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AI Superpowers

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee ...

Narrated by Mikael Naramore ...

Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERDr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace.In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of ... Read more

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On Air

The Triumph and Tumult of NPR

by Steve Oney ...

Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

Unabridged

21 hours 16 min

An “engrossing and entertaining…major work of media history” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires.Founded in 1970, NPR is America’s most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous PBS, public radio has long been home to shows such as All Things ... Read more

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An “engrossing and entertaining…major work of media history” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires.Founded in 1970, NPR is America’s most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous PBS, public radio has long been home to shows such as All Things
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Careless People

A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams ...

Narrated by Sarah Wynn-Williams ...

Unabridged

13 hours 16 min

**#1 New York Times BestsellerA 2025 best book of the year so far by The New York Times, The Economist, and more“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times“When one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to ... Read more

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Nonprofit Workbook, The

Tips & Best Practices for Start-Ups Serving the Greater Common Good

by R.V. Rodriguez ...

Narrated by R. V. Rodriguez ...

Unabridged

3 hours 42 min

The Nonprofit Workbook is a real-world, hands-on tool that lays out all the organizational options open to 501C and other charitable entities that serve the greater common good. Written in the format of a workbook to better prepare you for what lies ahead, it provides a road map for how to go from creating an idea into a start-up, to building a sustainable organization that delivers meaningful, ... Read more

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Bad Company

Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

by Megan Greenwell ...

Narrated by Dan Bittner ...

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8 hours 51 min

A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers.Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, ... Read more

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A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers.Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers,
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From Vision to Reality

The Essential Guide to Starting a Nonprofit

by Neils Ribeiro-Yemofio ...

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58 min

After consulting with hundreds of entrepreneurs, I have decided to combine all of the best practices amassed throughout the years into this handbook.Through this handbook you'll learn to:Determine if a Nonprofit is Right for YouBring Together Your Board of DirectorsCreate Your BylawsUnderstand Conflict Of InterestGrasp the Basics of Fundraising<strong... ... Read more

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Apple in China

The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

by Patrick McGee ...

Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

13 hours 32 min

For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.After struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by China’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of ... Read more

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For readers of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look at how Apple helped build China’s dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.After struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by China’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of
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Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain ...

Narrated by Anthony Bourdain ...

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8 hours 19 min

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow ... Read more

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When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow
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How to Make It in the New Music Business, 3rd Edition

Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician

by Ari Herstand ...

Narrated by Ari Herstand ...

Unabridged

19 hours 47 min

Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in a significantly revised and expanded third edition.How to Make It in the New Music Business, since its first publication in 2016, has become the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by ambitious individuals and music schools across the world and ... Read more

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Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in a significantly revised and expanded third edition.How to Make It in the New Music Business, since its first publication in 2016, has become the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by ambitious individuals and music schools across the world and
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The AI Edge

Sales Strategies for Unleashing the Power of AI to Save Time, Sell More, and Crush the Competition

by Jeb Blount, Anthony Iannarino ...

Narrated by Jeb Blount, Anthony Iannarino ...

Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

Upgrade your sales process by plugging into the new power of artificial intelligenceIn today's cutthroat sales world, where sales professionals are constantly juggling multiple responsibilities and navigating a sea of relentless competitors, everyone is looking for an edge. What if that EDGE is found in a tool powerful enough to give you more time in your sales day, accelerate your productivity, ... Read more

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Ultra-Processed People

Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

by Chris van Tulleken ...

Narrated by Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken ...

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11 hours 35 min

The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.It’s not you, it’s the food.How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not meet traditional definitions of “food”? Chances are, if ... Read more

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Iron Empires

Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

by Michael Hiltzik ...

Narrated by Nick Tecoksy ...

Unabridged

14 hours 57 min

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. ... Read more

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Football for a Buck

The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

by Jeff Pearlman ...

Narrated by Joel Richards ...

Unabridged

14 hours 12 min

The United States Football League was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL but also to cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, featured as many as eighteen teams, secured multiple television deals, drew millions of fans, and launched the careers of legends—but then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner, a New ... Read more

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The United States Football League was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL but also to cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, featured as many as eighteen teams, secured multiple television deals, drew millions of fans, and launched the careers of legends—but then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner, a New
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Unreasonable Hospitality

The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

by Will Guidara ...

Narrated by Will Guidara ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

**The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry.- Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions- JP Morgan NextList Pick**Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best ... Read more

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Co-Intelligence

Living and Working with AI

by Ethan Mollick ...

Narrated by Ethan Mollick ...

Unabridged

4 hours 39 min

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI**Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could ... Read more

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Burn Book

A Tech Love Story

by Kara Swisher ...

Narrated by Kara Swisher ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

Now including a new afterword!An instant New York Times bestseller from award-winning journalist Kara Swisher, Burn Book is a “highly readable…bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking” (Booklist, starred review) account of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most ... Read more

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All The Beauty in the World

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

by Patrick Bringley ...

Narrated by Patrick Bringley ...

Unabridged

6 hours 3 min

New York Times bestsellerNamed one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London).**An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum... ... Read more

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Kochland

The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

by Christopher Leonard ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

23 hours 15 min

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Read Write Own

Building the Next Era of the Internet

by Chris Dixon ...

Narrated by Chris Dixon, Robert Petkoff ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, CEO, ... Read more

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A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, CEO,
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Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar ...

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

Unabridged

22 hours 18 min

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR.A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped ... Read more

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The World for Sale

Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy ...

Narrated by John Sackville ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source.'This jaw-dropping study shows how much money and global influence is concentrated in the hands of a tiny group . . . As the authors roam from oilfield to wheatfield, they reveal information so staggering you almost gasp.' SUNDAY TIMES'Fascinating ... Read more

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No More Tears

The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

by Gardiner Harris ...

Narrated by Gardiner Harris ...

Unabridged

14 hours 23 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
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All-in On AI

How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence

by Tom Davenport, Nitin Mittal ...

Narrated by Derek Dysart ...

Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

Though most organizations are placing modest bets on artificial intelligence, there is a world-class group of companies that are going all-in on the technology and radically transforming their products, processes, strategies, customer relationships, and cultures. Though these organizations represent less than 1 percent of large companies, they are all high performers in their industries. They have ... Read more

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Though most organizations are placing modest bets on artificial intelligence, there is a world-class group of companies that are going all-in on the technology and radically transforming their products, processes, strategies, customer relationships, and cultures. Though these organizations represent less than 1 percent of large companies, they are all high performers in their industries. They have
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Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong

by Tim Spector ...

Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

Unabridged

8 hours

Brought to you by Penguin.We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn’t eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand.Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little good evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn’t eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand.Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little good evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In
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