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Author: Captain Tom Moore
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Author Captain Tom Moore
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 2h 37m
One small soul like me won't make much difference' Captain TomIf Captain Tom's big heart and generosity of spirit helped see us through difficult days, this was his parting gift.Full of the wit, warmth and wisdom that made him so special, his reflections and guiding principles form a long life, well lived; Life Lessons will be a sour...
View BookAuthor: Karl Deisseroth
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Author Karl Deisseroth
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Duration 9h 32m
Why do we feel what we feel?Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, but the reasons we bear this burden, and the nature of these diseases, have remained mysterious. Now, our understanding has reached a tipping point. In Connections, Professor Karl Deisseroth intertwines gripping case studies from his experience as an e...
View BookAuthor: Rahul Jandial
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Author Rahul Jandial
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Duration 6h 23m
When Dr Rahul Jandial operated on Karina, an eleven-year-old girl whose spinal cord was splitting in two, he had to make an impossible decision. He followed his head over his gut and Karina was left permanently paralysed, altering both patient and surgeon's lives for ever. This decision would haunt Rahul for decades, a constant reminder of the fine...
View BookAuthor: Richard Dawkins
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Author Richard Dawkins
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Duration 11h 51m
Brought to you by Penguin.A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kindsKeats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of sc...
View BookAuthor: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Author Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Narrator Katharine K. Wilkinson
Duration 15h 5m
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativit...
View BookThe Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
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Narrator Kulananda
Duration 5h 34m
The Eightfold Path is the most widely known formulation of the Buddha’s teaching. It is ancient, reaching back to the Buddha’s very first discourse, and it is highly venerated as a unique treasury of wisdom and practical guidance. The teaching of The Eightfold Path challenges us to grasp the implications of that vision,...
View BookAuthor: Jeff Rediger
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Author Jeff Rediger
Narrator Jeff Rediger
Duration 14h
When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules.Dr Jeff Rediger, a world-leading Harvard psychiatrist, has spent the last fifteen years studying thousands of individuals from around the world, examining the stories behind extraordinary cases of recovery from...
View BookAuthor: Charles Rivers Editors
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Author Charles Rivers Editors
Narrator Bill Hare
Duration 2h 27m
Though he couldn't have known it, the various scholars and scientists that Napoleon Bonaparte brought to Egypt during his military campaigning there kicked off modern Egyptology, and a general fascination across the West. Until about 200 years ago, the writing of the ancient Egyptians was an enigma to the world, but that changed when an ancient Egy...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Blondin
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Author Sarah Blondin
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Duration 9h 3m
A treasury of meditations for living from your heart—from a top teacher at the #1 online meditation service, InsightTimer.In our noisy, noisy world, it can seem nearly impossible to find ways to turn off our busy minds, which so often flood us with worry and unending lists of tasks. So how do you find your way off the negativity treadmill? Wh...
View BookAuthor: Bexy Cameron
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Author Bexy Cameron
Narrator Bexy Cameron
Duration 9h 55m
Bexy Cameron was in her late twenties then the dark events of her past finally caught up with her.Bexy was born into the Children of God, one of the world's most notorious cults. She was 9 years old when she experienced her first exorcism, held in a secret commune deep in the British countryside. At 10, she was placed on Silence Restriction, forced...
View BookAuthor: Anita Rani
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Author Anita Rani
Narrator Anita Rani
Duration 9h 32m
Trying to navigate her Indian world at home and the British world outside her front door, Anita Rani was a girl who didn't ­fit in anywhere. She was always destined to stand out: from playing Mary in her otherwise all white nursery nativity to growing up in eighties Yorkshire with her Punjabi family, spending evenings in the factory her parents...
View BookAuthor: Der Kolk Bessel Van
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Author Der Kolk Bessel Van
Narrator Sean Pratt
Duration 16h 16m
Brought to you by Penguin. What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? In this audiobook, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory...
View BookAuthor: Kenya Hunt
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Author Kenya Hunt
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Duration 5h 39m
Guhl. Gworl. Gurl. Girl! No matter how you say it, there's undeniable power behind Black Girl Magic. Journalist and writer Kenya Hunt moved to London at the dawn of the Obama administration, just as social media was gaining momentum. Spending the last decade away from home, she writes about the unique love language between Black women, both in the...
View BookAuthor: Andy Mcnab
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Author Andy Mcnab
Narrator Paul Thornley
Duration 16h 26m
Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a...
View BookAuthor: Andy Mcnab
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Author Andy Mcnab
Narrator Paul Thornley
Duration 10h 59m
They were like a band of brothers... In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as SEVEN TROOP. This is Andy McNab's gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men - from the day, freshly badged, he joined them in the Ma...
View BookAuthor: Jeff Lowenfels
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Author Jeff Lowenfels
Narrator Chris Lutkin
Duration 8h 7m
When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic substances. Teaming with Microbes offers an alternative to this vicious circle and details how to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web. You'll discover that...
View BookAuthor: Angela Levin
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Author Angela Levin
Narrator Bea Holland
Duration 8h 21m
Once a reckless rebel, now a respected role model, Prince Harry is one of the world's most popular royals and the force behind giving the British royal family a twenty-first century makeover. How has he done it? Harry: Conversations with the Prince is a three-dimensional look at what Harry is really like, both on and off royal duty. It is...
View BookMortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Author: Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
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Author Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
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Duration 6h 5m
ONE OF THE BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2019 - The GuardianJoin these two comedy greats and lifelong friends on their journey from recuperation to riverbank in this hilarious and heart-warming audiobook that gives you a front-row seat at an exclusive Bob and Paul production.Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life i...
View BookAuthor: Carl Chinn
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Author Carl Chinn
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 8h 42m
The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes.Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, revealed the true story of the notorious gang in his bestselling Peaky Blinders: Th...
View BookAuthor: Becca Caddy
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Author Becca Caddy
Narrator Julie Maisey
Duration 10h 46m
Your phone? Your rules.Fed up with your screen time going up and up every week, but unable to give up your phone? Listen to Screen Time for a new, balanced approach.Rather than going cold turkey or fighting against the finely calibrated, billion-dollar barrage of demands for our attention that ping up on our phones,...
View BookAuthor: Dr Max Skittle
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Author Dr Max Skittle
Narrator Kris Dyer
Duration 11h 49m
Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor.Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on a rollercoaster journey through a year in the life of a doctor: from infected toenails, to wonky elbows, to erectile disfunction, to bed bugs; the happy couple expecting a...
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