California Characters
By: Charles Hillinger
Narrated by: Dennis McKee
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
For forty-six years, Charles Hillinger journeyed around the world writing human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. He also helped to create and produce special features for the popular NBC television show Real People.From this work comes California Characters, a collection of stories of intriguing, eccentric, or simply amazing... Read more
View audiobookMagnolia Grove
By: Harvey Rosenfeld
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson was a charismatic American hero whose colorful life at the beginning of the twentieth century reflected the rapidly changing politics of his day. Highly honored in his lifetime, he is largely unknown today.During the Spanish-American War, Hobson survived a “suicide mission,” sinking the Merrimac in an... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Marlin
By: Fred Waitzkin
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Marlin is an unforgettable memoir of growing up in the fifties. Young Fred is a Jewish boy who is stretched between the divergent values of parents who cannot tolerate one another. Fred's father, Abe, is a brilliantly talented salesman whose relentless will drives him to succeed, at any cost. He marries Stella, an abstract artist, the... Read more
View audiobookAnne Morrow Lindbergh
By: Susan Hertog
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In this first full-length study of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Susan Hertog pierces the public image of Anne and Charles to reveal their story from inside the marriage and gives us a true understanding of the author of the bestselling classic The Gift from the Sea.Susan Hertog plumbs the depths of Anne Lindbergh’s search for her own identity and... Read more
View audiobookEdison
By: Paul Israel
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 22 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention—from the preeminent Edison scholarThe conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: with only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds to become one of the greatest inventors in history. But the portrait that emerges from... Read more
View audiobookRose Cottage Chronicles
By: Arch Frederick Blakely, Ann Smith Lainhart & Wi...
Narrated by: Christopher Walker
Length: 18 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
As fresh and poignant today as when they were written, these touching letters capture the heart of everyday life during the Civil War.Set both at home in Florida and on the front, the letters were written by two generations of families whose members included radical secessionists, moderates, and even a few unionists.The domestic letters, written... Read more
View audiobookLiving Biographies of Famous Women
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Each of the individuals featured in this book played an important role in history. Their accomplishments span a wide range of fields, from the literary and the political to the medical. They include Cleopatra; Theodora; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Christina; Madame de Maintenon; Charlotte Brontë; George Eliot; Elizabeth Barrett... Read more
View audiobookThe Chain Gang
By: Richard McCord
Narrated by: Richard McCord
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the biggest under-told stories of the past twenty years is the swallowing up of small independent newspapers by large corporations. This is the dramatic account of two battles waged by Richard McCord with his independent newspapers against the Gannett Company, one of the country's largest newspaper chains.In Santa Fe, New Mexico, McCord... Read more
View audiobookThe Sage of Monticello
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family... Read more
View audiobookJefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 24 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Jefferson series completes the story of his presidency, carrying him through his troubled second term but also to the end of an official career that spanned some forty years. Although Jefferson remained the major unifying factor in his party, the government, and the country, he was confronted by a... Read more
View audiobookJefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize–winning work recounts Thomas Jefferson's eventful first presidential term. Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential voyage, Jefferson's first years in office find him confronting a nation deeply divided following the administrations of Washington and Adams. During this term he... Read more
View audiobookJefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 19 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished, Pulitzer Prize–winning study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson's life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state; his retirement to Monticello; his assumption of the... Read more
View audiobookIn the Hands of Providence
By: Alice Rains Trulock
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the... Read more
View audiobookLiving Biographies of Great Painters
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: Pat Bottino
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their... Read more
View audiobookDorothy Day
By: Robert Coles
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the... Read more
View audiobookThe Gift of Valor
By: Michael M. Phillips
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham's brave act that saved fellow Marines and earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Corporal Dunham was on patrol near the Syrian border, on April 14, 2004, when a black-clad Iraqi leaped out of a car and grabbed him around his neck. Fighting hand-to-hand in the dirt, Dunham saw his... Read more
By Myself and Then Some - Abridged
By: Lauren Bacall
Narrated by: Lauren Bacall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple.But when Bogart died of... Read more
View audiobookFather to the Fatherless
By: Paul H Boge
Narrated by: Peter Friberg
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Six-year-old Charles Mulli wakes up in his Kenyan hut to discover his parents have abandoned him. Forced to beg from hut to hut in search of food, Charles scrapes out a meagre existence while trying to come to terms with his abusive past and seemingly hopeless future. As a teenager, Charles is invited by a friend to a crusade where he commits... Read more
View audiobookUnraveled
By: Maria Housden
Narrated by: Staci Snell
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.
Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... Read more
A Paper Life - Abridged
By: Tatum O'Neal
Narrated by: Tatum O'Neal
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Filled with stunning revelations, here is the sensational memoir of one of Hollywood’s most talented and troubled stars—an inspirational true tale of survival and triumph against all oddsThough she has shunned the media spotlight, Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal at last goes on the record to tell her story-a tale of personal turmoil... Read more
View audiobookGeneral George Washington
By: Edward G. Lengel
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 20 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and "father of his country." Less often discussed is Washington's military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has... Read more
View audiobookUnraveled - Abridged
By: Maria Housden
Narrated by: Maria Housden
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.
Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... Read more
The Colonel and Little Missie
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the "slip of a girl" from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated star
of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
In this sweeping dual biography, Larry McMurtry explores... Read more
A Hundred and One Days
By: Asne Seierstad
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul paints a stunning and intimate portrait of Baghdad under siege
From January until April 2003-for one hundred and one days-Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the... Read more