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Wonders of the Invisible World
- Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England
- By: Cotton Mather
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Wonders of the Invisible World was a book written by Cotton Mather and published in 1693. It was subtitled, Observations As well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. The book defended Mather’s role in the witch hunt conducted in Salem, Massachusetts. It espoused the belief that witchcraft was an evil magical power.
By: Cotton Mather
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Not by Sight
- True Stories from an Amazing Journey
- By: Debby Green
- Narrated by: Taylor Brooke
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Being blind, Debby has had many of those experiences, as a parent, counselor, grandparent and someone who simply loves life. Her faith in a God who loves us shifts that frightening scenario into one of confidence and peace. In this book, through stories and poetry, she describes some of those moments where she has walked by faith, not by sight, both spiritually and literally.
By: Debby Green
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Walking Towards Gold
- By: Sally Cook
- Narrated by: Sally Cook
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Walking Towards Gold tells the story of the author's pioneer colonist forebears who arrived in newly formed Adelaide, South Australia from Portsmouth, in June 1838 and how thirteen years later three of them walked 580 miles from Adelaide to the Victorian goldfields pushing a wheelbarrow.. There are intrepid accounts and interesting descriptions of early Adelaide and life on the Victorian goldfields. This is part of the Downer family's story.
By: Sally Cook
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For the Love of Guinea
- Three Months in a West African Diamond Exploration Camp: 1980
- By: Darcy Williamson
- Narrated by: Susanna Burney
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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In 1980, I was thirty years old, and my son, ten, when we traveled to Guinea, then a closed country in West Africa. My fiancé was a geologist working in a diamond exploration camp in Baoule Valley, near Kérouané. During my time there I kept a diary. Once back in the United States, I wrapped the diary in a silk scarf and tucked it away. I had had planned to return to Guinea and the diamond camp, but life took me in a different direction. I didn't open and read the diary until autumn of 2023, forty-four years later.
By: Darcy Williamson
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The Films of Ron Howard
- By: Michael Jolls
- Narrated by: Bryan Hughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Ron Howard is long overdue to have his filmography viewed through the lens of the auteur theory. Since his debut in the late-1970s, he has remained one of the most prolific and recognizable working filmmakers, and yet... his "directed by" titles have garnished a low amount of commentary by film academics. Even younger mainstream directors have earned more than one volume of academic attention — and yet Howard, who has continually developed himself, seems to only get treated with pop-culture-trivia "fun fact" regarding his acting career.
By: Michael Jolls
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A Cockney Rosebud
- A Bittersweet Journey in the Midst of the Life and Community of an East End of London Family (circa 1920 - 1960) (A Cockney Rosebud Trilogy, Book 1)
- By: Josie Bruce
- Narrated by: Joy Hayward
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Enchanting Rosie is born post-World War 1—1920—but into what? Those few (male) breadwinners who returned from the bloody combat, would find the East End of London Docklands, ravaged, with little hope of regular work—if they could work, with life-changing injuries and psychological trauma. The women remained strong, but in quiet despair. Families and communities supported each other, with their futures in question. Mothers reigned supreme, but alcohol and the public houses exerted their influence.
By: Josie Bruce
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Wonders of the Invisible World
- Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New England
- By: Cotton Mather
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Wonders of the Invisible World was a book written by Cotton Mather and published in 1693. It was subtitled, Observations As well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. The book defended Mather’s role in the witch hunt conducted in Salem, Massachusetts. It espoused the belief that witchcraft was an evil magical power.
By: Cotton Mather
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Not by Sight
- True Stories from an Amazing Journey
- By: Debby Green
- Narrated by: Taylor Brooke
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Being blind, Debby has had many of those experiences, as a parent, counselor, grandparent and someone who simply loves life. Her faith in a God who loves us shifts that frightening scenario into one of confidence and peace. In this book, through stories and poetry, she describes some of those moments where she has walked by faith, not by sight, both spiritually and literally.
By: Debby Green
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Walking Towards Gold
- By: Sally Cook
- Narrated by: Sally Cook
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Walking Towards Gold tells the story of the author's pioneer colonist forebears who arrived in newly formed Adelaide, South Australia from Portsmouth, in June 1838 and how thirteen years later three of them walked 580 miles from Adelaide to the Victorian goldfields pushing a wheelbarrow.. There are intrepid accounts and interesting descriptions of early Adelaide and life on the Victorian goldfields. This is part of the Downer family's story.
By: Sally Cook
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For the Love of Guinea
- Three Months in a West African Diamond Exploration Camp: 1980
- By: Darcy Williamson
- Narrated by: Susanna Burney
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In 1980, I was thirty years old, and my son, ten, when we traveled to Guinea, then a closed country in West Africa. My fiancé was a geologist working in a diamond exploration camp in Baoule Valley, near Kérouané. During my time there I kept a diary. Once back in the United States, I wrapped the diary in a silk scarf and tucked it away. I had had planned to return to Guinea and the diamond camp, but life took me in a different direction. I didn't open and read the diary until autumn of 2023, forty-four years later.
By: Darcy Williamson
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The Films of Ron Howard
- By: Michael Jolls
- Narrated by: Bryan Hughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Ron Howard is long overdue to have his filmography viewed through the lens of the auteur theory. Since his debut in the late-1970s, he has remained one of the most prolific and recognizable working filmmakers, and yet... his "directed by" titles have garnished a low amount of commentary by film academics. Even younger mainstream directors have earned more than one volume of academic attention — and yet Howard, who has continually developed himself, seems to only get treated with pop-culture-trivia "fun fact" regarding his acting career.
