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The Making of America: Volume 1

By: Teri Kanefield

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlike other biographies, the Making of America series goes beyond individual narratives linking influential figures to create an overarching story of America's growth that will deepen understanding of the country we live in today. This bundle featuring Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Jackson tells the story of American... Read more

The Making of America: Volume 2

By: Teri Kanefield

Narrated by: Joyce Bean, David Sadzin & Chris Lutkin

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Unlike other biographies, the Making of America series goes beyond individual narratives linking influential figures to create an overarching story of America's growth that will deepen understanding of the country we live in today. This bundle featuring Susan B. Anthony, Thurgood Marshall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt focuses on some of the most... Read more

Before We Were Trans

By: Dr. Kit Heyam

Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.  
 
Before We Were Trans illuminates... Read more

George Washington

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Written for ages 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!

Behind George were enemies; in front, a raging ice-packed river. Poling across had seemed his best chance, but now large blocks of ice slammed into his makeshift raft, twisting it off course. Just as George dug his pole in and pushed with all his might, a block of ice hit the raft -- the raft... Read more

Black AF History

By: Michael Harriot

Narrated by: Michael Harriot

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the flag-draped presidential box, Abraham Lincoln watched the popular comedy on stage at the Ford Theater. As he laughed at a funny line--Bang! A single shot rang out from a small derringer, the sound barely audible over the laughter of the crowd. Abe slumped forward, blood running from behind his left ear.

When President Lincoln died the... Read more

Laura Ingalls Wilder

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Laura stared at the black cloud blotting out the sun. The cloud was unlike anything she had ever seen. As it got closer, it made a strange noise, like hail pelting the ground. Suddenly the sky began to rain grasshoppers. The bugs clung to Laura's hair and clothes and peered at her with bulging eyes. Soon they began destroying Papa's crops.

From... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As Ben experimented, people peppered him with questions about electricity. Distracted, Ben was still holding the ends of two bare wires when the other ends touched the Leyden jars. A massive charge knocked him to the ground. When he clambered to his feet, he had to admit that his guests appeared to have enjoyed watching him get... Read more

Ain't I a Woman

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must–read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to... Read more

Harriet Tubman

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The pounding of horses' hooves shattered the night's silence. Harriet froze in the shadow of a tree and peered out into the darkness. She barely dared to breathe as three slave catchers came to a halt only a few feet from her hiding place. Had she escaped from danger so many times only to lose her hope of freedom now?

At age six the sharp bite... Read more

Through the Wardrobe

By: Lina Maslo

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things... heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself—at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the... Read more

Clara Barton

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroes of History is a unique biography series that brings the shaping of history to life with the remarkable true stories of fascinating men and women who changed the course of history. Known during the Civil War as the "Angel of the Battlefield," remarkable Clara Barton helped to save countless lives on the frontlines of battle. She went on to... Read more

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

Thomas Edison

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

With only three months of formal education, Thomas Edison grew up to be one of the most successful inventors of all time. Applying scientific principles to practical use, he made scores of inventions and held over thirteen hundred patents, from improvements on the telegraph and phonograph to the development of the incandescent lamp and a whole... Read more

Corrie ten Boom

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Suddenly, Corrie's ordered life was lost in the insanity of war. With bravery and compassion, her family and countless other Dutch citizens risked everything to extend God's hand to those innocents marked for certain execution in a world gone mad.

Corrie ten Boom's life of determination, faith, and forgiveness in the face of unimaginable... Read more

Girly Drinks

By: Mallory O'Meara

Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist

From Los Angeles Times bestselling author Mallory O’Meara comes a lively and engrossing feminist history of women drinking through the ages

Strawberry daiquiris. Skinny martinis. Vodka sodas with lime. These are the cocktails that come in... Read more

Palo Alto

By: Malcolm Harris

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 28 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth). Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its... Read more

Christopher Columbus

By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

It was completely dark. The only things visible now were the two small beacon fires on the Pinta and the Nina. Christopher was glad the two fires calmed his, too. Their glow reminded him that the Santa Maria was not alone on the vast, uncharted Ocean Sea. The three ships would sail together into the unknown.

Buoyant and determined, and having at... Read more

Stephen

By: The Voice of the Martyrs

Narrated by: Lance Smith

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

He defended the faith and became Christianity’s first martyr. Stephen lived a life full of faith, performing miracles, boldly telling others about Jesus and even serving with others to help widows in their time of need. Then, his courageous witness was silenced. However, the gospel could not be stopped, as his martyrdom caused the gospel to be... Read more

John Newton

By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

John Newton's life was in a downward spiral. Impressed into the Royal Navy, John clashed with his fellow seamen and even became a servant alongside slaves in West Africa. When he found himself on a sinking ship, he called out to God for help. John began his conversion to Christianity while he captained a slave ship. Eventually he gave up his... Read more

Patrick

By: The Voice of the Martyrs

Narrated by: Lance Smith

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Go beyond the St. Patrick’s Day symbols of shamrocks and leprechauns and hear the story of a man determined to share the message of salvation with the people who had made him a slave. When Patrick was a young boy, pirates invaded his home and made him a slave on the island known today as Ireland. While there, he recalled the Bible stories that... Read more

Paul

By: The Voice of the Martyrs

Narrated by: Lance Smith

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

He hunted down the followers of Christ and threw them into prison. However, as he made his way to Damascus to arrest more, Jesus appeared to him in a blinding light. Soon Saul the persecutor became one of Christ’s boldest apostles, whom we know as Paul. God’s Courageous Apostle highlights some of the dramatic events in the life of the apostle... Read more

Thomas

By: The Voice of the Martyrs

Narrated by: Lance Smith

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jesus’ disciple Thomas rightly earned the title "Doubting Thomas" by refusing to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. He told the disciples, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, I will not believe." Soon after, Jesus appeared to Thomas, shattering his unbelief. Thomas became so convinced of the resurrection of Jesus Christ... Read more

William Bradford

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in a small town in England, William Bradford lived during a time of upheaval and opportunity. Together with a group of Separatists, William escaped England to establish a new life in Holland and finally set out on the Mayflower on a perilous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

The New World beckoned as a land of freedom and possibility.... Read more