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The Silk Roads
By: Peter Frankopan
Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is history on a grand scale, with a sweep and ambition that is rare… A proper historical epic of dazzling range and achievement.” —William Dalrymple, The Guardian
The epic history of the crossroads of the world—the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization
It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first... Read more
We Are Each Other's Harvest
By: Natalie Baszile
Narrated by: Tina Lifford
Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Queen Sugar—now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay—comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America.
In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people’s connection to the... Read more
Rock Me on the Water
By: Ronald Brownstein
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles’ creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would... Read more
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The Truth at the Heart of the Lie
By: James Carroll
Narrated by: James Carroll
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Courageous and inspiring.”—Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God
“James Carroll takes us to the heart of one of the great crises of our times.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
An eloquent memoir by a former priest and National Book Award–winning writer who traces the roots of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal back to the power... Read more
The Note Through the Wire
By: Doug Gold
Narrated by: Conrad Coleby
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Praised as an “unforgettable love story” by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life, unlikely romance between a resistance fighter and prisoner of war set in World War II Europe.
In this true love story that defies all odds, Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce... Read more
The Ravine
By: Wendy Lower
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A single photograph—an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family—drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar
In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler’s Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the... Read more
Land
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston Globe
The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or... Read more
Saving Freedom
By: Joe Scarborough
Narrated by: Joe Scarborough
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
History called on Harry Truman to unite the Western world against Soviet communism, but first he had to rally Republicans and Democrats behind America’s most dramatic foreign policy shift since George Washington delivered his farewell address. How did one of the least prepared presidents to walk into the Oval Office become one of its most... Read more
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The Dream Palace of the Arabs
By: Fouad Ajami
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving... Read more
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Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon
By: James Hibberd
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The official, definitive oral history of the blockbuster show from Entertainment Weekly’s James Hibberd, published with HBO’s official support.
It was supposed to be impossible. George R.R. Martin was a frustrated television writer who created his bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels to be an unfilmable saga bound only by the limits... Read more
To Start a War
By: Robert Draper
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020
“The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper’s To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq is essential reading—now, especially now . . . Draper’s account [is] one for the ages . . . A must-read for all who care about presidential... Read more
The Golden Thread
By: Ravi Somaiya
Narrated by: Ravi Somaiya
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS "GOLD DAGGER" AWARD FOR NON-FICTION CRIME WRITING
Uncover the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in this true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
On September 17, 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld boarded a... Read more
Europa, Europa
By: Solomon Perel
Narrated by: Christopher David
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, a man who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands' award-winning film Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial... Read more
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I Belong to Vienna
By: Anna Goldenberg & Alta L. Price
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room... Read more
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Night of the Assassins
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II.The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world.
The assassins: a specially trained... Read more
The Sleepwalkers
By: Christopher Clark
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 23 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — The Boston GlobeOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of... Read more
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Overkill
By: Paul A. Offit
Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few... Read more
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The Art of Resistance
By: Justus Rosenberg
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years.In 1937, as the Nazis... Read more
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Between Hope and Fear
By: Michael Kinch
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing―cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuses to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable... Read more
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The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of... Read more
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Cold Warriors
By: Duncan White
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 24 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the... Read more
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The Last Leonardo
By: Ben Lewis
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million—and might not be the real thing.
In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is “the... Read more
Moondust
By: Andrew Smith
Narrated by: Matt Jamie
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith’s book, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men.“Smith’s book succeeds…because he bungee-cords together so many... Read more
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Spying on the South
By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Tony Horwitz
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law... Read more
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