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Honor & Glory
By: Kim Murphy
Narrated by: Dianna Dorman
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In this continuation of Kim Murphy's Civil War trilogy, sisters Amanda and Alice struggle to reconcile political and family loyalties.Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for... Read more
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Taj Mahal
By: Diana Preston & Michael Preston
Narrated by: James Adams
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
While Galileo was suffering under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the Thirty Years War was ruining Europe, and the Pilgrims were struggling to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife,... Read more
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Blooding at Great Meadows
By: Alan Axelrod
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country. But what has gone previously unexamined is Washington’s life as a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant colonel; he led four hundred American militiamen against a bigger, more experienced French army and paid a high price. Not only did... Read more
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
By: John Foxe
Narrated by: Robin Lawson
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is a book which will never die—one of the greatest Christian classics. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness, telling the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Presented here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when ‘a noble army, men and boys, the... Read more
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The Sweet Science
By: A. J. Liebling
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" brings vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday, including Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, and Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling... Read more
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A Patriot’s History of the United States
By: Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 50 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Since the liberal revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, American history books have been biased toward the negative, distorting the way America’s past is taught. They overemphasize America’s racism, sexism, and bigotry while downplaying the greatness of her patriots. As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington,... Read more
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The China Fantasy
By: James Mann
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Does America’s policy toward China make sense? In this in-depth look at China’s political evolution and its future, Mann explores two scenarios popular among our policy elite. The soothing scenario foresees the gradual spread of democracy and human rights, but in the upheaval scenario, the contradictions in Chinese society between rich and poor... Read more
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Blood Diamonds
By: Greg Campbell
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of the events that inspired the feature film Blood DiamondFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the... Read more
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping... Read more
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Men of Fire
By: Jack Hurst
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1862, Ulysses S. Grant achieved what President Lincoln had sought since the start of the war: the first decisive Union victory. Fought on the western edge of the theater, the Forts Henry and Donelson campaign was a gruesome omen of what was to come.Grant, until then an obscure brigadier general with a reputation for drink, became the fighting... Read more
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The Devil Came on Horseback
By: Brian Steidle
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The Devil Came on Horsebackis an intense, vivid autobiographical report from the heart of violent Darfur and a call to action by a former American marine who became a military observer for the African Union. The first extensive on-the-ground account of the genocide in Sudan, itleads us through the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on... Read more
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Wolf of the Deep
By: Stephen Fox
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In July 1862, Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes took command of a secret new warship. At the helm of the Alabama, he became the most hated and feared man along the Union coast, as well as a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority, depth, and a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox describes Captain... Read more
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Gullible’s Travels
By: Cash Peters
Narrated by: Cash Peters
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America visiting some of the tackiest attractions in the world for his hugely popular public radio series, The Bad Taste Tours. But a guy can only take so much. Now, as Peters prepares to leave his travel-reporting days behind forever, he takes us along on some of the more... Read more
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The Big Three in Economics
By: Mark Skousen
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views... Read more
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Amelia Earhart
By: Jane Moore Howe
Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Did you know that Amelia Earhart built her own roller coaster before she was ten years old? And what do you suppose happened to her while she was exploring a spooky cave and sledding down a steep, icy hill? Find the answers and share all of Amelia Earhart’s childhood adventures in this volume of the Young Patriots Series.Praised by parents,... Read more
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Lew Wallace
By: Martha E. Schaaf
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Lew Wallace gained world-wide fame as the author of the bestselling novel Ben-Hur. But did you know that as a boy, he played hooky from school? Governor, foreign minister, Civil War general, inventor, artist, and author, Lew Wallace spent his boyhood in the fields and rivers of his native Midwest. Join Lew as he rescues his baby brother from... Read more
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Martin Luther, the Lion-Hearted Reformer
By: J. A. Morrison
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"When a boy who has poverty for his companion is inclined to find fault with the company that he is forced to keep, he should comfort himself by reading about the boyhood days of Martin Luther—a son of poverty who by the strength of God and the grace of Christ stamped his name on every page of history written subsequently to his day."—from the... Read more
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Juliette Low
By: Helen Boyd Higgins
Narrated by: Lynne Taccogna
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Share the childhood adventures of the young girl from Savannah, Georgia, who would grow up to found the Girl Scouts®. “Daisy” Gordon would rather climb a tree and ride a horse than learn to dance and sew. “There’s not one thing I can’t do that boys can,” said Daisy, and the organization she created years later proved her words.Praised by... Read more
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The Story of Liberty
By: Charles C. Coffin
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Does America still have a rendezvous with destiny? Is there yet a generation to come forth from this nation which will turn the hearts of not only its countrymen back to the living God, but the heart of the world as well?Charles C. Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, reaches back into the records of history to observe... Read more
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Sufferings in Africa
By: James Riley
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.This dramatic account of Captain... Read more
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James Whitcomb Riley
By: Minnie Belle Mitchell & Montrew Dunham
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early twentieth century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie," "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling... Read more
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Mahalia Jackson
By: Montrew Dunham
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“Halie” Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting for alligators for food along the Mississippi River with her brother, Peter. But every Sunday young Mahalia sang proudly in the church choir, the youngest member at age five. She left school after eighth grade and worked as a maid to help support her family. However, her... Read more
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George Rogers Clark
By: Katharine E. Wilkie
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
George Rogers Clark was a famous general in the Revolutionary War, and his explorations served as the inspiration for his younger brother, William, the leader of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. Now you can read about the boyhood of George and share in the first adventures of this lifelong hero.Praised by parents, teachers, and historians,... Read more
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John Hancock
By: Kathryn Cleven Sisson
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Young Patriots Series The life of John Hancock, contemporary of Samuel Adams and Paul Revere and first person to sign the Declaration of Independence, is featured in this volume of the Young Patriots series. Detailing Hancock's early years, this work focuses on his relationship with boyhood friend, John Adams, and his academic struggles with... Read more
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