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Leadership
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Intro and Afterword Read by the Author
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and Theodore... Read more
Young Benjamin Franklin
By: Nick Bunker
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.
From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American... Read more
The Man Who Walked Backward
By: Ben Montgomery
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.
Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with... Read more
War Animals
By: Robin Hutton
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor, was awarded to 440 deserving members of the “Greatest Generation” that served in World War II. But in 1943, before the war was even over, Allied leaders realized they needed another kind of award to recognize a different kind of World War II hero—animal heroes. Founded in 1943,... Read more
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Eliza Hamilton
By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s early days.... Read more
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Fallout
By: Peter Watson
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different.
Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing that long before the Allied bomb was operational, it was clear that Germany... Read more
Basketball
By: Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew & Dan Klores
Narrated by: James Fouhey, Jim Frangione, Sullivan Jones, Pe...
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.
In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie Macmullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores have... Read more
A Mad Love
By: Vivien Schweitzer
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the... Read more
Billion Dollar Whale
By: Bradley Hope & Tom Wright
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).
Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a... Read more
Soldiers of a Different Cloth
By: John Wukovits
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In Soldiers of a Different Cloth, New York Times bestselling author and military historian John Wukovits tells the inspiring story of thirty-five chaplains and missionaries who, while garnering little acclaim, performed extraordinary feats of courage and persistence during World War II. Ranging in age from twenty-two to fifty-three, these... Read more
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The Tango War
By: Mary Jo McConahay
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Tango War by Mary Jo McConahay fills an important gap in World War II history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America. The fight was often dirty: residents were captured to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war and rival spy networks... Read more
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The Secret History of Soldiers
By: Tim Cook
Narrated by: J.D. Nicholsen
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim... Read more
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Kafka's Last Trial
By: Benjamin Balint
Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka's last instruction: to burn his manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka's writing, rescuing his legacy from obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which... Read more
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Can Democracy Work?
By: James Miller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A new history of the world's most embattled idea.
Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively,... Read more
The Elements of Theology
By: Proclus
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Proclus - or Proclus of Athens, as he is sometimes known - is widely and rightly considered to be one of the most significant later Neoplatonist philosophers. At age 40 (c.437 CE) or so, Proclus became head of the revived Plato's Academy in Athens. In his role for the next 50 years, the unmarried Proclus worked hard, combining effectively the... Read more
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The Image, 50th Anniversary Edition
By: Daniel J. Boorstin
Narrated by: Timothy Danko
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Since then Daniel J. Boorstin’s... Read more
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Looking for Lorraine
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: LisaGay Hamilton
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction
Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet... Read more
Never in Finer Company
By: Edward G. Lengel
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncover the larger-than-life story of World War I's "Lost Battalion" and the men who survived the ordeal, triumphed in battle, and fought the demons that lingered. In the first week of October, 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines—alone. They were soon... Read more
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These Truths
By: Jill Lepore
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The American experiment rests on three ideas—"these truths," Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of... Read more
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Tigerland
By: Wil Haygood
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus, Ohio did something no team from one school had ever done before: they won the state basketball and baseball championships in the same year. They... Read more
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Fins
By: William Knoedelseder
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were... Read more
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Ancient Mythology
By: Bernard Hayes
Narrated by: Gareth Johnson
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Study the origins of the mythological creatures and stories you’ve seen and heard over and over again in this bundle! Mayan Mythology Polynesian Mythology African Mythology Aztec Mythology Germanic Mythology One Germanic Mythology Two Inca Mythology Inuit Mythology Japanese Mythology Korean Mythology Add this audiobook to your cart now. Read more
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Langbourne's Evolution
By: Alan P. Landau
Narrated by: Adrian Galley
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
It is 1898 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, and the Langbourne brothers’ business is maturing, and so are the boys. Morris decides the time is right for them to expand the business into Europe, and he leaves his younger siblings to grow the African operation while he returns to his homeland in Ireland. But Africa works in her mysterious ways; good plans... Read more
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La démocratie hasardeuse: élections ou tirage au sort
By: Hugo Bonin
Narrated by: Pierre Corriveau
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Du "vrai monde" qui imposerait des "vraies affaires" constamment à la première chambre élue et au gouvernement. Je sais que ça n'arrivera pas. Mais juste d'y penser, ça nous permet de mieux comprendre certains défauts de nos démocraties. Et c'est ce que le livre d'Hugo Bonin nous permet de faire admirablement. ( Antoine Robitaille, Le Journal de... Read more
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