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101 Surprising Facts about Mary
By: Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
Narrated by: Cloey Kelly
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
She is history’s most famous woman, with more schools, churches, and people named for her than any other. She has inspired countless pieces of art and literature, as well as the construction of some of the biggest churches in the world.Yet the poets also call her “the woman wrapped in silence.”What lies between these two extremes?Unpack the... Read more
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The Opera House
By: Peter FitzSimons
Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
Length: 23 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.'
- Louis Kahn, US architect
If only these walls and this land could talk ...
The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other World Heritage sites, it is... Read more
A Week in September
By: Peter Rees
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees and Sue Langford..
'Profoundly moving ... I don't mind saying I wept at the end, for all the young men lost to war, their widows and children ... a lovely... Read more
Fighting Dirty
By: Poh-Gek Forkert
Narrated by: Vivian Hisey
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek... Read more
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Partisan
By: James Caffin
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The gripping story of a New Zealand solider who escaped the clutches of a prisoner-of-war camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the Second World War
After a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Yugoslavia, John Denvir reached the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, where he joined a partisan band as a machine-gunner.... Read more
Age of Cage
By: Keith Phipps
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius.
Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at him, there's no denying two things: you've seen one of his many films, and you certainly know his name. But who is he, really, and why has his career endured for over forty years, with more than a hundred films, and birthed a million memes?
Age of... Read more
Celia, A Slave
By: Melton A. McLaurin
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most prosperous and respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. After purchasing Celia in a neighboring county, Newsom raped her on the... Read more
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Reprobation and God's Sovereignty
By: Peter Sammons
Narrated by: Al Kessel
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
God's right to judge humanity is written on the very fabric of human existence
The doctrine of reprobation—that is, the eternal, unconditional decree of God for the non-elect—is frequently misconstrued in both pastoral and theological literature. In Reprobation and God's Sovereignty, Peter Sammons reintroduces this oft-misunderstood doctrine,... Read more
I Am A SEAL Team Six Warrior
By: Stephen Templin & Howard E. Wasdin
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
FOR YOUNG LISTENERS—A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE BESTSELLER SEAL TEAM SIX
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior is the dramatic tale of how Howard Wasdin overcame a... Read more
On to Stalingrad
By: Horst Scheibert
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In late November 1942, Soviet forces surrounded Paulus' Sixth Army in a pocket outside the Russian city of Stalingrad. In response the Germans planned a relief operation, Operation Winter Storm, intended to break through the Soviet forces and open the pocket, releasing the encircled units. The 6th Panzer Division was the spearhead of the German... Read more
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Hold, Please
By: Richard Hester
Narrated by: Richard Hester
Length: 26 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A Broadway Stage Manager's pandemic memoir!March 12, 2020Last night, after weeks of downplaying and ridiculing the virus, we were finally told by our President, that it is, in fact, serious…And so, it began. Broadway shut down. Instead of sitting in a darkened theatre every night watching Jersey Boys, Richard Hester found himself sitting on his... Read more
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Getting to the Promised Land
By: Kevin W. Cosby
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Too often, all oppressed people in America are lumped together under the moniker people of color, as if each group's experience under the yoke of systemic racism has the same economic and social repercussions. But the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) hold a unique claim to economic and reparative justice: for ADOS, after all, is the only... Read more
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You Can't Get Much Closer Than This
By: Andrew Z. Adkins III & A.Z. Adkins
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
After the Citadel and Officer Candidate School, Andrew Z. Adkins Jr. was sent to the 80th Infantry Division, then training in the California-Arizona desert. There, he was assigned as an 81mm mortar section leader in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment.
Lieutenant Adkins and his fellow soldiers took part in light hedgerow fighting... Read more
Pakistan
By: Pippa Virdee
Narrated by: Shakira Shute
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest riverine civilizations in the... Read more
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Cimino
By: Charles Elton
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The director Michael Cimino (1939–2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie ,I>The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate failed so completely... Read more
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Girls on Film
By: Alicia Malone
Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
With humor and honesty, Girls on Film looks at the good, the bad, and the unfairly written women in film. A celebration of the power of cinema and the hidden messages within media and culture, this collection of personal essays explores the women who inspired and confused a young film enthusiast.
A movie freak with a feminist message. In the... Read more
We Were There
By: Patricia Romney
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1970 to 1980, the Third World Women’s Alliance lived the dream of third world feminism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of race, gender, and class oppression. Rooted in the Black civil rights... Read more
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Murder Among Friends
By: Candace Fleming
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century."
In 1924, eighteen-year-old college... Read more
Common Enemies
By: Thomas F. Schaller
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 1980s, Black athletes and other athletes of color broadened the popularity and profitability of major-college televised sports by infusing games with a "Black style" of play. At a moment ripe for a revolution in men's college basketball and football, clashes between "good guy" white protagonists and bombastic "bad boy" Black... Read more
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Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
By: McKay Jenkins
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place... Read more
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Blackhorse Tales
By: Don Snedeker
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The war stories and combat narratives of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment during five-and-a-half years of combat in Vietnam.
When the US Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman's war; if there were any role at all for armored forces, it would be strictly to support the... Read more
The Search for Major Plagge
By: Michael Good
Narrated by: James Romick
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto—including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?
After five years of research—interviewing survivors,... Read more
Odysseus in America
By: Jonathan Shay
Narrated by: David Strathairn & Senator Max Cleland
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American... Read more
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England
By: Dawn M. Hadley & Julian D. Richards
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When the Viking Great Army swept through England between 865 and 878 CE, the course of English history was forever changed. The people of the British Isles had become accustomed to raids for silver and prisoners, but 865 CE saw a fundamental shift as the Norsemen stayed through winter and became immersed in the heart of the nation. The Viking... Read more
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