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    • The Hidden History of the Material World
    • By: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Carla Kissane
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Leon Neyfakh
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer tells the fascinating story of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who became the beloved mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio before morphing into a symbol of cultural decline.

    Regular price: $29.95

    • By: Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Questlove
    • Narrated by: Questlove
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • Best-selling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last 50 years of American history....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
    • By: Julie Salamon
    • Narrated by: Julie Salamon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities, both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big....

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    • 25 More Funny Stories of Weird History of the World and Fun Facts Everyone Should Know Just Because
    • By: Pablo Vannucci
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-25
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • “Weird Things in History and Why the Heck They Happened” is back with another collection of 25 of some of the weirdest historical facts! This ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, The Karate Kid, The Breakfast Club, Dead Poets Society, and Everything in Between
    • By: James King
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where giants like Spielberg and Coppola rubbed shoulders with baby-faced first-timers, and where future superstars got their big break....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,124 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

    Regular price: $18.88

    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,611 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
    • By: Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach - preface
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making - and unmaking - of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel....

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    • The Inside Story of Life in L.A.'s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood
    • By: Michael Walker
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 853 ratings
    • This is the story of an important period in rock music, but also of the harsher results of the sixties....

    Regular price: $14.58

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    • A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
    • By: Sam Staggs
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream....

    Regular price: $16.07

    • Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
    • By: Steven Adler, Lawrence C. Spagnola - with
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • From Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses, comes My Appetite for Destruction, the inside story of GNR. Offering a different perspective from the bestselling Slash, Adler chronicles his life with the band, and own intense struggle with addiction....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,838 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
    • By: Susannah Gora
    • Narrated by: Kelli Tager
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • The landscape that the Brat Pack memorialized is rich with cultural themes and significance, and has influenced an entire generation who still believe that life always turns out like an '80s movie. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried takes us back to that era....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Mark Katz
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology....

    Regular price: $11.17

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