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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 553 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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    • 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 6,253 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • 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 9,570 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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    • How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
    • By: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible....

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    • Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (Revised)
    • By: Janet Lowe
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • A must-listen biography from the author of the best-selling Warren Buffett Speaks....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
    • By: Naoki Higashida
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,835 ratings
    • You've never listened to a book like The Reason I Jump....

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    • By: Peter Nichols
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
    • By: Lynda Van Devanter
    • Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
    • Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • After high school Lynda Van Devanter attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly....

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    • The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
    • By: Gregory Zuckerman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 868 ratings
    • Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters....

    Regular price: $25.00

    • The Making of an American Capitalist
    • By: Roger Lowenstein
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,710 ratings
    • Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive inside account....

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    • How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
    • By: T.R. Reid
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000....

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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 852 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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    • 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 3,296 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 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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    • 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 1,622 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

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    • The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
    • By: Ian Stewart
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history....

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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 675 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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    • Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
    • By: Michael Lopp
    • Narrated by: TJ Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland....

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