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Nine Nasty Words
- English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
- By: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance37
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A New York Times bestseller One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much. Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of...
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Takes Lexicon Valley to a ‘whole nother’ level
- By Amazon Customer on 16-06-21
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Nine Nasty Words
- English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems
- Perfect Mother's Day book
- By: Classic FM
- Narrated by: Adrian Irvine, Alec McCowen, Charles Collingwood, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Abridged
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Overall19
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Performance12
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This delightful anthology is a timeless collection of poems chosen by Classic FM listeners. With humorous limericks, romantic sonnets, traditional and modern classics, this book is a true refelction of the greatest and best-loved verse. Discover poems for special occasions, as well as poems to...
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Great poems but very poor format
- By S. Brearley on 16-03-10
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Classic FM One Hundred Favourite Poems
- Perfect Mother's Day book
- Narrated by: Adrian Irvine, Alec McCowen, Charles Collingwood, David Tennant, Donald Douglas, Douglas Hodge, Gareth Armstrong, Joanna Lumley, John Gielgud, John Hannah, Jonathan Aris, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Liza Ross, Nichola McAuliffe
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 09-03-09
- Language: English
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Howdunit
- A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
- By: Martin Edwards - editor
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Joan Walker
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book. Ninety crime writers from the world’s oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and...
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Howdunit
- A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Joan Walker
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-09-20
- Language: English
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What Just Happened?!
- Dispatches from Turbulent Times
- By: Marina Hyde
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast, Marina Hyde
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance131
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Story129
In What Just Happened?! Marina Hyde slashes her way through the hellscape of post-referendum politics, where the chaos never stops. Clamber aboard as we relive every inspirational moment of magic, from David Cameron to Theresa May to Boris Johnson.
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Sublime!
- By David on 13-10-22
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What Just Happened?!
- Dispatches from Turbulent Times
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast, Marina Hyde
- Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Thirty-Two Words for Field
- Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
- By: Manchán Magan
- Narrated by: Ruán Magan
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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The richness of the Irish language is closely tied to the natural landscape and offers a more magical way of seeing the world. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn, and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic.
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A masterpiece of passionate storytelling
- By Marcus on 23-03-26
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Thirty-Two Words for Field
- Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
- Narrated by: Ruán Magan
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- By: Arthur Machen
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance26
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Story27
Machen's novella The Great God Pan is often cited as one of Lovecraft's most notable influences. In it, Dr. Raymond's ultimate goal is to devise a way to open the mind of man so that he may experience all the world has to offer. He calls this "seeing the great god Pan". After much study of the human mind, he devises an experiment that involves minor brain surgery. He performs this experiment on a young woman named Mary, but when she awakens she is terrified and mentally crippled.
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Terrible narration
- By Amazon Customer on 23-10-24
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The Great God Pan
- Esoteric Classics: Occult Fiction
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-01-16
- Language: English
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Learn Arabic for Beginners Anywhere
- Global Citizen Language Audiobooks
- By: Global Citizen Language Audiobooks, Blackstone Publications LLC
- Narrated by: Mehdi Ben Mahmoud
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
The Global Citizen Language Learning vocabulary mastery audiobooks are intentionally and judiciously structured for vocabulary, definition, and pronunciation learning, retention, and recall for individuals who are completely new to the language!
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Helpful!
- By RB on 13-10-23
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Learn Arabic for Beginners Anywhere
- Global Citizen Language Audiobooks
- Narrated by: Mehdi Ben Mahmoud
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance46
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Story46
**Patrick Radden Keefe's new book, London Falling, is available to pre-order now** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.’...
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Fascinating story about smugglers and refugees
- By MB Porter on 31-10-23
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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The Art & Business of Ghostwriting
- How to Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing for Other People Online (The Art & Business of Writing, Book 2)
- By: Nicolas Cole
- Narrated by: Nicolas Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past 6 years, Nicolas Cole has ghostwritten for more than 300 different industry leaders, C-Suite executives, founders of Silicon Valley startups, venture capitalists, and even Olympic athletes, Grammy-winning musicians, and New York Times bestselling authors. In 2017, Cole founded the first ghostwriting agency specializing in opinion articles online, and to date has ghostwritten more than 3,000 articles (under other people's names).
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The Art & Business of Ghostwriting
- How to Make $10,000+ Per Month Writing for Other People Online (The Art & Business of Writing, Book 2)
- Narrated by: Nicolas Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-03-26
- Language: English
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The 7 Principles of Public Speaking
- Proven Methods from a PR Professional
- By: Richard Zeoli
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance70
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Story70
Whether you are looking to position yourself as an industry expert, extend your sphere of influence, or gain the support and backing of vital constituencies, The 7 Principles of Public Speaking will give you the tools you need to achieve your goal.
