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    The Man Who Caught the Storm

    The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras

    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    **The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “**one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    My Beginnings

    by Bill Gates ...
    Narrated by Bill Gates, Wil Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    **The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWire**The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Hard Silence, A

    One daugher remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all

    Narrated by Melanie Brooks ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    "Melanie Brooks is that rare writer who can delve as deeply into the world of ideas as she can the pitted terrain of the human heart." Andre Dubus III, author of Such Kindness and Townie"Quite simply, unforgettable."Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys**In the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    18 Tiny Deaths

    The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 35 min

    The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics...Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity.Yet she ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Ultimate Engineer

    The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low

    by Richard Jurek ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    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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    My Beloved World

    Narrated by Rita Moreno ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The Elements of Marie Curie

    How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Narrated by Pat Rodrigues ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the remarkable young women trained in her laboratory“Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,” writes Dava Sobel at the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Carrying the Fire

    An Astronaut's Journeys

    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 17 min

    In Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of the adventure of reaching the moon. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 spacewalk, presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, light, and movement from ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Grand Pursuit

    The Story of Economic Genius

    by Sylvia Nasar ...
    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd, Anne Twomey ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 15 min

    An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Edison

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 5 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus ReviewsAlthough Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Gang Leader for a Day

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Don Failla "Own Your Life The 45 Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life!"

    Own Your Life Success Audio Book

    by Don Failla ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 48 min

    Don & Nancy Failla - Own Your Life, the 45 Second Presentation that will Change Your Life!The teachings in this audio book is what “cracked the code” for Don & Nancy Failla to build a duplicable organization to over 1,000,000 people. As Don said, “100 percent of people outside Network Marketing don’t understand it. And 90 percent of people inside Network Marketing don’t understand it!”Don's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

    Adventures of a Curious Character

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest).Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife to exclaim: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”In ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Leonardo da Vinci

    Narrated by Alfred Molina ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 1 min

    **Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS!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 ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Code Breaker

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

    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

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    Elon Musk

    Narrated by Jeremy Bobb ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 39 min

    **The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Elon Musk as he executed his vision for electric vehicles at Tesla, space exploration with ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    American Prometheus

    The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    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

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    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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    Why Fish Don't Exist

    A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

    by Lulu Miller ...
    Narrated by Lulu Miller ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 55 min

    A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * SmithsonianA “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.“At one... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    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

    $18.99 USD

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    An Unquiet Mind

    A Memoir of Moods and Madness

    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

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    The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

    Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

    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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    My Own Words

    Narrated by Linda Lavin ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture.My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being ... Read more

    $29.99 USD