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Dreams from Many Rivers
By: Margarita Engle
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon & Frankie Corzo
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From Juana Briones and Juan Ponce de León to eighteenth-century slaves and modern-day sixth graders, the many and varied people depicted here speak to the experiences and contributions of Latinos throughout the history of the United States, from the earliest known stories up to the present day. A portrait of a great, enormously varied, and... Read more
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Leave Something on the Table
By: Frank Bennack
Narrated by: Frank Bennack
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most innovative minds in business provides an equally original guide to getting ahead.
Frank Bennack’s accomplishments in media and business are unrivaled.
He was named chief executive of Hearst in 1979, and for nearly 30 years he helped solidify the company’s reputation as a leader in consumer media, overseeing the purchase of more... Read more
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Timothy Egan
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times).
"What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you... Read more
Music
By: Ted Gioia
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 17 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed... Read more
The Story of the Pony Express
By: Glenn D. Bradley
Narrated by: James Holt
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1860, starting a mail route became a must in order to connect the eastern U.S. with the growing west coast following the gold rush of California, the lumber camps, and the various needs because of the settling of the western frontier. An accessible yet thorough account of the operation of the line known as the Pony Express, that lasted for... Read more
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History of Billy the Kid
By: Charles A. Siringo
Narrated by: James Holt
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating piece of work containing stories from eye witnesses, written by someone who actually knew "Billy the Kid", the famous gunslinger outlaw. The listener gets an earful of intriguing and riveting historical information about the short and vicious life of Henry McCarty (Billy's real name) as well as a whiff of another legendary Western... Read more
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The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
By: Charles C. Nott
Narrated by: James Holt
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating and comprehensive study of an equally fascinating historical text (the Pinckney Draught) posing the penetrating question: what if Charles Pinckney was the author of the U.S. Constitution? And if so: why did nothing come of it? Was there foul play behind shut doors...? Read more
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Kentucky's Famous Feuds & Tragedies
By: Charles G. Mutzenberg
Narrated by: James Holt
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Kentucky has suffered from an extremely bad reputation, and these recordings of feuds, tragedies and vendettas - the most notorious being that of the Hatfield and McCoys - puts the listener right into it! The New York Times of July 26, 1885 had this to say of the state and its people: "The savages who inhabit this region are not manly enough to... Read more
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The Mohawk Valley
By: W. Max Reid
Narrated by: James Holt
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A captivating study of the period 1609-1780 of the Mohawk Valley (upper New York State). Get ready to absorb a multitude of interesting cultures such as the Mohawks, the Hurons, the Mohicans and the Iroquois and Dutch and French as well, as all parties were involved in conflict. Read more
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No Stopping Us Now
By: Gail Collins
Narrated by: Gail Collins & Tanya Eby
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine).
"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a... Read more
Thomas Jefferson's Education
By: Alan Taylor
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian comes a brilliant, absorbing study of Thomas Jefferson’s campaign to save Virginia through education.
By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set... Read more
No Surrender Young Readers' Edition
By: Chris Edmonds
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic true story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, an American hero who risked his life in the final days of World War II to save others—now in a thrilling young readers’ edition. During the infamous World War II Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was captured, along with his infantrymen. The Nazis took him and his men to... Read more
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We're Still Here
By: Jennifer M. Silva
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the decline of the American Dream is... Read more
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On Nineteen Eighty-Four
By: D. J. Taylor
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells... Read more
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Shatter the Nations
By: Mike Giglio
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of forces who came together to defeat it.
The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes readers to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict,... Read more
Return To The Reich
By: Eric Lichtblau
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines.
Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States—they were among the last German Jews to... Read more
Infinite Hope
By: Ashley Bryan
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Recipient of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award
Recipient of a Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction Special Mention Honor Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019
From celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army during World War II, and how love and... Read more
The Fall of Saigon: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam's Capital and the End of the Vietnam War
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David Bernard
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America... Read more
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Oliver Hazard Perry: The Life and Legacy of the Commodore Who Became the War of 1812’s Most Famous Naval Officer
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"We have met the enemy and they are ours.” – Oliver Hazard PerryAmericans had few things to celebrate during the War of 1812, and fighting on the frontier against the British and their native allies didn’t go any better than the conflict did in other theaters, but one of the only major victories the Americans won came at the Battle of Lake Erie... Read more
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Carl von Clausewitz: The Life and Legacy of the Prussian General Who Wrote On War
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz died almost 200 years ago, yet he remains one of the most important and influential of all military thinkers. His teachings combined strategy with military knowledge to produce a dialectic approach to the philosophy of warfare, and his work is still widely taught in military academies around the world.... Read more
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Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of the Jewish Philosopher Who Became a Catholic Saint
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Abridged: No
To say Edith Stein lived a remarkable life would be a dramatic understatement. Born in Breslau (then part of Germany) at the end of the 19th century, Edith was raised as an observant Jew, only to turn her back on religion right around the time World War I devastated the continent. In the wake of the war, during which she earned a doctorate and... Read more
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The War of the Spanish Succession: The History of the Conflict Between the Bourbons and Habsburgs that Engulfed Europe
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Bill Hare
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought at the beginning of the 18th century, was the last major war engaged in by French King Louis XIV, the legendary Sun King, and it was also the most famous of all military conflicts during his reign. While the length and the scope of the conflict are the primary reasons why people have given so much... Read more
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El triunfo del dinero
By: Niall Ferguson
Narrated by: Horacio Mancilla
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Ya puedes escuchar en audiolibro la fascinante y enrevesada historia del invento más decisivo de la humanidad: el dinero. Pasta, guita, plata, parné, duros. Da igual cómo lo llamemos, pero lo cierto es que el dinero importa ahora más que nunca. En El triunfo del dinero Niall Ferguson demuestra que la historia de las finanzas es el trasfondo de... Read more
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Her Lost Love
By: Jina Bacarr
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping, heartbreakingly romantic historical novel that you will never forget.All she wants is to save the man she loves…On a cold winter day in 1955, Kate Arden got on a train to go home for Christmas.This is the story of what happened when she got off that train. In 1943.In 1943 Kate Arden was engaged to the man she loved, Jeffrey... Read more
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