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The Pirate Hunter
By: Richard Zacks
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 18 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to... Read more
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The Age of Sacred Terror
By: Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations
From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam... Read more
Sleeping With the Devil - Abridged
By: Robert Baer
Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and... Read more
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There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere
By: Kara Swisher & Lisa Dickey
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“AOL had found itself at the edge of disaster so frequently that one of its first executives, a brassy Vietnam veteran and restaurateur named Jim Kimsey, had taken the punch line of an old joke popularized by Ronald Reagan and made it into an unlikely mantra for the company. It concerned a very optimistic young boy who happened upon a huge pile... Read more
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Franklin and Winston
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and [Winston] Churchill” (Vanity Fair).
“Intense and compelling... Read more
Sailing the Wine Dark Sea
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek... Read more
Intelligence in War
By: John Keegan
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence.
In... Read more
Benjamin Franklin - Abridged
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative... Read more
Treason - Abridged
By: Ann Coulter
Narrated by: Ann Coulter
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”
In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on... Read more
Living History - Abridged
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: Yes
Author of the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller What Happened
The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller—With a New Afterword
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor... Read more
The Cruelest Miles - Abridged
By: Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury
Narrated by: Margot Dionne
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west. But there is a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. The... Read more
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Visions From a Foxhole - Abridged
By: William Foley
Narrated by: Jim Soreiro
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An absolutely harrowing first-person account of the 94th Infantry Division’s bold campaign to break through Hitler’s “impregnable” Siegfried line at the end of World War II
Eighteen-year-old William Foley was afraid the war would be over before he got there, but the rifleman was sent straight to the front lines, arriving January 25, 1945–just in... Read more
I Am Alive! - Abridged
By: Charles Jackson & Major Bruce H. Norton
Narrated by: John Henry Cox
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, a Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy was given an opportunity to write a prisoner-of-war card for his wife. He was allowed ten words—he used three: “I AM ALIVE!” This message, classic in its poignancy of suffering and despair captures only too well what it meant to be a prisoner... Read more
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Coal
By: Barbara Freese
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered navies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of... Read more
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The Path Between the Seas - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the... Read more
General Ike - Abridged
By: John Eisenhower
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as “a son's view of a great military leader—highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us.” It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best.
General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always... Read more
Perfect Enough
By: George Anders
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In this bestselling work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner George Anders presents a behind-the-scenes account of a struggle that rocked Wall Street and stunned the computer industry.
When Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, she was venturing further than any woman previously had into traditional men’s... Read more
The Teammates
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: Tate Donovan
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shares the moving story of four baseball players and the friendships they forged as teammates—and the impact they had off the field. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years... Read more
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Hallowed Ground - Abridged
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: James M. McPherson
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more
Into Africa - Abridged
By: Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Simon Jones
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... Read more
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Reefer Madness
By: Eric Schlosser
Narrated by: Eric Schlosser
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.
The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- or more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise.... Read more
A Patriot's Handbook
By: Caroline Kennedy
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Caroline Kennedy shares an inspiring collection of patriotic poems, song lyrics, historical documents, and speeches.The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a blockbuster success, remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for 15 weeks with more than 500,000 copies in print. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares with readers an... Read more
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In the Company of Heroes - Abridged
By: Michael Durant & Steven Hartov
Narrated by: Michael Durant
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Ranger, Ranger, you die Somalia!" shouted the enraged Somali voices surrounding Blackhawk helicopter pilot Michael J. Durant, his bird shot down by a well-placed rocket-propelled grenade. With his devastating injuries, Durant would be lucky to survive the night.
"Mike Durant...Mike Durant..." came the disembodied voice floating above the... Read more
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