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    Elon Musk

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Bobb ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 27 min

    **#1 New York Times bestsellerFrom the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.**When Elon Musk was a kid in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Man Who Hacked the World

    A Ghostwriter’s Descent into Madness with John McAfee

    by Alex Cody Foster ...
    Narrated by Buck Groat ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 16 min

    After parting ways with the eponymous McAfee Antivirus software company in 1994, John McAfee embarked on innumerable business, political, and criminal enterprises. From investing in cybersecurity and cryptocurrency to accusations of murdering his neighbor in Belize to making two unsuccessful bids for President of the United States—the latter attempt done in exile following a federal indictment ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Accidental Billionaires

    The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

    by Ben Mezrich ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.Eduardo ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

    A Personal History of Our Times

    by Howard Zinn ...
    Narrated by David Strathairn ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Dinners with Ruth

    A Memoir of Friendship

    by Nina Totenberg ...
    Narrated by Nina Totenberg ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The People's Hospital

    Hope and Peril in American Medicine

    by M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...
    Narrated by M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 53 min

    “Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles TimesThis “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?Here, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    First Man

    The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

    by James R. Hansen ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Bobb ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Wild Ride

    A Memoir of I.V. Drips and Rocket Ships

    by Hayley Arceneaux ...
    Narrated by Hayley Arceneaux ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    The youngest American to ever orbit the earth—cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux—shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, extraordinary things can happen.“A potent reminder to all of us that nothing on earth—or in the heavens, for that matter—can keep us from becoming commanders of our own destiny.”—Marlo Thomas, actor, author, and national outreach director for St. Jude ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Inventors

    A Guide to the Lives of Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Chris Newman ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 23 min

    This bundle of audiobooks contains the following topics:Isaac Newton - We often think about Newton when we see an apple falling from a tree: The man who came up with the gravity theory, a physics scientist who gave said event and others significant thought.Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and writer who was commonly seen as one of the best ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Awe

    The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

    by Dacher Keltner ...
    Narrated by Dacher Keltner ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    **A National Bestseller!"Read this book to connect with your highest self.”—Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet“We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find it.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again“Awe is awesome in both senses: a superb analysis of an emotion that is strongly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    C. S. Lewis - A Life

    Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

    by Alister McGrath ...
    Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis — A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

    Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

    by Catherine Gray ...
    Narrated by Catherine Gray ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    'Truthful, modern and real' - Stylist'Brave, witty and brilliantly written' - Marie Claire'Hilarious, sharp, spitfire writing' - Sacha Z. Scoblic, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and author of Unwasted: My Lush SobrietyEver sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? ... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Canary in the Coal Mine

    A Forgotten Rural Community, a Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People

    by Dr. William Cooke, Laura Ungar ...
    Narrated by Tim Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    One doctor’s courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community’s future―and exposed a national health crisis.When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    by Rebecca Skloot ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 31 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    How to Change Your Mind

    What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

    by Michael Pollan ...
    Narrated by Michael Pollan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    **“Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York TimesA #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable BookA brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences**When ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Leonardo da Vinci

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Alfred Molina ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 1 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Code Breaker

    Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 4 min

    A 2022 Audie Award FinalistA Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babie... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hidden Valley Road

    Inside the Mind of an American Family

    by Robert Kolker ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease."Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    American Prometheus

    The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin ...
    Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 30 min

    The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    An Unquiet Mind

    A Memoir of Moods and Madness

    by Kay Redfield Jamison ...
    Narrated by Kay Redfield Jamison ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 46 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author.Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Lecture

    by Randy Pausch ...
    Narrated by Eric Singer ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 13 min

    After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic."We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy PauschA lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Between Two Kingdoms

    A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

    by Suleika Jaouad ...
    Narrated by Suleika Jaouad ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American SymphonyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Wright Brothers

    by David McCullough ...
    Narrated by David McCullough ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Good Neighbor

    The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

    by Maxwell King ...
    Narrated by LeVar Burton ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously.The Good Neighbor, the first ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus