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Filterworld
By: Kyle Chayka
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
"[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture…[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what... Read more
Beaverland
By: Leila Philip
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how... Read more
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Hidden Figures
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the... Read more
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The Worst Hard Time
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Jacob York
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through... Read more
If We Burn
By: Vincent Bevins
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How... Read more
Clanlands
By: Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish
Narrated by: Diana Gabaldon, Graham McTavish & Sam Heughan
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Audie Award 2022 for Best History/Biography Audiobook. Earphones Award Winner 2021.
A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.
Narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with a foreword written and... Read more
A Brief History of Earth
By: Andrew H. Knoll
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked... Read more
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Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Bob Balaban
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of... Read more
Medgar and Myrlie
By: Joy-Ann Reid
Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America.”—from Medgar and MyrlieBy MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of... Read more
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Humankind
By: Rutger Bregman
Narrated by: Rutger Bregman & Thomas Judd
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.
If there is one belief that has united the... Read more
Four Hundred Souls
By: Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Various
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.
The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion... Read more
As You Wish
By: Cary Elwes & Joe Layden
Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner...
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as... Read more
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Fight Like Hell
By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more
The Year of Living Constitutionally
By: A.J. Jacobs
Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document?
“I didn’t know how I learned so much while... Read more
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
By: Beverly Gage
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 36 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington... Read more
American Prometheus
By: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 26 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale... Read more
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The Devil's Chessboard
By: David Talbot
Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
Length: 25 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles,... Read more
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Kingdom of Rage
By: Elizabeth Neumann
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol—and which threatens to destroy the American Church from within. How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of... Read more
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Pockets
By: Hannah Carlson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters.
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more
The Last of His Kind
By: Andy McCullough
Narrated by: LJ Ganser
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, examining the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape—based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others. More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied... Read more
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The Swans of Harlem
By: Karen Valby
Narrated by: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Ab...
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now.
“This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!” —Misty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy
“Utterly absorbing,... Read more
Some People Need Killing
By: Patricia Evangelista
Narrated by: Patricia Evangelista
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “riveting” (The Atlantic) account of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens under President Rodrigo Duterte, hailed as “a journalistic masterpiece” (The New Yorker)
“Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to... Read more
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
By: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the... Read more
From Beirut to Jerusalem
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The program features a new introduction written and read by the author.
"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." —Seymour M. Hersh
One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world.... Read more