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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,569 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,060 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can read minds....

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    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • By: Edward Glaeser
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

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    • Dead City Series, Book 1
    • By: James Ponti
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
    • Series: Dead City, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Most kids have enough to deal with between school, homework, extracurricular activities, and friends, but Molly Bigelow isn't your typical tween. By day, Molly attends MIST, but it's what she's learning outside of school that sets her apart from her classmates. Molly is a zombie hunter....

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    • Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history....

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    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,491 ratings
    • This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Douglas Preston
    • Narrated by: Bill Mumy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,898 ratings
    • Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City....

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    • New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....

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    • Dead City Series, Book 2
    • By: James Ponti
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
    • Series: Dead City, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When Molly Bigelow discovered that zombies shared New York with humans, she didn't think life could get more shocking. Then she learned that her mother was once one of the greatest zombie killers ever....

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    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,130 ratings
    • Sophie befriends the mythical Alicorn - and puts her mysterious powers to the test - in this enchanting sequel to Keeper of the Lost Cities....

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    • Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 8.5
    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 8.5
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • In this extra special installment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, the story picks up right from Legacy’s particularly devastating cliffhanger. But chapters alternate between Sophie and Keefe’s perspectives to give listeners deeper insights into both beloved characters....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 6
    • Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,461 ratings
    • In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities’ insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality....

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    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 7
    • Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,382 ratings
    • In this unforgettable seventh book in The New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must let the past and present blur together, because the deadliest secrets are always the ones that get erased....

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    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 8
    • Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,309 ratings
    • Illusions shatter - and Sophie and her friends face impossible choices - in this astonishing eighth book in the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series....

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