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A Thread Across the Ocean
By: John Steele Gordon
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable.
But in 1866, the... Read more
Like No Other Time
By: Tom Daschle
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider’s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation’s history.
The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first presidential election to be decided by the... Read more
Darby's Rangers - Abridged
By: William O. Darby
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: Yes
The exciting true story of a legendary leader and the men who fought by his side in World War II, told in his own words
From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to their last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby’s Rangers asked for only one thing in World War II—the chance to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and... Read more
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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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Abridged
By: E. Lynn Harris
Narrated by: E. Lynn Harris
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.
Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and... Read more
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
Producer
By: David Wolper & David Fisher
Narrated by: Mark A. Cross
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the most successful and influential producers in the entertainment industry—responsible for such classics as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and L.A. Confidential—comes a fascinating memoir of life at the very hub of Hollywood. Wolper enjoyed staggering success yet remained street smart, wry, and surprisingly down-to-earth. By combining... Read more
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My Anecdotal Life
By: Carl Reiner
Narrated by: Carl Reiner
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
More than once, friends of Carl Reiner said, “You ought to write those things down.” And at the age of eighty, Carl finally did. In this funny and engaging memoir, Reiner recounts his show business life in short comic takes. After answering an ad for free acting classes, he forsook a budding vocation as a machinist for an acting career. Reiner... Read more
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Horatio's Drive
By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
Narrated by: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns & Tom Hanks
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who... 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
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
True Notebooks
By: Mark Salzman
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years... Read more
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains]... Read more
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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Dry
By: Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past.
"I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha would say, ‘Darren, would you like me to fix you a... Read more
King Cohn
By: Bob Thomas
Narrated by: John Landis
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Harry Cohn was the cofounder and president of Columbia Pictures, which he ran from the 1930s thru 1950s, producing such classics as It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and All the King's Men. Cohn—who abhorred personal publicity—left no writings, made no speeches, and rarely submitted to interviews. Despite this, acclaimed... Read more
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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
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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The Hill Fights - Abridged
By: Edward F. Murphy
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few... Read more
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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
By: E. Lynn Harris
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.
Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and... Read more
In the Presence of My Enemies - Abridged
By: Gracia Burnham
Narrated by: Aimee Lilly
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
2004 ECPA Gold Medallion winner!
Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world watched Gracia Burnham... Read more
The Majesty of the Law - Abridged
By: Sandra Day O'Connor
Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through... Read more
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