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    • A True Story
    • By: Joanne Lee, Ann Cusack
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,379 ratings
    • For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of three newborn babies hidden in her wardrobe. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal....

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    • And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
    • By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,257 ratings
    • How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • The Shocking True Story of Surviving and Evil Nun's Care Home from Hell
    • By: Marie Hargreaves
    • Narrated by: Dorothy Lawrence
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday....

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    • On Homecoming and Belonging
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,208 ratings
    • Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning....

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    • Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
    • By: Christopher R. Browning
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845 ratings
    • Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....

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    • Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is at Stake
    • By: Tim Larkin
    • Narrated by: Tim Larkin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,022 ratings
    • In this essential new book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives....

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    • Why Violence Has Declined
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 36 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,349 ratings
    • Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

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    • The Horrific True Story of a Girl's Life in the Hands of Sex Traffickers
    • By: Caitlin Spencer
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 946 ratings
    • From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again....

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    • The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
    • By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Narrated by: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,966 ratings
    • The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed"....

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    • The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
    • By: Peter Vronsky
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 471 ratings
    • Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000)....

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    • Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
    • By: Amanda Ripley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ripley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • In this book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free....

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    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In the summer of 2003, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, was devastated when four young residents were viciously slain. But when a killer came knocking....

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    • Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
    • By: Kathleen Hale
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true-crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 507 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • Serial Killers
    • By: Mitzi Szereto
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 750 ratings
    • Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century..

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    • A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
    • By: John Bloom, Jim Atkinson
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,096 ratings
    • Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. One day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked them exploded into murderous rage....

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    • A Forceful History of Black Resistance
    • By: Kellie Carter Jackson
    • Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation.

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