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John Paul Jones: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War Commander Dubbed the Father of the American Navy
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David Bernard
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When the American Revolution began, the Continental Army sported numerous volunteers from Ireland, Scotland, virtually every European nation between France and Russia, and men from the northern and southern borders of the European continent. There are good reasons America doesn’t possess a constitutionally-confirmed national language, despite... Read more
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Jackie Robinson and Moses Fleetwood Walker: The Lives and Careers of the Players Who Integrated Major League Baseball
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Bill Hare
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In his introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader, sports historian Jules Tygiel succinctly observed, “Extraordinary lives often reveal ordinary truths. Jackie Robinson was born in 1919 and died in 1972. He crammed into these brief fifty-three years a legacy of accomplishment, acclaim, controversy, and influence matched by few Americans. He was,... Read more
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Arches and Triumphs in Ancient Rome: The History of the Roman Empire's Most Famous Military Celebrations and Monuments
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Some of the most iconic symbols of the Roman Empire that have survived into the modern world today are the arches that Romans erected to commemorate military victories and glorify individual emperors. The story of how arches came to be used throughout the Roman world in such a way is one that involves the evolution of the military and its... Read more
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The Mueller Report - Volume II
By: Robert S. Mueller, III
Narrated by: Man with a Cat
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This report is submitted to the Attorney General pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), which states that , "[a]t the conclusion of the Special Counsel 's work, he shall provide the Attorney General a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions [the Special Counsel] reached."The Russian government interfered in the 2016... Read more
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The Modern CIA: The History of America’s Central Intelligence Agency from the Cold War to Today
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Bill Hare
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and on the other by the very height of the Cold War, was marked by a remarkably stable succession of American presidents. In fact, only three men held office in this period, and that predictability led to a general stability among government agencies.... Read more
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Patria 2
By: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Narrated by: Pedro de Aguillón Jr.
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
El valor, como el miedo, son contagiosos. De uno y otro lado los defensores y los atacantes realizan hazañas sorprendentes. Si, en el caso del ejército francés, su notable disciplina les da ventaja, en el caso mexicano los oficiales y suboficiales que combaten en la primera línea dan una consistencia enorme a la defensa. González Ortega añade:... Read more
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Surprised at Being Alive
By: Robert F. Curtis
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn't your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the... Read more
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Faith Alone: Audio Lectures
By: Thomas R. Schreiner
Narrated by: Thomas R. Schreiner
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Faith Alone: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from... Read more
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Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
By: Terry McAuliffe
Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley & Terry McAuliffe
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This program is read by the author.
The former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville—and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening.
When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone on the afternoon of the violent... Read more
Irrational Man
By: William Barrett
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying... Read more
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Sisters and Rebels
By: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 25 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary... Read more
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Conspiracies of Conspiracies
By: Thomas Milan Konda
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for... Read more
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: The History of the USSR Under Mikhail Gorbachev
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
The Cold War moved into one of its most dangerous phases after Brezhnev’s death as both sides deployed nuclear weapons within alarming proximity in Europe. A NATO exercise, “Operation Able Archer,” almost led to a Soviet miscalculation, and when the Soviets shot down a South Korean airliner in September 1983, claiming it had strayed into Soviet... Read more
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The Lost River
By: Michel Danino
Narrated by: Vishal Menon
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as -Sarasvati' in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early nineteenth... Read more
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The Mapmaker's Wife
By: Robert Whitaker
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In the early years of the eighteenth century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for... Read more
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The Ultimate Yankee Book
By: Harvey Frommer
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people, and stories from the team's creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer, the celebrated baseball historian and author of eight books about the Yankees, including The New York Yankee... Read more
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The Notorious Reno Gang
By: Rachel Dickinson
Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West.
They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the... Read more
High Heel
By: Summer Brennan
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that matter, a man) to choose to wear them?
Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves... Read more
An Empire of Wealth
By: John Steele Gordon
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way—through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history,... Read more
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The Decline of the Soviet Union: The History of the Communist Empire in the Last 30 Years of Its Existence
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in late 1964 after a plot to oust Khrushchev. Little is remembered in the public imagination about Brezhnev in comparison to Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Lenin, or Joseph Stalin, despite the fact Brezhnev ruled the USSR from 1964-1982, longer than any Soviet leader... Read more
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Our Beloved Kin
By: Lisa Brooks
Narrated by: Rainy Fields
Length: 16 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America
With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a... Read more
The Responsible Company
By: Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to... Read more
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Caligula
By: Stephen Dando-Collins
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula.In this book about Rome’s most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous... Read more
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Fire and Fortitude
By: John C. McManus
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 24 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die
“This eloquent and powerful narrative is military history written the way it should be.”—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
"Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops,"... Read more