The Matter of Black Lives
By: Jelani Cobb & David Remnick
Narrated by: JD Jackson, Adjoa Andoh, January LaVoy, Maggi-M...
Length: 30 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private... Read more
View audiobookThe New Border Wars
By: Klaus Dodds
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
What do the world's best-known, most dangerous, and most unexpected border conflicts mean for our changing international relationships?
In The New Border Wars, border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border walls—literal and figurative—from the Gaza Strip to the space race. In the... Read more
Adaptation Under Fire
By: Lt. General David Barno & Nora Bensahel
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. In the face of such great uncertainty, militaries must be able to adapt rapidly in order to win. Adaptation under Fire identifies the characteristics that make militaries more adaptable, illustrated through historical examples and the... Read more
View audiobookThe Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 30 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year
“An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A magnum opus from... Read more
Margot at War
By: Anne deCourcy
Narrated by: Corrie James
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style, and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last four years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political turmoil in her... Read more
View audiobookPromise That You Will Sing About Me
By: Miles Marshall Lewis
Narrated by: Larry Herron & Miles Marshall Lewis
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
A stunning, in-depth look at the power and poetry of one of the most consequential rappers of our time.
Kendrick Lamar is one of the most influential rappers, songwriters and record producers of his generation. Widely known for his incredible lyrics and powerful music, he is regarded as... Read more
Twelve Caesars
By: Mary Beard
Narrated by: Mary Beard
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by bestselling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture... Read more
Robert E. Lee
By: Allen C. Guelzo
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 22 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor.
"An important... Read more
Life Is Simple
By: Johnjoe McFadden
Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe
Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham’s razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadden traces centuries of discoveries, taking us from a geocentric cosmos to quantum mechanics and... Read more
A Companion to Steven Spielberg
By: Nigel Morris
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 29 hours
Abridged: No
A Companion to Steven Spielberg provides an authoritative collection of essays exploring the achievements and legacy of one of the most influential film directors of the modern era.
● Offers comprehensive coverage of Spielberg's directorial output, from early works, including Duel, The Sugarland Express, and Jaws, to recent films
● Explores... Read more
Ubåtsjakt på Atlanten
By: Allt om Historia
Narrated by: Anders Ek
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Det är ett ofta förbisett faktum, att andra världskrigets viktigaste slag inte utkämpades på Normandies stränder eller i Stalingrads ruiner utan på Atlanten, där tyska ubåtar försökte "svälta" Storbritannien till kapitulation genom att skära av viktiga försörjningslinjer för mat och materiel. Idag är det i stort sett omöjligt att finna spår... Read more
View audiobookNews of a Kidnapping
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Consumed these past twenty years by a “biblical holocaust,” Colombia has endured leftist insurgencies, right-wing death squads, currency collapses, cholera epidemics, and, most recently and corrosively, drug trafficking. Returning to his days as a reporter for El Espectador, Gabriel García Márquez chronicles, with consummate skill, the period in... Read more
View audiobookThe Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
By: Telford Taylor
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 30 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"A masterly work of military and judicial history."—New York Times. Telford Taylor's book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century.
In 1945, the Allied nations agreed on a judicial process, rather than summary execution, to determine the... Read more
Orishas: La guía definitiva de las deidades africanas orishas y su presencia en el yoruba, la santería, el vudú y el hudú, con una explicación de la adivinación del dilogún
By: Mari Silva
Narrated by: Fabio Persa
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Conozca a fondo a los orishas de la A a la ZNo está solo. Los espíritus de nuestros antepasados están con usted. Los antiguos orishas, conocidos por sus tremendos poderes, le ayudarán en su viaje por la vida. Con su Ashé a su disposición, puede obtener enormes resultados y, en última instancia, vivir una vida plena.En este libro, los secretos y... Read more
View audiobookThe Weeping Time
By: Anne C. Bailey
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers,... Read more
View audiobookFreedom Is Costly, But Priceless
By: Dave Meyer
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The key to America’s future begins with exploring our past. In Freedom Is Costly, But Priceless, Dave Meyer shares the importance of our nation’s true history—learning about our rich, godly heritage and discovering Who and what has made this nation so great. God’s Word was an integral part of our nation’s founding, and His Word is still the key... Read more
View audiobookBenjamin Franklin
By: D.G. Hart
Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most prominent leaders, a world recognized scientist, and the United States' leading diplomat during the War for... Read more
View audiobookSamuelson Friedman
By: Nicholas Wapshott
Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics. Milton Friedman championed "monetarism" and insisted the Federal Reserve maintain tight control over the amount of money circulating in the economy.
In Samuelson Friedman,... Read more
Wide as the Waters
By: Benson Bobrick
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was—and is—the most influential book ever published.
The most famous of all English Bibles, the King James Version, was the culmination of centuries of work by various translators, from John Wycliffe, the fourteenth-century catalyst of English Bible translation, to the committee of scholars who... Read more
Made in Washington
By: Bernd Greiner
Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Die USA gelten als die unverzichtbare Nation. Ohne ihre schützende Hand, heißt es oft, würde die Welt im Chaos versinken. Bernd Greiner unterzieht diese These einem Praxistest. Was macht die Ordnungsmacht, wenn sie ordnet? Und wie sehen die Weltgegenden anschließend aus, in denen Washington ordnend eingegriffen hat? Bernd Greiners Buch zeigt,... Read more
View audiobookVeterano de tres guerras - Parte 1
By: Guillermo Parvex
Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
El best seller de la crónica histórica ahora se suma al catálogo de Ediciones B
Reedición revisada y aumentada del best seller que reúne las experiencias del abogado y oficial de ejercito José Miguel Varela, en la Guerra del Pacifico, las Campañas de la Araucanía y Guerra Civil de 1891. Un libro que en su primera versión ha vendido más de... Read more
27 Thoughts on Steampunk
By: Travis I. Sivart
Narrated by: Travis I. Sivart
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Travis I. Sivart draws on his passion of steampunk as an aesthetic and a hobby to offer his personal insights for helping others to begin to delving into this fascinating culture and genre. Each thought is a single page, keeping the ideas simple and to the point. This book offers twenty-seven thoughts on the basic questions and concepts that... Read more
View audiobookProtagoras
By: Platon
Narrated by: Volker Braumann
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Zufällig trifft Sokrates einen Freund auf der Straße. Ein Gespräch entspinnt sich, in dem Sokrates von seiner Begegnung mit dem weithin bekannten Sophisten Protagoras erzählt. So kurz der Handlungsrahmen wiederzugeben ist, so inhaltsreich das, was Platon in diesem frühen Dialog seinen Lesern zu bieten hat. Im Protagoras lässt Platon Sokrates... Read more
View audiobookWhat Is History, Now?
By: Suzannah Lipscomb & Helen Carr
Narrated by: Helen Carr, Peter Kenny, Sara Powell & Suzannah...
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and... Read more
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