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Bet on Black
By: Eboni K. Williams
Narrated by: Eboni K. Williams
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success.
When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13 years on the air, attorney, speaker, and journalist... Read more
Princess Margaret
By: Christopher Warwick
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Princess Margaret was one of the most controversial royal figures of the twentieth century. Widely admired as a young woman, she was famous for her beauty and charisma, but also for her sense of loyalty and duty. The charismatic Princess not only brought color and sex appeal into an otherwise colorless royal family, but did much to help bring... Read more
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Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries, it is 1989, and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris,... Read more
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Stalin's Architect
By: Deyan Sudjic
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan, state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan's story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power. A gifted designer and a committed Communist, Iofan became the Soviet Union's most celebrated architect after Alexei Rykov,... Read more
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KGB Man
By: Cecil Kuhne
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union's most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s . . . . until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel's espionage work, his dramatic... Read more
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Wovoka: The Life and Legacy of the Prophet of the Ghost Dance Movement
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Wovoka (1867-1932), the Ghost Dance Prophet, was a member of the Walker River band of Paiutes, in western Nevada. The Walker River Reservation was established in 1859 and was Wokova’s home off and on for years. Wovoka was also known as Jack Wilson, a name he acquired while he was, for some years, employed on the David Wilson family ranch in the... Read more
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Hiding in Plain Sight
By: Pieter van Os
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her... Read more
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Queer Career
By: Margot Canaday
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow provides a masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an... Read more
Finding Jackie
By: Oline Eaton
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, ideal American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first of the modern First Ladies. Then her husband was murdered, changing her world and ours.Traumatized and exposed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an... Read more
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Jim Bridger
By: Jerry Enzler
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this... Read more
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The Need for an Evolutionary Movement in Politics
By: Stephen Dinan
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Dinan encourages us to ground ourselves in the deeper values that unite us such as liberty, equality, and justice for all - which are bedrock principles of the United States. He says we must take on the spirit of nonviolent evolutionaries as we hold a vision of possibility rather than one of opposition. Read more
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Dammed
By: Brittany Luby
Narrated by: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating... Read more
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The Division of the Roman Empire: The History of the Conflicts that Split the Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire in the 4th Century
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Steve Knupp
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Rome’s Imperial Crisis has been difficult for historians to summarize, which is why, despite being one of the most intriguing periods in Roman history, it is often overlooked by people who have chosen to focus on the more cohesive periods before and after it. Even though he is best remembered for his religious reforms and what his (mostly... Read more
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Operation Typhoon: The History of the Fight for Moscow between the Nazis and Soviets
By: Phaistos Publishers
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
After the Fall of France and the unsatisfactory Battle of Britain came to a close, Hitler turned to the east and issued Führer Directive 21, his secret order for the invasion of the Soviet Union, on 18 December 1940. Prior to this the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression agreement, had enabled the two countries to divide the spoils after... Read more
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Davy Crockett Speaks
By: David Crockett
Narrated by: Chris Wright
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The subject of stage plays, books, movies and one of the most popular television series of all time (with a theme song that millions of Americans can instantly sing along with from the very first word), he really was the King of the Wild Frontier. And he was so much more. Davy Crockett remains one of the most iconic Americans of any era. But who... Read more
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Race in the Crucible of War
By: Gerald F. Goodwin
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable.
In Race... Read more
The Essential Austrian Economics (Essential Scholars)
By: Christopher J. Coyne & Peter J. Boettke
Narrated by: Charity Spencer
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The origin of the Austrian School of economics is the publication of Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics in 1871. Menger, William Stanley Jevons, and Léon Walras are considered the co-founders of the “marginal revolution” in economics, a shift to the marginal utility theory of value from the labour theory of value. The revolutionists argued... Read more
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British Cinema
By: Charles Barr
Narrated by: Kevin E. Green
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the twentieth century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial—often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers.
In this Very Short Introduction,... Read more
Meditaciones de cine
By: Quentin Tarantino
Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Llega el esperado y ansiado primer libro de no ficción de Quentin Tarantino. Su libro más personal: un viaje íntimo por sus películas favoritas, relatado con una voz inconfundible. «La crítica cinematográfica de Tarantino [es] tan rotunda, inteligente y asombrosa como sus películas». The New York Times«Se antoja difícil que haya un mejor libro... Read more
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Christopher Columbus
By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
It was completely dark. The only things visible now were the two small beacon fires on the Pinta and the Nina. Christopher was glad the two fires calmed his, too. Their glow reminded him that the Santa Maria was not alone on the vast, uncharted Ocean Sea. The three ships would sail together into the unknown.
Buoyant and determined, and having at... Read more
The Essential Adam Smith (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
Narrated by: Michael Lenz
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as economics, and he is widely credited as the founding father of what is now known as capitalism. Smith’s 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, is often cited as the beginning of both economics and capitalism, and its... Read more
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John Newton
By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
John Newton's life was in a downward spiral. Impressed into the Royal Navy, John clashed with his fellow seamen and even became a servant alongside slaves in West Africa. When he found himself on a sinking ship, he called out to God for help. John began his conversion to Christianity while he captained a slave ship. Eventually he gave up his... Read more
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Entre Este y Oeste
By: Anne Applebaum
Narrated by: Indhira Serrano
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Una lectura imprescindible para descifrar los orígenes de la guerra en Ucrania y la frágil situación de Europa del Este. En el otoño de 1991, en plena desintegración del imperio soviético, Anne Applebaum -ganadora del Premio Pulitzer por Gulag. Historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos- emprendió un viaje desde el Báltico hasta el mar... Read more
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Benjamin Franklin
By: Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
As Ben experimented, people peppered him with questions about electricity. Distracted, Ben was still holding the ends of two bare wires when the other ends touched the Leyden jars. A massive charge knocked him to the ground. When he clambered to his feet, he had to admit that his guests appeared to have enjoyed watching him get... Read more
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