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The Aeronauts
- Travels in the Air
- By: James Glaisher
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before to establish his groundbreaking research. Glaisher’s death-defying journey forms the story of the major motion picture The Aeronauts, starring Eddie Redmayne as Glaisher and Felicity Jones as his balloon companion, Amelia Wren. Written in his own words, The Aeronauts chronicles Glaisher’s incredible flights and discoveries first hand, as well as his observations on the pioneers who came before and inspired him.
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The Aeronauts
- Travels in the Air
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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Listen, World!
- How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman
- By: Allison Gilbert, Julia Scheeres
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunn
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she’d lost it all. Reeling from a divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills. When the mine shut down, she moved to the Bay Area, where she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over thirty years and garnered fifty million readers.
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Listen, World!
- How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunn
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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Queen of the Burglars
- The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons
- By: Shayne Davidson
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Born in the mid-nineteenth century, Sophie Lyons was a master thief, con artist, blackmailer and smuggler. Much of her success as a criminal was due to the fact that she was fearless, reckless, sharp and cunning—everything a woman of her time was not supposed to be. As a young child, Sophie’s parents forced her to steal when she showed a talent for pickpocketing. Strong-willed and smart, she blossomed into a beautiful teenager who caught the eye of many men in the underworld of New York City.
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Queen of the Burglars
- The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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As We Exist
- A Postcolonial Autobiography
- By: Kaoutar Harchi, Emma Ramadan - translator
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity. Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchi’s probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of political issues. Mixed with happy memories of her childhood home in eastern France are ever-present reminders of the dangers from which her parents sought to shield her.
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As We Exist
- A Postcolonial Autobiography
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-03-23
- Language: English
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Too Much of Life
- The Complete Crônicas
- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
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The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers, or even soccer stars, to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector’s pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio’s leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love.
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Excellent reader, highly recommended
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Too Much of Life
- The Complete Crônicas
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 17-01-23
- Language: English
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Fever
- By: Jonathan Bazzi
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Jonathan is thirty-one-years-old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two cats when he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn’t go away. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. A series of blood tests, hospital visits, and repeated misdiagnoses ensue, until the truth is finally revealed: Jonathan is HIV-positive. In the vein of Edouard Louis, Fever is at once a deeply personal story and a searing examination of class, poverty, prejudice, and opportunity in modern Europe.
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Fever
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-12-22
- Language: English
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When We Were the Boys
- Coming of Age on Rod Stewart's Out of Order Tour
- By: Stevie Salas, Robert Yehling - contributor
- Narrated by: Stevie Salas
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Stevie Salas was one of many boys coming of age in the 1980s—when the American dream was rock superstardom. As lead guitarist for a San Diego band, Salas played backyard parties and school dances and even scored the music for the cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When he auditioned for Rod Stewart—where he was the youngest band member by a decade—Salas’s life truly hit a turning point.
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When We Were the Boys
- Coming of Age on Rod Stewart's Out of Order Tour
- Narrated by: Stevie Salas
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Seduced by the Light
- The Mina Miller Edison Story
- By: Alexandra Rimer
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison. Exhaustively researched by author Alexandra Rimer, this account draws on unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs, and letters to look below the surface of the Edison family during the Gilded Age from the little-known perspective of this female protagonist.
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Seduced by the Light
- The Mina Miller Edison Story
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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Women Writing Musicals
- The Legacy That the History Books Left Out
- By: Jennifer Ashley Tepper
- Length: 11 hrs
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From the women who pounded the pavement selling their songs in Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the twentieth century; to the women who broke new ground writing shows during the Great Depression; to the women who penned protest musicals fighting for social justice during the 1970s; to those who are revitalizing the landscape of American musicals today, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out is the first-ever book to tell the story of the over three hundred inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.
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Women Writing Musicals
- The Legacy That the History Books Left Out
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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Runaway
- Notes on the Myths That Made Me
- By: Erin Keane
- Narrated by: Erin Keane
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Through a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship.
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Runaway
- Notes on the Myths That Made Me
- Narrated by: Erin Keane
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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The Very Last Interview
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
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David Shields decided to gather every interview he’s ever given, going back nearly forty years. If it was on the radio or TV or a podcast, he transcribed it. He wasn’t sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn’t interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested him—approximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy.
