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  • All the Beauty in the World Audiobook By Patrick Bringley cover art

    • All the Beauty in the World

    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings

    • A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

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  • The Library Book Audiobook By Susan Orlean cover art

    • The Library Book

    • By: Susan Orlean
    • Narrated by: Susan Orlean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,965 ratings

    • On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....

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  • Chasing Beauty Audiobook By Natalie Dykstra cover art

    • Chasing Beauty

    • The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
    • By: Natalie Dykstra
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....

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  • The Information Audiobook By James Gleick cover art

    • The Information

    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,951 ratings

    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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  • Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu Audiobook By Joshua Hammer cover art

    • Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

    • And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
    • By: Joshua Hammer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....

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  • The Monuments Men Audiobook By Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter cover art

    • The Monuments Men

    • Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
    • By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,535 ratings
    • At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....

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  • Flight Audiobook By Sherman Alexie cover art

    • Flight

    • By: Sherman Alexie
    • Narrated by: Adam Beach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881 ratings
    • Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity....

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  • Dewey the Library Cat Audiobook By Vicki Myron, Bret Witter cover art

    • Dewey the Library Cat

    • A True Story
    • By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
    • Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Abandoned in a library book-drop slot in the dead of winter, the small kitten who came to be known as Dewey Readmore Books miraculously endured the coldest night of the year....

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  • The Louvre Audiobook By James Gardner cover art

    • The Louvre

    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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  • The Art of Relevance Audiobook By Nina Simon cover art

    • The Art of Relevance

    • By: Nina Simon
    • Narrated by: Nina Simon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people....

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  • The World's Strongest Librarian Audiobook By Josh Hanagarne cover art

    • The World's Strongest Librarian

    • A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
    • By: Josh Hanagarne
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,679 ratings
    • At first glance, Josh Hanagarne seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7", competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette's syndrome....

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  • Metadata Audiobook By Jeffrey Pomerantz cover art

    • Metadata

    • The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata....

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  • The Library Audiobook By Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen cover art

    • The Library

    • A Fragile History
    • By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

    • Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....

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  • Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Audiobook By Christopher de Hamel cover art

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  • Dear Fahrenheit 451 Audiobook By Annie Spence cover art

    • Dear Fahrenheit 451

    • Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
    • By: Annie Spence
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. Annie Spence addresses those books directly....

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  • Dwell Time Audiobook By Rosa Lowinger cover art

    • Dwell Time

    • A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
    • By: Rosa Lowinger
    • Narrated by: Rosa Lowinger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger spent a difficult childhood in Miami among people whose losses in the Cuban revolution, and earlier by the decimation of family in the Holocaust, clouded all family life....

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  • A Fool's Errand Audiobook By Lonnie G. Bunch III cover art

    • A Fool's Errand

    • Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
    • By: Lonnie G. Bunch III
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured....

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  • The Glossy Years Audiobook By Nicholas Coleridge cover art

    • The Glossy Years

    • Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
    • By: Nicholas Coleridge
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Coleridge
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines....

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  • The Devil in the Gallery Audiobook By Noah Charney cover art

    • The Devil in the Gallery

    • How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
    • By: Noah Charney
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....

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  • Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Audiobook By Chip Colwell cover art

    • Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    • Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
    • By: Chip Colwell
    • Narrated by: Chip Colwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to recover heritage from museums across the country. Chip Colwell navigated firsthand questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists....

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