Great Authors

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    • By: Peter J. Denning, Matti Tedre
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch....

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    • How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
    • By: Jason M Baxter
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the 20th century. Many know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature....

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    • By: Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Dimitra Fimi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 690 ratings
    • As you will see, age-old traditions, contemporary history and culture, and “big” human questions are key ingredients of Tolkien’s success. You will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more....

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    • A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
    • By: Wayne Curtis
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of 10 cocktails....

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    • A LitRPG Adventure (Tower of Power Series, Book 4)
    • By: Ivan Kal
    • Narrated by: Ryan Burke
    • Series: Tower of Power Series, Book 4
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 868 ratings
    • Morgan and his friends won the right to be a part of an expedition to the Tower of Power. Part of a raid group that was led by two Great Guilds, and had the intention of conquering the Tower. But, no one who had ventured beyond the third floor had ever returned.

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • The Greatest Works of Neville Goddard
    • By: Neville Goddard, Mitch Horowitz - editor
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • A spiritually transformative collection of Neville Goddard's works, Infinite Potential is an accessible and profound anthology from one of the greatest spiritual minds of the 20th century....

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    • A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist....

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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    • A Life of John Steinbeck
    • By: William Souder
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy....

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    • The True Story of the Life of tne Great Author and the Birth of Harry Potter
    • By: Liam Dale, The History Journals
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Once upon a time, as all good stories with happy endings begin, a penniless young mother walked the streets of Edinburgh with her beloved baby ...

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    • Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
    • By: Rosemary Ashton
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....

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    • The True Story of the Life & Time of the Great Author
    • By: Liam Dale
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • There are some names that just fall off the tongue with the lilting promise of great things, and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (usually abbreviated to ...

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    • How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s....

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    • An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce
    • By: Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicized divorces in history....

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