By: Michael Jolls
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A Cockney Rosebud
- A Bittersweet Journey in the Midst of the Life and Community of an East End of London Family (circa 1920 - 1960) (A Cockney Rosebud Trilogy, Book 1)
- By: Josie Bruce
- Narrated by: Joy Hayward
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Enchanting Rosie is born post-World War 1—1920—but into what? Those few (male) breadwinners who returned from the bloody combat, would find the East End of London Docklands, ravaged, with little hope of regular work—if they could work, with life-changing injuries and psychological trauma. The women remained strong, but in quiet despair. Families and communities supported each other, with their futures in question. Mothers reigned supreme, but alcohol and the public houses exerted their influence.
By: Josie Bruce
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Nick Patterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In "Down and Out in Paris and London," George Orwell delivers a raw and compelling account of life on the margins of society. This semi-autobiographical work, first published in 1933, chronicles Orwell's own experiences of poverty, hunger, and survival in two of the world's most iconic cities.
By: George Orwell
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Redeemed Unredeemable
- When America’s Most Notorious Criminals Came Face to Face with God
- By: Thomas Horn, Donna Howell
- Narrated by: Barry Fike
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Jesus said that redemption—eternal salvation—is available to everyone. No one is beyond His reach; no one falls outside the boundaries of His willingness to forgive. Anyone who calls on Him will be saved, He says. But, does that really include the world's most infamous convicts?
By: Thomas Horn, and others
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A Sweet Taste of the Last Slice
- Reminders, Memories, and Musings of a Hospice Nurse
- By: RuthiE Neilan
- Narrated by: Rebecca Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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A Sweet Taste of the Last Slice is an evocative collection of hospice stories gathered by RuthiE Neilan, certified hospice nurse and volunteer from over her 30-year career. The book is made for accessibility and includes prose, poetry, light medical terminology, and a guided imagery meditation of one's own death.
By: RuthiE Neilan
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Hip Hop & Hope
- One Woman's Journey in the Slums of Cambodia
- By: Romi Grossberg
- Narrated by: Romi Grossberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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When Romi Grossberg decided, at thirty-five, to give up her job as a social worker in Australia for a two-year contract in the slums of Cambodia, she could never have imagined that the experience would change her life forever. Hip Hop & Hope is part memoir, part history, part travelogue, and completely engaging. Its portrait of Phnom Penh is complicated and indelible. Its story of work in an NGO is inspirational. At this hip hop youth centre, Romi evolves from a frightened burrung to a respected manager who knows the words, the tunes, and the moves.
By: Romi Grossberg
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Practically Still a Virgin
- An Adoption Memoir
- By: Monica Hall
- Narrated by: Monica Hall
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Practically Still a Virgin is the riveting memoir of a fifteen-year-old adoptee’s rape—and the pregnancy that changed her life. During Alaska’s rough-and-tumble 1970s oil boom, a time when prostitution, violence, and lawlessness reigned, Monica Hall rebels against her strict Catholic parents in a downward spiral of delinquency. Overwhelmed by guilt and shame when the unthinkable happens, Hall is forced to make impossible choices. Will she keep her rapist’s identity a secret and defy her parents when they demand to know who fathered her baby?
By: Monica Hall
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Handel in Words and Music
- By: Davina Caddy
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, two of his greatest orchestral achievements, have become synonymous with mid-18th-century England and with the pomp, ceremony and tradition of British royalty. But is this music necessarily synonymous with Handel? Where did his eclecticism and experimentalism come from? How and why did he conquer the emerging genre of the English oratorio and what were the circumstances that allowed him to become one of opera’s greatest composers?
By: Davina Caddy
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The Power in You
- How to Live and Love Your Life
- By: Rachaele Hambleton
- Narrated by: Rachaele Hambleton
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Power in You, Rachaele reveals her transformative life lessons to empower you to live your best life too. Focusing on three important areas, 'You', 'Your Relationships' and 'Your Family', this book will guide you to strengthen and nurture the things that matter most. Including deeply personal stories, inspirational advice and practical tips and prompts, this is the helping hand you need to gaining positivity, power and confidence in all areas of your life.
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The Umbrella Murder
- The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer
- By: Ulrik Skotte
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1978 the Bulgarian author and dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in London. His murder is the most iconic killing in almost five decades of the Cold War, and no one has ever been prosecuted for it. The Umbrella Murder reveals the real architect and hit man behind this spectacular killing: a spy code-named Piccadilly who worked for the Bulgarian secret service and the KGB, who has been hiding for more than forty years.
By: Ulrik Skotte
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A Better Tomorrow
- Life Lessons in Hope and Strength
- By: Mina Smallman
- Narrated by: Sara Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday. Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time.
By: Mina Smallman
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Just About Coping
- A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair
- By: Natalie Cawley
- Narrated by: Melissa Vaughan
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions. In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues, from OCD and addiction to self-deception and self-harming, and see how Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe.
By: Natalie Cawley
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Clay
- A Human History
- By: Jennifer Lucy Allan
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lucy Allan
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Born out of a desire to know and understand the mysteries of this material, the spiritual and practical applications of clay in both its micro and macro histories, Clay: A Human History is a book of wonder and insight, a hybrid of archaeology, history and lived experience as an amateur potter.
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- By: Ralf Webb
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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In San Francisco, 1960, James Baldwin spoke to John Cheever about what he saw as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'. Strange Relations examines how Baldwin came to this assessment and what may be amiss in our understanding of masculinity. Building on Walt Whitman's philosophy of the love between men, the book considers the work and lives of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Cheever and Baldwin. All four writers wrestled in their art, as well as in their sexual and platonic relationships, with the expectations of masculinity, the pull of queer life and the tensions between the two.
By: Ralf Webb