In Hiding (English Translation)
By: Marguerite Élias Quddus
Narrated by: Theresa Tova
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Goodbye my children! When you leave, don't look back…”
With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents,... Read more
Three Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson
Narrated by: William Hope
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by William Hope examines how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss and changed the course of American thought
In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how... Read more
Escape from the Edge
By: Morris Schnitzer
Narrated by: Jake Epstein, Naomi Azrieli & Bob Moore
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp echoing in his mind, Morris resolves to fight — and... Read more
View audiobookIsaac Newton
By: Mitch Stokes
Narrated by: Michael Haney
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Mitch Stokes explores the life of Isaac Newton, the man behind the atomic theory.As an inventor, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher, Isaac Newton forever changed the way we see and understand the world. At one point, he was the world’s leading authority in mathematics, optics, and alchemy.... Read more
View audiobookA Cry in Unison
By: Judy Cohen
Narrated by: Judy Cohen, Naomi Azrieli & Karin Doerr
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies... Read more
View audiobookFrom the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
By: A.B. Chitty & Priscilla Murolo
Narrated by: Holly Adams
Length: 23 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book... Read more
View audiobookEverything Is Possible
By: Joseph Fronczak
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today
In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how... Read more
Flights of Spirit
By: Elly Gotz
Narrated by: Elly Gotz, Naomi Azrieli & Rami Neudorfer
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no... Read more
View audiobookHistory of the United States of America, Volume II
By: George Bancroft
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 23 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume 2 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US history series in six volumes. “Author’s Last Revision” 1883 by D. Appleton and Company.Bancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy... Read more
View audiobookMemories in Focus
By: Pinchas Gutter
Narrated by: Pinchas Gutter, Naomi Azrieli & Stephen Smith
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his... Read more
View audiobookStruggle and Mutual Aid
By: Nicolas Delalande
Narrated by: Chris Abell
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the... Read more
View audiobookEgyptomania
By: Bob Brier, PhD
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The world has always been fascinated with ancient Egypt. When the Romans conquered Egypt, it was really Egypt that conquered the Romans. Cleopatra captivated both Caesar and Marc Antony and soon Roman ladies were worshipping Isis and wearing vials of Nile water around their necks. What is it about ancient Egypt that breeds such obsession and... Read more
View audiobookWindfall
By: Erika Bolstad
Narrated by: Marni Penning
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more: their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land?and oil... Read more
View audiobookThe Southern Way of Life
By: Charles Reagan Wilson
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Length: 24 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three... Read more
View audiobookJews and Booze
By: Michael Levin
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
We Jews wrongly believe we're immune to alcoholism and addiction—instead, individuals, families, and communities are suffering because of the stigmas surrounding addiction and recovery in the Jewish world.
"Is the 12 step program suitable for Jews? In this book Michael Levin shows with learning, sensitivity and wisdom why the answer is a... Read more
Blunt Instruments
By: Kristin Ann Hass
Narrated by: Nadia Marshall
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future
Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt... Read more
The White Mosque
By: Sofia Samatar
Narrated by: Sofia Samatar
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small... Read more
View audiobookThe Feasts of Israel
By: Chuck Missler
Narrated by: Gordon Russell
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of First Fruits, Feast of Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles The Feasts of Israel, set by God, are not only commemorative in a historical context, but are also prophetic. The first three feasts in the first month point to the Messiah's First Coming; the last three... Read more
View audiobookByzantium
By: Judith Herrin
Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Phyllida Nash, who gives a captivating account of the legendary empire that made the modern Western world possible
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding... Read more
Courtiers
By: Valentine Low
Narrated by: Valentine Low
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next?
Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King or... Read more
What's Gotten Into You
By: Dan Levitt
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we... Read more
View audiobookOn Savage Shores
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
Narrated by: Caroline Dodds Pennock
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492
"On Savage Shores not only changes how we think about the first contact... Read more
Twice as Hard
By: Jasmine Brown
Narrated by: Wanda Rush
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight
No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial... Read more
Versöhnungstheater (Ungekürzt)
By: Max Czollek
Narrated by: Max Czollek
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Max Czolleks legendäre Bücher "Desintegriert Euch!" und "Gegenwartsbewältigung" streuten lustvoll Zweifel an den deutschen Narrativen von Integration bis Leitkultur. Scharf, gewitzt und an jeder Stelle überraschend, schließt Versöhnungstheater diesen Kreis, wenn es nach der aktuellen Erinnerung an die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit fragt. Nach... Read more
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