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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: James Weldon Johnson
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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In this fictional confession, an unnamed narrator reveals the “great secret” of his life: he was born mixed race - and his ability to pass as white has provided him a unique perspective on America’s profound racial prejudice. As he recounts his experiences in the American South, the suburbs of the Northeast, New York City jazz clubs, and various European capitals, he also grapples with the emotional fallout of a life lived in constant fear of discovery - a life lived, in other words, in a culture unaccountably preoccupied with the shade of a person’s skin.
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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EGYPT
- The Kingdom That Wouldn’t Die
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Rick Nolting
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Egypt wasn’t just ancient, it was timeless. From its earliest days along the Black Nile to the rise of pyramid-building god-kings, from foreign invasions to golden mask tombs and global obsession, this book tells the full, sweeping story of the civilization that refused to die. Clear, sharp, and wildly listenable, EGYPT walks you through dynasties, myths, battles, and breakdowns without the textbook sludge. You’ll meet pharaohs, heretics, conquerors, and commoners.
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EGYPT
- The Kingdom That Wouldn’t Die
- Narrated by: Rick Nolting
- Series: The Mapmakers
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-02-26
- Language: English
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The Human Condition
- Why It Hurts to Be Alive
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jaclyn McMahon
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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You didn’t ask to be born. But here you are. Awake, alive, and trying to make sense of a body that breaks, a brain that spirals, and a world that doesn’t know what to do with either. The Human Condition isn't self-help or philosophy. It’s a mirror. One that doesn’t flinch. JJ takes you on a journey through what it actually means to be human. Not the polished version, but the real thing: hunger, shame, love, pain, identity, grief, desire, numbness, meaning, and death. This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about finally understanding the machine you’ve been living inside your whole life.
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The Human Condition
- Why It Hurts to Be Alive
- Narrated by: Jaclyn McMahon
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 25-02-26
- Language: English
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The Fantasy Machine
- How Porn Replaced People
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Kayla Aitkens
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Porn isn’t just an industry. It’s an infrastructure. It’s not just about sex. It’s about systems. This book is not a purity sermon. It’s not a guilt trip. It’s not a moral panic dressed up as self-help. It’s a blunt, forensic scan of what happens when the oldest human instinct meets the most addictive technology on Earth. From ancient temples to VHS tapes, Playboy to Pornhub, sacred rituals to infinite scroll, THE FANTASY MACHINE tells the true story of how porn evolved from side-show taboo to full-blown nervous system takeover.
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The Fantasy Machine
- How Porn Replaced People
- Narrated by: Kayla Aitkens
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 11-02-26
- Language: English
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Descartes
- The Man Who Split Mind from Matter (The Questioners)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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"I think, therefore I am." With that one sentence, René Descartes changed the world. He wasn’t trying to start a revolution. He just wanted to know what was real and what wasn’t. So he questioned everything: his senses, his body, even the entire physical universe. What he found was the one thing no one could take away, the fact that he was thinking. Descartes: The Man Who Split Mind from Matter is the story of a sickly kid turned soldier turned philosopher who accidentally rewired the modern world.
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Descartes
- The Man Who Split Mind from Matter (The Questioners)
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 06-02-26
- Language: English
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JESSE HELMS
- The Senator Who Said No
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Michael A Loblein
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Jesse Helms didn’t move with the times, he stood in front of them and said “No.” For over three decades, Senator Jesse Helms turned obstruction into strategy, morality into legislation, and the culture war into his personal mission field. From North Carolina radio rants to the halls of Congress, Helms made his name by drawing hard lines and refusing to budge. He fought civil rights, foreign aid, gay rights, and modern art with the same unwavering conviction and changed the shape of American conservatism in the process.
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JESSE HELMS
- The Senator Who Said No
- Narrated by: Michael A Loblein
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 06-02-26
- Language: English
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Speaking in Code
- A History of Artificial Intelligence
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Andrew J Sholl
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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What is artificial intelligence, really? Not the buzzwords. Not the hype. Just the real story — of how machines learned to learn, and how we trained them on everything we are. From Alan Turing and the Imitation Game to ChatGPT, deepfakes, and corporate arms races, Speaking in Code walks through the actual history of AI: It’s a fast, unfiltered walk through the code, the culture, and the chaos of how artificial intelligence actually happened — and what it’s replacing along the way. The machine didn’t come out of nowhere. We taught it. And it’s still listening.
