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Stalin - Abridged
By: Edvard Radzinsky
Narrated by: David McCallum
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin... Read more
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The Greatest Generation - Abridged
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage,... Read more
The Greatest Generation Speaks - Abridged
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more
The Great Republic - Abridged
By: Winston S. Churchill
Narrated by: Winston S. Churchill
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best short histories of the ... Read more
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The Book of Honor - Abridged
By: Ted Gup
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A national bestseller, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting uncovers the identities, and the remarkable stories, of the CIA secret agents who died anonymously in the service of their country.
In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representing an agent who has... Read more
Don't Know Much About the Civil War - Abridged
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Kenneth C. Davis
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review
“Lively and relevant.” —USA Today
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue,... Read more
Seven Years in Tibet - Abridged
By: Heinrich Harrer
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Dramatized in a motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a noted mountain climber and skier, slipped out of captivity in India and made his way through the Himalayan passes... Read more
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Flags of Our Fathers - Abridged
By: James Bradley & Ron Powers
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.
In February 1945, American... Read more
Notes From a Small Island - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed... Read more
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The End of the Road - Abridged
By: Tom Bodett
Narrated by: Tom Bodett
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Culled from Bodett's syndicated radio show, these interconnected stories captures the essence of life in America--especially Homer, Alaska, the sort of place where the keys are left in the snowplow in case someone gets stuck after hours. Read more
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How the Irish Saved Civilization - Abridged
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Liam Neeson
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent... Read more
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Confederates in the Attic - Abridged
By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more
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Seabiscuit - Abridged
By: Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more
Howard Hughes
By: Peter Harry Brown & Pat H. Broeske
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 18 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.
Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea... Read more
Herman Melville
By: Elizabeth Hardwick
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging shape of his life . . . a story of the creative... Read more
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Rosa Parks
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King Jr. into the... Read more
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Microsoft First Generation
By: Cheryl Tsang
Narrated by: Mary Woods
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a story with all the ingredients of a modern legend, representing nothing less than the proverbial American Dream—writ extra-large. It is a story of hard work, brilliance, and extraordinary commitment, featuring the story’s original cast members, who could not possibly have foreseen the unprecedented success that awaited them: the... Read more
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What If...? Vol 3 - Abridged
By: Robert Cowley
Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising,... Read more
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The Endurance - Abridged
By: Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Martin Ruben & Michael Tezla
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. They came with in eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the... Read more
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Harry Hoxsey, Healer Before His Time
By: Kenny Ausubel
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Kenny Ausubel presents cutting edge data about an unsung hero: Harry Hoxsey, who was an ex-coal miner who claimed a cure for cancer back in 1924, using herbal remedies inherited from his great grandfather. Read more
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Anton Chekhov
By: Donald Rayfield
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 28 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Anton Chekhov’s life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature, but Donald Rayfield’s biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here... Read more
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Woodrow Wilson
By: Louis Auchincloss
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Woodrow Wilson sheds new light on Wilson’s upbringing and career and shows the grim determination that carried him to the presidency just before World War I. From the dynamic figure whose ringing speeches hypnotized vast crowds, to the gentle voice reading poetry to his children, to the rising academic and president of Princeton who made the... Read more
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Joan of Arc
By: Mary Gordon
Narrated by: Mari Devon
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the king of France, only... Read more
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Papa Bravo Romeo - Abridged
By: Wynn Goldsmith
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Our mission was independent, no-holds-barred combat against a stubborn enemy in the enemy's backyard."
In Vietnam, river warfare was often conducted in the dark. It was always dangerous, sometimes fatal--especially in the eastern end of the Cong-plagued Mekong Delta. In 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Wynn Goldsmith was the "river rat" who... Read more
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