Hazardous Duty - Abridged
By: Colonel David H. Hackworth
Narrated by: Colonel David H. Hackworth
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Colonel David H. Hackworth— one of America's most decorated soldiers— served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. After retiring from the military in 1971, he completed a second tour of battlefield duty as a war correspondent. Accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea,... Read more
View audiobookPsychic Warrior - Abridged
By: David Morehouse
Narrated by: David Morehouse
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For nearly two decades, the United States military intelligence community delved into the dark world of psychic espionage, recruiting a team of individuals who used their paranormal gifts to transcend time and space and uncover the highly guarded military secrets of other nations. After David Morehouse— a highly decorated Army... Read more
View audiobookUndaunted Courage
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 21 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more
Undaunted Courage - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Cotter Smith
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more
The Physics of Star Trek
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
Narrated by: Larry McKeever
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Explore the science behind one of television’s greatest series. Star Trek shaped and defined the science-fiction genre for generations of television viewers and writers, and now readers can learn more about the science presented on the show. What’s it like traveling at warp speed? What are the different types of dark matter and black holes?... Read more
View audiobookBlood Sport - Abridged
By: James B. Stewart
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart takes readers behind the scenes in the Clinton White House as it reels in the wake of the Whitewater scandal, Vincent Foster’s suicide, and Paula Jones’ allegations of sexual misconduct.
In July 1993, White House official Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: “in Washington...ruining people is considered... Read more
Caesar's Women - Abridged
By: Colleen McCullough
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the blockbuster tradition of The First Man in Rome -- Colleen Mccullough's monumental Masters of Rome series continues.
The man behind the legend...the women behind the man.
Villain or hero? Debated for centuries, the volcanic soul of Julius Caesar comes dramatically to life in the new masterpiece of historical fiction from the #1 bestselling... Read more
Megatrends Asia - Abridged
By: John Naisbitt
Narrated by: John Nesbitt & Jesse Boggs
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America's #1 trend forecaster reveals the global transformation that affects the future for us all!
The most momentous global development of the 1990s.
The #1 bestselling author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 now offers a glimpse of your future that begins on the other side of the globe -- where the once isolated nations of Asia are networking... Read more
The Oregon Trail - Abridged
By: Francis Parkman
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Francis Parkman's journal—written more than 150 years ago in 1846—provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history. At age twenty-three, the Harvard-educated Bostonian traveled the Rocky Mountains, living among the Dakota Sioux. In his journal, he captured the color, spirit, and perspective of his era, as... Read more
View audiobookA Good Life - Abridged
By: Ben Bradlee
Narrated by: Ben Bradlee
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.
The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the... Read more
The HP Way
By: David Packard
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Fifty-six years ago, two college friends named Bill Hewlett and David Packard decided to start a company out of a one-car garage. Today, that company-Hewlett-Packard-is universally acclaimed as the world's most admired technology corporation. Hewlett-Packard produces thousands of innovative products for customers around the globe and boasts... Read more
View audiobookNo Ordinary Time - Abridged
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II.
With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story... Read more
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
Iron Rose - Abridged
By: Cindy Adams & Susan Crimp
Narrated by: Cindy Adams
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Iron Rose takes an intimate look at the incredible life of Rose Kennedy—head of the Kennedy dynasty and one of the 20th century's most influential women—and her nine famous children. A riveting account of the power behind America's political throne for several decades, Iron Rose reveals the secrets behind the triumphs and tragedies of the... Read more
View audiobookIn 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
View audiobookA 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
View audiobookThe 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 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
View audiobookThe 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.
... Read more
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
View audiobookIndian 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookD-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
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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