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New 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
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The Abyss
By: Max Hastings
Narrated by: Max Hastings & John Hopkins
Length: 19 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The... Read more
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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
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Hitler'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
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Jubilee
By: KT Johnston
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. But how do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with... Read more
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The War on the West
By: Douglas Murray
Narrated by: Douglas Murray
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the... Read more
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By 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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Woke Up This Morning
By: Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa
Narrated by: Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa & Full Cast
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive oral history of the landmark television series and streaming hit The Sopranos, packed with untold stories from behind the scenes and on the set. Stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa—whose Talking Sopranos podcast has become a sensational fan favorite—talk intimately with virtually everyone who has been involved with the... Read more
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The Universe
By: Andrew Cohen
Narrated by: Brian Cox & Jot Davies
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now... Read more
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The Lost Café Schindler
By: Meriel Schindler
Narrated by: Caitlin Cavannaugh
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to confront not only their fractured relationship but... Read more
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A Jewish Founding Father?
By: Andrew Porwancher
Narrated by: Andrew Porwancher
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Thousands of miles from the Old World, on a... Read more
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The Appalachian Trail
By: Philip D'Anieri
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century.
The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it,... Read more
When Weather Changed the Course of History
By: Caroline Winterer
Narrated by: Caroline Winterer
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Weather and climate have been shaping human history... Read more
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The Enlightenment
By: Ritchie Robertson
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 40 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance,... Read more
The Ravine
By: Wendy Lower
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A single photograph—an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family—drives a riveting process of discovery for a gifted Holocaust scholar
In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler’s Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the... Read more
Land
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston Globe
The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or... Read more
The Dream Palace of the Arabs
By: Fouad Ajami
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving... Read more
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Europa, Europa
By: Solomon Perel
Narrated by: Christopher David
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, a man who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands' award-winning film Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial... Read more
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I Belong to Vienna
By: Anna Goldenberg & Alta L. Price
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room... Read more
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Night of the Assassins
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II.The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world.
The assassins: a specially trained... Read more
The Sleepwalkers
By: Christopher Clark
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 23 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — The Boston GlobeOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of... Read more
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The Art of Resistance
By: Justus Rosenberg
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past fifty years.In 1937, as the Nazis... Read more
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The Religions Book
By: DK
Narrated by: James Bryce
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
This essential guide to religion, narrated by James Bryce, explains the key tenets and big ideas behind the world's five main religions - Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism - alongside newer faiths.
The Religions Book clearly explains the key concepts behind the earliest religious beliefs right up to the world's newest faiths,... Read more
Cold Warriors
By: Duncan White
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 24 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the... Read more
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