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The Little Ice Age
By: Brian Fagan
Narrated by: Michael Langan
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times.... Read more
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Socrates Café
By: Christopher Phillips
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. “Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master’s degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes, prisons, libraries, day care centers,... Read more
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A Spy in Plain Sight
By: Lis Wiehl
Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades.As a federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent, Wiehl has an inside perspective. She brings her experience... Read more
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To Govern the Globe
By: Alfred W. McCoy
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 15 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.During the long centuries of Iberian and British... Read more
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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
By: Florence Firth
Narrated by: Dennis Logan
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In this small volume an attempt has been made to gather together the best and most reliable of the sets of Ethical Verses attributed to the Pythagoreans.Both Hall's translation from the Greek (1657), and Rowe's translation from the French of André Dacier (1707), have been used in reproducing the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, but Dacier's version... Read more
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 4
By: Lyon Gardiner Tyler & Albert Bushnell Hart
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsEngland in America, 1580–1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, President of William and Mary College Narrated by Joseph TablerVolume 4 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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Durch Dick und Dünn
By: Johanna Korsch
Narrated by: Maja Dörsam-Bellemann & Patrick Fuchs
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
08. September 1957 Zwölf Jahre sind vergangen, als ich in dieses Buch das letzte Mal einschrieb. Es war der 23. Februar 1945, Dieter war 12 Jahre alt. Zwei Lebensabschnitte von großer Bedeutung, die alles, aber auch alles enthalten, was das menschliche Schicksal an Glück und Leid zu enthalten vermag. Charlotte Korsch, eine junge Mutter in... Read more
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Paths of Dissent
By: Andrew Bacevich & Daniel A. Sjursen
Narrated by: Andrew Bacevich, Andrew Wehrlen, Dan Berschinsk...
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of... Read more
In Defense of German Colonialism
By: Bruce Gilley
Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished.
Historian and university professor,... Read more
Asian American Histories of the United States
By: Catherine Ceniza Choy
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history
Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the... Read more
Blood and Fury
By: Stephen L. Moore
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the gripping and action-packed combat story of America’s most celebrated tank commander, Staff Sergeant Lafayette “War Daddy” Pool.
Lafayette Pool provided inspiration for Brad Pitt’s character “War Daddy” Collier in the movie Fury, but his true story is less known. Here, acclaimed author Stephen... Read more
Inventor of the Future
By: Alec Nevala-Lee
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 18 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future.During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural... Read more
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Dangerous Rhythms
By: T. J. English
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.""[A] brilliant and courageous book."" —Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship... Read more
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Decolonial Marxism
By: Walter Rodney
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era
Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North... Read more
The Passengers
By: Will Ashon
Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants. 'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic moment.' MAX PORTER, author of Lanny 'Seemingly simple yet so deeply profound, The... Read more
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The Scrap Iron Flotilla
By: Mike Carlton
Narrated by: Mike Carlton
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct: TOTAL GERMANY . The war at sea had begun.
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the... Read more
Sentimental Economy
By: Edoardo Nesi
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
From the Strega Prize–winning author of Story of My People comes an astute, multifaceted essay on the seismic shifts of 2020 and how he and people from all walks of life are adapting.Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020—from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father—Edoardo Nesi considers the... Read more
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Empires of the Normans
By: Levi Roach
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant global history of the Normans, who—beyond the conquest of England—spread their empire to eventually dominate Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle EastFourteenth October 1066.As Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England, lay dying in Sussex, the Duke of Normandy was celebrating an unlikely victory. William “The... Read more
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The Happiest Little Town
By: Barbara Hannay
Narrated by: Alison McGirr
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Happiness has a way of catching up with you, even when you've given up trying to find it.
Tilly doesn't believe she can ever be happy again
Thirteen-year-old Tilly's world is torn apart when her single mother dies suddenly and she is sent a million miles from everything she has ever known to a small country town and a guardian who's a total... Read more
Bose: The Untold Story (Part 1)
By: Chandrachur Ghose
Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
Length: 16 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A comprehensive and gripping narrative'---Vikram Sampath, author, historian and Fellow of Royal Historical Society'A must-read'---Sandeep Unnithan, managing editor, India TodayThere are not many Indian heroes whose lives have been as dramatic and adventurous as that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. That, however, is an assessment of his life based... Read more
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Bose: The Untold Story (Part 2)
By: Chandrachur Ghose
Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A comprehensive and gripping narrative'---Vikram Sampath, author, historian and Fellow of Royal Historical Society'A must-read'---Sandeep Unnithan, managing editor, India TodayThere are not many Indian heroes whose lives have been as dramatic and adventurous as that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. That, however, is an assessment of his life based... Read more
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Last Rites
By: Todd Harra
Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning TraditionsWhy do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? When—and why—did we start viewing the deceased? Ceremonies for honoring the departed are crucial parts of our lives, but few people know where our traditional practices... Read more
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Milestone
By: Gus Antos & Mark Robinson
Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
When Mark and Gus first met, they had no way of knowing they would one day be the owners of the largest home service company in Dallas–Fort Worth! From the onset of their first meeting, these two men knew they were part of something unique, something bigger, something they hope can be an example for others. While they shared every business... Read more
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Bletchley Park's Secret Source
By: Peter Hore
Narrated by: David Thorpe
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding the Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary untold story of the Y service, a secret... Read more
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