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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman’s cells – taken without her knowledge – have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating...
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Thank you Henrietta eternally grateful.
- By Sara Paton on 18-09-2018
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2011
- Language: English
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Dead Weight
- On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating
- By: Emmeline Clein
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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'Electric with insight' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and...
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Dead Weight
- On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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Losing Earth
- The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- By: Nathaniel Rich
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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'The excellent and appalling Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich describes how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the causes of global warming and how US big business and Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn’t happen. Read it.' John Simpson By 1979, we knew all that we know now...
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Losing Earth
- The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2024
- Language: English
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Brown Girl Like Me
- The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
- By: Jaspreet Kaur
- Narrated by: Jaspreet Kaur
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Captivatingly read by the author, Jaspreet Kaur. You might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece. Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women...
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Brown Girl Like Me
- The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
- Narrated by: Jaspreet Kaur
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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The Sister
- The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea
- By: Sung-Yoon Lee
- Narrated by: Dexter Galang
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Explosive . . . a ground-breaking and revealing new book’ – Daily Mail ‘In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea’s extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto...
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The Sister
- The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea
- Narrated by: Dexter Galang
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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Gonzo Capitalism
- How to Get Ahead in an Economy that Hates You
- By: Chris Guillebeau
- Narrated by: Chris Guillebeau
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Read by the author, Chris Guillebeau. From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to thrive in today's turbulent global economy. 'A must-read guide to the new economy. This book will help you navigate emerging...
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Gonzo Capitalism
- How to Get Ahead in an Economy that Hates You
- Narrated by: Chris Guillebeau
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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The Hidden Globe
- How Wealth Hacks the World
- By: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it. The map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and...
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The Hidden Globe
- How Wealth Hacks the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2025
- Language: English
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Seek
- How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
- By: Scott Shigeoka
- Narrated by: Scott Shigeoka
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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'A timely bridge for our divided world' - Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and Take Open your mind, heal your relationships, and connect across divides with this groundbreaking guide to deep curiosity from internationally-recognized curiosity expert, Scott Shigeoka. At a time when tensions...
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Seek
- How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
- Narrated by: Scott Shigeoka
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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We Were Warriors
- One Soldier's Story of Brutal Combat
- By: Johnny Mercer
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan.' - Andy McNab The rounds were single shot from the same two enemy positions, trying to pick me off. They were kicking up the dirt around me. Then all hell broke loose as the gunship's Gatling vomited ammo right over...
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We Were Warriors
- One Soldier's Story of Brutal Combat
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2025
- Language: English
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times 'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology' Walter Issacson, author of Steve Jobs What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of...
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Wonderland
- How Play Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2024
- Language: English
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- By: Nadav Eyal
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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'A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.' —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the...
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2024
- Language: English
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Ungovernable
- The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip
- By: Simon Hart
- Narrated by: Simon Hart
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Ungovernable lifts the lid on life as an MP and chief whip during one of its most turbulent eras in modern-day Britain. Over the course of five years, Simon Hart had a front-row seat to the most turbulent times in recent British political history. From negotiations around Brexit to the impact of...
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Ungovernable
- The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip
- Narrated by: Simon Hart
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2025
- Language: English
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On Consolation
- Finding Solace in Dark Times
- By: Michael Ignatieff
- Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Timely and profound meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff. When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss...
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On Consolation
- Finding Solace in Dark Times
- Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2024
- Language: English
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How to Thrive in the Digital Age
- By: Tom Chatfield
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last decade, through digital media, we have crossed a number of significant thresholds: the interconnection of over half of the world’s adult population through mobile telephony and the internet and the devotion of more than half the waking hours of a western generation to mediated...
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How to Thrive in the Digital Age
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Series: School of Life
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2012
- Language: English
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Dare Not Linger
- The Presidential Years
- By: Mandla Langa, Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Adrian Lester
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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‘I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest . . . But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.’...
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Dare Not Linger
- The Presidential Years
- Narrated by: Adrian Lester
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2024
- Language: English
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Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother
- By: William Shawcross
- Narrated by: William Shawcross, Sophie Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon,the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. Her...
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Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother
- Narrated by: William Shawcross, Sophie Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-04-2025
- Language: English
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The World's Biggest Cash Machine
- Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul
- By: Chris Blackhurst
- Narrated by: Chris Blackhurst
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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'Jaw-dropping revelations . . . The incredible story of [Man United] laid bare in new book' - Daily Mail 'A gripping tale, full of insight. Blackhurst is an enormously talented writer' – City A.M. From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent, comes The World's Biggest Cash...
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The World's Biggest Cash Machine
- Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul
- Narrated by: Chris Blackhurst
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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The Economists' Hour
- How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
- By: Binyamin Appelbaum
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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The story of the economists who championed the rise of free markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world. As the post-World War II economic boom began to falter in the late 1960s, a new breed of economists gained in influence and power. Over time, their ideas curbed governments, unleashed...
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The Economists' Hour
- How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2024
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Muslim
- By: Omar Saif Ghobash
- Narrated by: Omar Saif Ghobash
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today's young Muslims will be tomorrow's leaders, and yet...
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Letters to a Young Muslim
- Narrated by: Omar Saif Ghobash
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2024
- Language: English
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The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle
- By: Emma Manners Duchess of Rutland
- Narrated by: Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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This audiobook is read by the author, Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland. 'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph When Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her...
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The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle
- Narrated by: Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2024
- Language: English
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