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Why 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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Île de Pâques: L'énigme des moai élucidée par la tradition orale
By: Jean Hervé Daude
Narrated by: Charles L'Abbé
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Nouvelles recherches sur l'Île de Pâques, basées sur l'archéologie, les récentes recherches ostéologiques et génétiques, ainsi que sur la tradition orale, les rapports des premiers explorateurs et des premières missions ethnologiques sur l'Île. .. . Jean Hervé Daude, sociologue, spécialiste de la tradition orale de l'Île de Pâques, met... Read more
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Natural Theology
By: David Haines
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Christians affirm that Scripture alone reveals truths about God which cannot be known by mere reason, such as the Trinity or the Gospel itself. But how do we account for Scripture's apparent talk of a knowledge of God possible solely from creation? Or for our own sense of the divine in nature? Or for the startling insights of ancient... Read more
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Into Enemy Arms
By: Michael Hingston
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression, and a harrowing journey to freedom.
In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same... Read more
The Real Ambassadors
By: Keith Hatschek
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists... Read more
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Re-Sisters
By: Cosey Fanni Tutti
Narrated by: Cosey Fanni Tutti
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.
'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary trailblazers.'
SALENA GODDEN
'Re-sisters emanates an enthralling power.'
JUDE ROGERS, MOJO
'Cosey... Read more
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
By: Merrill Schleier
Narrated by: Patryce Williams & Amir Abdullah
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of interest in the suburbs in film, television, and fiction in the last fifteen years, concentrating exclusively on the relationship of race to the built environment.... Read more
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Empire of Sand
By: Walter Reid
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
At the end of the First World War, Britain, and to a much lesser extent France, created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. From the outset, the project was destined to fail.
Conflicting and ambiguous promises had been made to the Arabs... Read more
Whirlwind
By: John Ferling
Narrated by: Bo Foxworth
Length: 18 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling’s latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes that appeal to scholars and the most serious general... Read more
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Child
By: Judy Goldman
Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism
Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her—the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's... Read more
The Inner Game of Music
By: Barry Green
Narrated by: Roxanne Abbott
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Inner Game of music is that which takes place in the mind, played against such elusive opponents as nervousness, self doubt, and fear of failure. Using the same principles of "natural learning" W. Timothy Gallwey developed so successfully for tennis, golf, and skiing and applying them to his own field, noted musician Barry Green shows how to... Read more
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Accounting for Slavery
By: Caitlin Rosenthal
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and... Read more
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Atoms and Ashes
By: Serhii Plokhy
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing... Read more
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Martin & Malcolm & America
By: James H. Cone
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African American leaders of the twentieth century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as "essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled," Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare. James Cone cuts through superficial assessments of King and Malcolm as... Read more
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank \ ¿Quien traicionó a Ana Frank? (Sp.ed.)
By: Rosemary Sullivan
Narrated by: Natalia Guadarrama
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Usando una nueva tecnología, documentos descubiertos recientemente y sofisticadas técnicas de investigación, un equipo internacional -dirigido por un obsesionado agente retirado del FBI- finalmente ha resuelto el misterio que ha perseguid a generaciones desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial: ¿Quién traicionó a Ana Frank y a su familia? ¿Y por qué?Más... Read more
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Sinkable
By: Daniel Stone
Narrated by: Daniel Stone
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic
On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new... Read more
Crimson Waters
By: Kraig Becker & Don Mann
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestsellling author separates history from myth from the Pharaohs to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to today.Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and ships of others. Crimson Waters traces the history of piracy around the globe, stretching back from... Read more
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Constance
By: Franny Moyle
Narrated by: Sarah Nichols
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
The story of the woman at the center of the most famous scandal of the nineteenth century.In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children’s author, a... Read more
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The War on Music
By: John Mauceri
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century.This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War... Read more
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 5
By: Charles Mclean Andrews & Albert Bushnell Hart
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsColonial Self-Government, 1652–1689 by Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D., Professor of History in Bryn Mawr CollegeNarrated by Joseph TablerVolume 5 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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Opera
By: Alan Riding & Leslie Dunton-Downer
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the lives of singers such as Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jonas Kaufmann. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom they collaborated to create the magical blend of... Read more
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The Price of Time
By: Edward Chancellor
Narrated by: Luis Soto
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia people have been borrowing and lending at interest. Yet as capitalism became established from the late Middle Ages onwards, denunciations of interest were tempered because interest was a necessary reward for lenders to part with their capital. And interest... Read more
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Washington's Heir
By: Gerard N. Magliocca
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years.
In Washington's Heir, Gerard N. Magliocca gives us the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. Born... Read more
From Swamp to Wetland
By: Chris Wilhelm
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Prior to the park's creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects.
Park advocates drew on new ideas concerning the value of biota and ecology, the... Read more
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