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Pride of a Nation
By: Gwendolyn Oxenham
Narrated by: Gwendolyn Oxenham & Julie Foudy
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The first official history of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, celebrating nearly four decades of the team's athletic excellence and cultural impact
Telling the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team's story in expert prose, Pride of a Nation is a lavish tribute to one of the most beloved teams in sports, revisiting their historic four World Cup... Read more
Banvard's Folly, Revised Edition
By: Paul Collins
Narrated by: Tim Getman
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of... Read more
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Princess Margaret
By: Helen Cathcart
Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A compelling biography of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
Loyal sister and friend to Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret grew up in the public gaze and was one of the most-discussed women in the world. But what was early life like for the younger sibling of the future monarch? And what role did she carve for herself within the Royal... Read more
Truth Changes Everything
By: Dr. Jeff Myers
Narrated by: Tyler Boss
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
America has passed a tipping point. A majority of Americans now say that truth is up to the individual and that ultimate truth cannot be known. Learning to "speak our own truths" was supposed to lead to dignity and harmony. Instead, our society struggles with unprecedented levels of social conflict, purposelessness, and loss of identity. And... Read more
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Great Short Books
By: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & Leon Nixon
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).
Experience the joys of literature with this this “exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer” (The New York Times Book Review): a compulsively readable, deeply engaging... Read more
Dance Theatre of Harlem
By: Judy Tyrus & Paul Novosel
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From its modest beginnings in the 1960s in a Harlem church basement, to its meteoric rise to international fame, the Dance Theatre of Harlem ignited the world with one simple, still-revolutionary statement: All can do ballet. Into the 21st century, as the world, and the country, continue their historical struggles and triumphs, the story of this... Read more
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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
By: Yuen Yuen Ang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."
Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear... Read more
His Masterly Pen
By: Fred Kaplan
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 24 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson’s genius with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire and shape a... Read more
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Botticelli's Secret
By: Joseph Luzzi
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art―and the artists and eras that produced itSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to... Read more
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Dunkirk
By: John Harris
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
How the miracle on the beaches saved a nation. A gripping account of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War
In May 1940 British and Allied troops on mainland Europe were in a perilous situation: cut off and surrounded, at the conclusion of the bloody Battle of France they faced complete annihilation. It would be a devastating... Read more
Trajan
By: Nicholas Jackson
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general listener. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history.
Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in... Read more
Shadowlands
By: Matthew Green
Narrated by: Matthew Green
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life.
Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who... Read more
Euromissiles
By: Susan Colbourn
Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in... Read more
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The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli
Narrated by: Paul Adams
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Prince" is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but... Read more
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The First Thanksgiving
By: Robert Tracy McKenzie
Narrated by: N. Rezin Crawford
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Foreword Book of the Year Award Finalist
The Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make?
Through the captivating story of the birth of this... Read more
Caste (Adapted for Young Adults)
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world... Read more
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Skyway
By: Bill DeYoung
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise moment when Lerro attempted to direct the 20,000-ton vessel underneath the bridge.... Read more
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Tyrone Power: The Life and Legacy of One of Hollywood’s Most Famous Swashbucklers
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Steve Knupp
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Hollywood has never lacked leading men who could captivate viewers with dramatic performances that depict them as suave romantics or dashing heroes, especially during the Golden Age of Hollywood, when stars like Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant graced screens. But in the mid-20th century, one of the most popular stars was a man who’s... Read more
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George Balanchine: The Life and Legacy of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Choreographers
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
By the turn of the 20th century, American entertainment was still preoccupied with European-style operetta, as embodied in the works of cellist-composer Victor Herbert. Traditional dance forms moved from European stories to the American prairie in Oklahoma by the late 1940s, and what was once the property of Bavarian princes became the singing... Read more
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Handsome Lake: The Life and Legacy of the Iroquois Prophet
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The name "Iroquois", like many Native American tribal names, is not a name the people knew themselves by, but a word applied to them by their enemies the Huron, who called them “Iroquo” (rattlesnake) as an insult. The French later added the suffix “ois.” Moreover, the Iroquois are not even a single tribe but a confederation of several different... Read more
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The Christian Doctrine of Hell
By: Joseph Wheeler
Narrated by: Oberon Michaels
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Christian Doctrine of HellBy Joseph WheelerNarrated by Oberon MichaelsIt is often popularly considered that the Twenty-First Century marked the emergence of a truly aggressive anti-theist movement. The rise of the "New Atheism", spearheaded by figures like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins, has been seen as a fresh attack... Read more
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Letzte Fahrt
By: Robert Falcon Scott
Narrated by: Philipp Engelhardt
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Terra Nova Expedition war eine Expedition in die Antarktis, die zwischen 1910 und 1913 stattfand. Unter der Leitung von Kapitän Robert Falcon Scott hatte die Expedition verschiedene wissenschaftliche und geografische Ziele. Scott wollte die wissenschaftliche Arbeit fortsetzen, die er bereits während seiner Discovery Expedition von 1901 bis... Read more
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Der Gallische Krieg
By: Julius Caesar & Viktor Stegemann
Narrated by: Jan Peter Richter
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Julius Caesar beschrieb die Gallischen Kriege in seinem Buch “Commentarii de Bello Gallico”. Dem Hörbuch liegt die Übersetzung von Viktor Stegemann zu Grunde. “Der Gallische Krieg” ist die Hauptquelle für den großen Konflikt zwischen den Römern und den verschiedenen Völkern Galliens, aber moderne Historiker halten es für anfällig für... Read more
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De Spaanse Armada
By: Onbekende Schrijver
Narrated by: Saskia Barink
Length: 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Het waargebeurde verhaal, De Spaanse Armada, speelde zich af in Engeland.Een grote Spaanse vloot voer richting Engeland om ze te veroveren. Maar de Engelse generaal had een slim planWij vinden dit verhaal het meest geschikt voor kinderen van 9 jaar en 10 jaar.Het verhaal is geschikt voor groep 7 en groep 8. Read more
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