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Mahabharata Vol 7
By: Bibek Debroy
Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma
Length: 22 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins—the Pandavas and the Kouravas—but the... Read more
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Faithful Witness
By: Phil Baker
Narrated by: Phil Baker
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In Faithful Witness, Phil Baker explains the theology of martyrdom that developed over the first 300 years of Christianity, and why that theology proved so powerful in the early years of the faith. Though many examples of early Christian martyrdom will be told, the intent of this book is not to simply give the accounts these martyrs’ stories.... Read more
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My Visit with the Pope
By: John Christiansen
Narrated by: John Christiansen, Bryson Walker & Wayne Christ...
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
At the end of World War II, John Christiansen, a Mormon soldier, was visiting the Vatican when the Pope singled him out.“You must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I’d like to talk to you.”John found himself in the very rare position of having a private audience with Pope Pius XII.What did the Pope want to know... Read more
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Mahabharata Vol 8
By: Bibek Debroy
Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
Length: 27 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins—the Pandavas and the Kouravas—but the... Read more
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Mahabharata Vol 9
By: Bibek Debroy
Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
Length: 29 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins—the Pandavas and the Kouravas—but the... Read more
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Mahabharata Vol 10
By: Bibek Debroy
Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
Length: 27 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins—the Pandavas and the Kouravas—but the... Read more
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Poetics/Rhetoric
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Art of Rhetoric, a guide on the principles behind oratorical skill, is a core text on the art of persuasion. Aristotle contends that rhetoric is one of the key elements of philosophy – along with logic and dialectic. The work consists of three books: the first is a general overview, the second concerns the means of persuasion that an orator... Read more
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My Adventure with Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
By: Yoram Ben-Ami
Narrated by: Nat Segaloff
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
To some, she was the female Tarzan. To others, she was the sexiest pin-up of their teenage years. She was Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. The making of the 1984 movie Sheena was an adventure worthy of a behind-the-scenes book, and that’s what the film’s executive producer, Yoram Ben-Ami, has written in My Adventure with Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.... Read more
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Bing Crosby
By: Gary Giddins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 26 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this companion book to the award–winning biography Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams; The Early Years, 1903–1940, Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful work.Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzying era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War,... Read more
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
By: V. S. Naipaul
Narrated by: Sam Dastor
Length: 24 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society—the contradictions and... Read more
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Dying Every Day
By: James S. Romm
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman.
Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate... Read more
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers?
By: James Buckley, Jr. & Who HQ
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Learn how this heroic group of American Indian men created a secret, unbreakable code and helped the US win major battles during World War II in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two... Read more
Slaget om England
By: Allt om Historia
Narrated by: Håkan Mohede
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Sommaren 1940 var mörkret på väg att sänka sig över Europa. Sovjetunionen hade ingått en ohelig allians med Nazityskland. Norge var så gott som erövrat. Och Frankrike skulle snart överrumplas av tyskarna. Till slut stod endast britterna kvar som ett sista värn mot ett Europa totalt dominerat av Adolf Hitlers nazister. Storbritannien var... Read more
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The Long War
By: David Loyn
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 17 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the country fell to the Taliban. In The Long War, award-winning BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn uncovers the political and military strategies?and failures?that prolonged America’s longest war.
Three... Read more
Empire of Destruction
By: Alex J. Kay
Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing—showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war
Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish,... Read more
Lincoln's Melancholy
By: Joshua Wolf Shenk
Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success.
Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of... Read more
The Mantle Of Command
By: Nigel Hamilton
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 20 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR’s masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR’s White House Oval Study—his personal command center—and into the meetings where he... Read more
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Sheer Misery
By: Mary Louise Roberts
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear, which was engaged in a relentless crawl of its own. Similar complaints of physical discomfort pervade infantrymen's memories of the European theater, whether the soldiers were British, American, German,... Read more
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Revelations in Air
By: Jude Stewart
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses
The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the matre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour... Read more
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants
By: Garrett Ryan
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery?
In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has... Read more
Fandom and The Beatles
By: Kenneth Womack & Kit O'Toole
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith & Michael Butler Murray
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
More than fifty years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group? Why are current teens affected by the band's music?... Read more
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The Approaching Storm
By: Neil Lanctot
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 25 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2022 award for biography from the American Society of Journalists and Authors
The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century split over America’s response to World War I.
In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were... Read more
The Presidency of George W. Bush
By: John Robert Greene
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Presidency of George W. Bush is the first balanced academic study to analyze the entirety of his presidency—domestic, social, economic, and national security policies—as well as the administration's response to 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror. In so doing, John Robert Greene argues persuasively that the judgment of most scholars—that... Read more
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What Soldiers Do
By: Mary Louise Roberts
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you're the US Army in 1944, you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways.
That's not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we've been given, but... Read more