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Eli Whitney: The Life and Legacy of the American Inventor Whose Cotton Gin Transformed the Antebellum South
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Bill Hare
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1600s, cotton and silk fabrics that bore colorful and exotic printed patterns, known as “calico,” were flying off the shelves of the East India Company’s stores. The rapidly escalating demand for calico had taken a visible toll on the European textile businesses. The trend spread across Europe and North America, and picking cotton was... Read more
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History of New Brunswick
By: Peter Fisher
Narrated by: James Holt
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This fascinating work about the Province of New Brunswick was written at a time when it was still young; and that's essentially what makes it so precious! The interested listener gets to know - comprehensively and in detail - about things such as the country, settlements, institutions, productions, the climate, inhabitants, the government,... Read more
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Special Duty
By: Richard J. Samuels
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar history has also been problematic for national security.
In Special Duty Richard J. Samuels dissects the fascinating history of the intelligence community in Japan. Looking at... Read more
American Cuisine
By: Paul Freedman
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
With an ambitious sweep over two hundred years, Paul Freedman's compelling history shows that there actually is an American cuisine.
For centuries, skeptical foreigners—and even millions of Americans—have believed there was no such thing as American cuisine. In recent decades, hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza have been thought to define the... Read more
Escape from Rome
By: Walter Scheidel
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 21 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for... Read more
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Holy Roman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Holy Roman Empire and Carolingian Dynasty
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
If you want to discover the captivating history of the Holy Roman Empire, then pay attention...Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Holy Roman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Union of Smaller Kingdoms That Started During the Early Middle Ages and Dissolved During the Napoleonic Wars The Carolingian Empire: A Captivating Guide to... Read more
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The Greatest Fury
By: William C Davis
Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII
Length: 18 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“Davis’s accounts of small fights won by hot blood and cold steel are thrilling.”—The Wall Street Journal
From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic.
It was a battle that... Read more
Samurai
By: Michael Wert
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This... Read more
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
By: David Kenyon
Narrated by: Greg Patmore
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold story of Bletchley Park’s key role in the success of the Normandy campaignSince the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence... Read more
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American Resistance
By: Dana R. Fisher
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Since Donald Trump's first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots "Resistance" has taken to the streets to protest his administration's plans for the United States. Millions marched in pussy hats on the day after the inauguration; outraged citizens flocked to airports to declare that America must be open to immigrants; masses of... Read more
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The Rise of Wolf 8
By: Rick McIntyre
Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
“The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” —Washington Post“[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” —Marc Bekoff, Psychology TodayYellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild... Read more
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Contending for Our All
By: John Piper
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Athanasius. Owen. Machen.When Augustine handed over the leadership of his church in AD 426, his successor was so overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy that he declared, “The swan is silent,” fearing the spiritual giant’s voice would be lost in time. But for 1,600 years Augustine has not been silent―and neither have the men who faithfully... Read more
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The Way I Heard It
By: Mike Rowe
Narrated by: Mike Rowe
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal memories, ruminations, and insights that will leave you... Read more
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Sailing True North
By: Admiral James Stavridis, USN
Narrated by: Marc Cashman & Admiral James Stavridis, USN
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrious naval commanders in history
In Sailing True North, Admiral Stavridis offers lessons of leadership and character from the lives and careers of... Read more
The Kosher Capones
By: Joe Kraus
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s... Read more
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Jefferson’s White House
By: James B. Conroy
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
James B. Conroy, author of the award-winning Lincoln’s White House, captures Jefferson’s pivotal leadership role and the intrigues and ambitions of a deeply divided young nation.As the first president to occupy the White House for an entire term, Thomas Jefferson shaped the president’s residence, literally and figuratively, more than any of its... Read more
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Solid State
By: Kenneth Womack
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Solid State, Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account of the conception, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles’ sound and included “Come Together,”... Read more
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Written in History
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Tuppence Middleton, Rupert...
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—an outstanding selection of great letters from ancient times to the 21st century, touching on power, love, art, sex, faith, and war.
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world... Read more
Goliath
By: Matt Stoller
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 20 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.
Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one... Read more
Michelangelo, God's Architect
By: William E. Wallace
Narrated by: Simon Callow
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audiobook, acclaimed actor Simon Callow narrates the gripping untold story of Michelangelo's final decades—and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance
As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the... Read more
They Will Have to Die Now
By: James Verini
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."
They Will Have to Die Now takes... Read more
Operation Swallow
By: Mark Felton
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The true and heroic story of American POWs' daring escape from a Nazi concentration camp.In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp. Their story begins in the dark forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944... Read more
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Stolen
By: Richard Bell
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky,... Read more
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