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Scribbling the Cat
By: Alexandra Fuller
Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship... Read more
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Blood Done Sign My Name - Abridged
By: Timothy B. Tyson
Narrated by: Timothy B. Tyson
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird
*Chicago Tribune
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert... Read more
Washington's Crossing
By: David Hackett Fischer
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let... Read more
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Absolutely American - Abridged
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: David Lipsky
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review
As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more
Founding Mothers
By: Cokie Roberts
Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now... Read more
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Grace and Power - Abridged
By: Sally Bedell Smith
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made... Read more
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Brothers in Arms - Abridged
By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anthony Walton
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the story of how black soldiers had to fight (literally and figuratively) for the right to fight the Germans.”—USA Today
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first... Read more
Beyond Belief - Abridged
By: Elaine Pagels
Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas
Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first... Read more
The Outlaw Sea
By: William Langewiesche
Narrated by: William Langewiesche
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it
Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by... Read more
Fanatics and Fools
By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Arianna Huffington
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Arianna Huffington takes another sweeping look at how right wing zealots have taken charge of the Republican Party and the governmentand the American leadership who let it happen. Read more
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Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy - Abridged
By: Partha Bose
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alexander the Great endures as one of the most admired and emulated leaders in world history. In our time, his example of unprecedented and unparalleled success has inspired leaders of business and government, from media mogul Ted Turner (who keeps a bronze bust of Alexander in his office) to Desert Storm commander General Norman Schwarzkopf... Read more
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Plan of Attack - Abridged
By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, examining the... Read more
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Ted Williams - Abridged
By: Leigh Montville
Narrated by: Philip Bosco
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a... Read more
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1968
By: Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
National BestsellerMark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt and The Basque History of the World looks at a pivotal year in our history. From the Viet Cong attack on Saigon to the birth of feminism and women's liberation, from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy to riots at the Democratic... Read more
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George Herbert Walker Bush
By: Tom Wicker
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker... Read more
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Losing Bin Laden
By: Richard Miniter
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001, might never have happened."
Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton's presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the... Read more
St. Patrick of Ireland
By: Philip Freeman
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their super-natural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. Late in the 4th century Irish pirates captured a young, British citizen... Read more
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Raid on the Sun - Abridged
By: Rodger Claire
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned. The reactor formed the heart of a huge nuclear plant situated twelve miles from Baghdad, 1,100 kilometers from Tel Aviv. By 1981, the reactor was on... Read more
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Sixty Days in Combat - Abridged
By: Dean Joy
Narrated by: Don Hastings
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”
He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.
For two months in... Read more
Mekong First Light - Abridged
By: Joseph W. Callaway, Jr.
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Before we got to Vietnam, the troops all thought you would be the first lieutenant killed, and in the end, you were the only one left. We were all wrong. You were the best.”
—Sgt. Lonnie “Tallman” Caldwell
December, 1966: Platoon leader Lt. Joseph Callaway had just turned twenty-three when he arrived in Vietnam to lead forty-two untested men into... Read more
Terrible Terry Allen - Abridged
By: Gerald Astor
Narrated by: Reathel Bean
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Terry de la Mesa Allen’s mother was the daughter of a Spanish officer, and his father was a career U.S. Army officer. Despite this impressive martial heritage, success in the military seemed unlikely for Allen as he failed out of West Point—twice—ultimately gaining his commission through Catholic University’s R.O.T.C. program. In World War I,... Read more
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All the Way to Berlin - Abridged
By: James Megellas
Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.
In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army... Read more
The Essential Lewis and Clark Selections
By: Landon Y. Jones
Narrated by: Tom Wopat & Peter Friedman
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure—in their own wordsThe journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Here is a concise,... Read more
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The Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Paul Auster & James Naughton
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's... Read more
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