Boys Keep Swinging
By: Jake Shears
Narrated by: Jake Shears
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “exhilarating yet poignant account of one boy taking flight” (Shelf Awareness, starred review), one of rock music's most entrancing figures transforms the vividness of his musical world into an unforgettable literary account of overcoming the odds and finding his true voice.
Long before hitting the stage as the lead singer of the iconic... Read more
From Broken Glass
By: Steve Ross
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and... Read more
Saving Central Park
By: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in... Read more
Nam-Sense
By: Arthur Wiknik, Jr.
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view . . .
Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was a nineteen-year-old kid from New England when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968. After completing various NCO training programs, he was promoted to... Read more
The Trials of Nina McCall
By: Scott W. Stern
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality—and how they fought back—told through the lens of one of its survivors
“A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and... Read more
The Last Cowboys
By: John Branch
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping portrait of one western family struggling to hold on to age-old American waysNew York Times reporter and bestselling author John Branch takes listeners to the magnificent red soil and rocky arroyos of southern Utah, where the Wright family of Smith Mesa have for generations raised cattle and... Read more
View audiobookThe Beauty Suit
By: Lauren Shields
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
A young feminist finds herself questioning why “hotness” has become necessary for female empowerment—and looks for alternatives.
Looking good feels good. But in a society where looking good is posited as being strong, while negotiating for better pay is statistically proven to damage our careers, is it fair to say that wicked eyeliner, weekly... Read more
Under Their Wings
By: Patty Lou Hawks
Narrated by: Patty Lou Hawks
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Take an epic journey based on the true-life story of a Girl Scout troop leader and her daughter. As one of the Girl Scouts’ most successful troop leaders, the author guides you through inspirational life stories about an amazing group of young women. She lends meaning to real character development, shares how growing pains can create powerful... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Values
By: Robert F. Kennedy
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. This powerful book combines the best aspects of memoir and political history. The third child of... Read more
View audiobookButterfly
By: Yusra Mardini
Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Butterfly is an inspiring audiobook about how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning—and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer.
When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat's engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with other refugees, there was no hesitation: she dove into the water. Surfacing, she... Read more
A Tiger among Us
By: Bennie G. Adkins & Katie Lamar Jackson
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from Nebraska
Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among... Read more
I Love Capitalism!
By: Ken Langone
Narrated by: Ken Langone
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller
Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.
Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades, he's a co-founder of Home... Read more
We All Scream
By: Andrew Gifford
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than seventy years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. But behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide. As the last Gifford heir... Read more
View audiobookWhen the Center Held
By: Donald Rumsfeld
Narrated by: Danny Campbell & Donald Rumsfeld
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.
In the wake of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it seemed the United States was coming... Read more
Touching the Dragon
By: James Hatch & Christian D'Andrea
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & James Hatch
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine.”
—Anderson Cooper
“Irresistible. . . . A wounded SEAL’s shame becomes a salvation.”
—J. Ford Huffman, Military Times
James Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler. On his fateful final mission in Afghanistan, his SEAL team... Read more
I'm Keith Hernandez
By: Keith Hernandez
Narrated by: Keith Hernandez
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Legendary first baseman Keith Hernandez tells all in this gripping literary memoir and New York Times bestseller.
Keith Hernandez revolutionized the role of first baseman. During his illustrious career with the World Series-winning St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets, he was a perennial fan favorite, earning eleven consecutive Gold Gloves, a... Read more
War on the Run
By: John F. Ross
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in... Read more
View audiobookTip of the Iceberg
By: Mark Adams
Narrated by: Mark Adams
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
**The National Bestseller**
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America's last frontier
In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury "floating... Read more
Three Days in Moscow
By: Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney
Narrated by: Bret Baier
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. "An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay WinikMoscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for... Read more
View audiobookLetters to My Palestinian Neighbor
By: Yossi Klein Halevi
Narrated by: Yossi Klein Halevi
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli... Read more
View audiobookRobin
By: Dave Itzkoff
Narrated by: Dave Itzkoff & Fred Berman
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author.
From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, comes the definitive audiobook biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers.
From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy... Read more
Left for Dead
By: Beck Weathers
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him. Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared,... Read more
View audiobookWilliam Howard Taft
By: Jeffrey Rosen
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United States. But despite his ambivalence about politics, the former federal judge found success in the executive branch as governor of the Philippines and secretary of war, and he won a resounding victory in the presidential election of 1908... Read more
View audiobookBrothers of the Gun
By: Marwan Hisham & Molly Crabapple
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom.
In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends—fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq—joined the first protests of the... Read more