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    • And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,283 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
    • By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 555 ratings
    • This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and 25 years of drama remade an ancient institution into a 21st-century entertainment empire....

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    • Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
    • By: Diana B. Henriques
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 16 hrs
    • Release date: 06-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 817 ratings
    • Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? Find out....

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    • A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
    • By: Jennifer Worth
    • Narrated by: Nicola Barber
    • Series: Call the Midwife, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,587 ratings
    • At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums....

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    • My Tale of Madness and Recovery
    • By: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
    • Narrated by: Emma Powell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down....

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    • Strategic Leadership and Integration in the Academic Setting
    • By: David Maguire
    • Narrated by: Tanvir Karim
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • A transformative leadership approach is necessary in a world where toxic work environments and disengaged employees have become all too common. Lyndsay Dowd, the visionary business coach, founder, and podcast presenter, is on a mission to transform the landscape of leadership. Meet her.

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    • Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Bo Burlingham
    • Narrated by: Bo Burlingham, Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 846 ratings
    • It's an axiom of business that great companies grow revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth....

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    • Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    • By: Henry Marsh
    • Narrated by: Jim Barclay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,625 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

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    • The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
    • By: Rebecca Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness....

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    • By: Edwin Lefevre
    • Narrated by: Rick Rohan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,303 ratings
    • First published in 1923, this lightly fictionalized biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time....

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    • The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
    • By: Bruce Goldfarb
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics....

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    • A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
    • By: Victoria Sweet
    • Narrated by: Victoria Sweet
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 369 ratings
    • San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages....

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    • Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
    • By: Michael Ruhlman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In the ultimate food-lover's fantasy, journalist Michael Ruhlman dons chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students...

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    • The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
    • By: Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson - introduction
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 677 ratings
    • In Jeff Bezos' own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin....

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    • The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
    • By: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of Cornelius Vanderbilt to the fall of his progeny....

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

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    • By: Jean Strouse
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 43 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Morgan, noted biographer Jean Strouse creates the first complete portrait of a man who defined American commerce and banking....

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    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,500 ratings
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

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