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The Oracle of Dodona: The History of Ancient Greece’s Oldest Oracle
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: KC Wayman
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In ancient Greece, “no other practice was so universal than the consultation of oracles.” These holy sites were found in 260 locations around the Greek-speaking world, and they were considered the “most satisfactory means of ascertaining the future.” These sanctuaries were “set apart from the profane, ordinary world” and were in the beginning... Read more
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1919 Irish War of Independence
By: Legends of War
Narrated by: Daniel Griffin
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the years after the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland, a new independence movement had emerged, and in 1918-19 the political party Sinn Féin and its paramilitary partner, the Irish Republican Army, began a political struggle and an armed uprising against British rule. By 1922 the United Kingdom had lost a very substantial portion of its... Read more
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1916-1923 Irish Revolution
By: Legends of War
Narrated by: Daniel Griffin
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Irish Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century spawned the creation of the modern Irish state. This is a comprehensive framework of that revolution in its totality, taking into account the broad range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of guerrilla warfare and the British response to... Read more
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The McCartney Legacy
By: Allan Kozinn & Adrian Sinclair
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 29 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician. Informed by hundreds of interviews, extensive ground up research, and thousands... Read more
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People of the Screen
By: John Dyer
Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
People of the Screen traces the history of Bible software development, showing the unique and powerful role evangelical entrepreneurs and coders have played in shaping its functionality and how their choices in turn shape the reading habits of millions of people around the world. Examining advancements in Bible software from the first desktop... Read more
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Wizards
By: Brian Fairbanks
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the... Read more
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Ukraine
By: Serhy Yekelchyk
Narrated by: David Aranovich
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent, Ukraine has become a test case of... Read more
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Socrates
By: Devra Lehmann
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.
Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed... Read more
The Delectable Negro
By: Vincent Woodard
Narrated by: Stan Brown
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to... Read more
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Atomic Bill
By: Vincent Kiernan
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
William L. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic... Read more
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Notorious Royal Marriages
By: Leslie Carroll
Narrated by: Leslie Carroll
Length: 23 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of American Princess: The Love Story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry comes a funny and delightful history of the royal weddings and marriages of Europe’s most famous—and infamous—monarchs.Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love—and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing... Read more
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Like A River To The Sea
By: Jack Grandcolas & Alan Shipnuck
Narrated by: Jack Grandcolas
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The story of heartbreak to triumph in the wake of a tragedy.
Their first date in college was a U2 concert and after that Lauren and Jack Grandcolas were inseparable. He was mesmerized by her sweetness, fierce intelligence and eyes that were as blue and alive as the ocean. They married and settled in San Francisco, each pursuing their dreams in... Read more
Gold, Oil and Avocados
By: Andy Robinson
Narrated by: Andre Bellido
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this "pink tide" go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin... Read more
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Cobalt
By: Charlie Angus
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history.
The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent... Read more
Revolution and Dictatorship
By: Steven Levitsky & Lucan Way
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 17 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of... Read more
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Nordic Lifestyle
By: Susanna Heiskanen
Narrated by: Susanna Heiskanen
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Ever wondered why people in the Nordic countries are said to be the happiest in the world? Nordic Lifestyle has been praised as the antidote to modern day busy-ness.Understand how the Nordics have managed to keep it all together even through hardship and freezing temperatures. Inside Nordic Lifestyle, you will learn:· What makes the... Read more
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Cinema's Original Sin
By: Paul McEwan
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and was defended as both a true history of Reconstruction (although it was based on fiction)... Read more
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1922 Irish Civil War
By: Legends of War
Narrated by: Daniel Griffin
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In late June 1922, growing animosity between Pro and Anti-Treaty factions erupted into armed conflict in the center of Dublin. For the next ten months, the Irish Free State was wracked by a bitter, bloody, and brutal civil war between those who sought to protect the new government and those who wished to destroy it. This is the story of the... Read more
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Orderly and Humane
By: R. M. Douglas
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 20 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning history of twelve million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" (New Republic).
Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The... Read more
The Hidden History of Texas, Volume 1 - 1530 to 1820
By: Hank Wilson
Narrated by: Hank Wilson
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hidden History of Texas, Volume 1 - 1530 to 1820
This is the often-untold story of the history of Texas from when the Spanish first set foot into Texas until they relinquished control to Mexico. This is the story of the original inhabitants of the land and their interactions with both the Europeans they encountered and other indigenous people... Read more
The Mud Flood Hypothesis: The History of the Conspiracy Theory about the Global Empire of Tartaria
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From time to time, a new theory about world history still makes an appearance, particularly interesting when based on a geological reality. A popular notion at present is the existence of a great empire covering the bulk of Asia and Russia until only one hundred years ago that was destroyed and covered up to enable the rise of present nations.... Read more
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 10
By: Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin & Albert Bushnell ...
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Confederation and the Constitution, 1783–1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LLB, Professor of American History at the University of Michigan. 1936 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book A Constitutional History of the United States.Narrated by Joseph TablerVolume 10... Read more
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Three Sisters
By: Celia Clement, Eva Heymann, Judith Kashti & Ale...
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member... Read more
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Leading the Way to Victory
By: Colonel Mark C. Vlahos
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Leading the Way to Victory is the official history of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, featuring unpublished first-person accounts by participating veterans and expertly written by retired USAF Colonel Mark C. Vlahos, combat veteran and former Vice Wing Commander of 314th Airlift Wing at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
The December 7, 1941, surprise... Read more