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La libertad. Trece historias para la historia
By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Narrated by: Horacio Castelo
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Aquí se reúnen un actor de cine, héroe de guerra destinado a substituir a Bogart, y que vivió bajo el odio a la pantalla y la culpa; un general soviético que cambió diez veces de nombre y estuvo en todas las revoluciones del siglo XX; un espía contra la Comuna de París que tenía 11 casas; Josef Stalin, rey del Photoshop; un general zarista que... Read more
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Inquisition
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Perhaps you have heard of the horrible stories of the Spanish, Portuguese, or French inquisition, the Catholic body of persecutors who would arrest the supposed “heathens” and accuse them of witchcraft, heresies, blasphemy, adultery, and a whole list of other sins or crimes. Torture, interrogations, executions, burnings, and other inhumane... Read more
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The Missing Girls of Alardyce House
By: Heather Atkinson
Narrated by: Sarah Barron
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Heather Atkinson is my no.1 author. She keeps you glued to her books from beginning to end.’Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne’s parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at the opposite end of the country.Alardyce House is depressing and dreary, her aunt haughty and cruel. Amy... Read more
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De onda åren
By: Björn Fontander
Narrated by: Mitcho Batalov
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Mellan 1940 och 1945 genomled världen några av de värsta åren mänskligheten någonsin har skådat. Medan kriget härjade runtom i Europa lyckades Sverige alltjämt hålla sig utanför det. I denna bok redogör Björn Fontander för hur nära det trots allt var att Sverige gång efter annan drogs in i världskriget. Det berättas bland annat om episoder då... Read more
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To Embody the Marvelous
By: Esther Fernández
Narrated by: Steven Ritz-Barr
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts.
From jointed, wood-carved figures of Christ, saintly marionettes that performed hagiographical dramas, experimental... Read more
Flykten över Kölen 1940-1945
By: Björn Fontander
Narrated by: Lukas Olde Monnikhof
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Den 9 april 1940 inleds Tysklands invasion och ockupation av Norge. Kort därefter börjar flyktingar passera över gränsen mot grannlandet Sverige. Från början är det norska militärförband och soldater som anländer. De har undermålig utrustning och är dessutom dåligt organiserade. Snart ska dock strömmen komma att inkludera politiker,... Read more
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High Tide in the Korean War
By: Leo Barron
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
By early 1951, American forces and their UN allies had been driven more than 100 miles down the Korean peninsula by the Chinese. The situation was bleak when Gen. Matthew Ridgway ordered a last stand at the village of Chipyong-ni. There a single regiment (the 23rd Infantry) of fewer than 5,000 U.S. soldiers defeated a Chinese division of 25,000... Read more
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Elusive
By: Frank Close
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had... Read more
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Generation Gap
By: Kevin Munger
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in American history—and they aren't going away any time soon. They dominate cultural and political institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate. Generational conflict, with Millennials and Generation Z pitted against the aging Boomer cohort, has become a media staple.... Read more
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Butler to the World
By: Oliver Bullough
Narrated by: Oliver Bullough
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower... Read more
Bonhoeffer Abridged
By: Eric Metaxas
Narrated by: John Behrens
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times best-selling author, Eric Metaxas, an abridged version of the groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, a man who stood up to Hitler.A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. As Adolf Hitler and... Read more
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Heavy Metal
By: Michael Fabey
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy.Tip the Empire State Building onto its side and you’ll have a sense of the length of the United States Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the most powerful in the world: the USS John F. Kennedy. Weighing... Read more
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The China Dream
By: Jonathan Krane
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
China GDP has grown from $300 per capita to more than $10,000 in the past thirty years and lifted more people into the middle class than in any other country at any other point in human history. It is important for investors, US companies and anyone interested in the global economy to understand China.
As the founder and CEO of KraneShares, an... Read more
The Three Colors of Complicity
By: Jemar Tisby
Narrated by: Jemar Tisby
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Compromise has three colors.The American church has a history of creating and maintaining racist ideas and practices. This audio original recording from NYT bestselling author Jemar Tisby is based on the themes introduced in The Color of Compromise but goes a step further, showing how compromise has three distinct colors: green, white, and red.... Read more
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One Person, One Vote
By: Nick Seabrook
Narrated by: Reynaldo Piniella
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment—from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts—and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for... Read more
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The Divorce Colony
By: April White
Narrated by: April White & Lisa Flanagan
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls,... Read more
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Where You'll Find Me
By: Ty Gagne
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
On February 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains amid some of the worst weather ever recorded on these deceptively rugged slopes.
At thirty-two,... Read more
Россия и Европа. Часть 2
By: Николай Данилевский
Narrated by: Станислав Федосов
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
В самом известном своем сочинении "РОССИЯ И ЕВРОПА" [1869] Н. Я. Данилевский выдвинул теорию "культурно-исторических типов", которая оказала огромное влияние на современную западную философию культуры и предвосхитила концепции локальных цивилизаций О. Шпенглера, А. Тойнби и др. История есть циклический процесс возникновения, расцвета и упадка... Read more
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Metternich
By: Wolfram Siemann
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 36 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that... Read more
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In the Houses of Their Dead
By: Terry Alford
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The... Read more
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We Carry Their Bones
By: Erin Kimmerle
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
""With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice."" –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic... Read more
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Fire Island
By: Jack Parlett
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century
Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a... Read more
Bonhoeffer: Audio Bible Studies
By: Eric Metaxas
Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In this four-session audio Bible study, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas will help you discover the major themes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writing and speaking and how he not only helped transform an entire faith community in Germany during World War II, but how his beliefs continue to impact the Christian faith of people throughout... Read more
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Ukraine and Russia
By: Paul D’Anieri
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Paul D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West, that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and eventually led to war in 2014. Proceeding chronologically, this book shows how Ukraine's separation from Russia in 1991, at the time called a 'civilized divorce', led to what many... Read more
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