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I Love You, Byeee
- Rambles on DIY TV, Rockstars, Kids and Mums
- By: Adam Buxton
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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‘Hey, how you doing readers? Adam Buxton here… Let's begin with a recap. No, don't skip it! It's great stuff in the form of a montage of scenes from a film that would certainly revive the flagging fortunes of the cinema were it to be made: The Adam Buxton Story…’ So begins Love You, Bye – Adam Buxton’s wonderful follow up to the bestselling Ramble Book.
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lovely lord buckles
- By Mr. William Warren on 31-05-25
By: Adam Buxton
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Always Winning
- By: Ashley Walters, Chris Isaie
- Narrated by: Ashley Walters
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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If art imitates life then Ashley Walters is living proof. From his explosive performance as the drug dealer Dushane in Top Boy to his turn as an undercover detective in Bulletproof, to his time as a member of one of Britain's most notorious music collectives, So Solid Crew, Ashley's career has always explored the same conflicting forces that have governed his life. Good and evil. Honour and shame. Failure and success. Happiness and despair.
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Positive and inspirational
- By Traceya on 03-06-25
By: Ashley Walters, and others
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Am I Having Fun Now?
- Anxiety, Applause and Life's Big Questions, Answered
- By: Suzi Ruffell
- Narrated by: Suzi Ruffell
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Does peaking in high school ruin you for life? Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?) And what - scientifically - is the best way to mend a broken heart? Comedian Suzi Ruffell is considering life's big questions. In this brutally honest, funny, and often moving memoir, Suzi winningly tells her life story, and asks a host of experts to answer the tricky questions it prompts along the way. Diamond life advice comes from the likes of Elizabeth Day, Dolly Alderton, Charlene Douglas, Laura Bates, Dr Kirren Schnack, and more.
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Beautifully honest, encouraging and laugh-out-loud funny!!
- By MISS S E ELEY on 12-06-25
By: Suzi Ruffell
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Corked with Marc Fennell
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.
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annoying
- By andy on 06-06-25
By: Marc Fennell
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So Gay for You
- Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
- By: Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey
- Narrated by: Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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In the early 2000s, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey—both young artists trying to figure it all out—met at auditions for an unknown little TV show. Given that it was a show about lesbians living in Los Angeles, with the first ever ensemble cast of openly queer female characters, Kate and Leisha knew the project was going to be unlike anything else out there—that is, if it even got picked up.
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A friendship memoir
- By Anonymous User on 10-06-25
By: Kate Moennig, and others
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Road Captain
- My Life at the Heart of the Peloton
- By: Luke Rowe
- Narrated by: Luke Rowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Road Captain immerses listeners in the team dynamics, tactical complexities and split-second decisions vital to success in professional cycling. It discloses the mental and physical battles taking place within a group of riders, and reveals how the biggest bike races are won.
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Honesty
- By PGC on 09-06-25
By: Luke Rowe
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I Love You, Byeee
- Rambles on DIY TV, Rockstars, Kids and Mums
- By: Adam Buxton
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Hey, how you doing readers? Adam Buxton here… Let's begin with a recap. No, don't skip it! It's great stuff in the form of a montage of scenes from a film that would certainly revive the flagging fortunes of the cinema were it to be made: The Adam Buxton Story…’ So begins Love You, Bye – Adam Buxton’s wonderful follow up to the bestselling Ramble Book.
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lovely lord buckles
- By Mr. William Warren on 31-05-25
By: Adam Buxton
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Always Winning
- By: Ashley Walters, Chris Isaie
- Narrated by: Ashley Walters
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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If art imitates life then Ashley Walters is living proof. From his explosive performance as the drug dealer Dushane in Top Boy to his turn as an undercover detective in Bulletproof, to his time as a member of one of Britain's most notorious music collectives, So Solid Crew, Ashley's career has always explored the same conflicting forces that have governed his life. Good and evil. Honour and shame. Failure and success. Happiness and despair.
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Positive and inspirational
- By Traceya on 03-06-25
By: Ashley Walters, and others
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Am I Having Fun Now?
- Anxiety, Applause and Life's Big Questions, Answered
- By: Suzi Ruffell
- Narrated by: Suzi Ruffell
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Does peaking in high school ruin you for life? Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?) And what - scientifically - is the best way to mend a broken heart? Comedian Suzi Ruffell is considering life's big questions. In this brutally honest, funny, and often moving memoir, Suzi winningly tells her life story, and asks a host of experts to answer the tricky questions it prompts along the way. Diamond life advice comes from the likes of Elizabeth Day, Dolly Alderton, Charlene Douglas, Laura Bates, Dr Kirren Schnack, and more.