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out of date
- By Amazon Customer on 28-01-25
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The 7 Principles of Public Speaking
- Proven Methods from a PR Professional
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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Left Out
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
- By: Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall463
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Performance394
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Story388
From the peak of Jeremy Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer, Left Out draws on unrivalled access throughout the party and to both leaders' inner circles to provide a blistering narrative exposé of the Labour Party during one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in its history. It reveals a party riven by factionalism and at war over ideology, then incapacitated by crisis and indecision.
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Very good although too charitable to Corbyn.
- By Emily Senior on 16-09-20
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Left Out
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Miss Mapp
- By: E. F. Benson
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall205
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Performance162
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Story163
Miss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. But her tightly controlled world is soon beset on all sides by interlopers, first in the disturbingly masculine form of two very different retired army officers, both of whom are anything but retiring in their conflicting aims upon her heart.
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and escapist delight
- By Mr. P. Buggs on 22-04-10
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Miss Mapp
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Series: Mapp and Lucia
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-02-05
- Language: English
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The Book You Were Born to Write
- Everything You Need to (Finally) Get Your Wisdom onto the Page and into the World
- By: Kelly Notaras
- Narrated by: Kelly Notaras
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story9
A guide to writing a full-length transformational nonfiction book, from an editor with two decades' experience working with authors from all walks of life. "I know I have a book in me." "I've always wanted to be an author." "People always ask me when I'm going to write my book." "I have a story...
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Excellent!
- By Amore on 23-08-21
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The Book You Were Born to Write
- Everything You Need to (Finally) Get Your Wisdom onto the Page and into the World
- Narrated by: Kelly Notaras
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- Language: English
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Language Builder Spanish (Michel Thomas Method) - Full course
- Learn Spanish with the Michel Thomas Method
- By: Michel Thomas
- Narrated by: Michel Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The nearest thing to painless learning. - The Times Works like a dream. - Daily Telegraph Five minutes in and you already feel like you're winning. - Time Out Looking for a beginner refresher language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of...
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Language Builder Spanish (Michel Thomas Method) - Full course
- Learn Spanish with the Michel Thomas Method
- Narrated by: Michel Thomas
- Series: Spanish (Michel Thomas Method)
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-01-26
- Language: English
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Easy Polish Course for Beginners
- Learn the basics for everyday conversation
- By: Collins Dictionaries
- Narrated by: Hania Forss
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance31
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The perfect Polish course for travel in Poland. It is designed to help you ask for the things you’re most likely to need when visiting Poland and to give you the skills to cope with situations you might find yourself in. The accompanying free booklet is also available to download at...
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Excellent
- By Robert on 24-01-12
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Easy Polish Course for Beginners
- Learn the basics for everyday conversation
- Narrated by: Hania Forss
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-11-08
- Language: English
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How to Speak Effectively Anywhere
- Speak with Confidence, Communicate with Clarity, and Influence Any Audience
- By: Melanie Nash
- Narrated by: Eva Carter, Stephanie White
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance12
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Do you struggle to find the right words in important moments? Do nerves, lack of clarity, or uncertainty about your audience hold you back from speaking with confidence? How to Speak Effectively Anywhere by Melanie Nash is your complete guide to mastering communication in every setting—from the workplace to social gatherings, from formal speeches to casual conversations. This book takes you step by step through the skills that turn ordinary communication into powerful connection.
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An inspiring and practical communication guide.
- By Sharon Bradford on 17-01-26
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How to Speak Effectively Anywhere
- Speak with Confidence, Communicate with Clarity, and Influence Any Audience
- Narrated by: Eva Carter, Stephanie White
- Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-10-25
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance15
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When his ship is wrecked in a storm, Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with no one to help him and no chance of rescue. Scared and alone, he tries to make a life for himself, building shelters, hunting food, taming animals, crafting boats, and making clothes. But just as his life appears to be settled, he sees someone else's footprint on the beach, and a different struggle for survival begins, this time against cannibals and pirates.
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Very interesting
- By Jim Morrison on 28-02-26
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Robinson Crusoe
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-12-15
- Language: English
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Rapid Portuguese (European)
- By: Earworms Learning
- Narrated by: Marlon Lodge
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance9
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Story8
By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of Portuguese and English a few times, you will pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue but burned deeply into your long-term memory - in next to no time.
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easy and fun
- By Clarissa on 28-07-08
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Rapid Portuguese (European)
- Narrated by: Marlon Lodge
- Series: Rapid Portuguese, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-09-07
- Language: English
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Fake News
- Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism
- By: Brian McNair
- Narrated by: Sandy Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the...
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Fake News
- Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism
- Narrated by: Sandy Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-06-26
- Language: English
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Undaunted
- How Women Changed American Journalism
- By: Brooke Kroeger
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable...
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Undaunted
- How Women Changed American Journalism
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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