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Howard Hughes
By: Peter Harry Brown & Pat H. Broeske
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 18 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.
Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea... Read more
Rosa Parks
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King Jr. into the... Read more
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Herman Melville
By: Elizabeth Hardwick
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging shape of his life . . . a story of the creative... Read more
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Microsoft First Generation
By: Cheryl Tsang
Narrated by: Mary Woods
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a story with all the ingredients of a modern legend, representing nothing less than the proverbial American Dream—writ extra-large. It is a story of hard work, brilliance, and extraordinary commitment, featuring the story’s original cast members, who could not possibly have foreseen the unprecedented success that awaited them: the... Read more
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What If...? Vol 3 - Abridged
By: Robert Cowley
Narrated by: Murphy Guyer
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising,... Read more
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The Endurance - Abridged
By: Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Martin Ruben & Michael Tezla
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. They came with in eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the... Read more
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Harry Hoxsey, Healer Before His Time
By: Kenny Ausubel
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Kenny Ausubel presents cutting edge data about an unsung hero: Harry Hoxsey, who was an ex-coal miner who claimed a cure for cancer back in 1924, using herbal remedies inherited from his great grandfather. Read more
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Anton Chekhov
By: Donald Rayfield
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 28 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Anton Chekhov’s life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature, but Donald Rayfield’s biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here... Read more
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Woodrow Wilson
By: Louis Auchincloss
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Woodrow Wilson sheds new light on Wilson’s upbringing and career and shows the grim determination that carried him to the presidency just before World War I. From the dynamic figure whose ringing speeches hypnotized vast crowds, to the gentle voice reading poetry to his children, to the rising academic and president of Princeton who made the... Read more
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Joan of Arc
By: Mary Gordon
Narrated by: Mari Devon
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the king of France, only... Read more
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Papa Bravo Romeo - Abridged
By: Wynn Goldsmith
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Our mission was independent, no-holds-barred combat against a stubborn enemy in the enemy's backyard."
In Vietnam, river warfare was often conducted in the dark. It was always dangerous, sometimes fatal--especially in the eastern end of the Cong-plagued Mekong Delta. In 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Wynn Goldsmith was the "river rat" who... Read more
The Sword and the Shield - Abridged
By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Sword and the Shield is a compellingand historically significantnarrative destined to cast new light on the Soviet era. Read more
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Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 1
By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum
Narrated by: Yossef Brami
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.Onkelos - Le miroir aux richesses - Les héritiers - Le Cadi de Mogador - Le petit grand-père Read more
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Mao Zedong
By: Jonathan Spence
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in rural China in 1893, Mao Zedong led his country through "a long-drawn-out adventure in upheaval." In the process, he became one of the monumental figures of the twentieth century. He died in 1976, just as China was entering a détente with the United States. This excellent biography illuminates Mao's family life, his early years as a... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more
WWII Airmen
By: Multiple Authors
Narrated by: Various
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
These amazing accounts of airmen recorded during the war include stories of air combat, music of the time, and recordings made on bomb runs over Europe and Japan.
Eagles over Europe: (1) Introduction; (2) AAF Intro; (3) Bomb run over Germany, A-26; (4) Lt. Gilman, AT-9 Trainer; (5) Lt. Anderson, AT-7 Trainer; (6) Jack the Ripper air raid; (7)... Read more
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: George Vafiadis
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"...well orated by reader George Vafiadis. The language and sentiment are not as outmoded as some listeners might expect and it definitely feels patriotic to hear again the fundamentals of America's beginnings." - - Kliatt Magazine
George Washington wrote, "I find that Common Sense is working a powerful change there (Virginia) in the minds... Read more
King of Hearts
By: G. Wayne Miller
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the advent of open heart surgery, yet, until now, no one has brought to life all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph. G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed the amazing true story of how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt... Read more
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Endurance - Abridged
By: Alfred Lansing
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance—just a day's sail short of its destination—became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history. For ten... Read more
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Days of Infamy: Military Blunders of the 20th Century
By: Michael Coffey
Narrated by: Robert Abia
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating look behind more than fifty of the most historic military blunders of our century. Lively and engaging, in-depth and informative, this companion to an upcoming series on the History Channel goes beyond mere footage to delve into the facts of some well-remembered but little understood incidents and accidents of modern military history. Read more
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James Joyce
By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Ireland's best current novelists provides a thumbnail sketch of Ireland's greatest writer. A passionate and sensuous portrait, James Joyce is a return to the land of politics, history, saints, and scholars that shaped the creator of the twentieth century's groundbreaking novel Ulysses. O'Brien traces Joyce's early days as a rambunctious... Read more
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Charles Turner
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, and would die a slave. But as he grew up, Douglass determined that he would teach himself to read and write, and that one day he would be free from slavery. In 1832, Douglass was sent to a plantation in St.... Read more
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The Kissinger Transcripts - Abridged
By: William Burr & Richard Gilliland
Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial Secretaries of State in U.S. history— serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, never-before-seen transcripts of Kissinger's conversations, including top-secret talks with Beijing and Moscow, provide an unvarnished record of his... Read more
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The Greatest Speeches of All Time
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
More than 40 speeches—considered among the greatest of all time—comprise this marvelous collection. All the works are unabridged, and the most contemporary are live recordings, from political figures such as Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy to Civil Rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X—from sports... Read more
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