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The Devil's Library

A Secret History of the World's Most Dangerous Books

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

12 hours 5 min

What if every book burned was a book worth saving?For seventeen centuries, certain books have been considered too dangerous to keep on the shelf. They have been confiscated, smuggled, encrypted, hidden under temple floors, sealed in clay jars, locked in monastic vaults, looted by emperors, sold at auction, scanned by hobbyists, and stolen by the truckload. They have killed, or have been blamed for ... Read more

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What if every book burned was a book worth saving?For seventeen centuries, certain books have been considered too dangerous to keep on the shelf. They have been confiscated, smuggled, encrypted, hidden under temple floors, sealed in clay jars, locked in monastic vaults, looted by emperors, sold at auction, scanned by hobbyists, and stolen by the truckload. They have killed, or have been blamed for
... Read more
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The Hollow Gate

A Novel of Endings, the Soul-Eating Stone, and the Choice Ten Thousand Years in the Making

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Man-Eater Saga
Unabridged

13 hours 51 min

The Stone has begun to speak.It speaks in the voice of whatever you have lost — a dead mother, a vanished father, the one person you could never save. To her, it speaks in the voice of the man with horns. She has carried it across a continent and a hundred years of habit, and now, at the end, it wants something. It has always wanted something.The world has been emptied down to its oldest powers. ... Read more

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The Stone has begun to speak.It speaks in the voice of whatever you have lost — a dead mother, a vanished father, the one person you could never save. To her, it speaks in the voice of the man with horns. She has carried it across a continent and a hundred years of habit, and now, at the end, it wants something. It has always wanted something.The world has been emptied down to its oldest powers.
... Read more
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The Seven Walk

A Novel of Waking Powers and the Lie Beneath a Holy War

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Man-Eater Saga
Unabridged

15 hours 42 min

The world always said two great powers were sealed away.The world miscounted.The door is open now, and they are coming through one at a time — and each is a different kind of wrong. A woman no wound will hold, who laughs while you spend your life trying to kill her. A thing that pours itself into anyone already hollow and wears their face to your door. A charming man, a century out of fashion, who ... Read more

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The world always said two great powers were sealed away.The world miscounted.The door is open now, and they are coming through one at a time — and each is a different kind of wrong. A woman no wound will hold, who laughs while you spend your life trying to kill her. A thing that pours itself into anyone already hollow and wears their face to your door. A charming man, a century out of fashion, who
... Read more
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The Hour That Will Not Bend

A Novel of Grief, Memory, and the Price No Power Can Reverse

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Man-Eater Saga
Unabridged

14 hours 36 min

This is the book where the debt comes due.A thing has come that cannot be killed. Every wound you give her, she simply un-happens — and she laughs while you waste your life trying. The proud Houses gather every champion they have left and ride to surround her, knowing most of them will not ride home. It is not enough. It was never going to be enough.And then an old man who laid down his sword ... Read more

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This is the book where the debt comes due.A thing has come that cannot be killed. Every wound you give her, she simply un-happens — and she laughs while you waste your life trying. The proud Houses gather every champion they have left and ride to surround her, knowing most of them will not ride home. It is not enough. It was never going to be enough.And then an old man who laid down his sword
... Read more
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THE TONGUE OF SHADOWS

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

11 hours 16 min

Can the dead speak?Almost every civilization that has ever existed answered yes. Almost every civilization developed a class of professionals to handle the conversation. The professionals were called by different names — *goēs* in Greek, *baalat ob* in Hebrew, *itako* in Japanese, *babalawo* in Yoruba — but the job description was the same: the person who stands at the membrane between the living ... Read more

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Can the dead speak?Almost every civilization that has ever existed answered yes. Almost every civilization developed a class of professionals to handle the conversation. The professionals were called by different names — *goēs* in Greek, *baalat ob* in Hebrew, *itako* in Japanese, *babalawo* in Yoruba — but the job description was the same: the person who stands at the membrane between the living
... Read more
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Echoes Beyond the Veil

A Speculative Journey Through Interdimensional Realities

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

Look up from this page and take in the room you are in. It feels complete. Finished. Solid.It is the most ordinary lie you will ever be told — and you tell it to yourself every waking minute.Right now, particles from the sun are passing through your body and out the other side. The same dark matter that holds the galaxies together is drifting through your chair, unfelt. By our best physics, the ... Read more

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Look up from this page and take in the room you are in. It feels complete. Finished. Solid.It is the most ordinary lie you will ever be told — and you tell it to yourself every waking minute.Right now, particles from the sun are passing through your body and out the other side. The same dark matter that holds the galaxies together is drifting through your chair, unfelt. By our best physics, the
... Read more
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The Hypnotic Empire

