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The Forever War

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Forever War written and read by Nick Bryant.

‘This is a must read book for all those who love America and want it to be healed.’ — Justin Webb, presenter of the BBC’s Today programme and Americast

‘Unflinching and insightful.’ — Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent

‘A perceptive look at America’s... Read more

Codename Nemo

By: Charles Lachman

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible—capturing a German U-Boat. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy and a victory that shortened the duration of the war.... Read more

The Hidden History of the White House

By: Corey Mead

Narrated by: Lindsay Graham & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Presented by the hit podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic events in American history—set right inside the house where it happenedFor more than two centuries, the White House in Washington, DC, has been the stage for some of the most climactic... Read more

The Forbidden Daughter

By: Zipora Klein Jakob

Narrated by: Robin Siegerman

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman... Read more

The King of Diamonds

By: Rena Pederson

Narrated by: Erin Dion

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena... Read more

Black Hearts and Painted Guns

By: Kelly Eads & Daniel S. Morgan

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Kelly Eads joined the 101st Airborne Division soon after 9/11, his experience reflecting the patriotism and commitment of so many young men and women who responded to the attack. He deployed to Iraq twice with the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment. Early in their deployment to Iraq, the 2nd Battalion brought the fight directly to the enemy... Read more

Smoke and Ashes

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most... Read more

Beverly Hills Spy

By: Ronald Drabkin

Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst-Phillips

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Ben Macintyre’s greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.Frederick Rutland was an... Read more

The Survivors of the Clotilda

By: Hannah Durkin

Narrated by: Tariye Peterside

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and... Read more

The Last Ships from Hamburg

By: Steven Ujifusa

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible.Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed... Read more

Hunting the Falcon

By: John Guy & Julia Fox

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne’s triumph and tragedy."" —Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review“A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana:... Read more

Glitter and Concrete

By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Natalie Duke

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*
*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*

"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York

An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... Read more

The Cooking Gene

By: Michael W. Twitty

Narrated by: Michael W. Twitty

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and... Read more

Ira Hayes

By: Tom Holm

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor Corbett

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes—a Native American icon and World War II legend who famously helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima but spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero.

IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along... Read more

Empires of the Steppes

By: Kenneth W. Harl

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 17 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization.

The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the... Read more

Bogie & Bacall

By: William J. Mann

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 27 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey... Read more

The Far Traveler

By: Nancy Marie Brown

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of... Read more

Wanderlust

By: Reid Mitenbuler

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II.Deep in the Arctic wilderness, Peter Freuchen awoke to find himself buried alive under the snow. During a sudden blizzard... Read more

Oscar Wars

By: Michael Schulman

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 21 hours

Abridged: No

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading... Read more

Dammed

By: Brittany Luby

Narrated by: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating... Read more

What's Gotten Into You

By: Dan Levitt

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we... Read more

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

By: Jeremy Dronfield

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful, moving middle grade adaptation of the adult international bestselling narrative nonfiction book The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz shines a light on the true story of two brothers who experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust in very different ways.Fritz Kleinmann was fourteen when the Nazis took over Vienna. Kurt,... Read more

Mussolini's Daughter

By: Caroline Moorehead

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe—and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from award-winning historian and author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet, Caroline Moorehead “Reads like a page-turning... Read more

The Real Odessa

By: Uki Goñi

Narrated by: Pat Grimes

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of... Read more