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    • A True Story
    • By: Joanne Lee, Ann Cusack
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,308 ratings
    • For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of three newborn babies hidden in her wardrobe. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal....

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    • And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
    • By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,241 ratings
    • How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....

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    • On Homecoming and Belonging
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,188 ratings
    • Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning....

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    • Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
    • By: Amanda Ripley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ripley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • In this book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free....

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    • Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
    • By: Christopher R. Browning
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,827 ratings
    • Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....

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    • The Shocking True Story of Surviving and Evil Nun's Care Home from Hell
    • By: Marie Hargreaves
    • Narrated by: Dorothy Lawrence
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday....

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    • Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake
    • By: Tim Larkin
    • Narrated by: Tim Larkin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,012 ratings
    • In this essential new book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives....

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    • The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
    • By: Peter Vronsky
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000)....

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    • Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
    • By: Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda
    • Narrated by: Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,775 ratings
    • The tales in I Will Find You will shock you like the best horror stories - divulging insights into the actions, motivations, and proclivities of nature's most dangerous species....

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    • The Horrific True Story of a Girl's Life in the Hands of Sex Traffickers
    • By: Caitlin Spencer
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 942 ratings
    • From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,339 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
    • By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Narrated by: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,957 ratings
    • The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed"....

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    • In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him….

    • Serial Killers
    • By: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 748 ratings
    • Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century..

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    • The Method and Madness of Monsters
    • By: Peter Vronsky
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in ancient Rome....

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    • Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,658 ratings
    • A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark best sellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse....

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    • And How to Stop Them
    • By: Barbara F. Walter
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,114 ratings
    • A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,903 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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