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Das Geheimnis der Freimaurer - Abridged
By: Ulrich Offenberg
Narrated by: Peter Veit
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Geheimbund, Männer-Loge oder Netzwerk zur Weltverschwörung, dessen Mitglieder weltweit auf sechs Millionen geschätzt werden? Die Freimaurer wurden über Jahrhunderte von absoluten Königen und Regimen sowie dogmatischen Kirchen verfolgt. Geheime Riten, verborgenes Wissen und scheinbar grenzenlose Macht schürten das Misstrauen der Herrschenden.... Read more
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Kaiser Wilhelm II. - Abridged
By: Ulrich Offenberg
Narrated by: Detlef Kügow & Marina Marosch
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Herrliche Zeiten" hatte der Herrscher aus dem Hause Hollenzollern dem deutschen Volke versprochen. Sein Reich sollte seinen Platz im Reigen der europäischen Großmächte mit Hilfe einer gewaltigen Schlachtflotte finden. Er selbst wusste Gott an seiner Seite. Doch hinter der strahlenden Fassade verbarg sich ein sprunghafter Mensch, tief... Read more
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Dschingis Khan - Abridged
By: Ulrich Offenberg
Narrated by: Detlef Kügow & Martin Umbach
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Aus gesetzlosen Nomaden formte der Mongole Temujin mit List und Gewalt im 13. Jahrhundert ein straff organisiertes, unbesiegbares Heer und eroberte als Dschingis Khan, als Herrscher aller Stämme der Mongolen, ein Weltreich von nie gekannter Größe. Keiner seiner Untertanen wagte es, gegen das von ihm geschaffene Gesetzeswerk, dem "jasah" zu... Read more
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New York Burning - Abridged
By: Jill Lepore
Narrated by: Beth McDonald
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted. Read more
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My Detachment
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This... Read more
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Die DDR - Probleme einer Gesellschaftsgeschichte - Abridged
By: Gerd Dietrich
Narrated by: Gerd Dietrich
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gerd Dietrich reflektiert die Geschichte der DDR im Kontext von wirtschafts-, sozial- und kulturgeschichtlichen sowie politischen Fragestellungen. Dadurch werden die komplexen Zusammenhänge des 40 Jahre währenden real existierenden Sozialismus aufgezeigt und ein umfassender Überblick von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der Deutschen Demokratischen... Read more
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The Kennedy Men - Abridged
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Laurence Leamer
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this triumphant new work already hailed as a powerful American epic, Laurence Leamer chronicles the Kennedy men and their struggle to become the most powerful family in the United States. The Kennedy Men brings to life five bold, ambitious men. The Kennedy patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was one of the richest, strongest men in America's... Read more
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Bound for Canaan - Abridged
By: Fergus Bordewich
Narrated by: Fergus Bordewich
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce... Read more
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Flyboys
By: James Bradley
Narrated by: James Bradley
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots... Read more
Paris 1919
By: Margaret MacMillan
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 25 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world. At the close of WWI, between January and July of 1919, delegates from around the world converged on Paris under the auspices of peace. New countries were created, old empires were... Read more
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A Difference in Magnitude
By: Pocket University
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the post-9/11 era, nuclear proliferation has given new meaning to the world's first nuclear attacks. Defense analysts say that America could be next. The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki give us a clear picture of the consequences and underscores the imperative of vigilance and preparedness. With this in mind, Pocket University presents... Read more
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Long Walk to Freedom - Abridged
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Danny Glover
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from... Read more
An Unfinished Life - Abridged
By: Robert Dallek
Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Drawing on previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives, An Unfinished Life is packed with revelations large and small -- about JFK's health, his love affairs, RFK's appointment as Attorney General, what Joseph Kennedy did to help his son win the White House, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement had... Read more
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A Different Drummer - Abridged
By: Michael K. Deaver
Narrated by: Michael K. Deaver
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The New York Times bestselling memoir of Ronald Reagan by his longtime aide and friend""These are memories of a friend and they span over the 35 years that I have known and loved Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Primarily anecdotal, there will be no footnotes, simply my best efforts to reconstruct these years and what they have meant to me.""--Michael... Read more
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Islam
By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author and renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith. Beginning with the Prophet Muhammad's flight from Medina and concluding with an examination of modern Islamic practices and concerns, Armstrong delivers an unbiased overview. She contends that... Read more
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The Secret Man
By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the... Read more
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History of Supreme Court Vacancies
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In a prelude to the expected battle over the next Supreme Court justice nomination, an historian explains the selection and confirmation process and the past battles between Congress and the president. Read more
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
By: John Crawford
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The only book about the war in Iraq by a soldier on the ground-destined to become a classic of war literature.
John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition-it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education. But one semester short of graduating,... Read more
Augustine for Armchair Theologians
By: Stephen A. Cooper
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Stephen Cooper provides an overview of the greatest theologian of the early church: Augustine of Hippo. Augustine has had a towering influence in the history of Christianity and his Confessions has long been regarded as one of Christianity's classic texts. Cooper introduces the life and thought of Augustine through discussing the... Read more
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Reformation for Armchair Theologians
By: Glen Sunshine
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by experts but designed for the nonexpert, the Armchair series provides accurate, concise, and witty overviews of some of the most profound moments and theologians in Christian history. An essential supplement for first-time encounters with primary texts, a lucid refresher for scholars and clergy, and an enjoyable read for the... Read more
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Luther for Armchair Theologians
By: Stephen Paulson
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Martin Luther started a reformation movement that revolutionized Europe in the sixteenth century. His far-reaching reforms of theological understanding and church practices radically modified both church and society in Europe and beyond. Paulson's introduction to Luther's thought, coupled with the illustrations, provides an engaging introduction... Read more
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China, Inc.
By: Ted C. Fishman
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
China today is visible everywhere — in the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic... Read more
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Killing Yourself to Live
By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end-one by choice, one by chance, and one by... Read more
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Lost Triumph
By: Tom Carhart
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the outcome of the war.
The Battle of Gettysburg is the pivotal moment when the Union forces repelled perhaps America's... Read more