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Author: Lance Armstrong Foundation The
Format: Online
Author Lance Armstrong Foundation The
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 30m
Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONGT wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day. Now, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has compiled, from hours of videotaped intervi...
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Author: Alexandra Shulman
Format: Online
Author Alexandra Shulman
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 21m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Inside Vogue, written and read by Alexandra Shulman. Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman kept a diary of British Vogue's Centenary year. And what a year. She reveals the emotional and logistical minefield of producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surpr...
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Author: Caspar Lee, Emily Riordan Lee
Format: Online
Author Caspar Lee, Emily Riordan Lee
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 51m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Casper Lee by Casper Lee and Emily Riordan Lee. Read by Casper Lee, Emily Riordan Lee and Theodora Lee. This is a book about me. Unfortunately, I didn't write it - my mum did. WTF! Let me tell you now that 98% of it is total lies. Actually, I'm pretty sure this book is illegal. So...
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Author: George Johnson
Format: Online
Author George Johnson
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 8h 24m
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science-writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is that a revolution is now under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is...
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Author: Sam Kean
Format: Online
Author Sam Kean
Narrator Sam Kean
Duration 10h 36m
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth an...
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Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 3m
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors. How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your nat...
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Format: Online
Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 14h 53m
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares tha...
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
Author: Sandberg Sheryl
Format: Online
Author Sandberg Sheryl
Narrator Elisa Donovan
Duration 6h 14m
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps...
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This Is Cancer: Everything You Need To Know, From the Waiting Room To the Bedroom
Author: Laura Holmes Haddad
Format: Online
Author Laura Holmes Haddad
Narrator Rachel Fulginiti
Duration 7h 10m
Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed, or color. Its victims and their caregivers are everywhere. When Laura Holmes Haddad was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer at age thirty-seven, she discovered shelf upon shelf of overly earnest, somber, gray survival books instead of the straight talk she needed. She knew there had to b...
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Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Author: Kory Stamper
Format: Online
Author Kory Stamper
Narrator Kory Stamper
Duration 9h 48m
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO DEFINE the word "is"? Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Brimming with intelligence and personality, this vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made is a must-read for word mavens. Many of us take dictionaries for granted, and few may realize that the process of writing dictionaries is, i...
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The History of the Brain, Episode 3
Author: Geoff Bunn
Format: Online
Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator The Author, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 3
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 3, 'The Origin of Common Sense', the focus is on Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the ventricles and making thought possible, and on ho...
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English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather
Author: Ben Fogle
Format: Online
Author Ben Fogle
Narrator Rupert Farley
Duration 9h 21m
What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues, coastlines and sporting arenas, Ben Fogle takes us...
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Air Force Blue: The Raf In World War Two - Spearhead of Victory
Author: Patrick Bishop
Format: Online
Author Patrick Bishop
Narrator Tim France
Duration 15h 1m
Air warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF's identity set it apart from the traditional services. It was innovative, flexible and comparatively meritocratic, advancing the quasi-revolutionary idea that competence was more important than background. Drawing from diaries, letter...
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: How To Build A Universe
Author: Robin Ince
Format: Online
Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 44m
From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels - a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British scienc...
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Ted Hughes: An Unauthorised Life
Author: Jonathan Bate
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Bate
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 25h 43m
A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is one of Britain's most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and...
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Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Alan Durant
Duration 14m
Alan Durant is a children's author and poet. His Creepe Hall series and YA novel Publish or Die are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
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Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 12m
Bill Bryson has written books in a variety of genres including travel, languages and science. We have a number of his titles available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
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An Interview With Christopher Paolini
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Christopher Paolini
Duration 29m
Christopher Paolini is the author of the Inheritance Cycle series, which is available is borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
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An Interview With James Runcie
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator James Runcie
Duration 21m
James Runcie is a novelist, playwright, TV producer and documentary filmmaker. His Granchester series of books is available to borrow from our library on MP3 CD. Photo ¸ Charlotte Runcie.
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An Interview With Melvyn Bragg
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 12m
Melvyn Bragg is an author and broadcaster. We have a number of his radio documentaries, including the Routes of English series, available to borrow from our online library.
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An Interview With Robert Winston
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Robert Winston
Duration 10m
Robert Winston is a scientist, author and broadcaster. We have several of his science books for children available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
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