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The Impeachers
By: Brenda Wineapple
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times; The New York Times Book Review; NPR; Publishers Weekly
“This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer... Read more
History of European Union
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The European Union is the result of a group of leaders who looked forward to a peaceable, united and thriving Europe. Besides its founding fathers there are several who have strived hard to uphold the peace and prosperity of the nations who are a part of the European Union. There were just six countries who agreed to partake in the treaty in the... Read more
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The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Narrated by: Austin Vanfleet
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
The Communist Manifesto summarizes Marx and... Read more
Julius Caesar
By: Philip Freeman
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor"—not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Rome's territories. But, as... Read more
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World's Richest Countries
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A frequently asked question is – what makes a country richer than the others. How could some countries be so flourished where technology has reached a zenith and continues to improve while some countries still struggle to get a basic internet connection. For years economists have tried to get into the depth, seeking for answers which seem to be... Read more
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Sea Stories
By: Admiral William H. McRaven
Narrated by: Admiral William H. McRaven
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory,... Read more
Twenty-Two on Peleliu
By: George Peto
Narrated by: Paul Brion
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was twenty-two-year-old George Peto.
Growing up on a farm in Ohio, George always preferred being outdoors and... Read more
Food
By: Fabio Parasecoli
Narrated by: Levi Squier
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roasted in Germany, and distributed in Canada? Whether we... Read more
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Sherman's March
By: Burke Davis
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestselling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War.
In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, General William T. Sherman vowed to "make Georgia howl." The hero of Shiloh and his 65,000 Federal troops... Read more
How Wealth Rules the World
By: Ben G. Price
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems—and what we can do about it.
Many of today's most serious... Read more
History of Money
By: Introbooks Team
Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The history of money tells us of the development of the means through which transactions can be carried out with the help of a medium of exchange. From eons now, man has been exchanging goods for a certain price. This price came either in the form of other goods or money. The interesting journey of money from barter products to bitcoin and... Read more
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La rebelión de los mayores
By: Paca Tricio
Narrated by: Anabel Moreno
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
La lucha por las pensiones justas de un colectivo a menudo olvidado. Nadie esperaba mucho de ellos. Todos —políticos y sociólogos, analistas y politólogos— daban a los mayores españoles por amortizados y semienterrados. Habían sacado la cabeza entre las mareas de indignación que nos visitan de manera periódica, sobre todo desde el 11-M —los... Read more
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Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway
By: David Rigby
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States.
During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, U.S. Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told—until now.
It was Wade McClusky who... Read more
Platon: Die Apologie des Sokrates
By: Platon
Narrated by: Sven Görtz
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Sokrates ist wegen Unfrömmigkeit angeklagt. Welches Strafmaß soll ergehen? In seiner Verteidiungsrede, die zu einer der Grundlagen der Philosophie geworden ist, zeigt Sokrates: Die Wahrheit ist das höchste Gut – und Eigeninteressen müssen dahinter zurückstehen. Ein packendes Hörerlebnis. Read more
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Non-Bullshit Innovation
By: David Rowan
Narrated by: David Rowan
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
David Rowan travels the globe in search of the most exciting and pioneering startups building the future. He's got to know the founders of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify, Xiaomi, Didi, Nest, Twitter and countless other ambitious entrepreneurs disrupting businesses in almost every sector. And yet too often the... Read more
Epic Continent
By: Nicholas Jubber
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020
Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeys across Europe exploring Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied, and their impact on European identity in these turbulent times. These are the stories that made Europe.
Journeying... Read more
Brothers in Arms
By: Geraint Jones
Narrated by: Geraint Jones
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.
‘If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?’ Danny said. ‘Your arms or your legs?’
In... Read more
No Win Race
By: Derek A. Bardowell
Narrated by: Derek A. Bardowell
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Personal, political, powerful and about so much more than race and sport.’ ... Read more
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Ártico
By: Marzio G. Mian
Narrated by: Enric Puig
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Desde el espacio, el Ártico se ve cada vez menos blanco y más azul: un nuevo mar está emergiendo como una Atlántida acuática, porque el calentamiento en el Gran Norte es el doble que en el resto de la Tierra. Este deshielo está provocando al mismo tiempo una auténtica lucha entre distintos países para ganar la única zona del mundo aún sin... Read more
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Doing Time Like A Spy
By: John Kiriakou
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.
Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life... Read more
Getting to Maybe
By: Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman & Michael Patton
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a... Read more
Empires of the Weak
By: J.C. Sharman
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of... Read more
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Social Butterflies
By: Susannah Hume & Michael Sanders
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this essential and timely book, behavioral scientists Sanders and Hume demonstrate the astonishing reach of our social networks, and why we need to reclaim their power to effect positive change in our professional and private lives.
The rise of social media has sent our social instincts into overdrive, and the impact of our networks has... Read more
A Good American Family
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “one of our most talented biographers and historians” (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a “thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s” (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to... Read more
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