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    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

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    • The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
    • By: Natalie Dykstra
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....

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    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,951 ratings
    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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    • By: Susan Orlean
    • Narrated by: Susan Orlean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,965 ratings
    • On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....

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    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,535 ratings
    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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    • And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
    • By: Joshua Hammer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....

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    • By: Sherman Alexie
    • Narrated by: Adam Beach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881 ratings
    • Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity....

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Abandoned in a library book-drop slot in the dead of winter, the small kitten who came to be known as Dewey Readmore Books miraculously endured the coldest night of the year....

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    • A Fragile History
    • By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....

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    • Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
    • By: Mike Thomson
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during the four-year siege they endured....

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    • A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
    • By: Josh Hanagarne
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,679 ratings
    • At first glance, Josh Hanagarne seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7", competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette's syndrome....

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    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata....

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    • The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Julia Winwood
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • From a New York Times best-selling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia....

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    • How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
    • By: Noah Charney
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....

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    • The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
    • By: Dan Hicks
    • Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum....

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    • Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
    • By: Lonnie G. Bunch III
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured....

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    • Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
    • By: Kristin Ann Hass
    • Narrated by: Nadia Marshall
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future....

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    • Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
    • By: Annie Spence
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. Annie Spence addresses those books directly....

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