Inside an Honor Killing
By: Lene Wold
Narrated by: Victoria Verzosa
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrator and the victim. What drives a person to murder their sister, mother, or daughter? What is life like in a society in which women are imprisoned for their own “protection,” while their potential killers walk free? In this powerful and... Read more
View audiobookThe Men and the Moment
By: Aram Goudsouzian
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The presidential election of 1968 forever changed American politics. In this character-driven narrative history, Aram Goudsouzian portrays the key transformations that played out over that dramatic year. It was the last "Old Politics" campaign, where political machines and party bosses determined the major nominees, even as the "New Politics" of... Read more
View audiobookHonorable Exit
By: Thurston Clarke
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in... Read more
The Socialist Manifesto
By: Bhaskar Sunkara
Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A "razor-sharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) -- and explains how its core tenets could effect positive change in America and worldwide.
In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's history since the mid-1800s and presents a realistic vision... Read more
Alpha Girls
By: Julian Guthrie
Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest & Julian Guthrie
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable story of four women who, through grit and ingenuity, became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build some of the foremost companies of our time.
In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital,... Read more
Our History Is the Future
By: Nick Estes
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life"
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water... Read more
The Communist Manifesto
By: Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx
Narrated by: Derek Le Page
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
It could be argued that few documents have had such a considerable effect on the course of world social and political history as the manifesto of the Communist Party written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published in 1848. The social structures of the 19th century were undergoing considerable change yet even so it was over half a century... Read more
View audiobookMafia Spies
By: Thomas Maier
Narrated by: Fred Stella
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion,... Read more
View audiobookProtest and Power
By: David Kogan
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
Length: 17 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
'A meticulously researched and balanced history' The Times
'Highly-readable and well-researched' The Sunday Times
'Faultless account of the twists and turns undertaken by the hard left of the Labour Party to retain relevance and the hope of power' James O'Brien, TLS
'A very good book, probably the most even-handed of all the accounts of Corbyn’s... Read more
The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
By: Ravish Kumar
Narrated by: Uplaksh Kochhar
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
'The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from the moment we step out of our homes, with so many... Read more
View audiobookRussell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
By: Russell Kirk
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk's groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially a popular version of The... Read more
View audiobookThe Empire and the Five Kings
By: Bernard-Henri Levy
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom, and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples on all continents looked to America to stand up for the values that created the Western world, and to oppose autocracy and repression. Even when America did not live up to its ideals, it still recognized their... Read more
View audiobookThe Democracy Fix
By: Caroline Fredrickson
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country. They got there because, while progressives fought to death over the nuances of policy and to bring attention to specific issues, conservatives... Read more
View audiobookLoon
By: Jack McLean
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," writes Jack McLean in his must-listen memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint.... Read more
View audiobookA Woman First: First Woman
By: Selina Meyer
Narrated by: Selina Meyer
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
The long-awaited memoir of her tumultuous year in office, A Woman First: First Woman is an intimate first-person account of the public and private lives of Selina Meyer, America's first woman president. Known and beloved throughout the world as a vocal and fearless advocate for adult literacy, fighting AIDS, our military families, and as a... Read more
View audiobookAround America to Win the Vote
By: Mara Rockliff
Narrated by: Marge Sudheimer
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women’s suffrage... Read more
View audiobookMurphy's Law
By: Jack Murphy
Narrated by: Jack Murphy
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“Sure to go down as an important piece of military-memoir history…a fast-paced, insightful, hold-nothing-back memoir” (Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal, New York Times bestselling author) from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant-turned-journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career.
Growing... Read more
Our Lost Declaration
By: Mike Lee
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founder's takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America.
There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written in Philadelphia in the oppressively hot summer of... Read more
Matilda
By: Catherine Hanley
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A life of Matilda—empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages
Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown—the first woman ever to hold the position—and an able military general.
This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and... Read more
Economics in Two Lessons
By: John Quiggin
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes―and failures―of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt’s bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the... Read more
View audiobookLove & Courage
By: Jagmeet Singh
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.
In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone was celebrated across the nation.
About a month earlier, in... Read more
The Moment of Lift
By: Melinda Gates
Narrated by: Melinda Gates
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Now with a new afterword!
How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most... Read more
"Mein Sohn bleibt bei mir!" - Als politische Geisel in türkischer Haft - und warum es noch nicht zu Ende ist (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Mesale Tolu
Narrated by: Vera Teltz
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sie war eine prominente deutsche Geisel der türkischen Regierung: Als angebliche Terrorunterstützerin saß die Journalistin und Übersetzerin Mesale Tolu mit ihrem kleinen Sohn in Haft; danach wurde ihr die Ausreise aus der Türkei verweigert. Jetzt, wieder in Deutschland, berichtet sie über diese Zeit: über die Brutalität von Polizei und Justiz,... Read more
View audiobookNomaden der Arbeit
By: Jessica Bruder
Narrated by: Claudia Burges
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Zehntausende Menschen in Amerika sind unterwegs. Sie leben in Wohnmobilen, Vans, Anhängern. Übernachten auf Supermarkt-Parkplätzen, neben den Highways, in der Wüste. Sie schaufeln Zuckerrüben in North Dakota, reinigen Toiletten in den Nationalparks von Kalifornien, arbeiten Zwölf-Stunden-Schichten im Amazon-Versandzentrum im winterlichen Texas.... Read more
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