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See You Again in Pyongyang
By: Travis Jeppesen
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and... Read more
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Bring the War Home
By: Kathleen Belew
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling... Read more
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The Death of Josseline
By: Margaret Regan
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in... Read more
Tailspin
By: Steven Brill
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself—have somehow managed to power its decline... Read more
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Optimizing Growth
By: Dimitar Antov, Jason Green & Mark Henneman
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Optimizing Growth is a handbook for how to succeed in the age of big data. Today's business environment looks dramatically different than it did even a decade ago, and it continues to evolve at an increasing rate; macroeconomic shifts, consumer trends, technological advances, and changing competitive dynamics are accelerating the pace of change,... Read more
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Niccolò Machiavelli: Der Fürst
By: Niccolò Machiavelli
Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Wie gelange ich an die Macht? Und wenn ich sie habe – wie erhalte ich sie? Machiavellis Klassiker "Der Fürst" gilt noch heute als Standardwerk und Pflichtlektüre für Politiker und Manager. Ungekürzt gelesen. Read more
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The Ethical Capitalist: How to Make Business Work Better for Society
By: Julian Richer
Narrated by: Julian Richer
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Ethical Capitalist, written and read by Julian Richer.
*A Financial Times Book of the Month*
Capitalism has lost its way. Every week brings fresh news stories about businesses exploiting their staff, avoiding their taxes, and ripping off their customers. Every week, public anger at the system... Read more
Last Resort
By: Eric A. Posner
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair—and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren't we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly, setting the stage for future crises?... Read more
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Conspiracy Theories
By: Wesley Jones
Narrated by: Rick Paradis
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Crazy conspiracies you may have never heard before You’ve probably heard of the Illuminati, of the Denver Airport, or Area 51, but there are a lot more conspiracy theories out there. Some simply remained theories, and others turned out to be real. After all, not everybody makes things up from scratch, do they? Most theories are based on a... Read more
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Facts and Fears
By: James R. Clapper & Trey Brown
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller
The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America
When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President... Read more
Seeing like a State
By: James C. Scott
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural “modernization” in the Tropics―the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do... Read more
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Enemies and Neighbors
By: Ian Black
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 20 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today.
Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist... Read more
How to Rig an Election
By: Nic Cheeseman & Brian Klaas
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree to hold elections are generally able to remain in power longer than autocrats who refuse to allow the populace to vote. In this engaging and provocative book, Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization,... Read more
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The Restless Wave
By: John McCain & Mark Salter
Narrated by: Beau Bridges & John McCain
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave is a fitting valedictory for a man who seldom backed down.” —The Guardian (US)
“A book-length... Read more
The Kennedy Curse
By: Edward Klein
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy. Once again, on a day that should have been... Read more
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Harvey Milk
By: Lillian Faderman
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time... Read more
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Stone's Rules
By: Roger Stone
Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
At long last, America’s most notorious political operative has released his operating manual! A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors, the flamboyant, outrageous, articulate, and extraordinarily well-dressed Roger Stone lays out Stone’s Rules—the maxims that have governed his legendary career as a campaign... Read more
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The Infidel and the Professor
By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith... Read more
Erasmus
By: Ferdinand Jives
Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A Renaissance theologist who brought new light to Dutch changes during the Protestant wars against Spain. He stood for humanism, children’s rights, and theological ideologies that he wasn’t afraid to spread across the Dutch nation, which was going through some dramatic transformations at that time. His political and theological ideas should not... Read more
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration
By: John Zmirak & Al Perrotta
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Building “the Wall” would cost less than half of what we spend to educate illegal immigrants every year Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $116 billion a year 62 percent of naturalized immigrants are for the Democrats; only 25 percent are for the Republicans Competition from immigrants costs American workers $450 billion a year The... Read more
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Education and Citizenship
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Twain delivered this speech at the dedication of new buildings at the College of the City of New York. The mayor who preceded him mentioned that good citizenship should take precedence even over education. Twain uses this introduction to transition into a funny discussion of the motto “In God we trust” being stamped into U.S. coins and how... Read more
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Duel Under the Stars
By: Wilhelm Johnen
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Wilhelm Johnen flew his first operational mission in July 1941, having completed his blind-flying training. In his first couple of years he brought down two enemy planes. The tally went up rapidly once the air war was escalated in spring 1943, when Air Marshal Arthur Harris of the RAF Bomber Command began the campaign dubbed the Battle of the... Read more
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Lady Death
By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.
Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including twenty-nine enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being... Read more
Inner City Pressure
By: Dan Hancox
Narrated by: Ash Hunter
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is... Read more
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