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Dark Sun - Abridged
By: Richard Rhodes
Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet... Read more
In Retrospect - Abridged
By: Robert S. McNamara, Brian VanDeMark & Robert Mc...
Narrated by: Joseph Campanella
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the years since he resigned his office, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara refused any public comment on the unpopular Vietnam War. As the chief architect of the strategy that propelled the U.S. into the war, though, McNamara has much to say. In this chronicle, McNamara explores and explains why the American "government and its... Read more
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A Picture Book of Anne Frank
By: David Adler
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narrator, reading with clarity and precision, tells the well-known story of the Jewish girl and her family who hid during the Holocaust...[This] high-quality read-along...[is] excellent for school and public libraries." - Booklist Read more
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The Voyage of the Beagle
By: Charles Darwin
Narrated by: David Case
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin... Read more
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The Route 66 Audio Collection
By: Jimmy Gray & Joe Loesch
Narrated by: Dennis Stone, John Sherberg, Don King & Joe Loesch
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
America's Main Street
Author - Jimmy Gray
Narrator - Dennis Stone
Time - 61:43:00
For three generations of travelers, Route 66 was the highway that linked America together. It was The Mother Road and there was never another like it. Hear the stories of the tourists, the Okies, the wartime GI's, the people who ran the tourist... Read more
The Influence of Seapower Upon History
By: Alfred T. Mahan
Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
Length: 20 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
First published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have "devoured" this book, and it was avidly read by presidents (including both Roosevelts), kings, prime ministers, admirals, and chancellors.
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - Abridged
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Julie Christie
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary Stuart succumbed to the irresistible impulses of passion, gambling away her throne for love. In a deadly game of power against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, she stopped at nothing: Unbelievable acts of abduction, rape, and even murder were performed at her behest. Often misunderstood yet also revered, she... Read more
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Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains - Abridged
By: Charles Eastman
Narrated by: Lorenzo Baca
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the pen of a Santee Sioux— Charles Eastman— come these biographical portraits of American Indian leaders Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Chief Joseph. Eastman was born in Red Falls, Minnesota, and raised by his grandmother and uncle in Manitoba, Canada, where he learned Native American... Read more
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The Glory and the Dream
By: William Manchester
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 57 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four... Read more
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D-Day - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of... Read more
The Kingdom
By: Robert Lacey
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 22 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Kingdom is the story of a country—a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words “In the name of God,” where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are publicly executed in the street. By its own reckoning, this country is... Read more
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Is Paris Burning?
By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“Is Paris burning?” is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly—and how miraculously—the city escaped Hitler’s secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is... Read more
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Meeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
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O Jerusalem!
By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 23 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
At the center of this massive and brilliant book is the most universal of man's cities: Jerusalem, the mystic heart of three great religions, condemned to pay for the passions it inspires by being, through forty centuries, the most bitterly disputed site in the world.Collins and Lapierre's story is the fruit of five years of intensive research... Read more
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Fortune's Favorite - Abridged
By: Colleen McCullough
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Return to Ancient Rome - where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who... Read more
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Freedom at Midnight
By: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 22 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies—the India of Kipling’s legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races,... Read more
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Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck - Abridged
By: Rudy Behlmer
Narrated by: Richard D. Zanuck
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of Hollywood's biggest players for almost 50 years, Darryl F. Zanuck presided over Twentieth Century-Fox during the studio' s most glorious era— with stars like Marilyn Monroe and Henry Fonda, directors like John Ford and Elia Kazan, and classics like How Green Was My Valley, Gentleman' s Agreement, and... Read more
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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book - Abridged
By: Harvey Penick
Narrated by: Jack Whitaker
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work—the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as “the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style” (The New York Times)—includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and never-before-published materials from the Penick family archives.
The most... Read more
Truman - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more
Crazy Wisdom - Abridged
By: Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Narrated by: Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers. Fun and irreverent, Crazy Wisdom synthesizes the most significant, compelling insights of the ages. Journey into the unorthodox teachings that have bubbled up through the words of such "crazy" visionaries as... Read more
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Meeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
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A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus
By: David Adler
Narrated by: Linda Terheyden
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"Well-produced and appealing readalong...expressive narration and appropriate music and sound effects...Sure bet for story time or home." - Booklist Read more
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Meeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen, Roscoe Lee Browne, Beulah Quo, Rob...
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
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Meeting of Minds
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
By “ assembling” some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were... Read more
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