A Hidden History of Who Controls the Human Mind

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

A general sat in a Cairo opera house in 1892, smiling. He had been smiling for three days. There was no poison, no wound. His heart still beat. But the man who once lived behind those eyes was gone — emptied out by two whispered words and a stranger's fingers moving across his skull.By morning she was gone too. All she left behind were forty-seven notebooks, written in a cipher no one could read, ... Read more

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A general sat in a Cairo opera house in 1892, smiling. He had been smiling for three days. There was no poison, no wound. His heart still beat. But the man who once lived behind those eyes was gone — emptied out by two whispered words and a stranger's fingers moving across his skull.By morning she was gone too. All she left behind were forty-seven notebooks, written in a cipher no one could read,
... Read more
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BLACKMAGIC

The Science of Curses

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

In 1929, a construction crew in Athens broke through the foundation of an ancient well and found dozens of lead tablets, each folded, pierced with iron nails, and inscribed with the names of the dead. They were curse tablets — and they were everywhere in the ancient world.Three thousand years later, someone is asking a stranger on the internet how to hex an ex-lover. Someone else is answering with ... Read more

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In 1929, a construction crew in Athens broke through the foundation of an ancient well and found dozens of lead tablets, each folded, pierced with iron nails, and inscribed with the names of the dead. They were curse tablets — and they were everywhere in the ancient world.Three thousand years later, someone is asking a stranger on the internet how to hex an ex-lover. Someone else is answering with
... Read more
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THE GENERAL

The Man the Mongols Feared

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

6 hours

The Mongol Empire killed forty million people. They erased civilizations so thoroughly that forests reclaimed the dead's farmland and the planet's carbon dioxide dropped. Their conquests are visible in the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica. No force in history matched their efficiency at ending human life.They feared one man.Not an empire. One general, on one frontier, who fought with a ... Read more

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The Mongol Empire killed forty million people. They erased civilizations so thoroughly that forests reclaimed the dead's farmland and the planet's carbon dioxide dropped. Their conquests are visible in the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica. No force in history matched their efficiency at ending human life.They feared one man.Not an empire. One general, on one frontier, who fought with a
... Read more
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The Incarcerated Gods

The Devil You Buried

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Unabridged

9 hours 57 min

Every civilization on earth tells the same story: something powerful existed before us, and we locked it up. The Babylonians split a goddess in half. The Greeks threw titans into a pit. The Hebrews chained an angel under a desert. The Japanese tied ropes around rocks and prayed. These stories span every continent and era with no evidence of cross-contamination — yet they describe the same prison ... Read more

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Every civilization on earth tells the same story: something powerful existed before us, and we locked it up. The Babylonians split a goddess in half. The Greeks threw titans into a pit. The Hebrews chained an angel under a desert. The Japanese tied ropes around rocks and prayed. These stories span every continent and era with no evidence of cross-contamination — yet they describe the same prison
... Read more
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The Cage of Horns

A Novel of Hunger, Captivity, and the Long Walk to a Locked Room

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Man-Eater Saga
Unabridged

14 hours 33 min

She has been caught.For ten thousand years nothing in the world could hold her. Now a horned man who waited nine centuries for this exact morning has her in a cage, in a locked room, in a country no map will admit exists — and he is in no hurry at all. One careful day at a time, he begins to take her apart. Not to kill her. To remake her into the final piece of a working that will open a door the ... Read more

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She has been caught.For ten thousand years nothing in the world could hold her. Now a horned man who waited nine centuries for this exact morning has her in a cage, in a locked room, in a country no map will admit exists — and he is in no hurry at all. One careful day at a time, he begins to take her apart. Not to kill her. To remake her into the final piece of a working that will open a door the
... Read more
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The Stone Falls

The Man-Eater Saga

by ASIF SHAH ...

Narrated by iP95p4xoKVk53GoZ742B ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Man-Eater Saga
Unabridged

16 hours 23 min

A thousand years ago, the Gates of Hell were sealed. The thing that closed them was not a prayer or an army. It was a stone — and the stone runs on souls.Now a crack opens in the Hollow Gate, thirteen seconds wide, and the stone falls back into the world.She reaches it first.She looks like a beautiful young woman. She is ten thousand years old, and she remembers the forge where the stone was made, ... Read more

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A thousand years ago, the Gates of Hell were sealed. The thing that closed them was not a prayer or an army. It was a stone — and the stone runs on souls.Now a crack opens in the Hollow Gate, thirteen seconds wide, and the stone falls back into the world.She reaches it first.She looks like a beautiful young woman. She is ten thousand years old, and she remembers the forge where the stone was made,
... Read more

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