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    • 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 167 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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    • Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
    • By: Virginia Grohl
    • Narrated by: Dave Grohl, Virginia Grohl
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048 ratings
    • Written by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl - former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters - From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves....

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    • By: Gustave Le Bon
    • Narrated by: Joseph Gomez
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal....

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    • By: Gustave Le Bon
    • Narrated by: John Clickman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • In The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind, social theorist Gustave Le Bon gives historical insight into the political thinking of his era while offering timeless social commentary. Le Bon challenges the listener to contemplate how individual ideas change....

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    • The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
    • By: Daniel de Visé
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings
    • A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs....

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    • One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead…
    • By: Adam Rockoff
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The Horror of It All is a memoir from the front lines of the industry that dissects (and occasionally defends) the hugely popular phenomenon of scary movies....

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    • Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics
    • By: Sydney Ladensohn Stern
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's only Academy Award....

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    • Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
    • By: Glenn Frankel
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Shooting Midnight Cowboy is not only the definitive account of the film that unleashed a new wave of innovation in American cinema but also the story of a country (and an industry) beginning to break free from decades of cultural and sexual repression....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Mary Beard, John Henderson
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature....

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    • Pop Classics
    • By: Hannah McGregor
    • Narrated by: Si Chen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hannah McGregor explores everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free.

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    • A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
    • By: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
    • Narrated by: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch’s life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She’s loved classical music her whole life. But she’s also hated classical music her whole life....

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    • 32 of the Most Popular Short Stories
    • By: Edgar Allan Poe
    • Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Twenty hours of the very best of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories....

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    • Pop Classics, Book 11
    • By: Fredrick Blichert
    • Narrated by: Imran Sheikh
    • Series: Pop Classics, Book 11
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With insight into the genre’s cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer’s Body as a cult classic.

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    • By: Valerie Taylor
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self - expression, and sexual freedom....

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