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    A Promised Land

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 10 min

    A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political ... Read more

    $44.83 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Falling

    the most thrilling blockbuster read of the summer

    by T. J. Newman ...
    Narrated by Steven Weber ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    You just boarded a flight to New York.There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.**The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.Enjoy the flight.... ... Read more

    $28.50 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Republic

    by Plato ...
    Narrated by James Langton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 58 min

    "What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one's life." Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are ... Read more

    $29.21 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Difficult Women

    A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

    by Helen Lewis ...
    Narrated by Helen Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Well-behaved women don’t make history: difficult women do.Helen Lewis argues that feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It’s time to reclaim the history of ... Read more

    $23.31 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Auschwitz and The Allies

    A Devastating Account of How the Allies Responded to the News of Hitler's Mass Murder

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Roger Clark ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 22 min

    A thorough analysis of Allied actions after learning about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps-includes survivors' firsthand accounts. Why did they wait so long? Among the myriad questions of what the Allies could have done differently in World War II, understanding why it took them so long to respond to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps-specifically Auschwitz-remains vital today. In ... Read more

    $42.76 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Becoming

    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 3 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama.Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word AlbumWinner of the 2020 Audie Award for Autobiography/MemoirAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 15 million copies sold worldwideTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR<strong... ... Read more

    $28.69 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Women and Leadership

    Real Lives, Real Lessons

    by Julia Gillard, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...
    Narrated by Julia Gillard, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Shari Sebbens ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    As a result of their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia Gillard have some strong ideas about the impact of gender on the treatment of leaders. Women and Leadership takes a consistent and comprehensive approach to teasing out what is different for women who lead.Almost every year new findings are published about the ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

    by Jia Tolentino ...
    Narrated by Jia Tolentino ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year **‘Magnificent’**The Times ‘Dazzling’ New Statesman ‘It filled me with hope’ Zadie SmithWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and ... Read more

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    Leaders Who Changed History

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Tim Bruce ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, biography-led audiobook, narrated by Tim Bruce.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, Leaders Who Changed History profiles leaders from all walks of life - kings, queens, and political leaders; military leaders; religious icons, revolutionaries, and business leaders ... Read more

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    The Plot to Betray America

    How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

    by Malcolm Nance ...
    Narrated by Oliver Wyman ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 27 min

    ***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***An Explosive, Revelatory Assessment of the Greatest Betrayal in American History, Newly Revised and UpdatedWilliam Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions · And More!"Impressive... a persuasive whodunit narrative." -Washington PostIn The Plot to Betra... ... Read more

    $37.04 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Infinite Game

    by Simon Sinek ...
    Narrated by Simon Sinek ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO LONG TERM BUSINESS STRATEGY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF START WITH WHYThe New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite game or the infinite game?In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game ... ... Read more

    $23.31 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Socialism 101

    From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism

    by Kathleen Sears ...
    Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.In today’s political climate, more and more presidential candidates are espousing socialist—or democratic socialist—policies. Once associated with oppression, socialism is now a current topic of conversation with everyday Americans, including policies like taxing the rich and healthcare for ... Read more

    $25.65 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Case for Israel

    by Alan M. Dershowitz ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 59 min

    Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Dershowitz takes a close look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country. He ... Read more

    $24.22 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Team of Rivals

    The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

    by Doris Kearns Goodwin ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    41 hours 30 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House, his answer was instant: Team of Rivals. This monumental and brilliant work has given Obama ... Read more

    $28.69 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Righteous Mind

    Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

    by Jonathan Haidt ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Haidt ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Because We Say So

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of U.S. politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing ... Read more

    $19.95 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    World Order

    Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Hormann ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 10 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of World Order by Henry Kissinger, read by Nicholas Hormann.World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. As if taking a perspective from far above the globe, it examines the great tectonic plates of history and the motivations of nations, explaining the attitudes that states and ... Read more

    $25.11 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Perfect Kill

    21 Laws for Assassins

    by Robert B. Baer ...
    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer’s boss at the CIA once told him, “It’s a bullet with a man’s name on it.” Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict—one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been dramatized by literature ... Read more

    $24.95 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Catch and Kill

    Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

    by Ronan Farrow ...
    Narrated by Ronan Farrow ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    Saving Justice

    Truth, Transparency, and Trust

    by James Comey ...
    Narrated by James Comey ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    'The Capitol riot was our Chernobyl.'(Guardian interview, Jan 19th 2021)'An absolutely fascinating read.'Emily MaitlisJames Comey, former FBI Director and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system.James Comey might best be k... ... Read more

    $21.50 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Uninhabitable Earth

    A Story of the Future

    by David Wallace-Wells ...
    Narrated by David Wallace-Wells ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.It is worse, much worse, than you think.The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.Over the past decades, the term ... Read more

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    Invisible Women

    Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    by Caroline Criado Perez ...
    Narrated by Caroline Criado Perez ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Invisible Women, read by Caroline Criado Perez.**Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019****Winner of the Readers' Choice Books Are My Bag Award 2019****Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2019 Book of the Year Award 2019****The Times Current Aff... ... Read more

    $23.31 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Looming Tower

    Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

    by Lawrence Wright ...
    Narrated by Lawrence Wright ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 31 min

    A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany ... Read more

    $35.64 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial

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    The Only Plane in the Sky

    Winner of AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR at 2020 Audie Awards

    by Garrett M. Graff ...
    Narrated by Garrett M. Graff ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR at 2020 Audie Awards"Incredibly evocative and compelling." The Washington Post"Although many years have passed since 9/11, this book, told with such immediacy, brings so vividly back to mind the shock of that day, and why it continues to shape the tragic history that has followed."Lawrence Wright, author o... ... Read more

    $53.99 AUD or FREE with audiobook trial