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Rent Boy

by Gary Indiana ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

4 hours 6 min

A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the "downtown" writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does ... Read more

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A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the "downtown" writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does
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Consorting with Spirits

Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies

by Jason Miller ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 52 min

Throughout history, humans have sought power and knowledge from spirits. Learning how to conjure, communicate, and negotiate with these unseen powers is one of the keys to success in magic.This book will teach you different ways of interacting with spirits, from offerings and invitations to forceful conjurations. With these tools in hand, you can work with your spirit allies to achieve any goal, ... Read more

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Throughout history, humans have sought power and knowledge from spirits. Learning how to conjure, communicate, and negotiate with these unseen powers is one of the keys to success in magic.This book will teach you different ways of interacting with spirits, from offerings and invitations to forceful conjurations. With these tools in hand, you can work with your spirit allies to achieve any goal,
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Breaking the Medicine Monopolies

Reflections of a Generic Drug Pioneer

by Alfred Engelberg ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a lawyer's personal narrative of the events that led to the widespread use of low-cost generic drugs and the current drug price crisis.Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a personal narrative about Alfred Engelberg's fifty years of legal work in the drug industry. He takes you inside the mysterious world of patents to provide a basic understanding of how drug ... Read more

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Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a lawyer's personal narrative of the events that led to the widespread use of low-cost generic drugs and the current drug price crisis.Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a personal narrative about Alfred Engelberg's fifty years of legal work in the drug industry. He takes you inside the mysterious world of patents to provide a basic understanding of how drug
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Silicon Empires

The Fight for the Future of AI

by Nick Srnicek ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle ... Read more

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Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle
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Cerebral Entanglements

How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives

by Allan J. Hamilton ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 26 min

It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.Why do we love? Why do we ... Read more

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It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.Why do we love? Why do we
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Buffer ETFs For Dummies

by Stuart Chaussee ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 12 min

Demystify buffer ETFs for equity growth potential with built-in downside protectionBuffer ETFs For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding one of the fastest-growing segments in the ETF marketplace. Also known as "defined outcome ETFs," the popularity of buffer ETFs is projected to explode in the coming years. This book lets you get in on the action, with clear explanations of how ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Demystify buffer ETFs for equity growth potential with built-in downside protectionBuffer ETFs For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding one of the fastest-growing segments in the ETF marketplace. Also known as "defined outcome ETFs," the popularity of buffer ETFs is projected to explode in the coming years. This book lets you get in on the action, with clear explanations of how
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A Pagan Polemic

Reflections on Nature, Consciousness, and Anarchism

by Jack Loeffler ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler—itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector—whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play "The Stars and Stripes Forever" during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the ... Read more

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A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler—itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector—whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play "The Stars and Stripes Forever" during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the
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A Season with the Witch

The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

by J.W. Ocker ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 58 min

Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history―the Salem Witch Trials of 1692―transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town―and its season happens to be Halloween. Every ... Read more

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Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history―the Salem Witch Trials of 1692―transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. But Salem is a seasonal town―and its season happens to be Halloween. Every
... Read more
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Reconstructing the Dreamland

The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Updated Edition)

by Alfred L. Brophy ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble.Alfred L. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of ... Read more

$18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble.Alfred L. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of
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Climate

A Very Short Introduction (Second Edition)

by Mark Maslin ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

4 hours

The issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth throughout its history, as well as how solar energy is able to reach the Earth, how it is redistributed around the planet by the ocean-atmosphere system, and the relationship and differences between climate and the weather.This Very Short Introduction ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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The issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth throughout its history, as well as how solar energy is able to reach the Earth, how it is redistributed around the planet by the ocean-atmosphere system, and the relationship and differences between climate and the weather.This Very Short Introduction
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The Approaching Storm

A Murder in Acadia

by Mark Thielman ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Series series Johnson and Nance Mysteries
Unabridged

12 hours

Set in Acadia National Park, The Approaching Storm**—the fourth book in Mark Thielman's Johnson and Nance Mysteries—is a gripping dual-timeline thriller where the past bleeds into the present. Perfect for fans of Steve Berry and Gary McAvoy.**A stolen painting in Acadia reveals a secret buried since the Civil War.When a thief steals a valuable Hudson River School painting from a museum in Acadia ... Read more

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Set in Acadia National Park, The Approaching Storm**—the fourth book in Mark Thielman's Johnson and Nance Mysteries—is a gripping dual-timeline thriller where the past bleeds into the present. Perfect for fans of Steve Berry and Gary McAvoy.**A stolen painting in Acadia reveals a secret buried since the Civil War.When a thief steals a valuable Hudson River School painting from a museum in Acadia
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The Wannabe Fascists

A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy

by Federico Finchelstein ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of ... Read more

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Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of
... Read more