....

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    • The Last Magus, Book 2
    • By: DB King
    • Narrated by: Alex Knox
    • Series: The Last Magus, Book 2
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings
    • Now that Alec and Eleira have learned how to use the Greater Elements, they must take the Royal Academy's entrance examination. What awaits them there is something neither could have anticipated: more magic, more friends, and more danger....

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    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Alfred Molina
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,926 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....

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    • By: Eric Blehm
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,223 ratings
    • The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance....

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    • Obsidian Order Series, Book 1
    • By: Katerina Martinez
    • Narrated by: Sarah Puckett
    • Series: Obsidian Order Series, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • As long as I can keep my supernatural origins hidden, my life is simple. It's just my best friend and me against the world, eating dried ramen and peas, watching reality TV, and laying low in the city that never sleeps....

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    • Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
    • By: Rosemary Ashton
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....

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    • True Stories of a Life in Medicine
    • By: Walter M. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics....

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    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 806 ratings
    • On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political.

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    • By: Nawal El Saadawi
    • Narrated by: Amira Ghazalla
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • This classic novel has been an inspiration to countless people across the world. Saadawi's searing indictment of society's brutal treatment of women continues to resonate today.

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    • Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
    • By: Kenn Kaufman
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world....

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    • By: Pat Conroy
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten....

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