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The January 6 Report
By: The January 6th Committee
Narrated by: Ari Melber & Joe Knezevich
Length: 19 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump’s related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original foreword by attorney and Emmy-winning MSNBC anchor Ari Melber. This edition includes an exclusive... Read more
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The Ottomans
By: Marc David Baer
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
Length: 17 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep... Read more
Long Walk to Freedom - Abridged
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Danny Glover
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from... Read more
Palestine 1936
By: Oren Kessler
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict. The revolt was the crucible in which Palestinian identity coalesced, uniting all in a... Read more
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The Young Lords
By: Johanna Fernández
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 23 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to link local problems to international crises riveted... Read more
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The Last Folk Hero
By: Jeff Pearlman
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed.... Read more
The Nine
By: Gwen Strauss
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris.
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author, as well as an archival... Read more
BRAVE HEARTED
By: Katie Hickman
Narrated by: Katie Hickman & Nerissa Bradley
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San... Read more
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The Theory That Would Not Die
By: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.
In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers,... Read more
Destiny Disrupted
By: Tamim Ansary
Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world views the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world... Read more
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Scenes of Subjection
By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.
Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people... Read more
Gracefully Insane
By: Alex Beam
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution—one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America.
In its "golden age," McLean provided as genteel an... Read more
Thank You For Voting
By: Erin Geiger Smith
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.Voting is a prized... Read more
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The Threat
By: Andrew G. McCabe
Narrated by: Andrew G. McCabe
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!
This program is read by the author.
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on... Read more
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 27 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it"... Read more
American Heiress
By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag... Read more
Gallop Toward the Sun
By: Peter Stark
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid account of the rivalry between future president William Henry Harrison and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh—and of the Native American alliance that fought westward expansion—from the New York Times bestselling author of Astoria
“Taut, multi-layered . . . a much-needed reevaluation of this crucial period of our nation’s history.”—Laurence... Read more
Consequences of Capitalism
By: Noam Chomsky & Marv Waterstone
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.“Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity…Everything depends on the actions that people take into... Read more
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A Short History of the Railroad
By: Christian Wolmar
Narrated by: Robert Maskell
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating journey through the history of railways, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy.
From the earliest steam engine to the high-speed bullet trains of today, A Short History of the Railway reveals the hidden stories of railway history across the world - the inspired engineering; the blood, sweat, and tears... Read more
The Narrow Corridor
By: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 23 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats.
Liberty is hardly the "natural" order of things. In most... Read more
World Religions
By: John Bowker
Narrated by: Rochelle Cannon
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Baffled by Buddhism? Confused by Catholicism? Mystified by Mysticism? World Religions can lift the cloud surrounding the main faiths of the world.
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism and many more key faiths are explained clearly; providing detailed insight into the key practices and figures of each religion, this is perfect for... Read more
A Year in Paris
By: John Baxter
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter.“A man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick.”—... Read more
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The Second World War
By: Antony Beevor
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Length: 39 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most... Read more
Liberty Equality Fashion
By: Anne Higonnet
Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee & Anne Higonnet
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and... Read more
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