The Westside Slugger
By: John L. Smith
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Westside Slugger is the powerful story of civil rights in Las Vegas and Nevada through the eyes and experience of Joe Neal, a history-making state lawmaker in Nevada. Neal rose from humble beginnings in Mound, Louisiana, during the Great Depression to become the first African American to serve in the Nevada State Senate.
Filled with an... Read more
The Stolen Village
By: Des Ekin
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbor village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of... Read more
View audiobookDark Horse
By: General Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.)
Narrated by: Calvin Robinson
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Gen. Larry Spencer, USAF (Ret.) was born and raised on the Horseshoe—a tough inner-city street in southeast Washington D.C. The Horseshoe was a hard neighborhood where fights were common, and the school systems were second-rate. The expectations of living in an all-Black neighborhood were to be good at sports while shunning academic prowess.... Read more
View audiobookBonhoeffer: 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
View audiobookWhere 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
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
Meet Me by the Fountain
By: Alexandra Lange
Narrated by: Mikhaila Aaseng
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.” —Los Angeles Times
“A fantastic examination of what became the mall . . . envision[ing] a more meaningful public afterlife for our shopping centers.”—Vulture
A portrait—by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving—of one of America’s most... Read more
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
View audiobookOne 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
View audiobookItsenäisyyden ilmansuunnat
By: Heikki Talvitie & Risto Repo
Narrated by: Jonas Saari
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Heikki Talvitie työskenteli vuosikymmeniä diplomaattina. Belgrad, Moskova ja Tukholma tulivat Talvitielle tutuiksi suurlähettilään työssä. Diplomaattivuosien aikana Talvitielle muodostui vahva tietämys Suomen suhteesta sen naapurivaltioihin. Erityisesti Talvitie loistaa tietämyksessä Neuvostoliiton ja Venäjän suhteen – olihan Talvitie Moskovassa... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookWhiskey Master Class
By: Lew Bryson
Narrated by: Lew Bryson
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the past three decades, Lew Bryson has been one of the most influential voices in whiskey. In Whiskey Master Class, Lew shares everything he's learned on his journey through the worlds of bourbon, Scotch, rye, Japanese whiskey, and more (yes, there are tasty Canadian and Irish whiskeys!). In this book, you'll find:
● An overview of the... Read more
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
View audiobookO Say Can You Hear
By: Mark Clague
Narrated by: Reuben J. Tapp
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating story of America’s national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today.Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light, he... Read more
View audiobookIn 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
View audiobookFire 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
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
View audiobookHigh 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
View audiobookThe War after the War
By: John Patrick Daly
Narrated by: Steve Menasche
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed... Read more
View audiobookSilencing the Women: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons
By: Kathy-Ann Becker
Narrated by: Kathy-Ann Becker
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
SILENCING THE WOMEN: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons is the true story of what happened to an early New England colonial Puritan woman settler who was too beautiful, too rich, and too outspoken for her times. Enmeshed in a web of jealousy and gossip, she struggled to overcome victimization by the harsh judgments of church, state, and... Read more
View audiobookIndian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls
By: Charles M. Scanlan
Narrated by: Rebecca Cook
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls was written by Charles Martin Scanlan in 1915. The Indian Creek Massacre arose in 1832 at LaSalle County, Illinois, after a dispute about a settler-constructed dam that blocked fish from reaching a Native American village downstream. It’s a unique historical snapshot of early America centered... Read more
View audiobookUkrainian History: 2 Books In 1
By: HISTORY FOREVER
Narrated by: Khai Lannor
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
★ Do you want to discover the History of Ukraine? ★If your answer is yes, get this book now!In book 1 you will discover; History of Ukraine - Ruthenian Union History of Ukraine - Kievan Rus Ukrainian Origins of Genetic and Cultural History Ukraine and the Rus Kingdom 1187-1349 Polish-Lithuanian & Turkish Rule 1349-1648 The Zaporizhian and... Read more
View audiobookВарфоломеевская ночь
By: Проспер Мериме
Narrated by: Сергей Кирсанов
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
В ночь на 24 августа 1572 года по благословению папы Григория ХIII в Париже произошло массовое убийство кальвинистов (гугенотов) католиками. День 24 августа у католиков посвящен памяти святого Варфоломея. Поэтому эту ночь стали называть Варфоломеевской ночью. В течение нескольких часов в Париже было убито более двух тысяч человек. Резня... Read more
View audiobookModern Ukrainian History: 2 Books In 1
By: HISTORY FOREVER
Narrated by: Khai Lannor
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
★ Do you want to discover the History of Ukraine? ★If your answer is yes, get this book now!In book 1 you will discover; Ukraine and Europe as a Nation State Ukraine’s International obligations and freedom Ukraine and Taiwan Relations Ukraine and United State Relations How Ukraine Became Part of the USSR - The Soviet–Ukrainian War Ukraine after... Read more
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