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    • Written by: Jack Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2019-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
    • Written by: W. Scott Poole
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature....

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    • Love at First Bite
    • Written by: Violet Fenn
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-29
    • Language: English
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    • Our enduring love of vampires - the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy - has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless killers, vampire stories commonly carry erotic overtones that are missing from other paranormal or horror stories....

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    • America, 1927
    • Written by: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2013-10-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country....

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    • The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
    • Written by: David Hajdu
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books....

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    • The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
    • Written by: David Aaronovitch
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2010-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere---from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana....

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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • Written by: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • Written by: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-04
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
    • Written by: Jason Schreier
    • Narrated by: Ray Chase
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 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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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • Written by: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • A Natural History of Four Meals
    • Written by: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2006-01-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....

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    • Written by: Fran Lebowitz
    • Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2012-09-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions....

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    • Written by: David Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 10 years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today....

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    • The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
    • Written by: Ben Westhoff
    • Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur....

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    • How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
    • Written by: Kristin Kobes du Mez
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

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    • The Karate Kid and Me
    • Written by: Ralph Macchio
    • Narrated by: Ralph Macchio
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn’t been a week Ralph Macchio hasn’t heard friendly shouts of “Wax on, wax off” or “Sweep the leg”....

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    • The Untold Story
    • Written by: Sean Howe
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2013-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history: Marvel Comics....

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