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The Chronology of Water
- By: Lidia Yuknavitch
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance30
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Story30
From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. A kind of memoir that is also a peon to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire - for men and women - and the exhilaration of swimming, The Chronology of Water lays a life bare. It is a life that navigates and transcends abuse, addiction, self-destruction and the crushing loss of a stillborn child. It is the life of a misfit, one that forges a fierce and untrodden path to creativity and comes together in the shape of love.
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Great, strong, book, beautifully interpreted.
- By Vale. on 15-09-19
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The Chronology of Water
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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The War of the Roses
- By: Warren Adler
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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The War of the Roses tells the story of the Roses, starting with their fateful meeting as students, falling in love, and creating the perfect nuclear family. Oliver, a Harvard graduate and successful corporate lawyer, has his sights set on a major promotion while Barbara, a steely self-starter, runs her own catering company, wowing the upper echelons of Washington DC society. Along with their two children, grand mansion and joint hobby of visiting auction houses, the Roses seem to be the paragon of a family living the American Dream. But things then take an unexpected and shocking course.
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One of my fave movies
- By Samantha Sweet on 01-10-25
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The War of the Roses
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Series: The War of the Roses, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Jaq
- A Top Boy Story
- By: Ronan Bennett
- Narrated by: Saffron Coomber
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Jaq's worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringing in money to keep her broken family afloat. Now she's built a good life near the top of the Summerhouse crew, with a beautiful home she shares with her girlfriend Becks and her heavily pregnant older sister Lauryn. But messages are coming in - good and bad - and Jaq has to make a choice: step back from the road and start a life she's never even considered. Or seize her opportunities and risk everything for life-changing money. Either way, Jaq will make enemies. And those enemies aren't going to let her go easily.
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The additional context regarding characters meeting and jaq’s emotions are elaborated well.
- By Ritchie Kelly on 15-05-26
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Jaq
- A Top Boy Story
- Narrated by: Saffron Coomber
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 25-01-24
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,793
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Performance1,537
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Story1,526
A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- By: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance11
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Story11
Kelefa Sanneh has made a deep study of how our popular music unites and divides us, the tribes it forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges, as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration.
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Excellent Take On How We Describe Music
- By Mr. Findlay J. Napier on 23-11-21
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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The Cut Up
- By: Louise Welsh
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
It’s hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming. When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his...
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Another Fantastic Outing
- By S A Kitney on 06-02-26
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The Cut Up
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Series: Rilke, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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That Old Country Music
- By: Kevin Barry
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance60
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Story60
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and his award-winning second book, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short-story writers. In this third collection, That Old Country Music, we encounter a ragbag of West of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.
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Poetry. Dark, beautiful and often hilarious.
- By Amazon Customer on 14-05-21
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That Old Country Music
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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Transformer
- Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture
- By: Neil Atkinson
- Narrated by: Neil Atkinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance53
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Story53
Neil Atkinson explores how Klopp, heralded as one of the most charismatic and successful managers in the history of football, has taken Liverpool FC to great heights over the past nine years. As Klopp's departure nears, Atkinson looks back on the trailblazing manager's time in Liverpool, the legacy he leaves behind and what it means for Liverpool: the club and the city.
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superb storytelling
- By Amazon Customer on 14-01-25
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Transformer
- Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture
- Narrated by: Neil Atkinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Stay with Me
- By: Ayobami Adebayo
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,176
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Performance1,050
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Story1,046
Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. When her in-laws insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal and despair. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of '80s Nigeria, Stay with Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of its surroundings. Ayobami Adebayo weaves a devastating story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood.
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A moving portrait of motherhood & family life
- By bookylady on 25-04-17
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Stay with Me
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-03-17
- Language: English
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The Truth Pixie Goes to School
- By: Matt Haig, Chris Mould
- Narrated by: Olivia Colman
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance27
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Story27
An uplifting story that will delight younger listeners and help them to be themselves in their school uniform. By the best-selling mastermind Matt Haig. As well as being a number one bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults.