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Beautifully honest, encouraging and laugh-out-loud funny!!
- By MISS S E ELEY on 12-06-25
By: Suzi Ruffell
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Corked with Marc Fennell
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.
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annoying
- By andy on 06-06-25
By: Marc Fennell
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So Gay for You
- Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
- By: Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey
- Narrated by: Kate Moennig, Leisha Hailey
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 2000s, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey—both young artists trying to figure it all out—met at auditions for an unknown little TV show. Given that it was a show about lesbians living in Los Angeles, with the first ever ensemble cast of openly queer female characters, Kate and Leisha knew the project was going to be unlike anything else out there—that is, if it even got picked up.
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A friendship memoir
- By Anonymous User on 10-06-25
By: Kate Moennig, and others
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Road Captain
- My Life at the Heart of the Peloton
- By: Luke Rowe
- Narrated by: Luke Rowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Road Captain immerses listeners in the team dynamics, tactical complexities and split-second decisions vital to success in professional cycling. It discloses the mental and physical battles taking place within a group of riders, and reveals how the biggest bike races are won.
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Honesty
- By PGC on 09-06-25
By: Luke Rowe
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Come What May
- Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis
- By: Lucy Easthope
- Narrated by: Lucy Easthope
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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We all know that at some point in life, we will experience pain, uncertainty and loss. Widowhood, redundancy, a life-changing diagnosis, pregnancy loss, or a global pandemic. So how can we weather the storms, and cope with whatever comes next? No one can answer this better than Lucy Easthope, an emergency planner whose job is to support survivors of major disasters. She has been there after countless earthquakes, fires and floods. Time and again she has watched how people rebuild: the work, the pitfalls and the fragile joy.
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Excellent- Reassuring & practical
- By Alex on 22-05-25
By: Lucy Easthope
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Why I Care
- And why care matters
- By: Sir Ed Davey
- Narrated by: Sir Ed Davey
- Length: 10 hrs
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Why I Care is a deeply personal and impactful memoir-cum-manifesto, drawing on Ed’s own profound experiences as a carer and those of countless others he has encountered. Through a blend of heartfelt storytelling, in-depth interviews, and thoughtful analysis, Ed sheds light on the often-invisible world of carers and issues a clarion call to society to recognize, support, and lift up the millions of carers who form the backbone of our communities.
By: Sir Ed Davey
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Margaret Atwood: A Modern Mythmaker
- By: Jennifer Cognard-Black, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jennifer Cognard-Black
- Length: 3 hrs
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In the six lectures of Margaret Atwood: A Modern Myth-Maker, Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black will take you on a thorough exploration of Atwood’s most celebrated novel to examine the many ways this book has transcended its dystopian roots to become something more than a tale of, “What if?” Over the course of these lectures, you’ll examine the social, political, cultural, and spiritual impact of the novel—and of Atwood herself—as you dive deep into the text to unravel its themes and inspirations.
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Great book
- By Paula Puddephatt on 08-06-25
By: Jennifer Cognard-Black, and others
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Who Knew
- By: Barry Diller
- Narrated by: Barry Diller
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Writing in his own singular voice, Barry Diller delivers both an astute and entertaining business memoir and a surprisingly frank coming-of-age story. After starting his career in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency, Diller went on to have one of the most extraordinary ascents in show business history, inventing the TV Movie of the Week for ABC at age twenty-seven, becoming CEO of Paramount Pictures at age thirty-two, and launching the Fox TV network at age forty-four.
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Honest
- By mr on 28-05-25
By: Barry Diller
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The Optimist
- By: Keach Hagey
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, from his precocious childhood in St. Louis to his first, failed startup experience; his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team; and his struggle to keep his company at the cutting edge while fending off determined rivals, including Elon Musk.
By: Keach Hagey
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This Dog Will Change Your Life
- By: Elias Weiss Friedman, Ben Greenman - contributor
- Narrated by: Elias Weiss Friedman
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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This book weaves together stories of the many dogs Elias has been lucky enough to know, both in his personal life and while doing his Dogist work. Told in a light tone that does not shy away from more serious issues (Elias is not above the occasional sentimental moment or dog pun), this book charmingly explores the ways that dogs are not just our family and our friends but also irreplaceable beings capable of generating boundless love and restoring balance to our lives.
