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Behind the Door
By: Amy Price
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an Art Deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the path it would lead... Read more
View audiobookThe Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
By: Eti Elboim & Sara Leibovits
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
‘You are no longer a number’ Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside. Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a... Read more
View audiobookNecessary Trouble
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by: Drew Gilpin Faust
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions?not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. To be a privileged white... Read more
View audiobookTalk of Champions
By: Kenny Smith
Narrated by: Kenny Smith
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A revealing, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny "The Jet" Smith—superstar basketball commentator, host of the top-rated show, Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals memorable inside stories of his playing and broadcasting careers, focusing on the star players, coaches, and mentors who inspired him along the way.
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Great and Horrible News
By: Blessin Adams
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but... Read more
View audiobookSomewhere We Are Human \ Donde somos humanos (Spanish edition)
By: Reyna Grande & Sonia Guiñansaca
Narrated by: Avi Roque, Christian Barillas, Diana Pou & Alej...
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos.Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad política e incertidumbre, esta colección de ensayos, poesía y arte tiene como objetivo... Read more
View audiobookIn the Garden of the Righteous
By: Richard Hurowitz
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 14 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity. This book is more timely than ever.”—Stuart E. Eizenstat, author of Imperfect Justice:... Read more
View audiobookThe McCartney Legacy
By: Allan Kozinn & Adrian Sinclair
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 29 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician. Informed by hundreds of interviews, extensive ground up research, and thousands... Read more
View audiobookNew York Jew
By: Alfred Kazin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more
View audiobookMy Jewish Year
By: Abigail Pogrebin
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism.
Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized... Read more
The Mamas
By: Helena Andrews-Dyer
Narrated by: Helena Andrews-Dyer
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?
“Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate Black and white mothers.”—Tia Williams, New York Times... Read more
Inventor of the Future
By: Alec Nevala-Lee
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 18 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future.During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural... Read more
View audiobookThe Divorce Colony
By: April White
Narrated by: April White & Lisa Flanagan
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls,... Read more
View audiobookHitler's Boy Soldiers
By: Helene Munson
Narrated by: Caitlin Cavannaugh
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Helene Munson resurrects her father’s WWII journals and embarks on a meticulous investigation, exposing how the Nazis trained 300,000 impressionable children as soldiers. In 1937, Munson’s father, Hans, was enrolled in an elite German school whose students were destined to take leadership roles in the Reich. At fifteen, he was drafted as an... Read more
View audiobookManaging Expectations
By: Minnie Driver
Narrated by: Minnie Driver
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her... Read more
View audiobookForever Boy
By: Kate Swenson
Narrated by: Kate Swenson
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love
When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism,... Read more
She's Unlikeable
By: Aparna Shewakramani
Narrated by: Aparna Shewakramani
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
When Aparna Shewakramani appeared on Netflix’s hit series Indian Matchmaking, it soon became clear that Aparna knew what she wanted. But all stories are told through certain lenses—and her story is no exception. Being on a reality show made Aparna feel like a character. Her decisiveness and sense of self-worth led viewers to see her as a very... Read more
View audiobookUncommon Measure
By: Natalie Hodges
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance... Read more
View audiobookInto Every Generation a Slayer Is Born
By: Evan Ross Katz
Narrated by: Evan Ross Katz & Deanna Anthony
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the history and cultural impact of a groundbreaking television show adored by old and new fans alike: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz explores the... Read more
View audiobookMy Life in China and America
By: Yung Wing
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic and integral memoir recounts the events in the life of the first Chinese student to graduate from a major American university, Yale College. An avid advocate for education, Yung Wing convinced the Qing Dynasty government to create a program that would send Chinese students to American schools in order to study science and... Read more
View audiobookThis Is Going to Hurt
By: Adam Kay
Narrated by: Adam Kay
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally ""blisteringly funny"" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily... Read more
View audiobookWhen a Killer Calls
By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter—comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him.
On May 31, 1985, two... Read more
Mala's Cat
By: Mala Kacenberg
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, Mala Szorer had the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But at the age of twelve, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto, and her family and friends are reduced to starvation. So she takes matters into her own hands and... Read more
View audiobookBy the Grace of the Game
By: Dan Grunfeld
Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York, in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who had discovered and secretly honed his basketball talent on the outdoor courts of New York... Read more
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