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A Pretext for War - Abridged
By: James Bamford
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date—a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America’s intelligence agencies and the Bush administration’s calculated efforts to sell a war to the American people.
In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the... Read more
The Outlaw Sea
By: William Langewiesche
Narrated by: William Langewiesche
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it
Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by... Read more
Long March to Freedom
By: Thomas R. Hargrove
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 21 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, a record of his eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, was the basis for the hit movie Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity. The... Read more
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A Pretext For War
By: James Bamford
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In A Pretext for War, acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic... Read more
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Are You There Alone? - Abridged
By: Suzanne O'Malley
Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Suzanne O'Malley takes a close look at the Andrea Yates murder trial and discovers medical misjudgment, professional negligence, misapplied law, and a revelation that led to the overturning of Yates's conviction.
It took a jury less than four hours to find Houston housewife Andrea Yates guilty of the drowning deaths of three of her five... Read more
Homicide Special - Abridged
By: Miles Corwin
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country
Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most... Read more
Pigs at the Trough - Abridged
By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Alison Fraser
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington that go beyond the Corporate Responsibility Act. Read more
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Blood, Money & Power
By: Barr McClellan
Narrated by: Barr McClellan
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings.
Now, after nearly forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President. Using... Read more
Heart Full of Lies - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes “a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind” (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and charming widow with a dark side.
An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a... Read more
Death's Acre - Abridged
By: Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the "Body Farm," nature takes its course, with corpses buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, concealed beneath slabs of concrete, locked in... Read more
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The Brass Wall - Abridged
By: David Kocieniewski
Narrated by: Greg Salata
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the tradition of Serpico and Prince of the City, a brilliantly reported true story of power and betrayal in the NYPD set against the worlds of the Mafia and big-city politics
In 1993, Vincent Armanti, Undercover Detective #4126 agreed to infiltrate a branch of the Luchese family responsible for the homicide of a beloved fireman. Already a... Read more
Under the Banner of Heaven - Abridged
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist... Read more
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Ich sollte der Nächste sein (Ungekürzt)
By: Leoluca Orlando
Narrated by: Moritz Bleibtreu
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Wenn Palermo heute so sicher ist wie andere Großstädte auch, wenn die Mafia zwar nicht besiegt ist, aber doch ihre Macht über die öffentliche Meinung verloren hat, dann ist dies vor allem der Zivilcourage von Leoluca Orlando zu verdanken. Als der Rechtswissenschaftler 1985 zum Bürgermeister von Palermo gewählt wurde, war er der erste... Read more
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Stung - Abridged
By: Gary Stephen Ross
Narrated by: Stephen Barker Turner
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of dollars in fraudulent loans. Despite... Read more
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Takedown - Abridged
By: Rick Cowan & Douglas Century
Narrated by: Christopher Meloni
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Seldom has the netherworld of the mafia been revealed with such fascinating detail and sheer suspense. Like the classics of the genre-from The Godfather to The French Connection toWise Guy-Takedown leads us to the inner ring of a conspiracy of corruption and terror that held the city in its grip for nearly fifty years.
Rick Cowan was a young... Read more
Finders Keepers
By: Mark Bowden
Narrated by: Mark Bowden
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Who hasn't dreamed of finding a million dollars?
Joey Coyle was down and out -- the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the streets just blocks... Read more
The Orchid Thief - Abridged
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Orchid Thief is the true story of John Laroche, an obsessed Florida plant dealer willing to go to any lengths to steal rare and protected wild orchids and clone them, all for a tidy profit. But the morality of Laroche's actions do not drive the narrative of Orlean's strange, compelling, and hilarious book. She is much more interested in the... Read more
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Over the Edge - Abridged
By: Greg Child
Narrated by: Aramand Schultz
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the... Read more
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Every Breath You Take - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
America’s #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim’s desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller.
“If anything ever happens to me…find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.”
In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of... Read more
Shot in the Heart - Abridged
By: Mikal Gilmore
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer... Read more
The Other Side of the River - Abridged
By: Alex Kotlowitz
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, was a made-for-television movie starring and produced by... Read more
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HOMICIDE - Abridged
By: David Simon
Narrated by: Reed Diamond
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of... Read more
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The Sword and the Shield - Abridged
By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Sword and the Shield is a compellingand historically significantnarrative destined to cast new light on the Soviet era. Read more
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And Never Let Her Go - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Melissa Leo
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful—but ultimately deadly—lover.
The author of fifteen New York Times national bestsellers, Ann Rule, a former... Read more