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God Save the Sweet Potato Queens
By: Jill Conner Browne
Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back!
In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestseller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (which contained everything you ever need to know about Love, Life, Men, Marriage, and the importance of... Read more
Let's Roll!
By: Lisa Beamer
Narrated by: Lisa Helm
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner!
Lisa Beamer, wife of September 11 hero Todd Beamer, reveals what really happened on the ill-fated United Flight 93, and shares poignant glimpses of a genuine American hero. She talks candidly about her life with Todd and the devastating day her children learned their daddy had died, the mix of grief and joy... Read more
A Long Way From Home
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Reflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it, by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation.
In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents’ life in the 1930s, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in... Read more
Worth the Fighting For
By: John McCain & Mark Salter
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 18 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years.
After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain... Read more
21 Dog Years
By: Mike Daisey
Narrated by: Mike Daisey
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major -- fit the bill. His subsequent ascension, over the course of twenty-one dog years, from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler is the stuff... Read more
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Touch the Top of the World
By: Erik Weihenmayer
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual... Read more
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An Unfinished Marriage
By: Joan Anderson
Narrated by: Joan Anderson
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson documented her brave decision to take a year of solitude away from her marriage. Her frank assessment of herself in midlife and openness in sharing her fears struck a chord with thousands. In this moving sequel, Anderson gives fresh hope for all women and men negotiating their own marital passages. Using the... Read more
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Master of the Senate - Abridged
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from... Read more
Ronald C. White Jr: Lincoln's Greatest Speech
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In his book, Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, historian Ronald White reveals how Americans, including Frederick Douglas and John Wilkes Booth, responded to the 16th president's declarations on March 4, 1865 and Lincoln's intentions. In this interview, White quotes from the book, explains why he believes the speech was Lincoln's... Read more
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Master of the Senate
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more
Master of the Senate
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more
Charles Dickens
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels." Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly... Read more
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
By: Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Maya Angelou
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to... Read more
Over the Edge - Abridged
By: Greg Child
Narrated by: Aramand Schultz
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the... Read more
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Revenge - Abridged
By: Laura Blumenfeld
Narrated by: Laura Blumenfeld
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story.
Traveling to Israel, Blumenfeld gathers stories and methods of avengers as she plots to infiltrate... Read more
Lucky Man - Abridged
By: Michael J. Fox
Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
"If you were to rush in to this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal-with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever-in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before, I would, without a... Read more
Master of the Senate
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.
At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his... Read more
Napoleon
By: Paul Johnson
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bonaparte
In an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson offers a vivid look at the life of the strategist,... Read more
The Pact
By: Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt & George Jenkins
Narrated by: Sampson Davis & George Jenkins
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
George Jenkins, Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt were three African American kids living in the inner city of Newark, all from broken homes, all living amid poverty, crime, and drug abuse. Two served time in juvenile detention centers. They met in high school and together they made a pact: they would support each other for as long as it would take... Read more
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Losing my Mind - Abridged
By: Thomas DeBaggio
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999, he thought he was embarking on the golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, and the herb garden he spent decades cultivating.
One winter day, he told his doctor during a routine exam that he had been stumbling into forgetfulness. After it subsequent battery of tests,... Read more
Rites of Passage - Abridged
By: Robert Peterson
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . .
Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his life forever. Peterson vividly relives the tense patrols... Read more
The Mountain of the Women - Abridged
By: Liam Clancy
Narrated by: Liam Clancy
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.
Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and ... Read more
Shadow Warriors
By: Tom Clancy & General Carl Stiner
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 21 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Teams of dedicated, highly specialized soldiers trained to a higher standard than regular forces; an armamentarium of advanced weapons and tactics; a variety of exotic, critical assignments for the good of the nation; in short, the U.S. Special Forces seem tailor-made for Tom Clancy, progenitor of the techno-thriller. In this factual account... Read more
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The Noonday Demon - Abridged
By: Andrew Solomon
Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants,... Read more
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