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Speaking in Code
- A History of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Andrew J Sholl
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-02-26
- Language: English
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70+ Anthology. African American Literature. Novels and Short Stories. Poetry. Non-Fiction. Essays
- Passing, the Goophered Grapevine, the Weary Blues, up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk and Others
- By: Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and others
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Rick Walz, and others
- Length: 50 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives.
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70+ Anthology. African American Literature. Novels and Short Stories. Poetry. Non-Fiction. Essays
- Passing, the Goophered Grapevine, the Weary Blues, up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk and Others
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Rick Walz, Jowanna Lewis, Peter Coates
- Length: 50 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-01-25
- Language: English
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Alta Pest Control: The Cult that Sold Me the American Dream
- The Book of Me
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Ken Pollard
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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They promised freedom. They delivered a script. When James Johnson signed on to knock doors for Alta Pest Control, he thought he was chasing the American Dream. Sunny neighborhoods, fat commissions, and a taste of entrepreneurial glory. Instead, he found himself inside a high-control sales cult dressed up as a summer job.
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Alta Pest Control: The Cult that Sold Me the American Dream
- The Book of Me
- Narrated by: Ken Pollard
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Release date: 23-01-26
- Language: English
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Bureaucracy: How Paperwork Took Over the World
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bill Rogers
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Bureaucracy doesn’t wear a uniform. It hides behind forms, signatures, waitlists, voicemails, protocols, and “I’ll have to check with my supervisor.” This is an audiobook about the machine we’ve all learned to live with. The one that slows everything down, spreads the blame, and strangles the very systems it claims to protect.
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Bureaucracy: How Paperwork Took Over the World
- Narrated by: Bill Rogers
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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Musk
- The Man Who Broke the Simulation
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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He’s the richest man alive, the loudest presence online, and the only person seriously planning to die on Mars. Elon Musk’s journey is unlike any other — from bullied kid in apartheid South Africa to the most polarizing figure on Earth. He built PayPal, nearly destroyed Tesla, crashed rockets for fun, and now controls the internet’s favorite town square. But this isn’t just a story about companies. It’s about simulation theory, brain chips, artificial intelligence, flame-throwers, and Mars.
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Musk
- The Man Who Broke the Simulation
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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Bayer
- How a Painkiller Built an Empire (Business as Usual)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Mitchell Jon Hugh Turner
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Aspirin changed medicine forever. But that was just the beginning. BAYER is the untold story of how one pharmaceutical company helped invent modern chemistry, aligned with fascism, trademarked heroin, used forced labor at Auschwitz, rebranded, rebounded, and quietly became one of the most powerful corporations on Earth. From industrial dyes to global drugs, from war crimes to billion-dollar cancer settlements, this book traces the long arc of Bayer’s rise and what it reveals about the system behind modern medicine. This isn’t just a company history. It’s a century of power, pain, and profit.
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Bayer
- How a Painkiller Built an Empire (Business as Usual)
- Narrated by: Mitchell Jon Hugh Turner
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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The Gig Economy
- How Apps Replaced Employment (The System)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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What if your job disappeared without anyone admitting it was ever a job at all? Welcome to the gig economy: a labor system built on loopholes, powered by apps, and sold as freedom. From Uber and DoorDash to Amazon Flex and Instacart, millions of people are working without being called workers with no benefits, no protections, and no boss to complain to when something goes wrong. In THE GIG ECONOMY, JJ exposes how tech companies rewrote the rules of work. This isn’t a book about the future of labor, it’s about the present we’ve already allowed.
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The Gig Economy
- How Apps Replaced Employment (The System)
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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Science 101: A History of Understanding
- How We Figured It Out
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Science isn’t a subject — it’s a system. A way of seeing, testing, and making sense of everything. From ancient myths to AI-powered labs, Science 101 tells the story of how humans figured out how to figure things out. This isn’t about listing facts or memorizing disciplines — it’s about the evolution of the scientific mindset. How did we go from believing lightning was a god… to splitting atoms? How did we learn to measure, test, repeat, and doubt? And what happens when machines start doing the science for us?
