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The President and the Freedom Fighter
By: Brian Kilmeade
Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from... Read more
The Correspondents
By: Judith Mackrell
Narrated by: Julie Teal
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II—from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent.
"Thrilling from the first page to the last." —Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street... Read more
Letters of Note: New York City
By: author
Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Crystal Clarke, S...
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An exciting new volume of letters about the Capital of the World--from George Washington, Kahlil Gibran, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Scorsese, and more--from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections
Peter Schagen writes to the Dutch West India Company about the purchase of "Manhattes." Mayor Ambrose Kingsland urges the city council to... Read more
Madam
By: Debby Applegate
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 20 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America.
"A... Read more
Under Jerusalem
By: Andrew Lawler
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval
“A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”
—Washington Post
In 1863, a French... Read more
Woke Up This Morning
By: Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa
Narrated by: Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa & Full Cast
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive oral history of the landmark television series and streaming hit The Sopranos, packed with untold stories from behind the scenes and on the set. Stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa—whose Talking Sopranos podcast has become a sensational fan favorite—talk intimately with virtually everyone who has been involved with the... Read more
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Ten Masterpieces of Music
By: Harvey Sachs
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of ten great works of classical music?works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters?Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert,... Read more
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After Jesus Before Christianity
By: Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig & T...
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.Christianity has... Read more
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You’re Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women
By: Kaz Cooke
Narrated by: Kaz Cooke
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Come with Kaz on a laugh-out-loud frolic through centuries of terrible advice, from 14th-century clergy to the Kardashians (wear a dress made of arsenic, do some day-drinking, have sex with a billionaire biker, worry about your vagina wrinkles). It's also a roar against injustice, a rallying cry for sisterhood and a way to free ourselves from... Read more
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How to Innovate
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times—the ancient Greeks.
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions—democracy, the alphabet,... Read more
The Broken Constitution
By: Noah Feldman
Narrated by: Noah Feldman
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author
An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer
Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government... Read more
Lightning Down
By: Tom Clavin
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.
On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down... Read more
The Donnellys
By: John Little
Narrated by: Gareth Richards
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A story made all the more shocking because it's true.
In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys's enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders.
The surviving family members seek... Read more
The Donnellys
By: John Little
Narrated by: Gareth Richards
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A violent family living in violent times.
In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own.
The children are raised in an... Read more
The Education of Corporal John Musgrave
By: John Musgrave
Narrated by: John Musgrave
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A Marine's searing and intimate story—"A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in war’s aftermath. A superb addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War, and of its lessons” (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment).
John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that... Read more
Breve historia de este puto mundo
By: Daniel Samper Pizano
Narrated by: Sergio Lonardi
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
La historia del mundo en palabras de Daniel Samper Pizano.
Nadie se había atrevido a plasmar la historia de este puto mundo con el célebre y corrosivo humor de Daniel Samper Pizano, que hace reír pero deja un eco de inquietud. Ahora está aquí: desde el Big Bang hasta un ominoso anticipo de lo que nos espera. ¿Dónde empieza el chiste y dónde... Read more
Juden auf Wanderschaft
By: Joseph Roth
Narrated by: Norbert Wendel
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In seinem Essay aus dem Jahr 1927 beschreibt Joseph Roth die Lebensumstände und die Notlage der Juden Osteuropas in der Mitte der 1920er Jahre, die in der Folge des Ersten Weltkrieges, der russischen Revolution und der Neuziehung der Staatsgrenzen nach dem Versailler Vertrag aus dem Baltikum, Polen und Russland vermehrt in den Westen... Read more
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Birdsville Track Audio Tour
By: Jackie Stallard
Narrated by: Jackie Stallard
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The Birdsville Track runs through three deserts, from Marree in northern South Australia, to Birdsville in outback Queensland. This legendary, dirt road has a rich folk history, intriguing culture and unique ecosystems. But it doesn't give up its secrets easily, unless you have the Birdsville Track Audio Tour of course! *"Congratulations on an... Read more
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Great Furphies of Australian History
By: Jim Haynes
Narrated by: Jim Haynes
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history.
Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook, and that the Rum Rebellion was not caused by rum? And what about Banjo Patterson writing ‘Waltzing Matilda'?... Read more
El camino que abrimos
By: María Emma Mejía
Narrated by: María Emma Mejía
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
El libro de memorias de María Emma Mejía
Cuando María Emma Mejía se abrió paso en la vida política colombiana, el país transitaba por uno de los periodos más violentos de su historia. Conoció de cerca una guerra en la que perdieron la vida la periodista Diana Turbay, su amiga, y Luis Carlos Galán, su jefe político. En aquellos difíciles... Read more
Richard Tregaskis
By: Ray E. Boomhower
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal.As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Only one of two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines,... Read more
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Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires
By: John A. Tyler
Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
During the spring and summer of 2021, global news reports were filled with the impending US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. At best, it would be viewed as a stalemate, with an orderly transition to a stable, US-backed Afghan government. At worse, it would be looked upon as two decades of futile war, ending with a shameful retreat that left the... Read more
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Nihilism
By: Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose
Narrated by: David A. Conatser
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
“What does Nihilism mean?” wrote Friedrich Nietszche. “—That the highest values are losing their value. There is no goal…. There is no Truth, no ‘thing in itself.’ There is no answer to the question: ‘why?’”In 1962, the young Eugene Rose—the future Hieromonk Seraphim—undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of Truth in the... Read more
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And We Go On
By: Will R. Bird
Narrated by: Nick Allan
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years... Read more
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