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  • The Story of Human Language Audiobook By John McWhorter, The Great Courses cover art

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  • Cultish Audiobook By Amanda Montell cover art

    • Cultish

    • The Language of Fanaticism
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,710 ratings

    • The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....

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  • The Mother Tongue Audiobook By Bill Bryson cover art

    • The Mother Tongue

    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,270 ratings
    • With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....

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  • Made in America Audiobook By Bill Bryson cover art

    • Made in America

    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,539 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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  • Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day Audiobook By Edie Schwager cover art

    • Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day

    • Better English Series
    • By: Edie Schwager
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Would you like to find new words to use in your speech and writing? Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist? Would you like to be a Scrabble expert? This book is for you....

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  • The Language Instinct Audiobook By Steven Pinker cover art

    • The Language Instinct

    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,037 ratings
    • In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

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  • Our Mutual Friend Audiobook By Charles Dickens cover art

    • Our Mutual Friend

    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 592 ratings
    • Perhaps Dickens' ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money....

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  • Wordslut Audiobook By Amanda Montell cover art

    • Wordslut

    • A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Amanda Montell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings

    • A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them....

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  • Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue Audiobook By John McWhorter cover art

    • Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,010 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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  • Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage Audiobook By John McWhorter, The Great Courses cover art

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  • Short Stories in Russian for Beginners Audiobook By Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings cover art

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  • Fluent in 3 Months Audiobook By Benny Lewis cover art

    • Fluent in 3 Months

    • How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
    • By: Benny Lewis
    • Narrated by: Benny Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 652 ratings
    • Benny Lewis is the creator of www.fluentin3months.com, the largest language learning blog in the world....

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  • Nine Nasty Words Audiobook By John McWhorter cover art

    • Nine Nasty Words

    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 952 ratings

    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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  • Who Killed Homer? Audiobook By Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath cover art

    • Who Killed Homer?

    • The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself....

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  • Proust and the Squid Audiobook By Maryanne Wolf cover art

    • Proust and the Squid

    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 444 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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  • Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes Audiobook By Daniel L. Everett cover art

    • Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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  • A Rose in Bloom Audiobook By Louisa May Alcott cover art

    • A Rose in Bloom

    • By: Louisa May Alcott
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Series: Eight Cousins, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them....

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  • Words on the Move Audiobook By John McWhorter cover art

    • Words on the Move

    • Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410 ratings
    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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  • Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories 1896-1901 Audiobook By Lucy Maud Montgomery cover art

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  • A Little Book of Language Audiobook By David Crystal cover art

    • A Little Book of Language

    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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