Secrets of the Kingdom
By: Gerald Posner
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In its final report, the 9/11 Commission famously called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism." To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, this is a gross understatement. In his new book, Secrets of the Kingdom, Posner exposes the undeniable truth about... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Voyage of Columbus - Abridged
By: Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Simon Jones
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being... Read more
View audiobookMeet You in Hell
By: Les Standiford
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.
“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today
“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more
Sinatra
By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more
View audiobookThe Gift of Valor - Abridged
By: Michael M. Phillips
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: Yes
Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dunham, a twenty-two-year-old Marine corporal from the one-stoplight town of Scio, New York, whose stunning story reporter Michael M. Phillips... Read more
View audiobook1776
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more
View audiobookThe Course of Human Events
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Forty years after his first book, David McCullough wrote and presented his speech, The Course of Human Events, in the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, in which he divulges his philosophy on writing, speaking, and history in his masterful storytelling style.
In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his... Read more
Conduct Under Fire
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
1776 - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that... Read more
View audiobookSinatra - Abridged
By: Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan
Narrated by: Tony Roberts
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the Mafia, his crowded love life and his tangled... Read more
View audiobookSoldiers and Slaves
By: Roger Cohen
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned... Read more
View audiobookMeet You in Hell - Abridged
By: Les Standiford
Narrated by: John Dossett
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.
“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today
“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells... Read more
Conduct Under Fire - Abridged
By: John Glusman
Narrated by: Harry Chase
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.
In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May... Read more
Behind the Lines - Abridged
By: Andrew Carroll
Narrated by: Dion Graham, George Grizzard, Kate Nelligan, Ke...
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Andrew Carroll spent three years traveling throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during American wars.
Behind the Lines is the result of that extraordinary trip and represents the first book of its kind: a dramatic, intimate, and revealing look at warfare as seen... Read more
109 East Palace - Abridged
By: Jennet Conant
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the extraordinary story of the thousands of people who were sequestered in a military facility in the desert for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer where the world's best scientists raced to invent the atomic bomb and win World War II.
In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant,... Read more
The Johnstown Flood
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial... Read more
Isaac Newton
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of... Read more
View audiobookSoldiers and Slaves - Abridged
By: Roger Cohen
Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned... Read more
View audiobookCinderella Man - Abridged
By: Jeremy Schaap
Narrated by: Jeremy Schaap
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more
View audiobookOutposts - Abridged
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the... Read more
View audiobookCinderella Man
By: Jeremy Schaap
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more
View audiobookA Million Thanks - Abridged
By: Shauna Fleming
Narrated by: Shauna Fleming
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
In March 2004, high school freshman Shauna Fleming invited 1,100 schoolmates to join her in “A Million Thanks,” a campaign to collect and distribute one million letters of appreciation to current and past military men and women at home and overseas. Within six months, she received the one millionth letter. Since then, she has raised her goal to... Read more
View audiobookOne Soldier's Story - Abridged
By: Bob Dole
Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more
View audiobookLuckiest Man - Abridged
By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear,... Read more