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Jornalismo - Abridged
By: José de Alencar
Narrated by: Tiago Torres
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
O leitor – sobretudo o carioca – há de se surpreender com o bairro de Botafogo que aparece nessas duas crônicas extraídas do livro "Ao correr da pena", de José Alencar. Numa crítica à imprensa do Brasil Império, o autor ironiza o jornalista "chorão", pra então nos fazer rir com a "arte de chorar" que descreve. Seguindo na análise bem humorada da... Read more
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Política - Abridged
By: José de Alencar
Narrated by: Tiago Torres
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Em vez de examinarem-se as necessidades do país, examinam-se as necessidades deste ou daquele indivíduo, nomeiam-no para um bom emprego criado sem utilidade pública, e o país se incumbe de alimentá-lo por uma boa porção de anos." Eis o tom da crítica à política – atualíssima! – nessa crônica do livro "Ao correr da pena", de José Alencar. Read more
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Cativos na província de Santa Cruz - Abridged
By: Pero de Magalhães Gândavo
Narrated by: Yuri Ribeiro
Length: 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nesta seleção de textos do livro "História da província de Santa Cruz", Pero de Magalhães Gandavo oferece ao leitor uma amostra da crueldade com que os índios tratavam os inimigos capturados, com ênfase no canibalismo. Descritos com detalhes, os rituais surpreendes pelos requintes, como, por exemplo, a defumação de pernas e braços, para serem... Read more
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Vauhko jumalolento – Kertomus vedestä
By: Ismo Karhu
Narrated by: Mikko Toiviainen
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Ihminen – tai juuri mikään elävä – ei selviäisi ilman vettä. Silti ajattelemme vettä hyvin vähän. Kokemuksemme vedestä rajoittuvat kodin vesipisteelle, sateeseen ja järvessä uimiseen. Suurin osa ihmisen ja veden välisestä vuorovaikutuksesta jää huomaamatta.Ismo Karhun Vauhko jumalolento – Kertomus vedestä keskittyy ihmisen ja veden kiehtovaan... Read more
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Same Ground
By: Russell Wangersky
Narrated by: Jeff Sinasac
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“Read him.” — George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky’s great-great-grandfather crossed the continent in search of gold in 1849. William Castle Dodge was his name, and... Read more
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Who Murdered Diana?
By: Stephen B Ubaney
Narrated by: Stephen B Ubaney
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
Wanna know who murdered Diana? Volume 4 of the Who Murdered? book series is one of the most extensively researched and most unique books on Princess Diana’s death ever published. This investigative masterpiece was created at the expense of 3981 hours of research, investigation, and production labor.
For the first time, a one of a kind,... Read more
Time for the world to learn from Africa
By: Ruth Finnegan
Narrated by: Graham Mack
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights - and more. Here an acclaimed African scholar steps into the gap with a prize... Read more
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Operation Fortitude: The History of the Deception Campaign that Confused the Nazis Ahead of the Normandy Landings
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
During the first half of 1944, the Americans and British commenced a massive buildup of men and resources in the United Kingdom, while Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower and military brass planned the details of an enormous and complex amphibious invasion of Europe. The most obvious place for an invasion was just across the narrow... Read more
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad
By: Iain MacGregor
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling, vivid, and “compelling” (Wall Street Journal) account of the epic siege during one of World War II’s most important battles, told by the brilliant British editor-turned-historian and author of Checkpoint Charlie.
To the Soviet Union, the sacrifices that enabled the country to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II were sacrosanct. The... Read more
A Message from Ukraine
By: Volodymyr Zelensky
Narrated by: Greg Kolpakchi
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent call to arms from Time’s Person of the Year, the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnight into a global beacon of democracy
The words of a man. The message of a people.
Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful... Read more
Duel of Eagles
By: Peter Townsend
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 20 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In May 1940, Group Captain Peter Townsend took command of 85 Squadron, tasked with preparing it for the defense of Great Britain against German bombers.
It was the beginning of the long, hot, lethal summer in which the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought to the death over England in the furious conflict which ultimately saved Britain from Nazi... Read more
In My Father's House
By: Corrie Ten Boom
Narrated by: Dini Steyn
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of Corrie's life with her mother, her father, her siblings, and her aunts before World War II began. This book is a testament to how God prepared one family through a father's faithfulness to his Savior and the Word of God for the most sacrificial service a family could do. Beginning in the years before Corrie was born, In My... Read more
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Mysterious Chicago
By: Adam Selzer
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A historian shares strange-but-true stories of the city and its unsolved mysteries, from the nineteenth century to today.
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City's quirks and oddities, comes a compelling anthology of forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to the modern day. Among many other topics, he explores what... Read more
African American Slave Medicine
By: Herbert C. Covey
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal,... Read more
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Immigration
By: Hasia R. Diner & Carl J. Bon Tempo
Narrated by: Kathleen Li
Length: 14 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present
The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the... Read more
New York Jew
By: Alfred Kazin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more
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The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition)
By: Rick Atkinson
Narrated by: Matt Haynes
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
How did the United States become the country it is today? What led to its creation?
Adapted from Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson’s deeply researched and stunningly vivid The British Are Coming, the young readers edition explores these questions and so much more as it delves into the American Revolution. A collection of key battles from the... Read more
The Reconstruction of Nations
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Rich Miller
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of... Read more
The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat
By: Austin J. Bell
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Excavated from a waterlogged archaeological site on the shores of subtropical Florida by legendary anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1896, the Key Marco Cat has become a modern icon of heritage, history, and local identity. This book takes listeners into the deep past of the artifact and the Native American society in which it was... Read more
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Indigenous Continent
By: Pekka Hamalainen
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 18 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists... Read more
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Demetrius
By: James Romm
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again
The life of Demetrius (337–283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323–282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no monarch able to take... Read more
Hurricane Jim Crow
By: Caroline Grego
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane's long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental... Read more
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Forever on the Mountain
By: James M. Tabor
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing... Read more
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Dark Carnivals
By: W. Scott Poole
Narrated by: Enrique McGavin
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power
The American empire emerged from the shadows of World War II. As the nation's influence swept the globe with near impunity, a host of evil forces followed—from racism, exploitation, and military invasion to killer... Read more