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Febre de publicação - Abridged
By: José de Alencar
Narrated by: Paulo Carvalho
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As duas crônicas aqui reunidas, extraídas livro "Ao correr da pena", de José Alencar, trazem uma reflexão sobre a necessidade que o cronista tem de discorrer sobre assuntos diversos e por vezes antagônicas, como as desgraças que afligem o mundo e a vida social da corte – com pendência para esta última, sempre se dirigindo "às leitoras". Read more
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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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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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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
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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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
Invasion
By: Luke Harding
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an inflection point in international politics
“An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.” —Anne Applebaum, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
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
Pacific Carrier War
By: Mark E. Stille
Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea.
The defining feature of the Pacific Theater of World War II was the clash of carriers that ultimately decided the fate of... Read more
617 Squadron
By: Tom Bennett
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In May 1943, Guy Gibson led 617 Squadron on an audacious assault on the dams of the Ruhr valley using Barnes Wallis' ingenious 'bouncing bombs.'
What happened to RAF 617 Squadron after the completion of Operation Chastise?
The raid had been a success, but the bombing offensive against Nazi-occupied territories did not let up and 617 Squadron... Read more
The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War
By: Chris Mackowski & Brian Matthew Jordan
Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"What If . . . ?" Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappointments vanish. Imaginations soar. More questions arise. "What if . . ." can be more than an exercise in wistful fantasy. A serious inquiry sparks rigorous exploration, demands critical thinking, and unlocks important insights.
The Great "What... Read more
Do Everything
By: Christopher H. Evans
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Frances Willard (1839–1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built a national and international movement of women that campaigned for prohibition, women's rights, economic justice, and numerous other social... Read more
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The Crusades
By: Christopher Tyerman
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Crusading fervor gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they have fascinated generations ever since, and their legacy of ideas and imagery has resonated... Read more
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Red Valkyries
By: Kristen Ghodsee
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists
Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue... 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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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
How Asia Found Herself
By: Nile Green
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 17 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent
The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The... Read more
The Voyageurs
By: Joshua Kloke
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Tracing Canadian men's soccer's emergence from global obscurity to international powerhouse, featuring insight from star players like Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David.
The last time Canada qualified for a men's World Cup was in 1986. For a generation afterwards, the Canadian national men's soccer team struggled in obscurity, an afterthought... 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
Inside the Gas Chambers
By: Shlomo Venezia
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been... 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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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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