South to America
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more
View audiobookThe Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... Read more
A Ben Of All Trades
By: Michael J. Rosen & Matt Tavares
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won’t hear of it. The other trades he tries—candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner—bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit... Read more
View audiobookMott Street
By: Ava Chin
Narrated by: Ava Chin
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023... Read more
Wasteland
By: W. Scott Poole
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature.In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of... Read more
View audiobookCourage Is Calling
By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more
Palestine
By: Nur Masalha
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 16 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.
Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have... Read more
Ultra-Processed People
By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.
It’s not you, it’s the food.
How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more
Democracy Awakening
By: Heather Cox Richardson
Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians.
“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post
“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150... Read more
The Emperor of All Maladies
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer... Read more
View audiobookA Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
Narrated by: Vikas Adams
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima... Read more
Arabs
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 25 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances.... Read more
View audiobookPockets
By: Hannah Carlson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters.
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more
Trail of the Lost
By: Andrea Lankford
Narrated by: Kristi Burns
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.
As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led... 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
View audiobookNeuroTribes
By: Steve Silberman
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more
View audiobookAdministrations of Lunacy
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
View audiobookThe Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and... Read more
View audiobookThe Road to Little Dribbling
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and... Read more
How to Think Like a Woman
By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more
View audiobookTechnofeudalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In a revelatory and path breaking work, the #1 international bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world.
“The Thucydides of our time.” —Jeffrey Sachs
Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs... Read more
Powers and Thrones
By: Dan Jones
Narrated by: Dan Jones
Length: 24 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated . . . The vision takes in whole imperial landscapes but also makes room for intimate portraits of key individuals, and... Read more
View audiobookNormal Women
By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigue...
Length: 27 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.” —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
View audiobookDevil in the Grove
By: Gilbert King
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to... Read more
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