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Days of Obligation
By: Richard Rodriguez
Narrated by: Michael Anthony
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A series of ten essays span the five centuries of history, from Hernan Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to San Francisco's AIDS epidemic.Richard Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California—as well as the impact this history had on him.Rodriguez... Read more
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Unfinished People
By: Ruth Gay
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I, filled with the hope of life in a new land. Most were young, single, uneducated, and unskilled; many were children or teens. They were, in a sense, unfinished citizens of either the old or the new world.Within two generations, these... Read more
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The Genius Factory - Abridged
By: David Plotz
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN... Read more
The Sociopath Next Door
By: Martha Stout
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He's a sociopath. And... Read more
The Hardness Factor - Abridged
By: Steven Lamm
Narrated by: Steven Lamm
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A diet, exercise, and supplement regimen to help men achieve optimal sexual fitnessSexual fitness goes hand in hand with overall health: Good sex means a man is most probably in good condition. The Hardness Factor is a comprehensive guide to sexual fitness for men, pointing the way to an enhanced self image, better sex, and improved health, and... Read more
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Newjack
By: Ted Conover
Narrated by: Ted Conover
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards—both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works... Read more
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Garlic and Sapphires
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and... Read more
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Dying to Cross
By: Jorge Ramos
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In what is indicative of the strained and even desperate times in which we live, comes a tragic story about the death of 19 people, the final hours of their incredible ordeal, and the network of individuals (and countries) who profit from what is considered by many nothing less than modern-day slavery.On May 13, 2003, at least 73 people boarded... Read more
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Garlic and Sapphires - Abridged
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Includes an interview with the author and recipe cards!
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double... Read more
Jonathan Livingston le Goéland
By: Richard Bach
Narrated by: Patrice Laffont
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Décidément, Jonathan Livingston n'est pas un goéland comme les autres. Sa passion : voler toujours plus haut et plus vite pour être libre. Mais ce marginal qui ne se contente pas de voler pour se nourrir ne plaît guère à la communauté de goélands. Condamné par les siens à vivre le reste de ses jours au-delà des falaises en solitaire, Jonathan... Read more
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Space Between the Stars
By: Deborah Santana
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.
In this... Read more
Emperors and Idiots
By: Mike Vaccaro
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently – and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and... Read more
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The Disappointment Artist
By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In a volume he describes as “a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces,” Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as diverse as western films, comic books, the music of Talking Heads and Pink Floyd, and the New York City subway. Along the way, he shows how each of these “voyages out... Read more
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Emperors and Idiots - Abridged
By: Mike Vaccaro
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: Yes
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently – and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and... Read more
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Space Between the Stars - Abridged
By: Deborah Santana
Narrated by: Deborah Santana
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.
In this... Read more
Underground Railroad
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Jeffrey Brown looks at the newly-opened National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which chronicles the struggle of slaves seeking freedom in pre-Civil War America. Read more
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Feet on the Street
By: Roy Blount, Jr.
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more
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Walking in Peace
By: Angela Porter & Emily Hooker
Narrated by: Rebecca Kageyama
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack of 9/11, surrounded by surging, blind patriotism, Angela Porter felt called to do something - something that would make a statement for peace. That call became a walk across the nation, from Berkeley, California, to Washington, D.C. Joined by Emily Hooker and five other women, she traveled eight months... Read more
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A World Without Oil
By: Richard Heinberg
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Within our lifetimes we will see the peak in worldwide oil production. Soon after, we will be forced to learn to function without fossil fuels. The impact on our culture will be extraordinary - in fact, as Heinberg warns, "Civilization itself may be fundamentally unsustainable." Read more
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Feet on the Street: - Abridged
By: Roy Blount, Jr.
Narrated by: Roy Blount, Jr.
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I... Read more
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We Are All the Same
By: Jim Wooten
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.
Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all... Read more
Collapse - Abridged
By: Jared Diamond
Narrated by: Christopher Murney
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization.
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all... Read more
Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber - Abridged
By: Richard Restak, M.D.
Narrated by: Richard Restak, M.D.
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more
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Learning to Sing - Abridged
By: Clay Aiken & Allison Glock
Narrated by: Clay Aiken
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen.”
–CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing
When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken never dreamed of becoming a pop music star.... Read more