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The Bidens
By: Ben Schreckinger
Narrated by: Aaron Abano
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply reported exploration of Joe Biden as told through his extended family. Coming off of the 2020 election, THE BIDENS tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tree to his son Hunter's foreign deal-making spree—and the Trump gang's ham-handed efforts to exploit it.
On November 3,... Read more
The Amur River
By: Colin Thubron
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
""A gripping read with fascinating political insight."" (Sunday Times, London)""Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers at a time of rapid and tense reconfiguration of global geopolitics."" (Washington Post)The... Read more
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Roanoke
By: Lee Miller
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115 men, women, and children, among them the first... Read more
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Renegades
By: Adrian Weale
Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Who were the Brits that tried to help the Nazis?
At the end of the Second World War, nearly 200 British nationals were under investigation for assisting Hitler's Germany. Many have remained infamous such as William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, and John Amery, who were both executed for High Treason.
But in this study Adrian Weale unearths... Read more
The Price of the Ticket
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 34 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”
Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime... Read more
The Burning Blue
By: Kevin Cook
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
On January 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's "Teacher in Space," was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of us remember.
Kevin Cook tells us what really happened on that ill-fated, unforgettable day. He... Read more
Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943
By: Peter Harmsen
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians feared a future under Hirohito. The fate of half of mankind was hanging in the balance.
But by... Read more
Spurgeon on the Power of Scripture
By: Jason K. Allen
Narrated by: Tim Mullins
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
When Spurgeon speaks, you’d be wise to listen.The great London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon had a lot to say during his four decades of ministry at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. And beyond his mighty voice, Spurgeon’s pen churned out countless words of biblical interpretation and Christian wisdom. These words can still encourage us... Read more
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Last Men Out
By: Tom Clavin & Bob Drury
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin tell the remarkable drama that unfolded over the final, heroic hours of the Vietnam War. This closing chapter of the war would become the largest-scale evacuation ever carried out, as improvised by a... Read more
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Trout Water
By: Josh Greenberg
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
It's the beginning of trout fishing season, and Josh Greenberg—proprietor of one of the nation's most famous fishing outfitters, on America's most iconic trout-fishing stream, the Au Sable River in Michigan—is standing in the Au Sable at dusk when he gets the call that a dear fishing buddy has died.
The solace he takes from fishing—from reading... Read more
How to Talk to a Science Denier
By: Lee McIntyre
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
"Climate change is a hoax—and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed—they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we get them to change... Read more
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Asian Armageddon, 1944-45
By: Peter Harmsen
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944–1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount... Read more
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El mundo prehispánico para gente con prisa
By: Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc
Narrated by: Alex Ortega
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
«Una cuenta de Twitter quiere acabar con los mitos de la Historia de México», así describió El País a Enrique Ortiz, mejor conocido como Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, divulgador de la historia que revela los detalles más atrevidos y los hechos más increíbles de la cultura que habitó el Valle de México y que se transformó radicalmente después de la... Read more
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True Raiders
By: Brad Ricca
Narrated by: Stephanie Willis
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Who knew that RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was based on real events? This audiobook, expertly performed by Stephanie Willis, is a must for anyone who enjoyed the Harrison Ford movie and wants to know what really happened in 1908, when a British expedition searched for the Ark of the Covenant, alleged to have "mystical" powers." –AudioFile Magazine,... Read more
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Summer of Blood
By: Dan Jones
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history—the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal masters.
In the summer of 1381, ravaged by poverty and oppressed by... Read more
Noble Ambitions
By: Adrian Tinniswood
Narrated by: Roger May
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their... Read more
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You Bet Your Life
By: Paul A Offit
Narrated by: James Noel Hoban
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for today
Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the... Read more
In the Shadow of the Empress
By: Nancy Goldstone
Narrated by: Emma Newman
Length: 23 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.
Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength... Read more
The Cause
By: Joseph J. Ellis
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the... Read more
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Madonnas letzter Traum
By: author
Narrated by: Thomas Roth
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Doğan Akhanlı greift die Novelle Madonna im Pelzmantel des türkischen Dichters Sabahattin Ali auf und schreibt sie neu. Alis Novelle erzählt von einer im Berlin der 1920er Jahre stattfindenden Liebesbeziehung zwischen einem jungen türkischen Mann und einer jungen jüdischen Malerin, die bei der Geburt des gemeinsamen Kindes stirbt. Alis Novelle... Read more
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A Tale of Two Systems
By: Ian Williams
Narrated by: Joshua Mount
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A narrative of personal experiences and observations, A Tale of Two Systems is the honest diary of someone who has experienced two opposite governmental systems side by side.Comparing the two cultures in a compelling and personal way, it is a powerful insight into what life’s really like under two opposing systems.In A Tale of Two Systems,... Read more
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Dovey Undaunted
By: Tonya Bolden
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent white Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to bring a... Read more
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Dreams From My Mother
By: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
Narrated by: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awakening, and her journey to becoming a Black health radical. She uses her "bellyful of anger" to great effect, highlighting the ethnic health inequalities exposed by... Read more
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Reise durch Ruinen
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Zwischen März und November 1945 folgte George Orwell als Kriegsberichterstatter den alliierten Streitkräften durch Deutschland und Österreich. Seine Reportagen schildern frei von Triumph oder Hass, welche Zerstörung der Krieg über Städte, Länder und Menschen gebracht hat. Hier erscheinen sie erstmals geschlossen in deutscher Übersetzung. "Die... Read more
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