The Battle of Sluys: The History and Legacy of the First Major Naval Battle of the Hundred Years’ War
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in the historical consciousness of England and France, even if the name of the famous war is a misnomer. Actually a series of separate conflicts between the English and French monarchies, interspersed with periods of peace, its historical image is an odd one, in part... Read more
View audiobookDéclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
By: Olympe de Gouges
Narrated by: Emilie Mauchaussé
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Sur un ton énergique, ironique et engagé, l'une des plus grandes voix féminines de la Révolution française, Olympe de Gouges, rédige le premier document à évoquer l'égalité juridique et légale des femmes avec celle des hommes. "Femme, réveille-toi ; le tocsin de la raison se fait entendre dans tout l'univers ; reconnais tes droits. Le puissant... Read more
View audiobookThe Auschwitz Protocols
By: Fred R. Bleakley
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.
The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry. But after nearly suffocating in an... Read more
In Whose Ruins
By: Alicia Puglionesi
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fiction—with profound repercussions for politics past and present.
Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal, presenting a... Read more
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art
By: Bénédicte Savoy
Narrated by: Ronnie Archer-Morgan
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Ronnie Archer-Morgan narrates this major new history of how African nations sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers
For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light... Read more
Met Her on the Mountain
By: Mark I. Pinsky
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In June of 1970, the body of twenty-four-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard from the bubbly, hard-working brunette who had moved to the Appalachian community less than a year prior as an organizer for Volunteers in Service to America. At... Read more
View audiobookIt Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful
By: Jack Lowery
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.
In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out... Read more
Of Blood and Sweat
By: Clyde W. Ford
Narrated by: Julian Thomas
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood and Sweat is a myth-busting work of genius that will stand as the last word on this vital subject for a long time to come.”—Elizabeth Dowling Taylor,... Read more
View audiobookOrigins of the Gods
By: Andrew Collins & Gregory L. Little
Narrated by: Micah Hanks
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
• Explores how our ancestors used shamanic rituals at sacred sites to create portals for communication with nonhuman intelligences
• Shares supporting evidence from the spiritual and shamanic beliefs of more than 100 Native American tribes
• Shows how the earliest forms of shamanism began at sites like Qesem Cave in Israel more than 400,000... Read more
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
Length: 17 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic license of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is... Read more
View audiobookIn On the Joke
By: Shawn Levy
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“A sensitive and vivid study of early female stand-ups… [Levy is a] painstaking, knowledgeable guide.” —New York Times Book Review
A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the mic—perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Hacks
Today, women are ascendant... Read more
The Brain in Search of Itself
By: Benjamin Ehrlich
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Unless you're a neuroscientist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal is likely the most important figure in the history of biology you've never heard of. Along with Darwin and Pasteur, he ranks among the most brilliant and original biologists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of... Read more
View audiobookTorpedo Run
By: Don Keith
Narrated by: Vincent Caruso
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable true story of Eugene Fluckey, the US Navy’s most innovative—and aggressive—submarine commander of World War II
Over the course of five combat patrols during the Pacific War, Commander Fluckey reinvented submarine warfare, pioneering audacious strategies to hunt and sink Japanese warships and merchant vessels. At the helm of the... Read more
My Mother's War
By: Eva Taylor
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter who spent over two years in three concentration camps during World War Two, told by her daughter using an astonishing archive of personal letters
After her mother’s death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her... Read more
The Autobiography Of Makataimeshekiakiak, Or Black Hawk (Unabridged)
By: Black Hawk
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Black Hawk, so named after the sacred medicine bag he carried with him, was a warrior and a leader of a tribe of Sauk Native Americans in the American Midwest circa 1800. He rose to leadership during a tumultuous time for his people, as they were pressed on all sides by the warlike... Read more
View audiobookThe Souls Of Black Folk (Unabridged)
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. When it was first published in 1903, W. E. B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk represented a seismic shift in the discussion of race in the United States. Earlier AfricanAmerican authors had broken ground with memoirs and autobiographical novels—narrative works that portrayed the... Read more
View audiobookNo More Heroes
By: Jordan Flaherty
Narrated by: Hannah Pepper, T Duncan, Donald Lewis Jr, Ian H...
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"A perfect gift for the age of Trump." - Robin D. G. Kelley, Author, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"In this marvelous, enormously instructive book, Jordan Flaherty explores how we too often allow the struggle for change to be undermined by would-be saviors—and how today’s grassroots social movements, led by communities on the... Read more
View audiobookA Man Could Stand Up— (Unabridged)
By: Ford Madox Ford
Narrated by: AI Marcus
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. A Man Could Stand Up— opens on Armistice Day, with Valentine Wannop learning that her love, Christopher Tietjens, has returned to London from the front. As she prepares to meet him, the narrative suddenly shifts time and place to earlier in the year, with Tietjens commanding a group... Read more
View audiobookThomas Paine
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Paine was a political activist, theorist, political theorist, and revolutionary who was born in England. He wrote 2 of the most popular handouts at the beginning of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-- 1783) and helped motivate patriots to announce independence from Great Britain in 1776. His... Read more
View audiobookSocial Activists
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The following three topics will be covered in this book:
Martin Luther King - From 1955 till his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist clergyman and activist who ended up being the most identifiable voice and leader in the American civil liberties movement. King used nonviolence and civil disobedience to advance... Read more
Black Activists
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This 2-book bundle contains the following topics:
1 - Malcolm X was a widely known African American Muslim minister and civil liberties leader at the time of the civil liberties movement. He was an enthusiastic supporter for Black emancipation and the big promotion of Islam within the Black community till 1964, when he ended up being the Country... Read more
Politicians and Rebels
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This book contains 3 titles, which are:Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin was an author, physicist, innovator, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political thinker who resided in America. Franklin was just one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the US Declaration, and the first postmaster general... Read more
View audiobookNative Americans
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a combo of several books, which are:
1 - The Cherokee are among the native tribes of the United States' Southeastern Woodlands. They resided in communities along river valleys in what's now southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, the limits of western South Carolina, northern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama just before the... Read more
Native American Tribes
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a combo book with various topics represented. The Native American Tribes are the center of this book’s focus. The tribes are:Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Eskimo, Pawnee, and Sioux.You will learn about various historical happenings that shaped the future of the these tribes and their destination. Read more
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