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Landscape Turned Red
By: Stephen W. Sears
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation’s history. On this single day, the battle claimed nearly twenty-three thousand casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate... Read more
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We Look like Men of War
By: William R. Forstchen
Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master’s cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight... Read more
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God and Mr. Gomez
By: Jack Smith
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
When Jack and Denny Smith decided to build a vacation dream house in Baja, California, they had no idea they were entering a phase of their lives “that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the United States.” Through a series of strange and whimsical adventures, they would find that building a house takes God and Mr. Gomez.As their... Read more
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Benjamin Franklin
Narrated by: Michael Edwards
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the... Read more
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The Grand Slam
By: Mark Frost
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 19 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of the stock-market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports. In the summer of 1930, Bobby Jones, a twenty-eight-year-old amateur golfer, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, this natural, self-taught player conquered the British Amateur Championship, the... Read more
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Beyond Band of Brothers
By: Dick Winters
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the “Band of Brothers,” they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire.Dick Winters led them through the Battle of the Bulge, the attack on... Read more
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Tales of the Alhambra
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more
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Hubris
By: Michael Isikoff & David Corn
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 18 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, this fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative tells the inside story of how the Bush administration used bad intelligence to sell—and then justify—the Iraq war.Veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn take the listener behind the scenes at the White House, the... Read more
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Menace in Europe
By: Claire Berlinski
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
We think of Europe as the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police won’t enter them. This isn’t the Europe we thought we knew.Tracing the... Read more
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In Time of War
By: Pierce O’Donnell
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on American shores on a sabotage mission devised by Hitler. When one of them, a hapless US citizen, betrayed the mission to the FBI, Roosevelt appointed a special military tribunal to authorize the death penalty omitting proper legal... Read more
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11 Days in December
By: Stanley Weintraub
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
11 Days in December tells the dramatic story of one of the grimmest points of World War II and its Christmas Eve turn toward victory.In December 1944, the Allied forces thought their campaign for securing Europe was in its final stages. But Germany had one last great surprise attack still planned, leading to some of the most intense fighting in... Read more
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First into Nagasaki
By: George Weller
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into hospitals and consulting doctors of the bomb’s victims, he was the first to document its unprecedented medical effects. He also became... Read more
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Hero Tales
By: Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of... Read more
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To Herat and Cabul
By: G. A. Henty
Narrated by: Stuart Langton
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When sixteen-year-old Angus Campbell finds himself orphaned and his life at risk, he leaves Tabriz and makes his way to Teheran to seek employment with the British ambassador there. His knowledge of Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, and Pushtoo secures him a post as a secretary for Mr. M'Neill. Resourceful and intrepid, he soon finds himself... Read more
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The Worst Journey in the World
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 20 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where began the unforgettable polar journey across a... Read more
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Operation Homecoming
By: Andrew Carroll
Narrated by: a full cast, Stefan Rudnicki, Joe Barrett, Davi...
Length: 17 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts organized a series of writing workshops led by prominent authors to encourage US troops and their families to record their experiences and reflections on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The result is this extraordinary volume of first-hand letters, poems, journals, memoirs, and e-mails from the men... Read more
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The Great Raid
By: William B. Breuer
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Before General Douglas MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of “I shall return” and retake the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place. Captured American soldiers had been held at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp for more than thirty-three months. Emaciated and ill from brutal... Read more
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Goodbye, Darkness
By: William Manchester
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young... Read more
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The Fight for Jerusalem
By: Dore Gold
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
April 13, 2006. A Jerusalem Post headline reads: “Jericho man murdered over home sale.” The forty-two-year-old father of eight was kidnapped, shot seven times, thrown into his car, and set on fire—because he had sold his Jerusalem apartment to Jews.Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and cut it off to Christian and Jewish... Read more
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The Life of Robert E. Lee
By: Mary L. Williamson
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching pupils to read, why not fix in their minds the names and deeds of our great men, thereby laying... Read more
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again)
By: Clint Johnson
Narrated by: Dianna Dorman
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.Far from being the backwater of prejudice and ignorance that the liberal media would have you believe, the South has always been the center of American culture. From the... Read more
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Dancing in the Streets
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and... Read more
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After Fidel
By: Brian Latell
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this compelling, behind-the-scenes account, former top CIA officer and Cuba expert Brian Latell examines the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel’s younger brother, Raul. Exploring the brothers’ remarkable relationship, he reveals how Fidel and Raul have collaborated, divided responsibilities, and... Read more
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The Truth about Muhammad
By: Robert Spencer
Narrated by: James Adams
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam—perhaps the first such portrait in half a century—unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad’s life that continue to affect our world... Read more
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