By: Elias Weiss Friedman, and others
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Swimmingly
- Adventures in Water
- By: Vassos Alexander
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe, Simon Darwen, Vassos Alexander
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Vassos Alexander found solace and distraction swimming in the Thames during a difficult summer, and was bitten by the bug. Now he can't pass a body of water without wanting to jump in. Told through the story of training for a solo Channel swim, Swimmingly takes you on a journey across the world from Bournemouth beach to San Francisco Bay. Vassos discovers that outdoor swimming is not about being the fastest or the best, it's about finding that little bit of magic in every stroke.
By: Vassos Alexander
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The View from Ninety
- Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life
- By: Charles Handy
- Narrated by: Scott Handy
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends – such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve – has changed the way we view society. In his new book, Handy, looking back over a rich and varied life, shares the lessons he has learned along the way. What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us?
By: Charles Handy
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Dear Alyne
- My Years as a Married Virgin
- By: Alyne Tamir
- Narrated by: Alyne Tamir
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Alyne Tamir was raised to live her life for others: for her husband, her family, and the Mormon church. For twenty-five years, she put others ahead of herself, repressing things that didn’t fit the neat, traditional story that had been written for her. On the surface, her life seemed picture-perfect. But in reality, Alyne was miserable, struggling to reconcile the pain and humiliation of abuse, an eating disorder, infidelity, and depression with her flawless image. Until Alyne reached a breaking point: the day her husband asked for a divorce—over email.
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Addictive, eye opening and brave
- By Eleeniita on 12-06-25
By: Alyne Tamir
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Actress of a Certain Age
- My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
- By: Jeff Hiller
- Narrated by: Jeff Hiller
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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While struggling to find success as an actor and pay the bills, something accidentally happened to Jeff Hiller: he aged. And while it’s one thing to get older and rest on the laurels of success from the blood, sweat, and tears of your youth, it’s quite another to be old and have no laurels. At forty, stuck in a temp job making spreadsheets, the dream of becoming a star seemed out of reach. But after twenty-five years of guest roles on TV and performing improv in a grocery store basement, he finally struck gold with a breakout role on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, playing Joel.
By: Jeff Hiller
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Delusions of Paradise
- Escaping the Life of a Taliban Fighter
- By: Maiwand Banayee
- Narrated by: Beruce Khan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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When Maiwand Banayee was 16, he wanted to become a suicide bomber for the Taliban. In this inspiring tale of survival and self-discovery, the listener will follow Maiwand's journey down a dark path and his ultimate redemption. Growing up in Kabul amid the Afghan wars, he witnessed atrocities that no child should ever see—rotting corpses, starving families, a neighbourhood torn apart. He escaped to a refugee camp in Pakistan, where religious militants began the gradual grooming of Maiwand and other Afghan boys.
By: Maiwand Banayee
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Mike Mentzer
- American Odysseus
- By: John Little
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
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Mike Mentzer was a strikingly handsome man with a brilliant mind and a "perfect" physique—the first bodybuilder to receive a perfect score in both amateur and professional competitions. In the late '70s, Mentzer rose to the very top of his sport (despite the efforts made by industry power brokers, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger), was featured in GQ magazine, and profiled on national television. But he was also a man who wrestled with mental illness his entire life and ended up living on the streets and being sent to prison.
By: John Little
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Maria Theresa
- Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
- By: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion.
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A good history of Maria Theresa
- By ZG on 08-06-25
By: Richard Bassett
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A Clean Mess
- A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb
- By: Tiffany Jenkins
- Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Told with humor and honesty, A Clean Mess is Tiffany Jenkins’s story of how she learned to live and feel for the first time without numbing herself with drugs—and how she discovered inner reserves of strength she didn’t know she had. From her tentative first days of sobriety, to seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test weeks later, to navigating anxiety, a new marriage, and motherhood at the same time, to surviving betrayal and divorce, Jenkins shows how she got through it all when her crutches and Band-Aids were taken away from her.
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Humour, heartache and triumph
- By AP1 on 10-06-25
By: Tiffany Jenkins
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To Die with Such Men
- Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International Legion
- By: Shannon Monaghan
- Narrated by: Danielle Rayne
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Shannon Monaghan follows a core group of Western volunteers in Ukraine, fighting together from the early battle for Kyiv through to the last stands at Severodonetsk and Bakhmut. They arrived alone, but became a family—back when nobody bothered to learn names, because they all expected to die. These men knew they'd be fighting without the NATO support they were used to. They knew the danger they faced, and how they might be criticized for fighting someone else's war. But they also knew it was the right thing to do. This is their story.
