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  • The Best New True Crime Stories cover art

    • The Best New True Crime Stories

    • Serial Killers
    • Written by: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 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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    • Spearhead

    • An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
    • Written by: Adam Makos
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings

    • From the author of the international best seller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel - and forge an enduring bond with his enemy....

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    • Knowing What We Know

    • The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
    • Written by: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is Simon Winchester’s all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds....

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    • Strongmen

    • Mussolini to the Present
    • Written by: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

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    • The Perfectionists

    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • Written by: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings

    • The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....

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    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • Written by: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • The Habsburg Empire

    • A New History
    • Written by: Pieter M. Judson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter M. Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans....

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    • Iran

    • A Modern History
    • Written by: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • Heart of Europe

    • A History of the Holy Roman Empire
    • Written by: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2017-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor....

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    • The Notebook

    • A History of Thinking on Paper
    • Written by: Roland Allen
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-26
    • Language: English
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    • We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? In this wide-ranging history, Roland Allen reveals how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking.

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    • The Biggest Prison on Earth

    • A History of the Occupied Territories
    • Written by: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts....

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    • The Fall of Heaven

    • The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
    • Written by: Andrew Scott Cooper
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2016-08-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late shah's widow, Empress Farah....

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    • Case Closed

    • Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
    • Written by: Gerald Posner
    • Narrated by: Scott Aiello
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2015-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone....

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    • These Truths

    • A History of the United States
    • Written by: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

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    • The Son Also Rises

    • Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
    • Written by: Gregory Clark
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2014-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe....

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    • Fur Volk and Fuhrer

    • The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
    • Written by: Erwin Bartmann, Derik Hammond
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Like many Germans, Berlin schoolboy Erwin Bartmann fell under the spell of the Zeitgeist cultivated by the Nazis....

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    • A Thousand Small Sanities

    • The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
    • Written by: Adam Gopnik
    • Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism....

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    • Liquid Rules

    • The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
    • Written by: Mark Miodownik
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: The New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters reveal the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff"....

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    • The Square and the Tower

    • Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
    • Written by: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Elliot Hill
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks....

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    • Energy

    • A Human History
    • Written by: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....

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