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Albanian Assignment
By: David Smiley
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Albanian Assignment is one of the finest special forces memoirs to come out of the Second World War. Listeners of Damien Lewis, Ben Macintyre, and Patrick Leigh Fermor will be enthralled by this book.
In 1940 Winston Churchill established the Special Operations Executive to "set Europe ablaze."
Three years later David Smiley and Billy McLean... Read more
Fist Stick Knife Gun
By: Geoffrey Canada
Narrated by: Bill Quinn
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner.
Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances,... Read more
Hawking Hawking
By: Charles Seife
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person.
He was neither.
In Hawking Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's greatest genius. Hawking spent his career grappling with deep questions in physics, but his renown... Read more
My Olympic Journey
By: Digvijay Singh Deo & Amit Bose
Narrated by: Tavish Bhattacharyya & Meher Acharia Dar
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Chronicling the stories of fifty of India's leading Olympians for the first time ever in one comprehensive edition, Digvijay Singh Deo and Amit Bose bring you the Games through the eyes of some of the best sportspersons in the country. These first-person accounts of Olympic medallists from 1948 till 2012, such as Balbir Singh, Leander... Read more
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Nurturing Healing Love
By: Scarlett Lewis & Natasha Stoynoff
Narrated by: Scarlett Lewis
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
On December 14, 2012, Scarlett Lewis experienced something that no parent should ever have to endure: she lost her son Jesse in an act of unimaginable violence. The day started just like any other, but when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett's life changed forever. However, this isn't a story about a massacre. It's a... Read more
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Life in the Uniform
By: Amit Lodha
Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Amit Lodha is a decorated IPS officer holding the rank of inspector general. But before he rose the ranks in the service, he was an IIT graduate who was struggling to find his true purpose. In this book, Lodha tells us how he turned his life around and studied for the UPSC exams. He also tells us how he trained to be an officer and had... Read more
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Winter Pasture
By: Li Juan
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their thirty boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the... Read more
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Resolved
By: Ban Ki-moon
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. The six-year-old boy fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant... Read more
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This Will All Be Over Soon
By: Cecily Strong
Narrated by: Cecily Strong
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin—and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her—amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain... Read more
The Last Sovereigns
By: Robert M. Utley
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux's historical territories that were sacred to him and his people.
Robert M. Utley... Read more
A Companion to Martin Scorsese, Revised Edition
By: Aaron Baker
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 21 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers.
● Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches
● Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most... Read more
Baby Love
By: Rebecca Walker
Narrated by: Rebecca Walker
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a "wonderfully insightful" (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade.
Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed for a baby but feared losing... Read more
Harlow in Hollywood
By: Darrell Rooney & Mark A. Vieira
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
At last, the story of how Hollywood shaped a myth and determined a young woman's reality.
A town, a remarkable town, became the backdrop for one of Hollywood's most incredible stories, a life rife with glamour, pleasure, power, and—in the end—utter sorrow. When Jean Harlow became the Blonde Bombshell, it was all Hollywood's doing. She was the... Read more
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
By: Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes & Matthew Denhart
Narrated by: Terence Aselford
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past … to America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge.Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and... Read more
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Munch
By: Chiara Rebutto
Narrated by: Librinpillole
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Edvard Munch, l'introspettivo espressionista, viene principalmente associato al celebre dipinto "L'urlo". Ma dietro questo capolavoro di fama mondiale si celano un passato fatto di privazioni e povertà, la tragica morte di sua madre e sua sorella, la depressione, una vita dedicata alla pittura e il riscatto ottenuto a Berlino. Edvard, al centro... Read more
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Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 17 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Known as an actor-manager, Sir Henry Irving (1838–1905) took complete responsibility for season after season at London’s Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theater. Beginning in 1878, author Bram Stoker worked for Irving as a business manager at the Lyceum for much of Irving’s career.... Read more
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The Fun of It
By: Amelia Earhart
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Amelia Earhart’s autobiographical book The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation covers Earhart’s life through May 20–21, 1932, “when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the... Read more
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Breathe
By: Rickson Gracie & Peter Maguire
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie’s stunning career with the larger history of the Gracie family dynasty and the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, showing how the connection between mind and body can be harnessed for success... Read more
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Black White and Jewish
By: Rebecca Walker
Narrated by: Rebecca Walker
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw this unusual copper-colored girl as an outrage or an oddity; others viewed her as a symbol of harmony, a triumph of love over hate. But after her parents divorced, leaving her a lonely only child... Read more
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The Arbornaut
By: Meg Lowman
Narrated by: Christina Delaine, Meg Lowman & Sylvia A. Earle
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a preface read by Meg Lowman and a foreword written and read by Sylvia Earle.
Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “CanopyMeg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent” of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and... Read more
Memories from the Microphone
By: Curt Smith
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this second in a series of Baseball Hall of Fame books, celebrate the larger-than-life role played by radio and TV announcers in enhancing the pleasure of our national pastime.
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of baseball broadcasting. The first baseball game ever broadcast on radio was on August 5, 1921, by Harold Wampler Arlin, a... Read more
The Vanished World of Robert Youngson - Abridged
By: Jim Manago
Narrated by: Nat Segaloff
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Writer-Producer Robert Youngson’s seminal compilation documentaries of silent comedy in the 1960s inspired a Renaissance in the legacies of Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, and, above all, Laurel and Hardy as well as other comedians from movies of the teens and twenties. Youngson died young, but his widow, Jeanne, tells author Manago about her late... Read more
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The Immortals
By: Steven T. Collis
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Just past midnight, on February 3, just hours from their destination, the Dorchester was torpedoed and sank, throwing its passengers into the frigid waters and creating the worst single loss of an American personnel convoy during WWII. Many of the survivors credit the four chaplains with saving their lives. Those chaplains would become known as... Read more
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Steine im Rucksack
By: Ferdinand Saalbach
Narrated by: Ferdinand Saalbach
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Viele Menschen fühlen sich im Alltag getrieben, sind unglücklich oder unzufrieden mit ihrem Leben oder mit ihrer Umwelt, werden schnell wütend, greifen andere an oder versinken in Trauer und Melancholie. Viele halten das für normal. So wie Ferdinand Saalbach es lange Zeit für normal gehalten hatte, dass er jahrelang augenscheinlich erfolgreich... Read more
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