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Dabo's World
By: Lars Anderson
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
How Dabo Swinney used his energy, faith, and determination to turn the Clemson Tigers into a football powerhouse. Read more
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Ancient Gaza: The History and Legacy of the Crucial Territory during Antiquity
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The Gaza Strip is one of the most controversial hotbeds of conflict in the 21st century, but wars are nothing new to this area of the world. Like other places across the Middle East, it has exchanged hands for three millennia and seen empires rise and fall. In the same vein, the current borders of the area known as Gaza have ebbed and flowed,... Read more
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Invasionen av Normandie
By: Allt om Historia
Narrated by: Dan Kandell
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
När morgonen grydde den 6 juni 1944 hade nazismens ok legat tungt över det franska fastlandet i fyra år. Klockan var 06.30 och från sina kulspruteställningar på stränderna i Normandie kunde tyska soldater se en syn som för dem måste ha varit lika otrolig som skräckinjagande. Framför dem i Engelska kanalens oroliga vatten låg den största... Read more
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The Picts: The History of the People Who Inhabited Scotland in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. To accomplish this, the wall had to be built from the mouth of the River Tyne – where Newcastle stands today – 80 Roman miles (76 miles or 122 kilometers) west to... Read more
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What Was Pearl Harbor?
By: Patricia Brennan Demuth & Who HQ
Narrated by: Eric Sharp
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A terrifying attack!
On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into World War II. In a compelling, easy-to-read narrative,... Read more
Liberalism in Dark Times
By: Joshua L. Cherniss
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal... Read more
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The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: The History of the Civil Disturbances across LA after the Beating of Rodney King
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The fight for civil rights was at the forefront of inspirational, high-octane movements that took 20th century America by storm. It was a long time coming, to say the least, and yet, while some headway was made, progress was difficult and painfully slow. The historic advancements achieved during the Reconstruction Era were reversed by the Jim... Read more
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Say Their Names
By: Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines...
Narrated by: Wayne Carr, Tre Hall & Tracey Leigh
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.
For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George... Read more
The Ottomans
By: Marc David Baer
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
Length: 17 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep... Read more
The Vanishing
By: Janine di Giovanni
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones... Read more
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The Histories
By: Jonathan Black
Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
Length: 37 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
How did the city state of Rome rise inexorably to become the dominant power in the Mediterranean and much of the Western world?
In short, first of all it overcame the established Carthaginian Empire despite the remarkable exploits of Hannibal. And, largely at the same time, it gradually subjugated the many and varied city states of Greece,... Read more
Monsters
By: Alison Croggon
Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination . . . grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible . . .
"I was born as part of a monstrous structure—the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that... Read more
The Trouble with White Women
By: Kyla Schuller
Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Mela Lee
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them
Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist... Read more
The Soul of Genius
By: Jeffrey Orens
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the... Read more
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Public Confessions
By: Rebecca L. Davis
Narrated by: Vayu O'Donnell
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate.Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis explains why the new faiths of notable figures... Read more
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The Constitution of India for Children
By: Subhadra Sen Gupta
Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Every 26th January, people gather on New Delhi’s Rajpath amidst a colourful jamboree of fluttering flags, marching soldiers and dancing children. What is celebrated on this day is at the heart of our democracy-the magnificent Constitution of India.
The document didn’t only lay down the law but united India with a vision that took two years,... Read more
World War C
By: Sanjay Gupta
Narrated by: Sanjay Gupta
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for—or prevent—the next one?
As America’s favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his... Read more
The Whisper on the Night Wind
By: Adam Shoalts
Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer.
Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central Labrador. Today it is an abandoned ghost town, almost all trace of it swallowed up by dark spruce woods that cloak... Read more
Klondikers
By: Tim Falconer
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds
Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada's national pastime.
An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers'... Read more
Half Lives
By: Lucy Jane Santos
Narrated by: Deirdre Whelan
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday lifeOf all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the... Read more
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The Taking of Jemima Boone
By: Matthew Pearl
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration... Read more
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Until I Am Free
By: Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Explores the Black activist’s ideas and political strategies, highlighting their relevance for tackling modern social issues including voter suppression, police violence, and economic inequality.
“We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”—Fannie Lou Hamer
A... Read more
When the Sahara Was Green
By: Martin Williams
Narrated by: Michael J. Wells
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Mike Wells traces the history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The... Read more
Major Labels
By: Kelefa Sanneh
Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year
“One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal
An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated... Read more