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    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Edward O. Wilson - winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University - is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century....

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    • By: John Perkins
    • Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation....

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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 6,070 ratings
    • Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....

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    • More Adventures at the Table
    • By: Ruth Reichl
    • Narrated by: Lorelei King
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In this delightful sequel to her best seller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, humor, and marvelous meals....

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    • How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
    • By: Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,836 ratings
    • Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the decision to return as CEO, eight years after he stepped down to become chairman....

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    • A Life of Pliny
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....

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    • Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
    • By: Manjit Kumar
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,809 ratings
    • Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it....

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    • By: James Reston Jr.
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo...

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    • The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist
    • By: Mark Stevens
    • Narrated by: Mark Stevens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 459 ratings
    • In this dramatic, deal-by-deal portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, best-selling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes....

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    • Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

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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 628 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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    • 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 801 ratings
    • Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? Find out....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Robert Greenfield
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawor
    • Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru....

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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 530 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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    • 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 313 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....

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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 9,431 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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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,734 ratings
    • Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system he is told came from outer space....

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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 30 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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