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Sacred Duty
By: Tom Cotton
Narrated by: Tom Cotton & Jeremy Arthur
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
THEIR DUTY IS SACRED. THEIR STANDARD IS PERFECTION. An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National Cemetery, Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty offers an intimate and inspiring portrait of “The Old Guard,” the revered U.S. Army unit whose mission is to honor our country’s fallen heroes on the most hallowed ground in America.... Read more
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Hunting LeRoux
By: Elaine Shannon
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
With an introduction by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann.The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down.Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and... Read more
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The Rescue Artist
By: Edward Dolnick
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the... Read more
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Catherine de Medici
By: Leonie Frieda
Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
Length: 21 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the STARZ original series, The Serpent Queen, premiering September 11.“A beautifully written portrait of a ruthless, subtle and fearless woman fighting for survival and power in a world of gangsterish brutality, routine assassination and religious mania. . . . Frieda has brought a largely forgotten heroine-villainess and a... Read more
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Dereliction of Duty
By: H. R. McMaster
Narrated by: H. R. McMaster
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
""The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C."" —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia.... Read more
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Road to Disaster
By: Brian VanDeMark
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 23 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
""The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering.""—Robert DallekMany books have been written on... Read more
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1968
By: Richard Vinen
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.The year 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary—around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered... Read more
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Hippie Food
By: Jonathan Kauffman
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
An enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine.Food writer Jonathan Kauffman... Read more
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes
By: Jason Fagone
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her... Read more
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled
By: Wendy Pearlman
Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Assaf Cohen & Susan Nezami
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of... Read more
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Forty Autumns
By: Nina Willner
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Forty Autumns makes visceral the... Read more
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The Secret War
By: Max Hastings
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 30 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced... Read more
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Jungle of Stone
By: William Carlsen
Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
Length: 16 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the MayaIn 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and... Read more
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Gray Work
By: Jamie Smith
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men who run highly dangerous missions deep inside foreign... Read more
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Navy Seals
By: Dick Couch & William Doyle
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Captures the essence of Naval Special Warfare from our storied beginnings to the current fight.” —Admiral WILLIAM H. McRAVENWritten with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of America's most... Read more
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50 Children
By: Steven Pressman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States—for readers of In the Garden of Beasts and A Train in Winter.In early 1939,... Read more
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American Gun
By: Chris Kyle & William Doyle
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPERJoin Chris Kyle on a fascinating journey to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review)Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically... Read more
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
By: Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals... Read more
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Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged
By: Robert Dallek
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more
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