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Proto

How One Ancient Language Went Global

by Laura Spinney ...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian and Scientific American"The story of how one language left the steppes of Ukraine and became the earth's dominant language family has become clearer and more exciting than ever before. Hooray for a book where the author's curiosity, diligence, and literary craft gets it all down in what will stand as the go-to source for a generation.” - John McWhorter, ... Read more

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Named a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian and Scientific American"The story of how one language left the steppes of Ukraine and became the earth's dominant language family has become clearer and more exciting than ever before. Hooray for a book where the author's curiosity, diligence, and literary craft gets it all down in what will stand as the go-to source for a generation.” - John McWhorter,
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Nothing

Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion

by NewScientist, Marcus Chown, Douglas Fox, Jo Marchant, Paul Davies, Michael Brooks, Laura Spinney, Linda Geddes, Per Eklund, Jonathan Knight, Nigel Henbest, Ian Stewart, David Harris, Michael de Podesta, Valerie Jamieson, David Fisher, Rick A. Lovett, Andy Coghlan, Stephen Battersby ...

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, ... Read more

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The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors,
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Pale Rider

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

by Laura Spinney ...

**The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —The Guardian**The flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite ... Read more

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**The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —The Guardian**The flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite
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Pale Rider

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

by Laura Spinney ...

Narrated by Paul Hodgson ...

Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

The “haunting” (New York Times Book Review) story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of the 20th centuryThe flu pandemic of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and ... Read more

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The “haunting” (New York Times Book Review) story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of the 20th centuryThe flu pandemic of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite a death toll of between 50 and
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Proto

How One Ancient Language Went Global

by Laura Spinney ...

Narrated by Emma Spurgin-Hussey ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-HusseyThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-HusseyThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely
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Blueprints

How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

by Marcus du Sautoy ...

Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” ... Read more

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An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,”
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Homebound

A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

by Portia Elan ...

Narrated by Lisa Flanagan, Helen Laser, Yu-Li Alice Shen, Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and the desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries.“A joy...and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. It kept me up ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and the desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries.“A joy...and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. It kept me up
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Space

A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake

by Tim Peake ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.From bestselling author and astronaut Tim Peake, the captivating story of humans in space.**Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson.Full of exclusive new ... Read more

$19.11 USD

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**Brought to you by Penguin.From bestselling author and astronaut Tim Peake, the captivating story of humans in space.**Only 628 people in human history have left Earth. In Space: The Human Story, astronaut Tim Peake traces the lives of these remarkable men and women who have forged the way, from Yuri Gagarin to Neil Armstrong, from Valentina Tereshkova to Peggy Whitson.Full of exclusive new
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Nothing Tastes as Good

A Novel

by Luke Dumas ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead, Ali Andre Ali, Raquel Beattie, Cassandra Campbell, James Anderson Foster ...

Unabridged

11 hours 26 min

The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects.Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist ... Read more

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The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects.Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist
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Life on Earth

by David Attenborough ...

Narrated by David Attenborough ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018.Shortlisted for Futurebook of the Year at the Futurebook Awards 2018.The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, ... ... Read more

$6.99 USD

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A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019.Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018.Shortlisted for Futurebook of the Year at the Futurebook Awards 2018.The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, ...
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Celestial Lights

A Novel

by Cecile Pin ...

Narrated by Dane Williams, Leah Marks ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

One of Vogue’s Best Books of 2026"Dane Williams’ performance as Ollie is suitably quiet and introspective as he considers, through journal entries, pivotal milestones and relationships." — KirkusA beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love, and space from the award-winning author of Wandering SoulsJanuary 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out of th... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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One of Vogue’s Best Books of 2026"Dane Williams’ performance as Ollie is suitably quiet and introspective as he considers, through journal entries, pivotal milestones and relationships." — KirkusA beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love, and space from the award-winning author of Wandering SoulsJanuary 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out of th...
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Becoming George

The Invention of George Sand

by Fiona Sampson ...

Narrated by Fiona Sampson ...

Unabridged

10 hours 43 min

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels,
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