Cara o cruz : Hernán Cortés
By: Úrsula Camba Ludlow & Alejandro Rosas
Narrated by: Carla Barreto & Beto Moreno
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
¿La Conquista española sólo tuvo como motor principal la ambición desmedida y la obtención de riquezas, o también la conquista espiritual de las almas de los indios? ¿Cómo mezcló Hernán Cortés la política y la guerra en su estrategia? ¿Cómo fue el acercamiento con Moctezuma? ¿Cortés es el gran apestado de la historia nacional o tiene... Read more
View audiobookAthens
By: Bruce Clark
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
Length: 19 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.
Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roofscape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically freighted panoramas of any... Read more
Otto von Bismarck
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a conservative German statesman, diplomat, and author who was born Junker Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck. Bismarck supervised Germany's unification in 1871 and functioned as its first chancellor till 1890, throughout which time he ruled Europe for 20 years.From... Read more
View audiobookQuetzalcoatl
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s a hard name to pronounce, but hey, it’s been the legend of Native American peoples for centuries.Was it a man? Was it a god? Was it a white person? Or was it some animal or strange thing?Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec divine being whose name originates from the Nahuatl language and meaning "valuable snake" or "Quetzal-feathered... Read more
View audiobookGermany
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a book with 3 different topics, all related to the 18th and 19th century history of Germany. The topics are the following:Otto von Bismarck: Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, was a conservative German statesman, diplomat, and author who was born Junker Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck. Bismarck... Read more
View audiobookBerlin, 24. Juni 1922 - Der Rathenaumord und der Beginn des rechten Terrors in Deutschland (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Thomas Hüetlin
Narrated by: Richard Barenberg
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Wie alles begann. Am 24. Juni 2022 jährt sich die Ermordung des deutschen Außenministers Walther Rathenau zum 100. Mal. Der Journalist und Buchautor Thomas Hüetlin lässt zu diesem Anlass die Ereignisse, die zu dieser verhängnisvollen Tat führten, in einer aufrüttelnden Reportage wieder auferstehen. Er erzählt vom Verlauf dieses tragischen Tages... Read more
View audiobookMexico
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman & John Michael Jalonen
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In this bundle of audiobooks, you will get the following topics:
1 - It’s a hard name to pronounce, but hey, it’s been the legend of Native American peoples for centuries. Was it a man? Was it a god? Was it a white person? Or was it some animal or strange thing? Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec divine being whose name originates from the Nahuatl language... Read more
Las que faltaban
By: Cristina Oñoro
Narrated by: Elsa Veiga
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Un relato emocionante, profundo y divertido de la historia de la humanidad en clave femenina. Premio al mejor Libro de Ensayo del 2022, por el Gremio de Libreros de Madrid Juana de Arco, Malinche, Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Wollstonecraft, Victoria Kent, Jane Austen, Marie Curie, Simone Weil o Rosa Parks también estuvieron ahí. Con brillantez y... Read more
View audiobookThe Runaway Children
By: Lindsey Hutchinson
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A heart-warming historical novel about surviving against the odds and finding a family, from top 10 bestseller Lindsey Hutchinson.In two rundown houses, at the side of a barren heath, live six children with no family but each other. Abandoned or orphaned, every day is a fight to find food and keep warm. But they are determined to stay free of... Read more
View audiobookGerman History
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a combo of 2 books:
1: The Unification of Germany had a significant impact on the whole country, the empire, and the decades after that. It was the inauguration for Germany into the 20th century, and the dreaded World War I and World War II that were partially consequences of that unification. On January 18th, 1871, in the Palace of... Read more
Mexico
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Chris Newman
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a combo book with three different topics, all related to the beliefs, history, and culture of Mexico. The topics are the following:1: Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a revolutionary in Mexico. He was a key figure in the Mexican Revolt of the years 1910 until 1920, and also the primary leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of... Read more
View audiobookUnmade Movies: Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula
By: Anthony Hinds
Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Sheen, Meera Syal, Anna Made...
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unproduced Hammer Horror script, directed by Mark Gatiss
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life,... Read more
Mexican History
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This combo consists of 2 books:
1 - Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a revolutionary in Mexico. He was a key figure in the Mexican Revolt of the years 1910 until 1920, and also the primary leader of the people's revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos and the creator of the Zapatismo agrarian movement. Zapata was born in the rural town of... Read more
The Unification of Germany
By: Kelly Mass
Narrated by: Doug Greene
Length: 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Unification of Germany had a significant impact on the whole country, the empire, and the decades after that. It was the inauguration for Germany into the 20th century, and the dreaded World War I and World War II that were partially consequences of that unification.On January 18th, 1871, in the Palace of Versailles in France, Germany was... Read more
View audiobookThe Accommodation
By: Jim Schutze
Narrated by: Mike Rhyner & John Wiley Price
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer, and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from... Read more
View audiobookInsurgency
By: Jeremy W. Peters
Narrated by: Jeremy W. Peters
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From an acclaimed political reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics.
“A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped... Read more
Red Carpet
By: Erich Schwartzel
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting." — The New York Times Book Review
“In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the extent of our cultural thrall to China. His depiction of the craven characters, American and Chinese, who have enabled... Read more
Totemsim, Tattoo, and Fetishism as Primitive Forms of Sign Language
By: Gerald Massey
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
So ancient was Totemism in Egypt that the Totems of the human Mothers had become the signs of Goddesses, in whom the head of the beast was blended with the figure of the human female. The Totems of the human Mothers had attained the highest status as Totems of a Motherhood that was held to be divine, the Motherhood in Nature which was elemental... Read more
View audiobookLessons out of School
By: Nancy C. Russell
Narrated by: Kendra Lords
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
I share unexpected insights from youthful and adult loves, addictions and adventures. Read more
View audiobookOrigin
By: Jennifer Raff
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau, Jennifer Raff & Yvonne Russo
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas.
ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete... Read more
Lajja
By: Taslima Nasrin
Narrated by: Mala Mangla
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A savage indictment of religious extremism and man's inhumanity to man, Lajja was banned in Bangladesh but became a bestseller in the rest of the world. This brand-new translation marks the twentieth anniversary of this controversial novel. The Dattas Sudhamoy and Kironmoyee and their children, Suronjon and Maya have lived in Bangladesh all... Read more
View audiobookThe Founders' Fortunes
By: Willard Sterne Randall
Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation
In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”... Read more
Stalin's Library
By: Geoffrey Roberts
Narrated by: Stewart Crank
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library.
In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious... Read more
Smashing Statues
By: Erin Thompson
Narrated by: Heather Masters
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading expert’s exploration of the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets... Read more
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