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Appetite for America
By: Stephen Fried
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 18 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey—told in depth for the first time ever. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the... Read more
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Nancy Wake
By: Russell Braddon
Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable’ —Sebastian FaulksThis is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of—as told to the author by the woman herself.At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from... Read more
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Priests de la Resistance!
By: The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild hadn’t met Father Kir – parish priest and French resistance hero, immortalised by the Kir Royale. And they probably weren’t thinking of Archbishop Damaskinos who, when threatened with the firing squad by the Nazis, replied, ‘Please respect our traditions – in Greece we hang our... Read more
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Bonhoeffer
By: Eric Metaxas
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner & Eric Metaxas
Length: 23 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor... Read more
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Iside La divinità femminile
By: Moustafa Gadalla
Narrated by: Federico Foglia
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Il libro analizza il principio femminile divino in quanto fonte della creazione, sia in senso fisico che metafisico; il rapporto (e l’unicità) dei principi femminile e maschile. Analizza inoltre una ventina di divinità femminili in quanto manifestazioni degli attributi femminili, il ruolo del culto di Iside nel mondo, e molto altro. Quest’opera... Read more
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The Liberal Invasion of Red State America
By: Kristin B. Tate
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Progressive upper-middle-class urbanites are deserting expensive liberal meccas like New York and San Francisco and flocking to traditionally red states like Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Texas. The result is a sudden, confusing purpling of small-town America. School boards and local governments are being reorganized around the... Read more
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Wilmington's Lie
By: David Zucchino
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and
coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans
By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race
community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a... Read more
Conflagration
By: John A. Buehrens
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values.
Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle—including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall,... Read more
Nemesis
By: Peter Evans
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, Ari, met with great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Not long after the book appeared, however, Onassis's daughter Christina and his longtime business partner Yannis Georgakis hinted to Evans that he had missed the "real story." "I must begin," Georgakis said, "with the premise that, for... Read more
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American Oligarchs
By: Andrea Bernstein
Narrated by: Andrea Bernstein
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.
In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Their... Read more
Women Who Launch
By: Marlene Wagman-Geller
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist Pacific Book Awards 2018! Empowering stories of game-changing womenDorothy Parker observed, “It’s a man’s world”; the lady entrepreneurs and game-changers profiled in Women Who Launch would beg to differ. Unlike the matrons of the 1950s—the women who lunched—these kick-ass females left their DNA in the annals of time.A history of women... Read more
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Making Our Way Home
By: Blair Imani
Narrated by: Tay Zonday, Blair Imani & Patrisse Cullors
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop.
Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural... Read more
State of War
By: William Wheeler
Narrated by: William Wheeler
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States.
Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. But the gang... Read more
Between Two Fires
By: Joshua Yaffa
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 14 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Unforgettable . . . a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain
From a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s... Read more
The Story of Reality: Audio Lectures
By: Gregory Koukl
Narrated by: Greg Koukl
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Story of Reality: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material... Read more
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Race of Aces
By: John R Bruning
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 16 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.
In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot... Read more
Standing at Armageddon
By: Nell Irvin Painter
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society. Read more
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China and Japan
By: Ezra F. Vogel
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 22 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back fifteen hundred years. But today their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years less than ten percent of each population had positive feelings... Read more
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Father of Lions
By: Louise Callaghan
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Saul Reichlin delivers this true story of Abu Laith, the zookeeper of Mosul, Iraq...This is a triumph of humanity in the midst of adversity." -- AudioFile Magazine
Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others,... Read more
Red Rose Crew
By: Daniel J. Boyne
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1975, a group of amazing women rowed their way to international success and glory, battling sexual prejudice, bureaucracy, and male domination in one of the most grueling and competitive sports around. Among the members of the first international women's crew team—and one of the first women's teams anywhere—were Gail Pearson, the soft-spoken... Read more
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Educated for Freedom
By: Anna Mae Duane
Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to... Read more
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
By: W. Caleb McDaniel
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice—and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War,... Read more
Between Hope and Fear
By: Michael Kinch
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing―cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuses to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable... Read more
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The Great Rift
By: James Mann
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the initial skepticism of the White House. And the two men collaborated closely in the successful American... Read more
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