One Thousand Ways to Make $1000
By: F C Minaker
Narrated by: Mark McDevitt
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1936, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is the long out-of-print book that Warren Buffett's biographers credit with shaping the legendary investor's business acumen and giving him his trademark appreciation of compound interest. After pulling a copy of One Thousand Ways off a library shelf at age eleven and devouring F.C.... Read more
View audiobookCome to This Court and Cry
By: Linda Kinstler
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the... Read more
View audiobookChina
By: Susan L. Shirk
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Susan L. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today's Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think—and what they fear. In this revealing book, you will see the world through the eyes of men like President Hu Jintao and... Read more
View audiobookWomen in the Middle Ages
By: Frances Gies & Joseph Gies
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. But the essential contributions of women... Read more
View audiobookQueen of the Negro Leagues
By: James Overmyer
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who dominated the ranks of sports executives. That her life story remained unchronicled for so long can... Read more
View audiobookI Have a Dream
By: Martin Luther King
Narrated by: Martin Luther King, Blair Underwood & Amanda Go...
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr LibraryWith a New Foreword written and read by Amanda Gorman.A beautiful audio edition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary speech at the March on Washington, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins, hear both the original recording of the speech and a new reading by Blair... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Battles of All Time
By: Jeremy Black
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Covering the past twenty-five centuries, editor Jeremy Black analyzes the effects these events have had on the development of states and civilizations.
Organized chronologically in seven... Read more
Benito Juárez
By: Patricia Galeana
Narrated by: Joel Valdez
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Benito Juárez es una figura central de la historia de México y una de las más estudiadas. En Juárez. El hombre y el símbolo, el público lector encontrará el contexto histórico nacional e internacional en que se formó el estadista, su vida familiar y su conversión en símbolo de mexicanidad, de defensa de la soberanía nacional y del Estado... Read more
View audiobookBerlin
By: Sinclair McKay
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond.
Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity—in art,... Read more
The Gathering Storm in America
By: Thomas N. Mills
Narrated by: Mara Purl, Alexander Abbott, Christopher Lowell...
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The first in a series of award-winning programs to be offered on the Building of America.Performed by a professional cast of seasoned actors, and carefully written and researched by a historian and playwright, this fascinating series of personal manifestos marches the listener through events and decisions that amassed as collective forces that... Read more
View audiobookTrip to Russia
By: Stefan Zweig
Narrated by: Tyler Boss
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"What journey within our immediate world today would be remotely as interesting, enchanting, instructive and exciting as that to Russia? While our Europe, and especially the capitals, are subject to the inexorably contemporary process of mutual assimilation and resemblance, Russia remains utterly unparalleled." Stephen Zweig, 1928. After Stefan... Read more
View audiobookPrehistoric Warfare: The History of Early Human Conflicts
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Ryan Durham
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has a history nearly as long as life itself. Anatomically modern humans and all other life that has existed on the planet first came about from the single-celled microorganisms that emerged approximately 4 billion years ago. Through the processes of mutation and natural selection, all forms of... Read more
View audiobookEl Chile perplejo
By: Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
Narrated by: Ezequiel Romero
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Un libro fundamental para la investigación y el análisis histórico de Chile.
Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt, en El Chile perplejo, realiza un análisis histórico que va desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días para analizar cómo el malestar subterráneo que se esparció en el país pudo provocar conflictos mayúsculos, llevar a la toma de decisiones ... Read more
Ely Samuel Parker: The Life and Legacy of the Seneca Grand Chief Who Fought in the Civil War and Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: KC Wayman
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite their own cultural differences, the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confederacy established their political dominance across much of America’s East Coast and Midwest through conquest, and it is that aspect which has perhaps best endured among Americans in terms of the Iroquois’ legacy. European settlers who came into contact with... Read more
View audiobookKandahar, une dernière fois
By: Patrick Lemay
Narrated by: Maxime Gagnon-Laramée
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
L’auteur raconte son histoire personnelle en tant que fantassin québécois ayant vécu trois missions de combat consécutives dans les zones les plus dangereuses de l’Afghanistan entre 2007 et 2011. Il se livre corps et âme avec intensité dans ce récit où l’attrait de l’aventure guerrière l’amène à développer une dépendance à l’adrénaline. Le tout... Read more
View audiobookDecoding Hindu Chronology
By: HENRY ROMANO
Narrated by: Demitra
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Since ancient times, the Hindus have had a lunisolar cycle based on the combination of solar and lunar years, determined by the course of the sun and the moon, but with the lunar year beginning near the solar year. Exactly how their earliest Calendar was arranged remains a mystery. Our focus is on the current form of their Calendar, developed... Read more
View audiobookA History of Maya Architecture and Advanced Astronomy
By: NORAH ROMNEY
Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Astronomy was an avid hobby for the ancient Maya, who recorded and interpreted every aspect of the sky. As a result, many of their most important buildings were built with astronomy in mind, because they believed it was possible to read the will and actions of the gods in the stars, moon, and planets. The Maya studied the sun, moon, and planets,... Read more
View audiobookScience and Technology of Ancient Civilizations
By: Learn Alchemical Editors
Narrated by: Jamie Hoskin
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the past five million years, our species has spread from the plains of East Africa to every inhabitable landmass on our planet. Combinations of our technological Know-how, scientific knowledge, and complex societies have allowed humanity to shape and affect our environment more than any of our fellow species, even to the point of our... Read more
View audiobookAircrew
By: Bruce Lewis
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi Germany
The British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the Battle of Britain pilots - rather, the slow dwindling of courage as mission... Read more
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
By: Benjamin Randell Harris
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
'Describing narrow squeaks and terrible deprivations, Harris's unflowery account of fortitude and resilience in Spain still bristles with a freshness and an invigorating spikiness' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
'A most vivid record of the war in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon' MAIL ON SUNDAY
Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined... Read more
Les Gens de Dublin
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Katy White
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
« Dubliners » de son nom original est un passionnant recueil de nouvelles modernistes écrit par James Joyce qui dépeint de manière remarquable la vie quotidienne des gens de Dublin. Vivant à l'étranger mais écrivant toujours sur sa ville natale, Joyce a rendu Dublin inoubliable ! Les histoires des gens de Dublin décrivent des buveurs d'alcool,... Read more
View audiobookSteel Girls on the Home Front
By: Michelle Rawlins
Narrated by: Laura Brydon
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
As the war rages on, can they be there for each other? Spring 1940As the war rages on, Vickers steelworks is busier than ever which is proving tough for Nancy as she juggles working long hours and looking after two young children, all while waiting for her husband to return home safely. Betty is determined to roll... Read more
View audiobookSee How She Loves Us
By: Joan Carroll Cruz
Narrated by: Melissa Elson
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary has made herself all to all, and opens her merciful heart to all, that all may receive of her fullness; the sick, health; those in affliction, comfort; the sinner, pardon; and God, glory. St. Bernard (1090 - 1153)See How She Loves Us: 50 Approved Apparitions of Our Lady is an amazing collection of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary from... Read more
View audiobookWhy Be Catholic?
By: Fr. Ken Geraci, CPM
Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
As a kid I was forced to go to Church every Sunday. My senior year of high school I gave up faith and religion all together and embraced being agnostic.I sought the American dream by co-founding a $4.5mil software company and pursued money, fitness, and success, but none of that ever satisfied or gave me peace. One day my business partner, a... Read more
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