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In the Land of Invisible Women
- A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
- By: Qanta A. Ahmed MD
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom is a world apart, a land of unparalleled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her.
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Excellent account of life in Riyadh
- By Eliza Conquest on 21-01-15
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In the Land of Invisible Women
- A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-05-12
- Language: English
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Long Life, Honey in the Heart
- By: Martín Prechtel
- Narrated by: Martín Prechtel
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Martín Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with the subtle intelligence and sophistication of Mayan culture. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Guatemala's political upheaval in the 1980s, this...
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The best thing since sliced bread
- By Jessica May on 12-12-24
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Long Life, Honey in the Heart
- Narrated by: Martín Prechtel
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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A History of Water
- Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- By: Edward Wilson-Lee
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 ‘Exhilarating and whip-smart’ THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected...
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Fascinating
- By djmp on 20-12-23
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A History of Water
- Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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Mona
- An Immodest Memoir of Race and Rebellion
- By: Azra Liaqat Khan
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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As irreverent as it is insightful, MONA turns the repressed Muslim girl trope on its head as Azra, academic by day and stripper by night, navigates a double life and a political awakening. Azra Liaqat Khan’s ordinary Muslim American childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina transforms after her...
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Mona
- An Immodest Memoir of Race and Rebellion
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 17-11-26
- Language: English
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A Warrior's Heart
- The True Story of Life Before and Beyond The Fighter
- By: Micky Ward, Joe Layden
- Narrated by: Micky Ward, Bill Lobley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance31
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With the success of the critically-acclaimed, Academy Award-winning film “The Fighter,” the world stood up and cheered for the inspiring true story of Micky Ward—a heart-and-soul warrior who overcame the odds to make history in the ring. But that was only part of the tale… Now, in his...
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What a book
- By Anonymous on 26-05-24
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A Warrior's Heart
- The True Story of Life Before and Beyond The Fighter
- Narrated by: Micky Ward, Bill Lobley
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-05-12
- Language: English
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Mixed/Other
- Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain
- By: Natalie Morris
- Narrated by: Natalie Morris
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance40
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The mixed population is the fastest-growing group in the UK today, but the mainstream conversation around mixedness is stilted, repetitive and often problematic. At a time when ethnically ambiguous models fill our Instagram feeds and our high street shop windows, and when children of interracial relationships are lauded as heralding in the dawn of a post-racial utopia, journalist Natalie Morris takes a deep dive into what it really means to be mixed in Britain today.
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an important listen
- By ZZZ on 27-04-21
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Mixed/Other
- Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Natalie Morris
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
- By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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One of the first personal narratives written by an ex-slave, this is also one of the few written by a woman. Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) was enslaved, along with her family, in North Carolina under a ruthless master who sexually harassed her. After several failed escape attempts, and several years of hiding, she finally made her way North to freedom, where she was eventually reunited with her children. The book was published in 1861.
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Very well read.
- By Chris Martin on 03-11-24
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
- Narrated by: Jean Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-02-12
- Language: English
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Quacks
- Hilarious, Bizarre and Shocking Stories from a Former Junior Doctor
- By: Dr. Ahmed Handy
- Narrated by: Dr. Ahmed Handy
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When British Arab and ‘Southerner’ Dr Ahmed Handy suddenly found himself working as a junior doctor in the Midlands, a part of the country with which he was wholly unfamiliar (and which was equally unfamiliar with people like him), he was faced with something of a culture shock. But that was only the beginning of his bizarre junior doctor experience.
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Fabulous!
- By Katie Gregory on 15-02-26
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Quacks
- Hilarious, Bizarre and Shocking Stories from a Former Junior Doctor
- Narrated by: Dr. Ahmed Handy
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-12-25
- Language: English
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Crossing
- A story of Palestinian love and resistance
- By: Sabrin Hasbun
- Narrated by: Sabrin Hasbun
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautiful and compelling family memoir retracing the love story between Sabrin Hasbun's Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother's choices which led her from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to finding love and community activism in Palestine.
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Crossing
- A story of Palestinian love and resistance
- Narrated by: Sabrin Hasbun
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Autists
- Women on the Spectrum
- By: Clara Törnvall, Alice E. Olsson - translator
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.
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Relatable
- By roseann.connolly on 06-04-24
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The Autists
- Women on the Spectrum
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-09-23
- Language: English
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What Happened, Miss Simone?
- A Biography
- By: Alan Light
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. From music journalist and...
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What Happened, Miss Simone?
