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Alien Nation
By: Sofija Stefanovic
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Feodor Chin
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what it’s like to be an immigrant in America.
America would not be America without its immigrants. This anthology, adapted from storytelling... Read more
Dorothy Dandridge
By: Donald Bogle
Narrated by: Donald Bogle & Matthew J. Turner
Length: 26 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer—the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award—who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement—a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. “An ambitious, rigorously researched... Read more
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Oscar Wilde
By: Matthew Sturgis
Narrated by: John Pirkis
Length: 34 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that... Read more
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To Rescue the Republic
By: Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney
Narrated by: Bret Baier
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant ""To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book."" —Douglas BrinkleyAn epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil... Read more
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Unearthing The Secret Garden
By: Marta McDowell
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
“McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world’s most famous authors.”—Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and... Read more
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Surviving the Island of Grace
By: Leslie Leyland Fields
Narrated by: Leslie Leyland Fields
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring memoir of one woman's life on the far edge of America and her struggle to find home amid the isolation, work, risk and beauty of the Alaskan wilderness. Read more
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Known and Strange Things
By: Teju Cole
Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and... Read more
The Night the Lights Went Out
By: Drew Magary
Narrated by: Drew Magary, Cassandra Campbell, Joseph Castill...
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury—from the acclaimed author of The Hike
“Drew Magary has produced a remarkable account of his journey, one that is filled with terror, tenderness, beauty, and grace.”—David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower... Read more
Shoutin' in the Fire
By: Danté Stewart
Narrated by: Danté Stewart
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world
“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets
In... Read more
Flesh & Blood
By: N. West Moss
Narrated by: Erin Spencer
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Honest, warm, and witty, this memoir reads like a chat with a dear friend sharing her insight and taking us along as she heals. Complete with family stories over cocktails and a praying mantis named Claude.
“I drive and say to myself, if I am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die.” When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding... Read more
All of the Marvels
By: Douglas Wolk
Narrated by: Douglas Wolk
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+... Read more
Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds
By: Mondiant Dogon
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 by Kirkus • A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection • Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
A stunning and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate... Read more
Capote's Women
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS—THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK—NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU!
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour,... Read more
Set the Night on Fire
By: Robby Krieger
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll.
Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has... Read more
I Dream He Talks to Me
By: Allison Moorer
Narrated by: Allison Moorer
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From a Grammy-nominated musician comes a lyrical testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, who has nonverbal autism. When Allison’s son, John Henry, stopped using his growing vocabulary just before his second birthday, she knew in her bones that something was shifting. In the years since his autism diagnosis,... Read more
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The Gilded Edge
By: Catherine Prendergast
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.”—Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of The Butchering Art
Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthquake-ravaged San Francisco and the Monterey... Read more
Churchill's Shadow
By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 23 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British... Read more
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Washington at the Plow
By: Bruce A. Ragsdale
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture.
Washington at the Plow depicts the "first farmer of America" as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in... Read more
Why Some Animals Eat Their Young
By: Dallas Louis
Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When Dallas Louis decided that all she wanted was to meet and marry her Prince Charming and become a mom, she had no idea what was in store for her. But she would soon find out. After only seven months of dating the love of her life, she married him, and within the course of twenty-six months, she gave birth to three children. Her husband knew... Read more
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My Body Is A Big Fat Temple
By: Alena Dillon
Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally... Read more
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Centered
By: Anthony Ianni & Rob Keast
Narrated by: Anthony Ianni
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of." Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play... Read more
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The Light Streamed Beneath It
By: Shawn Hitchins
Narrated by: Shawn Hitchins
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A Publishers Weekly Notable Book
49th Shelf Recommended Read
A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page.
“This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery — raw, candid, and filled with a sense of awe at human resilience.” — Shelf Awareness
“A timely story so human,... Read more
William Conrad - Abridged
By: Charles Tranberg
Narrated by: Nat Segaloff
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
William Conrad (1920–1994) was one of the most prolific and recognizable voices of the golden age of radio drama on such programs as The Whistler, Escape, Suspense, Favorite Story, Lux Radio Theater, and many others, but it was his performance as Marshal Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke that made him a radio institution. In addition... Read more
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Did Not Try
By: George Mahood
Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
After signing his wife Rachel up for her first marathon without her knowledge and living to tell the tale, George is now struggling to keep up with her. He risks her wrath once again by entering her into a half-Ironman triathlon against her will: a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and a 13.1-mile run.Did Not Try sees George and Rachel travel to... Read more
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