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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
View audiobookWork Won't Love You Back
By: Sarah Jaffe
Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more
Gay Bar
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of history. In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay... Read more
View audiobookOur Hideous Progeny
By: C.E. McGill
Narrated by: Florence Howard
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“A gripping Gothic tale of grief and ambition, passion and intrigue.” — Jess Kidd, author of The Night Ship“An immersive blend of historical and science fiction brims with surprises and dark delights. . . . An incisive exploration of women’s rights within the field of science. . . . Readers will revel in Mary’s personal and scientific... Read more
View audiobookAdministrations of Lunacy
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
View audiobookPockets
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
Empress of the Nile
By: Lynne Olson
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
“A female version of the Indiana Jones story . . . [Christiane... Read more
Power and Progress
By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world
A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of... Read more
The Day the World Came to Town
By: Jim DeFede
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded... Read more
View audiobookMythology
By: Edith Hamilton
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... Read more
View audiobookGreat and Horrible News
By: Blessin Adams
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but... Read more
View audiobookThe Universe
By: Andrew Cohen
Narrated by: Brian Cox & Jot Davies
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now... Read more
View audiobookThe Woman Who Smashed Codes
By: Jason Fagone
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her... Read more
View audiobookJubilee
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
View audiobookTears Over Russia
By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more
View audiobookFighting For YES! (Audio Descriptive)
By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Judith Heumann
Narrated by: Ali Stroker & Judith Heumann
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing “NO.” In the 1970s, an important disability rights law, Section 504 of The... Read more
View audiobookThe Enlightenment
By: Ritchie Robertson
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 40 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance,... Read more
The Story of the Saxophone
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how... Read more
View audiobookSo Fetch
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of the most iconic teen comedies of all time, Mean Girls, revealing how it happened, how it defined a generation, “like, invented” meme culture, and why it just won’t go away, filled with exclusive interviews from the director, cast, and crew. Get in,... Read more
View audiobookThe Glass Universe
By: Dava Sobel
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday
Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson... Read more
The Bishop and the Butterfly
By: Michael Wolraich
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else—a letter from an... Read more
View audiobookA Brilliant Life
By: Rachelle Unreich
Narrated by: Rachel Griffiths
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Ships from Hamburg
By: Steven Ujifusa
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in the early years of the twentieth century, and the men who made it possible.Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed... Read more
View audiobookDear Jacob
By: Patty Wetterling & Joy Baker
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy’s remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob, told by his mother, Patty. With down-to-earth candor, she details the... Read more
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