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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,246 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
    • By: Michael Christopher Carroll
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds - and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet....

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    • Extraordinary Encounters of the Terrifying Kind
    • By: Brad Steiger
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Brad Steiger, the world-renowned authority on unexplained phenomena, presents a collection of UFO encounters and abductions. His provocative theories provide answers to the most puzzling questions....

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    • The Special and the General Theory
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Julian Lopez-Morillas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory....

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    • Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
    • By: Kim Cross
    • Narrated by: Tracy Brunjes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America....

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 427 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • The Last Season
    • By: Anne deCourcy
    • Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War....

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    • By: Anne Helen Petersen
    • Narrated by: Anne Helen Petersen
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18,122 ratings
    • Culture writer Anne Helen Petersen interviews millennials around the country about their own deeply personal experiences with “millennial burnout” and the culture that creates it....

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    • Serial Killers
    • By: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 750 ratings
    • Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century..

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    • The Story of a Tornado
    • By: Holly Bailey
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • The Mercy of the Sky is the harrowing inside account of Oklahoma's deadliest tornado, penned by a local writer who became a national correspondent....

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
    • By: Bjørn Lomborg
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns....

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    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • By: Rose George
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

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    • Race and the Memory of Evil
    • By: Susan Neiman
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective....

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    • From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    • By: Chris Harman
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 29 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals....

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    • The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
    • By: Colin Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder....

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    • Curious Adventures of a CSI
    • By: Dana Kollmann
    • Narrated by: Kate Zane
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Unveiling the process and science of crime scene investigation in all its fascination, Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand takes you into the strange world behind the yellow tape, offering a truly eye-opening perspective on the day-to-day life of a CSI....

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