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    • By: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
    • Narrated by: Joseph Sepe
    • Length: 30 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A Popular History of Ireland, a detailed yet comprehensive look at Ireland’s Christian history, was written by Thomas D’Arcy McGee, a Canadian-Irish politician, journalist, and poet....

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    • By: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....

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    • A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
    • By: Paul Levy, Jean Houston - foreword
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Written for those with no physics background, Paul Levy's latest book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, is for those who have heard that quantum physics is a fascinating subject but don't quite understand how or why....

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    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Gender in the Modern Horror Film
    • By: Carol J. Clover
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s....

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    • How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
    • By: Candy Leonard
    • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans’ lives....

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do....

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    • An Unofficial History of Resident Evil
    • By: Alex Aniel
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Capcom's horror video game series Resident Evil - one of the most popular, innovative, and widely influential franchises of all time....

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    • 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: 22-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 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....

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    • How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life
    • By: Kunal K. Das
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Quantum Rules applies the laws of physics to explain everything from relationships and human nature to the effects of globalization....

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    • By: Sam Harris
    • Narrated by: Sam Harris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,239 ratings
    • For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....

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    • A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
    • By: Barbara Mertz
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Barbara Mertz combines her doctorate in Egyptology at the famed Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a life-long enthusiasm for ancient Egypt....

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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: George M. Marsden
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements....

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    • An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
    • By: Greg Jenner
    • Narrated by: Greg Jenner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    • By: Ben H. Procter
    • Narrated by: Kevin Charles
    • Series: Fred Rider Cotten Popular History
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history describes, in colorful detail, the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo....

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    • By: Kara Swisher
    • Narrated by: Kara Swisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead....

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    • From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
    • By: Steven L. Kent
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Series: The Ultimate History of Video Games, Book 1
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade, volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them...

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    • Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
    • By: Jason Schreier
    • Narrated by: Ray Chase
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart - and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next....

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