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Values Matter
By: Darlene Cunningham, Dawn Gauslin & Sean Lambert
Narrated by: Darlene Cunningham
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Why Values Matter...
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a Christian missions movement like no other. Since 1960, it has launched wave after wave of young missionaries now into the millions who have impacted every nation on earth by simply listening to and obeying the voice of God. In Values Matter, YWAM Co-founder Darlene Cunningham shares inspiring... Read more
Dear Jacob
By: Patty Wetterling & Joy Baker
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boyโs remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob, told by his mother, Patty. With down-to-earth candor, she details the... Read more
View audiobookGlitter 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*
*Aย Vogueย Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*
"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous,ย Glitter and Concreteย is urban history on fire." โThomas Dyja,ย author ofย New York, New York, New York
An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... Read more
Necessary Trouble
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by: Drew Gilpin Faust
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions?not only in global affairs but in American society and Americansโ lives. To be a privileged white... Read more
View audiobookJohn Owen
By: Simonetta Carr
Narrated by: Jonathan St. John
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
John Owen was a great Puritan preacher who lived in England. In this book, Simonetta Carr informs readers about Owen s life, revealing some of the things that interested him while in school, the care he showed to people when he became a pastor, and the influential books that he wrote. Readers will also come to understand the difficult times in... Read more
View audiobookStars of the Night
By: Caren B. Stelson
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Upside of Hunger
By: Roxi Harms
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
He fled his village in eastern Hungary to escape his father's iron fist. But now, fighting for the SS, he's facing starvation on the Eastern Front as the deluge of enemy fire from the Russian army comes closer every hour.The Upside of Hungerย is the powerful story of Adam Baumann's coming of age in the midst of WW2 and his journey toward manhood,... Read more
View audiobookThe Story of the Saxophone
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Saxโa boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how... Read more
View audiobookA Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)
By: Arthur Ashe
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Asheโs epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United Statesโa major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activistโs lifelong... Read more
View audiobookPower and Progress
By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-authorย of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world
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A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of... Read more
Frederick Douglass
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother during infancy, then taken from his grandparents at the age of six to serve at the โGreat Houseโ on the Wye Plantation in Maryland. He never imagined the cruelties he would witness or the indignities of his family being treated like cattle to be sold, divided, and... Read more
View audiobookTheodore Roosevelt
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Determined to make a difference and with an insatiable curiosity, love of adventure, and hunger for justice, Theodore Roosevelt exemplified a life directed by principles and not by circumstance.
Overcoming severe asthma and a weak heart set young Teddy on a life course against all odds. Whether rooting out government and corporate corruption,... Read more
Milton Hershey
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
'We've done more than our share to see you right, but you're a Hershey, a true son of a dreamer,' Milton's Uncle Abraham said. 'You'll never stick with anything long enough to make it work for you.' Milton gulped. He'd already suspected that his relatives had given up on him succeeding as a candy maker, but the words still stung.
When Milton... Read more
Orville Wright
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
At last Orville was free, soaring above the sand dunes, wind in his face. Lying in the glider's wing, he moved his hips in the control cradle and the craft began to turn as planned. But then something went wrong. The glider wanted to go into a spin, and as Orville struggled with the controls, it came to a standstill in midair.
When Orville... Read more
Harriet Tubman
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The pounding of horses' hooves shattered the night's silence. Harriet froze in the shadow of a tree and peered out into the darkness. She barely dared to breathe as three slave catchers came to a halt only a few feet from her hiding place. Had she escaped from danger so many times only to lose her hope of freedom now?
At age six the sharp bite... Read more
William Bradford
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Growing up in a small town in England, William Bradford lived during a time of upheaval and opportunity. Together with a group of Separatists, William escaped England to establish a new life in Holland and finally set out on the Mayflower on a perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
The New World beckoned as a land of freedom and possibility.... Read more
Ida Scudder
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Ida stamped her foot. Her friends were wrong. "I will not be a missionary to India like my parents!" she retorted. "Don't any of you say I will be, because I won't -- never, ever, ever." Ida had never forgotten the faces of starving Indian children. She hated India -- it was full of horrible situations she could do nothing about.
Ida Scudder was... Read more
Thomas Edison
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
With only three months of formal education, Thomas Edison grew up to be one of the most successful inventors of all time. Applying scientific principles to practical use, he made scores of inventions and held over thirteen hundred patents, from improvements on the telegraph and phonograph to the development of the incandescent lamp and a whole... Read more
View audiobookMeriwether Lewis
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Meriwether Lewis had been commissioned by President Jefferson to lead a daring expedition so remarkable it would become one of the most famous explorations in history. He chose as his co-captain William Clark. Their mission - to find a land route to the Pacific Ocean while learning as much as possible about the thousands of miles of unexplored... Read more
View audiobookLouis Zamperini
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
When the canteen water supply ran dry again, Louie began to doubt they'd survive. He thought back to when he first arrived in Hawaii and Eddie Rickenbacker and his crew had just been rescued from a record of twenty-one days drifting on rafts much like the one Louie was in. Louie was sure that twenty-one days on a life raft represented the outer... Read more
View audiobookLaura Ingalls Wilder
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Laura stared at the black cloud blotting out the sun. The cloud was unlike anything she had ever seen. As it got closer, it made a strange noise, like hail pelting the ground. Suddenly the sky began to rain grasshoppers. The bugs clung to Laura's hair and clothes and peered at her with bulging eyes. Soon they began destroying Papa's crops.
From... Read more
John Adams
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Written for readers age 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!
John's heart sank. A British man-of-war was plowing through the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean in hot pursuit of his ship. If the British caught up with the Boston, John would be hanged. He had proudly signed the Declaration of Independence and was carrying the colonies' secret papers.... Read more
George Washington
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Written for ages 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!
Behind George were enemies; in front, a raging ice-packed river. Poling across had seemed his best chance, but now large blocks of ice slammed into his makeshift raft, twisting it off course. Just as George dug his pole in and pushed with all his might, a block of ice hit the raft -- the raft... Read more
Dwight Eisenhower
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in Denison, Texas, Dwight David Eisenhower grew up poor in Abilene, Kansas. After graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point, Ike entered army service, commanding tank training in WWI and afterward, serving in Central America, Europe, and the Philippines.
During WWII Ike directed US forces in Europe, eventually becoming supreme... Read more