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Author: 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...
View BookAuthor: Dolly Parton
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Author Dolly Parton
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Duration 5h 18m
A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-culture icon. In this exclusive audio performance, the ten-time Grammy Award–winning artist weaves her words w...
View BookAuthor: Darren Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
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Author Darren Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Narrator Dan Woren
Duration 17h 55m
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?Simply, no. None of these...
View BookAuthor: Walter Isaacson
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Author Walter Isaacson
Narrator Malcolm Hillgartner
Duration 34h 30m
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative a...
View BookAuthor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Author Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Duration 18h 4m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leadership written and read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with additional narration from Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make t...
View BookAuthor: Mark Miodownik
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Author Mark Miodownik
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 6h 53m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, read by Daniel Weyman. A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists Everything is made of something... From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matter...
View BookAuthor: Julian Baggini
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Author Julian Baggini
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Duration 12h 45m
All cultures are different, and have different ways of thinking. In How the World Thinks, Julian Baggini travels the globe to provide a hugely wide-ranging map of human thought. He shows us how distinct branches of philosophy flowered simultaneously in China, India and Ancient Greece, growing from local myths and stories - and how contemporary cult...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Eclair
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Author Jenny Eclair
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Duration 6h 23m
'The menopause is a weird one, as a woman you know that the likelihood of it happening to you is pretty inevitable, but no-one really tells you what to expect.' So says Jenny Eclair, who, with her trademark humour, will share her experience of what can be a difficult time for many women, from the emotional side of life - missing the woman you were,...
View BookAuthor: Dina Nayeri
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Author Dina Nayeri
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Duration 10h 33m
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar. With this comes the weight of the expectations (and fears and resentment) of those born in the host count...
View BookAuthor: David Eagleman
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Author David Eagleman
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Duration 9h 18m
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; the...
View BookAuthor: Alan Rusbridger
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Author Alan Rusbridger
Narrator Piers Hampton
Duration 12h 33m
Nothing in life works without facts. A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates. People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a...
View BookAuthor: Lemn Sissay
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Author Lemn Sissay
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 5h 20m
At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay reco...
View BookAuthor: Sara Pascoe
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Author Sara Pascoe
Narrator Sara Pascoe
Duration 10h 45m
Includes an episode from the second season of Sara Pascoe's award-winning Sex Power Money podcast where Sara talks to Fern Champion. The Sunday Times top 10 best seller Why do some women still expect men to buy their dinner? Why do some men feel depressed after masturbating? What the hell is going on with porn? Co...
View BookAuthor: Shaun Bythell
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Author Shaun Bythell
Narrator Robin Laing
Duration 9h 41m
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction house...
View BookAuthor: Lenny Henry
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Author Lenny Henry
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Duration 7h 22m
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry. In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the extraordinary story of his early years an...
View BookAuthor: Anne Glenconner
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Author Anne Glenconner
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Duration 9h 9m
Anne Glenconner has been close to the Royal Family since childhood. Eldest child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, she was, as a daughter, described as 'the greatest disappointment' by her family as she was unable to inherit. Her childhood home, Holkham Hall, is one of the grandest estates in England. Bordering Sandringham, the Princesses Elizabeth and...
View BookAuthor: Adam Buxton
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Author Adam Buxton
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Duration 10h 50m
Includes an exclusive bonus podcast with Joe Cornish. The long-awaited, rambling, tender and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton. Ramble Book is about parenthood, boarding-school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the '80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed a...
View BookAuthor: Alisa Vitti
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Author Alisa Vitti
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Duration 9h 56m
How women can improve their productivity, happiness, and physical well-being by keeping their natural cycles in mind and working with them (rather than ignoring them). In the FLO teaches women how to use their 28-day cycle to optimise their life by letting their internal clock and natural rhythms guide time management, diet, fitne...
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Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 1h 5m
An audio newsletter containing Listening Books news, audiobook reviews, a quiz and an interview with actor and audiobook narrator, Hugh Fraser. 02.15 - Listening Books Update 06.25 - Interview with Hugh Fraser 20.45 - Audiobook Reviews 39.35 - Book Quiz
View BookAuthor: Dave Pelzer
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Author Dave Pelzer
Narrator Brian Keeler
Duration 7h 31m
The Lost Boy has spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list and has profoundly influenced more than one million readers' lives. Following the tremendous success of Pulitzer Prize nominee A Child Called "It", this book continues the extraordinary tale of author Dave Pelzer's childhood. On the verge of adolescence...
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