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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,542 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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    • The Language of Fanaticism
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
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    • The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,280 ratings
    • With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 ratings
    • Perhaps Dickens' ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money....

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    • A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Amanda Montell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 651 ratings
    • A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them....

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    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
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    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
    • By: Benny Lewis
    • Narrated by: Benny Lewis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 655 ratings
    • Benny Lewis is the creator of www.fluentin3months.com, the largest language learning blog in the world....

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    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 963 ratings
    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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    • Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,411 ratings
    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,042 ratings
    • In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

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    • The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-12
    • Language: English
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    • For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself....

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    • Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
    • By: John H. McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 475 ratings
    • This short, opinionated audiobook addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world....

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    • By: George MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Flo Gibson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-12
    • Language: English
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    • Better English Series
    • By: Edie Schwager
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Would you like to find new words to use in your speech and writing? Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist? Would you like to be a Scrabble expert? This book is for you....

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