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A Force of Nature
By: Richard Reeves
Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the twentieth century’s greatest experimental physicist.Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among them the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the “half-life” of radioactive... Read more
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Listen, World!
By: Julia Scheeres & Allison Gilbert
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you’ve never heard ofAt thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she’d lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this... Read more
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A Medieval Family
By: Frances Gies & Joseph Gies
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph GiesThe Pastons were members of the English gentry, a group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants and a rough analog for the contemporary “middle class.” Their... Read more
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Before Their Time
By: Robert Kotlowitz
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France, in which he—by playing dead—was the only one to survive. Read more
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Warp Speed
By: Paul Mango
Narrated by: Chris Abell
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful story of how our nation’s leaders overcame the odds, saving the American people from the throes of a deadly pandemic The prior record for vaccine development and distribution was approximately four-and-a-half years. Operation Warp Speed got the COVID-19 vaccine to the American people in less than ten months. Operation Warp Speed did... Read more
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 1
By: Edward Potts Cheyney & Albert Bushnell Hart
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsEuropean Background of American History by Edward Potts Cheyney, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard... Read more
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Gunny Mac Private Detective
By: Steven Walker
Narrated by: Steven Osarczuk
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"A unique heist set in World War Two!"
Gunny Mac recipient of the Navy Cross for heroism on Bloody Ridge is discharged due to his wounds and becomes what he feared the most; becoming a civilian, and becomes a private eye walking the streets of steamy, corrupt Chinatown.
Gunny Wojohowitz needs Mac's help to find the one man he needs to kill...
Lt.... Read more
Totentanz – 1923 und seine Folgen (ungekürzt)
By: Jutta Hoffritz
Narrated by: Stephan Schad
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Mark fällt. Die Preise steigen. Zwischen Rausch, Revolution und Radikalisierung – Chronik eines Jahres 1923 wird zum politischen und ökonomischen Wendejahr für Deutschland. Zwischen schwindelerregenden Brotpreisen, eskapistischen Tanzabenden, der folgenreichen Ruhrbesetzung und der Einführung der Rentenmark begleitet Jutta Hoffritz vier... Read more
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Bridge to the Sun
By: Bruce Henderson
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of... Read more
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Pirate Queen
By: Judith Cook
Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586, when she was captured and sentenced to... Read more
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America's Forgotten Terrorists
By: Jeffrey D. Simon
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Though largely forgotten today, one of the most destructive terrorist groups in the United States was the Galleanists, a fiery band of Italian anarchists active during the early 1900s. In America's Forgotten Terrorists, Jeffrey D. Simon shows how alienation and frustration among segments of a community were transformed into a militant extremist... Read more
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Crisis of Command
By: Stuart Scheller
Narrated by: Stuart Scheller
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, comes to light.
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was the perfect Marine. Battle tested. A leader.... Read more
Teaching White Supremacy
By: Donald Yacovone
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.
“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,... Read more
Downtown Juárez
By: Howard Campbell
Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico's so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn't believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland... Read more
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Notes on Resistance
By: David Barsamian & Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet and provides a road map for resistance.In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap made worse because of the pandemic, climate destruction, the... Read more
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Southern Beauty
By: Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd
Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to "do" white southern womanhood,... Read more
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Y al final, la guerra
By: Lorenzo Silva & Luis Miguel Francisco
Narrated by: Miguel Coll
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Nayaf, 4 de abril de 2004. 12 horas. La base Al-Ándalus sufre el ataque de los milicianos del Ejército del Mahdi. Más de dos centenares de soldados españoles encuadrados enla División Mecanizadadeben movilizarse azarosamente, tomar posiciones y abrir fuego en un combate que durará horas y que supondrá el fin de la labor reconstructora de España... Read more
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A Fort of Nine Towers
By: Qais Akbar Omar
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-three years ago—after the Soviets left and before the Taliban came to power—Kabul was a garden where seven-year-old Qais Akbar Omar flew kites from the roof of his grandfather's house. Then came the hollow sounds of rocket fire as the Mujahedin, self-proclaimed holy warriors, took over Afghanistan, and the country erupted in civil war.... Read more
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Discipline Is Destiny
By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized... Read more
The Book of Phobias and Manias
By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness”
The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of... Read more
A History of Antisemitism in Canada
By: Ira Robinson
Narrated by: Dan Rosen
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and... Read more
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Tesis Libros Espirituales en Español 2
By: Daniel Carballo
Narrated by: Daniel Carballo
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Nota del editor: Este libro es un estudio y recopilación de enseñanzas de maestros espirituales de acceso público. La propiedad intelectual, pertenece a los autores citados y/o a los realizadores de sus entrevistas, se mencionan las fuentes. Nombro algunos de los maestros que se incluyen en este libro (todos despiertos, iluminados): Adyashanti,... Read more
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Dioses con pies de barro
By: Jordi Serrallonga
Narrated by: Pedro García
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Un puma deambulando por las calles desiertas de Santiago de Chile. El gorila de montaña que se hizo botánico. Las historias sobre la jirafa de Lamarck, el mamut de Cuvier o los pinzones mutantes de Darwin. Correrías entre dinosaurios y homínidos fósiles... Arqueólogo, naturalista y explorador, Jordi Serrallonga nos explica qué relación guardan... Read more
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Long Road
By: Steven Hyden
Narrated by: Ron Hippe
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, performed for hundreds of thousands of fans... Read more
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