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Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
2012
EN
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZA “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move o...
The Great Pretender
The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
2019
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**An investigation of the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire."Bold, brave, and original." —Susan Orlean, bestselling author of The Orchid Thief**Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity—how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologis...
The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
2025
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**“Shines a light on one of the twentieth century’s most amazing untold life stories. ... An essential read—and an unforgettable trip.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road“Cahalan details a piece of lost but fascinating history, the story of a woman who embodied an era of freedom, experimentation, and psychedelic adventure. Meticulously reported and beautifully crafted.” —Susan OrleanThe untold story of the woman who played a critical role in bringing psyc...
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
- Narrated by
- Susannah Cahalan
Unabridged
7 hours 22 min
2020
EN
INCLUDES A NEW AUDIO AFTERWORD!NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZA “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a...
The Great Pretender
The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- Narrated by
- Christie MoreauSusannah Cahalan
Unabridged
11 hours 3 min
2019
EN
**An investigation of the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire."Bold, brave, and original." —Susan Orlean, bestselling author of The Orchid Thief**Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity—how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologis...
The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
- Narrated by
- Susannah Cahalan
Unabridged
10 hours 44 min
2025
EN
**“Shines a light on one of the twentieth century’s most amazing untold life stories. ... An essential read—and an unforgettable trip.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road“Cahalan details a piece of lost but fascinating history, the story of a woman who embodied an era of freedom, experimentation, and psychedelic adventure. Meticulously reported and beautifully crafted.” —Susan OrleanThe untold story of the woman who played a critical role in bringing psyc...
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- Narrated by
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A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Sta...
Gone Girl
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- Narrated by
- Julia WhelanKirby Heyborne
Unabridged
19 hours 57 min
2012
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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenesONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE, AND ONE ...
- Narrated by
- Caroline Lee
Unabridged
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2013
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From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other.Three women. One secret. And a letter that will change everything—forever.Tess. Rachel. Cecilia. Three women living three very different lives. But when Cecilia opens up a Pandora’s box, their lives will intersect in ways none of them could foresee.Cecilia is the woman who seems to have it all: a successful caree...
A Stolen Life
A Memoir
- Narrated by
- Jaycee Dugard
Unabridged
7 hours 28 min
2011
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An instant #1 New York Times bestseller—Jaycee Dugard’s raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years.In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allo...
The Economists' Hour
False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
- Narrated by
- Dan Bittner
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**In this history of ideas, New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution."Lively and entertaining." —The New Yorker**Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power.In The Economists' Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the e...
- Narrated by
- Kate RuddJohn GreenLaura Grafton
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