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-02-16
- Language: English
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Worrell
- The Brief but Brilliant Life of a Caribbean Cricket Pioneer
- By: Simon Lister
- Narrated by: Mendez
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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'The definitive telling of the life of a West Indian hero' Sir Clive Lloyd The brilliant all-rounder Frank Worrell had to wait until 1960 to become the first permanent Black captain of the West Indies cricket team, denied for a decade by the elitism, insularity and racism of Caribbean...
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Amazing. Simply Amazing
- By Tech9 on 17-02-25
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Because She Cared
- A Live-in Carers Journey Before, During and After COVID-19
- By: Mariki Kriel
- Narrated by: Courtney Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Kiki is moulded and shaped by her employers' demands and those of her clients until she is forced to change who she is. At last, she gets her British passport and is able to initiate divorce proceedings. She enters survival mode, allowing herself to be receptive to new experiences and starting the healing process.
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Because She Cared
- A Live-in Carers Journey Before, During and After COVID-19
- Narrated by: Courtney Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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Sanctuary
- By: Marina Warner
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner's Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today's world of...
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Sanctuary
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-07-25
- Language: English
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Francesco
- Il primo italiano
- By: Aldo Cazzullo
- Narrated by: Aldo Cazzullo, Beatrice Luzzi
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Francesco è il primo italiano perché è fondamentale nel costruire l'identità italiana. Perché scrive la prima, splendida poesia in italiano: il Cantico delle Creature. Perché percorre l'Italia, dalle grandi città alla campagna, e inventa il presepe. Cazzullo racconta la vita straordinaria di Francesco, la giovinezza piena di ideali cavallereschi, la rottura con il padre, la spoliazione, l'incontro con il Papa, fino al grande mistero: le stimmate.
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Francesco
- Il primo italiano
- Narrated by: Aldo Cazzullo, Beatrice Luzzi
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-10-25
- Language: Italian
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Trotzdem zuhause
- By: Tupoka Ogette
- Narrated by: Tupoka Ogette
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Tupoka Ogette erzählt von der Suche nach Zugehörigkeit, vom Leben in der Gleichzeitigkeit, im Widerspruch, im Dazwischen. Vom Aufwachsen als Schwarzes Kind in der DDR, von Flucht, Verlust, Sexismus und Gewalt – aber auch von Liebe, Mutterschaft, Resilienz und Selbstermächtigung. Von Freundschaften, die sie schließt, und solchen, die sie verliert. Vom Neuanfang in der BRD. Und davon, die Ruhe im Sturm zu finden.
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Trotzdem zuhause
- Narrated by: Tupoka Ogette
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-02-26
- Language: German
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Defiant Dreams
- The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
- By: Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor
- Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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At age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she could no longer attend school. The Taliban threatened that any girl who dared to continue their education would have acid thrown in their face, be kidnapped, or worse. Confined to the walls of her home, Sola watched as the few freedoms of childhood were stripped away. She was forbidden to play, to sing, even to laugh. Her early teenage years were consumed by restrictions. Realising that she would have to either succumb to this life or find a way out, she decided on the latter.
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Excellent book
- By R M on 29-03-25
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Defiant Dreams
- The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
- Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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A Story Rewritten
- The Journey Within, Book 1
- By: Kemi Emejulu
- Narrated by: Dorcas A.Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Story Rewritten, Nkechi Ezeani’s journey unfolds as a poignant tale of loss, survival, and rediscovery. Fleeing a life torn apart by war, she seeks refuge in 1970s New York, where reinvention becomes both her salvation and her burden. Amid the grit and vibrancy of the city, Nkechi builds a new life, finding unexpected connections and a love that offers her hope for the future. But the past is never truly left behind.
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A Story Rewritten
- The Journey Within, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dorcas A.Stevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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Stories From a Stranger
- Every person has a story.
- By: Hunter Prosper
- Narrated by: Hunter Prosper, Marisa Blake, Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A collection of one hundred deeply personal stories—covering love and heartbreak, growth and resilience—brought to life by the creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @HunterProsper. Every person has a story. Dick knew that it was love at first sight...
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Stories From a Stranger
- Every person has a story.
- Narrated by: Hunter Prosper, Marisa Blake, Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption
- A Memoir
- By: Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley - foreword, Barbara Becnel - epilogue
- Narrated by: Ferlon Webster
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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When his Los Angeles neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence—and Tookie's reputation—began to spread across Los Angeles. Soon he was regularly under police surveillance, and, as a result, was arrested often, though always released because the charges did not stick.
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Blue Rage, Black Redemption
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ferlon Webster
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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