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Mary Churchill’s War
By: Mary Churchill
Narrated by: Beth Eyre & Emma Soames
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1939, seventeen-year-old Mary found herself in an extraordinary position at an extraordinary time: it was the outbreak of World War II and her father, Winston Churchill, had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty; within months he would become prime minister.
The young Mary Churchill was uniquely placed to observe this remarkable... Read more
Who Decides?
By: Jeffrey S. Sutton
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the disputes of the day often turns on who decides them. And our acceptance of the resolution of those disputes often turns on who the decision maker is—because it reveals who governs us.
In Who... Read more
Porn Work
By: Heather Berg
Narrated by: Camille Quinn
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes listeners behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on... Read more
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Marks of a Movement
By: Winfield Bevins
Narrated by: Stu Gray
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movement. With a love for history and a passion for today's church, Winfield helps us reimagine church multiplication in a way that focuses on making and multiplying disciples for the twenty-first... Read more
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Power Density
By: Vaclav Smil
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density—the rate of energy flux per unit of area—is an important but largely overlooked measure. Smil provides... Read more
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The Revolutionary Paul Revere
By: Joel J. Miller
Narrated by: John Behrens
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Quick in the saddle and fast out of town.” Watch one of America’s most remarkable heroes come alive through fast-paced prose and gripping storytelling.He’s Famous for his Ride. He’s Essential for So Much More.The story of Paul Revere is the story of the American Revolution.Always smack dab in the thick of things, he was an ordinary citizen... Read more
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The Monster's Bones
By: David K. Randall
Narrated by: Roman Howell
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown.
When Brown unearths the first... Read more
Serving God and Country
By: Lyle W. Dorsett
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In World War II, over 12,000 Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, and Jewish rabbis left the safety of home to join the Chaplain Corps, following the armed forces into battle across Europe, Asia, North Africa, and the high seas.
They were officers who displayed uncommon courage and sacrifice. They were men of faith under fire.
And they would... Read more
Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment (Scholastic Focus)
By: Lawrence Goldstone
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone, acclaimed author of Unpunished Murder, Stolen Justice, and Separate No More, examines the history of racism against Japanese Americans, exploring the territory of citizenship and touching on fears of non-white immigration to the US -- with... Read more
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Who Was Ponce de León?
By: Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso & Who HQ
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn the story of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León and how he shaped the history of both Florida and Puerto Rico during the Age of Exploration in this new book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
In the early 1500s, Ponce de Leon was one of the most important Spanish military figures in the Caribbean. He made his first voyage... Read more
Out of Italy
By: Fernand Braudel
Narrated by: Paul Brion
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.
In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout... Read more
Because of You, John Lewis
By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring story of a friendship between Congressman John Lewis and ten-year-old activist Tybre Faw by New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney!When young Tybre Faw discovers John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for voting rights, Tybre is determined to... Read more
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In Defense of Public Debt
By: Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteve...
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their dramatic rise has prompted apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of heavy debts—about the drag they will place on economic growth and the burden they represent for future generations.
Authors... Read more
Against Liberal Theology
By: Roger E. Olson
Narrated by: James Donaldson
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Liberal Christian theology is a big topic in today's churches and seminaries. But what does liberal theology really mean and why is it so controversial? What does it actually believe about truth, Scripture, and Jesus Christ? And where does it lead?The term "liberal theology" is often misinterpreted, confused with a set of loose ideologies within... Read more
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The Watermen
By: Michael Loynd
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)
“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura... Read more
Musical Revolutions
By: Stuart Isacoff
Narrated by: Jamie Rennell
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history—classical and jazz—all of which forever altered Western culture
"A fascinating journey that begins with the origins of musical notation and travels through the centuries reaching all the way to our time.”—Semyon... Read more
In the Shadow of the Gods
By: Dominic Lieven
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 19 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.
From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth... Read more
The Nature of the Game
By: Mike Keiser & Stephen Goodwin
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Essential reading for every golfer from the sport’s most acclaimed course developer—a comprehensive, firsthand account of restoring the inherent satisfactions of this centuries-old game, from the beauty of natural courses to the joys of walking the course
“Mike Keiser is the best thing to happen to golf since the... Read more
Rickey
By: Howard Bryant
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 18 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does.... Read more
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Retreat from Kabul
By: George Bruce
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Afghanistan, 1839.
The British East India Company dominated the Indian subcontinent, yet they were not secure in their position.
Holding unjustified fears that Russia threatened India's north-western border, the Company decided to make a pre-emptive strike and ensure that this menace would be stopped by a strong pro-British... Read more
The Wine-Dark Sea Within
By: Dr. Dhun Sethna
Narrated by: Chinua Hawk
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role
Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen, prevailed for fifteen hundred years until William Harvey... Read more
The Pope at War
By: David I. Kertzer
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 17 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II.”—Daniel Silva
“Kertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the most comprehensive account of the Vatican’s relations to the Nazi and fascist regimes before and during the... Read more
The Spy Who Knew Too Much
By: Howard Blum
Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.”—New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case—and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career—in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue,... Read more
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We Refuse to Forget
By: Caleb Gayle
Narrated by: Caleb Gayle
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance.” —National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson
“We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined…We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book-making.” —Kiese... Read more