Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks
Freedom's Detective
By: Charles Lane
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
“This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by.” —Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of the Empire
Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret... Read more
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more
View audiobook
Vote for US
By: Joshua A. Douglas
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In contrast to the anxiety surrounding our voting system, with stories about voter suppression and manipulation, there are actually quite a few positive initiatives toward voting rights reform. Professor Joshua A. Douglas, an expert on our electoral system, examines these encouraging developments in this inspiring book about how regular... Read more
View audiobook
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is an unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring... Read more
On Faith
By: Antonin Scalia
Narrated by: Christopher J. Scalia
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
On Faith is an inspiring collection of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia's reflections on his own faith, on the challenges that religious believers face in modern America, and on the religious freedoms protected by the Constitution. Featuring a personal introduction by Justice Scalia's son Father Paul Scalia, this volume will enrich... Read more
View audiobook
The Storm on Our Shores
By: Mark Obmascik
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered diary—found during a brutal World War II battle—changed our war-torn society’s perceptions of Japan.
May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The... Read more
Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights
By: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson & Susan Randolph
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right. But to what extent are countries across the world living up to this commitment? This path breaking book develops an innovative, evidence-based index for comparing performance on education, food, health, work, and... Read more
View audiobook
Revolutionary
By: Robert L. O'Connell
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, defined the American character
How did George Washington become an American icon? Robert L. O’Connell, the New York Times bestselling... Read more
Urban Forests
By: Jill Jonnes
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
As nature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities; they are living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different... Read more
View audiobook
I'm Writing You from Tehran
By: Delphine Minoui
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist returns to her family home in Iran, witnessing enormous political, social, and personal change.
Suffering the recent loss of her beloved grandfather and newly committed to a career in journalism, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution—since she was four years old. It was 1998. She would stay for... Read more
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
By: Roberto Sirvent & Danny Haiphong
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news? American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a... Read more
View audiobook
The Unwanted
By: Michael Dobbs
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany.
In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate... Read more
Start Your Own Corporation, 3rd Edition
By: Garrett Sutton
Narrated by: Garrett Sutton
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
We live in a highly litigious world. As you live your life you must keep your guard up. As you grow your wealth you must protect it. For those who don’t predators await, and their attorneys will use every trick in the toolbox to get at - whether large or small-your unprotected assets.
Start Your Own Corporation educates you on an action plan to... Read more
Crusader
By: Mike Guardia
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Although he missed combat in World War II and Korea, Donn Starry became one of the most influential commanders of the Vietnam War, and after Vietnam was one of the “intellectual giants” who reshaped the US Army and its doctrines. Throughout his career he worked to improve training, leadership, and conditions for the men who served under... Read more
View audiobook
An Economist Walks into a Brothel
By: Allison Schrager
Narrated by: Holly Palance
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A Financial Times Book of the Month pick for April!
Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?
Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?
Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take a chance and keep the extra money?
Most people wouldn't expect an economist... Read more
The Matriarch
By: Susan Page
Narrated by: Kate Levy
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- The Atlantic
A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.
Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most... Read more
Of Privacy and Power
By: Henry Farrell & Abraham L. Newman
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy. This means that states' jurisdictions and rule systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power... Read more
View audiobook
A Crisis Wasted
By: Reed Hundt
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is the compelling story of President Obama’s domestic policy decisions made between September 2008 and his inauguration on January 20, 2009.Unlike all other presidents except Abraham Lincoln—who decided not to allow slavery to expand westward before he was sworn in—Barack Obama determined the fate of his presidency before he took... Read more
View audiobook
Finding My Voice
By: Valerie Jarrett
Narrated by: Valerie Jarrett
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work"
"Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."--Michelle Obama
"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and... Read more
American Moonshot
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 17 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 Audie Awards® WINNER - History/BiographyAs the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon.
“We choose to go to the Moon in this... Read more
Native Country of the Heart
By: Cherrie Moraga
Narrated by: Cherríe Moraga
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherríe Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherríe and her mother, and of their people, are... Read more
View audiobook
The League of Wives
By: Heath Hardage Lee
Narrated by: Heath Hardage Lee
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listeners are transported back to the 1960s by Heath Hardage Lee and her painstaking research... Her fascination with her subjects is infectious. Listeners who are fans of history will find much to admire in this little-known story." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
The true story of the fierce band of women who... Read more
Irrationality
By: Justin Smith-Ruiu
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Jeff Harding reveals the surprising ways the pursuit of rationality leads to an explosion of irrationality
It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value.... Read more
Estrategias de Forex Probadas
By: Wayne Walker
Narrated by: Mauricio Perez
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Aprenda las técnicas que utilizan los traders profesionales y de éxito. Estos conceptos han sido probados y respaldados por los alumnos de sus clases.Contenido extra: Estrategias de forex trading con noticias, los conceptos del Delta y mucha más información privilegiada.Sobre el autor:Wayne es un instructor, coach y emprendedor en demanda. Desde... Read more
View audiobook