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The Psychology of Money
By: Morgan Housel
Narrated by: Chris Hill
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make... Read more
Divergent Mind
By: Jenara Nerenberg
Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted... Read more
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
By: Daniel Kahneman
Narrated by: Patrick Egan
Length: 20 hours
Abridged: No
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first... Read more
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Essentialism
By: Greg McKeown
Narrated by: Greg McKeown
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.
“A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam Grant
Have you ever:
• found yourself stretched too thin?
• simultaneously felt... Read more
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
By: Zac Bissonnette
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire—without... Read more
The Power of Habit
By: Charles Duhigg
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.
“Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception.”—Financial Times
A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In The Power of Habit,... Read more
Digital Minimalism
By: Cal Newport
Narrated by: Will Damron & Cal Newport
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller
"Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don't, bring value to your life."--Ezra Klein, Vox
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital... Read more
The Art of Gathering
By: Priya Parker
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond.
In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the... Read more
Never Split the Difference
By: Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals,... Read more
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The Road to Freedom
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here?
In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner... Read more
Goliath
By: Matt Stoller
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 20 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.
Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one... Read more
Burn Book
By: Kara Swisher
Narrated by: Kara Swisher
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times Bestseller
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution... Read more
Die With Zero
By: Bill Perkins
Narrated by: Bill Perkins
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich
Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
The only thing you wasted along the way was…your life.
Die with Zero presents a startling... Read more
Debt - Updated and Expanded
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more
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The Lean Startup
By: Eric Ries
Narrated by: Eric Ries
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for... Read more
The Staff Engineer's Path
By: Tanya Reilly
Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects,... Read more
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The Black Swan: Second Edition
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 15 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.
A black swan... Read more
Laziness Does Not Exist
By: Devon Price
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough.
Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles.
Like... Read more
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
By: Martin Kleppmann
Narrated by: Benjamin Lange
Length: 20 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What... Read more
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Fair Play
By: Eve Rodsky
Narrated by: Eve Rodsky
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon
Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...
It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more
The Widow Clicquot
By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow—the Veuve Clicquot—whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune?
In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life for the first time the fascinating woman behind the iconic... Read more
Radical Respect
By: Kim Scott
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
How to be respectful and respected at work—from the author of the revolutionary bestseller Radical Candor
We CAN create cultures where everyone does the best work of their lives and enjoys working together. Radical Respect offers a simple framework that helps us identify what gets in the way of that —and practical, tactical tips for how to get... Read more
You're Not Listening
By: Kate Murphy
Narrated by: Kate Murphy
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine
**This program is read by the author**
When was the last time you... Read more
Blood in the Machine
By: Brian Merchant
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural... Read more