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A Companion to Martin Scorsese, Revised Edition
By: Aaron Baker
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 21 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers.
● Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches
● Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most... Read more
Reign of Terror
By: Spencer Ackerman
Narrated by: Spencer Ackerman
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021
"An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." —The New York Times
"One of the most illuminating books... Read more
Maiden Voyages
By: Siân Evans
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Siân Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America.
During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women,... Read more
The Infinite Staircase
By: Geoffrey A. Moore
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this bold new book, high-tech’s best-known strategist makes a seminal contribution to the search for meaning in a secular era.
Two questions fundamental to human existence have always been the metaphysical “where do I fit in the grand scheme of things?” and the ethical “how should I behave?” Religion is no longer a source of answers for many... Read more
Queen Victoria
By: Michael Ledger-Lomas
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life—from her accession to her marriage and her successive bereavements—enlarged how she... Read more
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Not For You
By: Ronen Givony
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 17 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries; and had five different albums reach number one. But Pearl Jam's story is about much more than music.
A study of their role in history—from Operation Desert Storm to... Read more
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters
By: Julie Klam
Narrated by: Julie Klam
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021
“It is biography as an expression of love.” –The New York Times
New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts.
Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her... Read more
The State Must Provide
By: Adam Harris
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“A book that both taught me so much and also kept me on the edge of my seat. It is an invaluable text from a supremely talented writer.” —Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedThe definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher educationAmerica’s colleges and universities have a shameful secret: they have... Read more
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Empire of the Romans
By: John Matthews
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 24 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empire—from its establishment to decline and beyond
Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar's... Read more
The Mersey Angels
By: Sheila Riley
Narrated by: Julie Maisey
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The thrilling new book from Sheila Riley in her Liverpool Saga series 1916 LIVERPOOL
Following the death of her father, Ruby Swift, and husband Archie finally move back into Ashland Hall.
As the Great War rages, fathers and sons take the King's Shilling and head off to fight the unknown enemy, not knowing what horrors lie ahead.
With Ned Kincaid... Read more
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
By: Charlie English
Narrated by: Enn Reitel
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold story of Hitler’s war on “degenerate” artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the “Final Solution.”
“A penetrating chronicle . . . deftly links art history, psychiatry, and Hitler’s ideology to devastating effect.”—The Wall Street Journal
As a veteran of the First World War, and an expert in art history and medicine,... Read more
Karachi Vice
By: Samira Shackle
Narrated by: Amina Zia
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Karachi. Pakistan’s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people, twice the size of New York City. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It takes an insider to know where is safe, whom to trust, and what makes Karachi tick. In this powerful debut, Samira... Read more
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Two Miserable Presidents
By: Steve Sheinkin
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Steve Sheinkin
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War.
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
A Beacon of Freedom Award... Read more
The Last Sovereigns
By: Robert M. Utley
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux's historical territories that were sacred to him and his people.
Robert M. Utley... Read more
Apollo 1
By: Ryan S. Walters
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away. All three astronauts were experienced pilots and had dreams of one day walking... Read more
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Harlow in Hollywood
By: Darrell Rooney & Mark A. Vieira
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
At last, the story of how Hollywood shaped a myth and determined a young woman's reality.
A town, a remarkable town, became the backdrop for one of Hollywood's most incredible stories, a life rife with glamour, pleasure, power, and—in the end—utter sorrow. When Jean Harlow became the Blonde Bombshell, it was all Hollywood's doing. She was the... Read more
The Open Question
By: Peter May
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year—it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had... Read more
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The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
By: Romulus Hillsborough
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi—the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600–1868).
This book recounts the fascinating tales of political intrigue, murder, and mayhem surrounding the fearsome Shinsengumi,... Read more
Hollywood Black
By: Donald Bogle & Turner Classic Movies
Narrated by: Donald Bogle
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.
The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but... Read more
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
By: Calvin Coolidge, Amity Shlaes & Matthew Denhart
Narrated by: Terence Aselford
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past … to America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge.Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and... Read more
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White Malice
By: Susan Williams
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
Length: 21 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory history of how post-colonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah,... Read more
You Deserve It
By: Brian Reese
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
You SERVED. You DESERVE.
Brian Reese was good at masking his PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. He even told himself he did not “deserve” benefits, which he later discovered was complete bullshit. As an air force officer deployed to Afghanistan, he embodied the motto of “service before self.” Unfortunately, like many veterans, his... Read more
The Immortals
By: Steven T. Collis
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Just past midnight, on February 3, just hours from their destination, the Dorchester was torpedoed and sank, throwing its passengers into the frigid waters and creating the worst single loss of an American personnel convoy during WWII. Many of the survivors credit the four chaplains with saving their lives. Those chaplains would become known as... Read more
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The Bishops’ Wars: The History of the Religious Conflicts that Engulfed Britain and Led to the First English Civil War
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Daniel Houle
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with a period of no monarch at all. The major exception to that rule came in the 11 years between 1649 and 1660, when England was a republic. Following the disastrous reign of Charles I and the civil wars that led to his execution, Parliament and the army ruled... Read more
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