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Science 101: A History of Understanding
- How We Figured It Out
- Narrated by: Bethany Johnston
- Series: How We Figured It Out, Book 12
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 09-01-26
- Language: English
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Jobs
- The Man Behind the Glass
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 55 mins
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Steve Jobs didn’t invent the future. He made it feel inevitable. From a California garage to global godhood, this is the story of the man who turned computers into companions, products into rituals, and simplicity into a cult. But beneath the keynote charisma and polished glass lies something deeper: obsession, control, intuition, rage, and raw design philosophy that reshaped the modern world. Jobs: The Man Behind the Glass goes beyond the black turtleneck myth to uncover the ghost still flickering inside every screen. Because what he built wasn’t just a company.
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Jobs
- The Man Behind the Glass
- Narrated by: Bill Gunnin
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 09-01-26
- Language: English
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Dayton
- The City That Invented the Future
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: JD Lake
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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DAYTON: The City That Invented the Future is a raw, heartfelt, and sharply written portrait of one of America’s most important and misunderstood cities. From the Wright brothers to Funk music, from NCR to GM, from the Great Flood to the Oregon District, JJ walks through the neighborhoods, memories, machines, and people that made Dayton what it is. But this isn’t just a local history book. It’s personal. And it’s layered. Told through the eyes of someone who grew up here, it's part memoir, part diagnosis, and part love letter to a city that changed the world and got left behind in the process.
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OBAMA
- The Man Who Played the Game Perfectly (Commanders-in-Chief)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Barack Obama didn’t break the system. He mastered it. This is not a tribute. And it’s not a takedown. It’s a clear-eyed walk through one of the most disciplined presidencies in American history. From a kid with no defined center to a commander-in-chief who made calm look presidential and control look easy. He didn’t storm in with fire. He played the long game. He passed healthcare reform when everyone said it couldn’t be done. He ordered drone strikes with surgical silence. He addressed racism while trying not to set the country on fire.
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OBAMA
- The Man Who Played the Game Perfectly (Commanders-in-Chief)
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-01-26
- Language: English
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The Man Made of Paper
- How Corporations Replaced People (The System)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Derrell Doss
- Length: 50 mins
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He doesn’t breathe. He doesn’t bleed. He doesn’t age. But he can sue you, fire you, poison you, and replace you. THE MAN MADE OF PAPER is the terrifying true story of how a legal illusion became the most powerful “person” on Earth. Born from charters, shielded by law, and fed by profit, this artificial entity now owns your labor, your government, your identity, and your future. From the rise of the East India Company to the algorithmic firms of today, JJ walks step by step through the machine’s construction.
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The Man Made of Paper
- How Corporations Replaced People (The System)
- Narrated by: Derrell Doss
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 30-01-26
- Language: English
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The Gospel of Doubt
- The Thinkers Who Questioned the Bible
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 56 mins
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You were told the Bible was perfect. That it came from God. That it never contradicted itself. And that asking too many questions was dangerous. But not everyone agreed. This book follows the lives and arguments of philosophers, scholars, ex-pastors, skeptics, and former believers. People who read the Bible carefully, seriously, and sometimes devotionally... until it broke under its own weight. From Spinoza and Voltaire to Bart Ehrman and Francesca Stavrakopoulou, The Gospel of Doubt walks through the quiet collapse of certainty. Not with anger, but with clarity.
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The Gospel of Doubt
- The Thinkers Who Questioned the Bible
- Narrated by: Jim Vann
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 30-01-26
- Language: English
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Red vs. Blue
- A History of American Politics (Red, White, and Bruised)
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: James Ferry
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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In Red vs. Blue, JJ cuts straight through the fog of American politics, tracing how we ended up with two massive political identities that nobody fully understands but everyone is expected to defend. This isn’t a policy book. It’s not a campaign book. It’s a book about labels, identity, and the long, messy history behind why the United States split itself in two.
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Red vs. Blue
- A History of American Politics (Red, White, and Bruised)
- Narrated by: James Ferry
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-01-26
- Language: English
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