By: Shannon Monaghan
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Time to Get Real
- How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business That Rocked the Fashion Industry
- By: Julie Wainwright
- Narrated by: Julie Wainwright
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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When she was 52, a recruiter told Julie Wainwright that her failure as CEO of Pets.com made her unemployable. But she proved him—and Silicon Valley—wrong and built her company from an idea into the world’s largest resource for authenticated luxury resale. Since its launch in 2011, The RealReal has changed the world of fashion forever, making luxury items more accessible and sustainable. Time to Get Real spills the tea on the entrepreneurial journey from a woman’s perspective and includes all the lessons learned and mistakes made along the way to a billion-dollar business and public company.
By: Julie Wainwright
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The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed
- A Father, a Son, and How WWII in the Pacific Shaped Their Lives
- By: W. Henry Sledge
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed brings to life an abundance of new material from the original manuscript of Eugene Sledge's classic memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. By interspersing his own personal anecdotes throughout, Henry Sledge takes his father's work and gives it newfound context, sharing memories of conversations between father and son. The result is a flowing narrative that portrays an intimate look at a WWII veteran and his struggles to adapt to civilian life following the war.
By: W. Henry Sledge
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The Dark Pattern
- The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals
- By: Guido Palazzo Ph.D, Ulrich Hoffrage Ph.D
- Narrated by: Tim Lounibos, Betsy Foldes Meiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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From the creators of the theory of ethical blindness comes an investigation into how corporate scandals happen, revealing the common pattern behind them and how your organization can avoid them.
By: Guido Palazzo Ph.D, and others
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An Exercise in Uncertainty
- A Memoir of Illness and Hope
- By: Jonathan Gluck
- Narrated by: Jonathan Gluck
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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At age thirty-eight, Jonathan Gluck, a new father with a promising journalism career, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live. That was more than twenty years ago. Gluck isn’t just something of a medical miracle. He’s also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases people can often live with for years.
By: Jonathan Gluck
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Playing Lesson
- A Duffer's Year Among the Pros
- By: Michael Bamberger
- Narrated by: Michael Bamberger
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Nearly fifty years after taking up the game, Michael Bamberger made a pair of startling discoveries: golf had never meant more to him, and he knew almost nothing about it. He decided to cover himself in green in a whole new way. He spent a year inside the ropes of professional golf—playing, caddying, competing, volunteering, and interviewing—looking for a door into the sport’s sanctum sanctorum.
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Shattered Silence
- The Untold Story of The Happy Face Killer's Daughter
- By: Melissa G. Moore, M. Bridget Cook-Burch
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond, Melissa G. Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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In this unforgettable memoir, the daughter of the "Happy Face" serial killer shares her poignant message of hope and the power of finding your voice. Melissa has told her story on several national talk shows and as the host of the LMN television series Monster in My Family. She continues to share in this updated edition of Shattered Silence, which features two new chapters. Uplifting and emotional, this book will inspire you to trust your intuition and speak out for truth as you face your own challenges and conquer your own obstacles.
By: Melissa G. Moore, and others
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Fixed
- My Secret Life as a Match Fixer
- By: Moses Swaibu
- Narrated by: Moses Swaibu
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Fixed breaks new ground as Moses Swaibu becomes the first player ever to write openly about how he helped to fix games, revealing exactly what happens on the pitch when a match is being manipulated. He also exposes how the criminal gangs operate, how young professional players are targeted and groomed and the threats of violence that are used to keep them in check. Offering a fascinating insight into the ugly side of the beautiful game, it's a sporting autobiography like none ever written before.
By: Moses Swaibu
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Peatlands
- A Journey Between Land and Water
- By: Alys Fowler
- Narrated by: Alys Fowler
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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The value of peat bogs as a natural resource and haven of biodiversity is undisputed, yet few of us have been lucky enough to experience their beauty and richness. In Peatlands, Wainwright Prize-shortlisted author Alys Fowler calls for us to sink deep into the dark, black soils of these rugged places and take a close look at the birds, animals, plants and insects that live within them.
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Where Moss Holds Memory
- By Fran on 04-06-25
By: Alys Fowler
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This Boy's Heart
- Scenes from an Irish Childhood
- By: John Creedon
- Narrated by: John Creedon
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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John Creedon’s scenes from an Irish childhood paint a colourful and sometimes hilarious picture of a changing Ireland and the growing pains of boyhood. Set in a city-centre household bustling with humanity, the cast includes a dozen children and another dozen adults, including aunts, an American writer, an African doctor, and a Scottish bookie. The streets outside overflow with brewery horses, beat clubs, dance halls, nuns, priests, a Turkish delight shop and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace.
By: John Creedon