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Absoulety outstanding
- By Amazon Customer on 27-01-20
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The Truth Pixie Goes to School
- Narrated by: Olivia Colman
- Series: The Truth Pixie, Book 2
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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The Spendthrift and the Swallow
- By: Ambrose Parry
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall43
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Performance37
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Story36
Edinburgh, 1853. Mesmerism is seeing a revival across the city. While most scientists avoid engaging with such quackery, the respected Dr Simpson has kept an open mind, testing hypnosis on his patients. But when Cora Carlton, socialite and wife of a wealthy entrepreneur, is mysteriously found dead in her home, whispers turn to rumours and rumours turn to fact, with all fingers pointing to her Doctor, Simpson. Desperate to clear their mentor's name, Dr Will Raven and Sarah Fisher join forces to find the truth about Cora's death.
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Too short
- By PJ on 08-06-24
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The Spendthrift and the Swallow
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Series: Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, Book 3.5
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 24-04-23
- Language: English
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The Helmet of Horror
- The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
- By: Victor Pelevin
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur’s labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century Minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chat rooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself.
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The Helmet of Horror
- The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Series: Canons
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-07-12
- Language: English
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Solar Bones
- By: Mike McCormack
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance121
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Story122
Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life suspended in a single hour.
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Not Bad
- By Gavin Jones on 27-09-17
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Solar Bones
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 20-09-17
- Language: English
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The Dry Season
- Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
- By: Melissa Febos
- Narrated by: Melissa Febos
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating, relationships and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Melissa, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship or another. It was time to focus on herself and examine the lifelong patterns that had got her to this point. When those three months ended, she decided to extend her celibate period, fearing that she had not yet gained the clarity she was searching for.
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A brilliant tale of memoirist Melissa Febos’s relationship to love, art, addiction and queerness.
- By Anonymous on 01-07-25
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The Dry Season
- Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
- Narrated by: Melissa Febos
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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A Stranger in Corfu
- By: Alex Preston
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
On the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants - former members of MI6 - are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to live freely. For years, residents make the best of their fate - old enemies reconcile, long-lost friends swim together in the warm sea and estranged lovers share a bed once more. But secrets bind tightly. And when one of their own washes up dead, alliances fracture and a tide of suspicion begins to rise.
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How do you pronounce Kassiopi ?
- By ALAN DAWSON on 12-03-26
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A Stranger in Corfu
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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Hysterical
- Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
- By: Pragya Agarwal
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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We've all heard the sayings that girls should be 'sugar and spice and all things nice', while 'boys don't cry'. In Hysterical, Pragya Agarwal dives deep into the history and science that has determined the gendering of emotions to ask whether there is any truth in the notion of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women—especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history—and how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.
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Great book. Poor recording/editing.
- By Nicola Bell on 07-06-24
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Hysterical
- Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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What Is a Doctor?
- A GP's Prescription for the Future
- By: Dr Phil Whitaker
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Phil Whitaker offers insight into the medical movements, political interference and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor over the past three decades.
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Important book we should all read
- By Anonymous on 10-09-25
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What Is a Doctor?
- A GP's Prescription for the Future
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Another Planet
- A Teenager in Suburbia
- By: Tracey Thorn
- Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance109
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Story109
In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving. Before she was a best-selling musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, Meaningful Conversations and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
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Up town magic !!!!!!
- By Polly on 28-06-26
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Another Planet
- A Teenager in Suburbia
- Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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The Typing Lady and other fictions
- By: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki, Jeff Ebner, George Newbern, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds. A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A...
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The Typing Lady and other fictions
- Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki, Jeff Ebner, George Newbern, Akie Kotabe
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall320
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Performance279
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Story277
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream? The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; they're right behind our eyes. This book is not simply about what the brain is but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research.
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There are some good bits but overall very labored
- By Roger D. on 08-11-20
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-08-20
- Language: English
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