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Everything is Going to Be K.O.
Author: Kaiya Stone
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Author Kaiya Stone
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Duration 6h 10m
In Everything is Going to be K.O. Kaiya Stone writes about her own experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school to being diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia while at university, to performing her own one-woman stand up show inspired by her journey. Always funny and unfailingly honest, Kaiya...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Marr
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Author Andrew Marr
Narrator Raj Ghatak
Duration 16h 34m
In a brilliantly entertaining, living history of the modern United Kingdom, Andrew Marr traces how radically we have transformed through the course of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. When the Queen stepped into her crown in 1953 at the age of twenty-five, a British expedition was summiting Mount Everest for the first time. Ian Fleming was publishing th...
View BookAuthor: Daisy Upton
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Author Daisy Upton
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Duration 3h 7m
Daisy Upton has two little kids. She loves them - but they drive her mad. So, to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house. And @FiveMinuteMum was born. In her first book, she has collected 150+ games that take 5 minutes to set up & 5 minutes to tidy up. From pasta posting to...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Bonkink
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Author Rachel Bonkink
Narrator Victoria Yeates
Duration 6h 47m
Discover the ten ancient principles for more peace of mind in your daily life. Understand why you behave and think as you do, and how to make the changes that will transform your day-to-day experience. With a down-to-earth approach and real-life examples from business and personal life, this book shows you how to make your mind stronger – and...
View BookAuthor: Sean O'Brien
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Author Sean O'Brien
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Duration 9h 7m
Seán O'Brien does not come from a traditional rugby background. He grew up on a farm in Tullow, far from the rugby hotbeds of Limerick and Cork or the fee-paying schools of Dublin. But as he made his way up through the ranks, it soon became clear that he was a very special player and a very special personality. Now, Seán O'Brien tell...
View BookAuthor: Winston Groom
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Author Winston Groom
Narrator Robertson Dean
Duration 17h 23m
Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of W...
View BookAuthor: Jacky Hyams
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Author Jacky Hyams
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 5h 4m
Spitfire Stories, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during the Second World War as the only plane that coul...
View BookAuthor: Merlin Sheldrake
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Author Merlin Sheldrake
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Duration 9h 32m
Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi. These endlessly su...
View BookAuthor: Glennon Doyle
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Author Glennon Doyle
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Duration 8h 26m
Who were you before the world told you who to be? Part inspiration, part memoir, Untamed explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us. From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, speaker and activis...
View BookAuthor: Barack Obama
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Author Barack Obama
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Duration 29h
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing i...
View BookAuthor: Robert Macfarlane
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Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 8h 50m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS 'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and...
View BookAuthor: Robert Macfarlane
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Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 10h 44m
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghost...
View BookAuthor: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
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Author Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
Narrator Ali Stroker
Duration 6h 38m
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to insid...
View BookAuthor: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Duration 8h 8m
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Car...
View BookAuthor: Esmé Weijun Wang
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Author Esmé Weijun Wang
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Duration 7h 51m
Brought to you by Penguin. 'I've inherited a love of a writing and a talent for the visual arts from my mother, as well as her long and tapered fingers; I've also inherited a tendency for madness' Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started ye...
View BookAuthor: Frances Ryan
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Author Frances Ryan
Narrator Georgie Morrell
Duration 7h 5m
Crippled is a damning indictment of a safety net gone wrong, and a passionate demand for an end to austerity measures hitting those most in need. In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people ar...
View BookAuthor: Alice Wong
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Author Alice Wong
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Duration 8h 1m
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of conte...
View BookAuthor: David Mccullough
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Author David Mccullough
Narrator Nelson Runger
Duration 19h 24m
This National Book Award winner by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough shows how sickly "Teedie" becomes the robust, energetic Teddy Roosevelt. Born in 1858, Teddy finds his priviledged Manhattan family isn't immune to pain and sorrow. Potts disease disables his older sister, and epilepsy haunts his brother. Crippled by deadly asthma, Teddy soon...
View BookAuthor: Bobby Duffy
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Author Bobby Duffy
Narrator Mark Topping
Duration 6h 56m
Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be? Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter how educated you are, this book suggests you are likely to be very wrong indeed. Informed by exclusive research a...
View BookAuthor: Rebekah Taussig
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Author Rebekah Taussig
Narrator Rebekah Taussig
Duration 7h 33m
Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, unco...
View BookAuthor: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrator Alex Jennings, Jon Cartwright
Duration 5h 18m
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881–1885; the first three parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his ‘campaign against morality’, in which Nietzsche explored the ethical consequences of the ‘death of God’. Heavily critical not only o...
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