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The Big Fella
By: Jane Leavy
Narrated by: Jane Leavy & Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018“Leavy’s newest masterpiece…. A major work of American history by an... Read more
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When the Killer Man Comes
By: Paul Martinez & George Galdorisi
Narrated by: Nicholas Irving & Paul Martinez
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a foreword written and read by Nicholas Irving.
The thrilling combat memoir by special operations sniper Paul Martinez, who spent seven years in Special Operations and was a sniper assigned to 3rd Ranger Battalion.
America has one force with the single mission of direct action to capture or kill the enemy. That force is the... Read more
Liberated Spirits
By: Hugh Ambrose & John Schuttler
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & John Schuttler
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A provocative new take on the women behind a perennially fascinating subject--Prohibition--by bestselling author and historian Hugh Ambrose.
The passage of the 18th Amendment (banning the sale of alcohol) and the 19th (women's suffrage) in the same year is no coincidence. These two Constitutional Amendments enabled women to redefine themselves... Read more
Vietnam
By: Max Hastings
Narrated by: Max Hastings & Peter Noble
Length: 33 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past... Read more
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Napoleon
By: Adam Zamoyski
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 27 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist.
"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as... Read more
1619
By: James Horn
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia.
Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of... Read more
Titans of History
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 22 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
These titans of history—encompassing queens,... Read more
Monsters of the Week
By: Zack Handlen & Todd VanDerWerff
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
Length: 21 hours
Abridged: No
In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network’s biggest hits—and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show’s twenty-fifth anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made... Read more
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A Nation Forged by Crisis
By: Jay Sexton
Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start
In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in... Read more
Red Star Against the Swastika
By: Vasily B. Emelianenko
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the extraordinary story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Union's most contradictory planes of the Second World War—the I1-2. This heavily armored aircraft was practically unrivaled in terms of fire power, but it was slow to maneuver and an easy target for fighters. I1–2 had to attack enemy flak columns at... Read more
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In the Hurricane's Eye
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review
The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York... Read more
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
By: Melani McAlister
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders offers a daring new perspective on conservative Christianity by shifting the lens to focus on the world outside US borders. Melani McAlister offers a sweeping narrative of the last fifty years of evangelical history, weaving a fascinating tale that upends much of what we know—or think we know—about American... Read more
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Catherine de Medici
By: Leonie Frieda
Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
Length: 21 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11.“A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a... Read more
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Golden Handcuffs
By: Nina Burleigh
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores “the stark details of the forces that shaped [Donald] Trump’s thinking about women” (The New York Times) in this comprehensive, provocative, and critical account of the six women who have been closest to Trump.
Has any president in the history of the United... Read more
Overlooking the Border
By: Dana Hercbergs
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the city since the decline of the peace... Read more
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American Dialogue
By: Joseph J. Ellis
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.
The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and... Read more
The Gospel of War
By: Justin K. Sheffield
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Lone Survivor and No Easy Day, an uncompromising and raw memoir of life in SEAL Team Six, soon to be an original Netflix film.
Sheffield completed hundreds of combat missions as a member of SEAL Team Six. He is one of the most experienced, effective, and deadly warriors in the world. In THE GOSPEL OF WAR, Sheffield combines... Read more
Troublesome Young Men
By: Lynne Olson
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most crucial debate in British parliamentary history. On its outcome hung the future of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government and also of Britain—indeed, perhaps, the world. Troublesome Young Men is Lynne Olson's fascinating account of how a small group of rebellious Tory MPs... Read more
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The Hell of Good Intentions
By: Stephen M. Walt
Narrated by: Stephen M. Walt
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times–bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy—explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it.
In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of... Read more
Black Flags, Blue Waters
By: Eric Jay Dolin
Narrated by: Paul Brion
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age"—spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s—when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists... Read more
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John Murray's Diary 1914-1918
By: Ian Patterson, Graham Wilson, Darryl Kelly & St...
Narrated by: Scott McCann
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the story of Australia in the Great War through the eyes and stories of John Murray – a would-be journalist, aspiring artist and young soldier. John’s dairies capture the history, events and experiences of Australians, as each instalment builds to tell the story of Australia’s journey from peacetime through to the war’s end. Share a... Read more
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Frederick Douglass
By: David W. Blight
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 36 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass... Read more
Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
By: Gordon Corera
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II.Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand... Read more
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The Story of Motown
By: Peter Benjaminson
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In January 1959 Berry Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and founded the Detroit-based record company that in less than a decade was to become the largest black-owned business in the United States. It also became one of the most productive and influential producers of popular music anywhere in the world.
The Story of Motown is the story of... Read more