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The Very Last Interview
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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The Wizard of Foz
- Dick Fosbury’s One-Man High-Jump Revolution
- By: Bob Welch
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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In 1968, perhaps the finest US Olympic men’s track-and-field team ever stirred the world in unprecedented ways, among them the victory stand black rights protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos in Mexico City. But in competition no single athlete mirrored the free-thinking 1960s better than Dick Fosbury, a failed prep high jumper who invented an offbeat style that ultimately won him a gold medal and revolutionized the event. No jumpers today use any other style than his.
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The Wizard of Foz
- Dick Fosbury’s One-Man High-Jump Revolution
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-02-22
- Language: English
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Funeral for Flaca
- Essays
- By: Emilly G. Prado
- Narrated by: Emilly G. Prado
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth.
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Funeral for Flaca
- Essays
- Narrated by: Emilly G. Prado
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-01-22
- Language: English
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The Skinny
- By: Jonathan Wells
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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The critically acclaimed poet and author of the collection Debris, Jonathan Wells gives us a thoughtful, candid, and powerful memoir about the universal exploration of adolescence and self-image, the frailty of masculinity, and all the places we seek comfort in a world trying to redefine us.
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The Skinny
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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The Waters Between Us
- A Boy, a Father, Outdoor Misadventures, and the Healing Power of Nature
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrated by: Michael J. Tougias
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Boyhood in the 1960s and ‘70s was a time for exploration and mischief. Author Michael Tougias found more than his share of misadventures in the woods and on the water: some life-threatening, but others innocently hilarious. Over time - and after reading a multitude of adventure books - these experiences took shape in his quest to be a mountain man, owning a cabin in the forest and living off the land. Part of that dream would come true, but only after a family tragedy that shook his world and forced changes in his life.
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The Waters Between Us
- A Boy, a Father, Outdoor Misadventures, and the Healing Power of Nature
- Narrated by: Michael J. Tougias
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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The Better Angels
- Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
- By: Robert C. Plumb
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Excellent biographies have been written about Clara Barton, Sarah Josepha Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman, but their lives have never been looked at together as they intertwined with the Civil War narrative. Plumb compares and contrasts the qualities of the women to discover their common attributes for success and what was unique to each woman. Without leading troops in battle or wielding political power, these five women profoundly influenced the start of the war and its conduct throughout as North and South clashed.
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The Better Angels
- Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-03-20
- Language: English
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The Haunt of Home
- A Journey Through America’s Heartland
- By: Zachary Michael Jack
- Narrated by: Tim Getman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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In The Haunt of Home, Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region’s abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a land and its people, offering portraits of others who, like himself, are determined to live out the unique promise and predicament of the Gothic.
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The Haunt of Home
- A Journey Through America’s Heartland
- Narrated by: Tim Getman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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The Lives of Justine Johnstone
- Follies Star, Research Scientist, Social Activist
- By: Kathleen Vestuto
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone (1895-1982) was celebrated as "the most beautiful woman in the world." Her career took an unexpected turn when she abruptly retired from acting at 31. For the remainder of her life, she dedicated herself to medical research and social activism. The first full-length biography of Johnstone chronicles her extraordinary success in two male-dominated fields - show business and medical science - and follows her remarkable journey into a fascinating and fulfilling life.
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The Lives of Justine Johnstone
- Follies Star, Research Scientist, Social Activist
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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Anchored
- A Journalist's Search for Truth
- By: Mort Crim
- Narrated by: Mort Crim
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Mort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell’s performance in the movie Anchorman. Crim’s memoir takes listeners behind the camera to show what life was like when the local anchorman was as revered as the professional athlete and just as overpaid. It was a glamorous life, working alongside some of journalism’s legends: Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Dan Rather, and Ted Koppel.
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No Place Like Home
- A Memoir in 39 Apartments
- By: Brooke Berman
- Narrated by: Brooke Berman
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Brooke Berman moved to New York as a wide-eyed 18-year-old, eager to call the big city home. Candid, funny, and thoughtful, in No Place Like Home, we follow Brooke’s adventures as she crisscrosses town trying to make ends meet and make her dreams of a life in the theater come true. With each apartment, from the heavenly to the horrible, she learns more about how to heal the past, let go of excess, and keep a sense of humor while trying to stay flexible in the search for stability.
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No Place Like Home
- A Memoir in 39 Apartments
- Narrated by: Brooke Berman
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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