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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
By: Richard L. DiNardo & Daniel J. Hughes
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 21 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire—and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.
Written by two... Read more
Mukiwa
By: Peter Godwin
Narrated by: Peter Godwin
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas—it is the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written "a classic of its genre" (Sunday Telegraph), a vivid and moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.
In... Read more
Learning from the Germans
By: Susan Neiman
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 20 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman... Read more
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Gender and Our Brains
By: Gina Rippon
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains
We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained... Read more
Escalante's Dream
By: David Roberts
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition.
In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in... Read more
Left Bank
By: Agnes Poirier
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnès Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of... Read more
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The Optimist's Telescope
By: Bina Venkataraman
Narrated by: Bina Venkataraman
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR
“How might we mitigate losses caused by shortsightedness? Bina Venkataraman, a former climate adviser to the Obama administration, brings a storyteller’s eye to this question. . . . She is also deeply informed about the relevant science.” —The New York Times Book Review
A trailblazing exploration of how we can... Read more
Dogfight over Tokyo
By: John Wukovits
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From an expert in the Pacific theater of World War II comes the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they... Read more
Cold Warriors
By: Duncan White
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 24 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the... Read more
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Man in the Music
By: Joseph Vogel
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
For half a century, Michael Jackson’s music has been an indelible part of our cultural consciousness. Landmark albums such as Off the Wall and Thriller shattered records, broke racial barriers, amassed awards, and set a new standard for popular music. While his songs continue to be played in nearly every corner of the world, however, they have... Read more
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The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
By: Sarah Miller
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world.
When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. Overnight, Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie... Read more
NFL Century
By: Joe Horrigan
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season.
“I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National Football League’s century-long history than Joe Horrigan.”—Marv... Read more
See Jane Win
By: Caitlin Moscatello
Narrated by: Caitlin Moscatello
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editor's Choice Pick*
From an award-winning journalist covering gender and politics comes an inside look at the female candidates fighting back and winning elections in the crucial 2018 midterms.
After November 8, 2016, first came the sadness; then came the rage, the activism, and the protests; and, finally, for... Read more
Babylon
By: Paul Kriwaczek
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of... Read more
Alexander the Great
By: Anthony Everitt
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait.
“[An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging, including the verve with which it tackles that teased... Read more
Night in the American Village
By: Akemi Johnson
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the US bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed thereAt the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of US military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for... Read more
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This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else
By: Jon Savage
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
An exciting new book on Joy Division, featuring never before told stories.
Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on May 18, 1980. It weaves together interviews conducted by the author, but never used in the making of the film Joy Division, which told the... Read more
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
By: Debra Gwartney
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen... Read more
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End Times
By: Bryan Walsh
Narrated by: Bryan Walsh & Corey Carthew
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In this history of extinction and existential risk, a Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist examines our most dangerous mistakes -- and explores how we can protect and future-proof our civilization.
End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable --... Read more
The Goths: A Captivating Guide to the Visigoths and Ostrogoths Who Sacked Rome and Played an Essential Role in the Fall of the Western Roman Empire
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
If you want to discover the captivating history of the Goths, then pay attention...When J. R. R. Tolkien was writing his best-known work, The Lord of the Rings, between 1937 and 1949, he drew inspiration from various sources, with the largest well of inspiration being European folklore. However, according to some sources, he would also use... Read more
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Maffia
By: Thomas Lappalainen
Narrated by: Magnus Roosmann
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Maffia är ett begrepp som kan skänka oss obehag och kanske rädsla. Här får vi följa maffians framväxt på Sicilien och hur dess organisation flyttat ut i Italien och sedan resten av världen. Vi får följa den amerikanska armens häpnadsväckande hjälp att återupprätta maffian under andra världskrigets slutskede. Brottsorganisationens roll i det... Read more
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مغامرة العقل الأولى
By: فراس السواح
Narrated by: منار مراد
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
هل تؤرِّقك معضلة الأسئلة الكبيرة..ماذا حدث أولًا؟ من أين جاء الكون؟ متى بدأ الأمر؟ هل تطمح إلى مغامرةٍ فريدةٍ من نوعها بتتبّع "سفر التكوين" منذ لحظة نشوءه عند السومريين وانتقاله إلى البابليين ثمَّ الكنعانيين؟ هل تريد معرفة الأساطير التي انتشرت في منطقة بلاد الشام والرّافدين من خلال استحضار كافّة النصوص القديمة والمترجمة حولها؟ في كتابه... Read more
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Nimrud: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Assyrian City
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Although the Biblical accounts of the Assyrians are among the most interesting and are often corroborated with other historical sources, the Assyrians were much more than just the enemies of the Israelites and brutal thugs. A historical survey of ancient Assyrian culture reveals that although they were the supreme warriors of their time, they... Read more
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لغز عشتار
By: فراس السواح
Narrated by: ألاء أحمد
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
منذ أن تعلَّم الإنسان الأول زراعة المحاصيل صار يفكِّر بوجود قوةٍ خفية تتحكَّم بالزراعة وبمواسم الأمطار والعطاء، لذا قرَّر بأنّه لا بدَّ من وجود الأمّ الكبرى للكون باعتبار الأم هي مصدر الولادة والعطاء لذا رسخ في عقله بأنَّ الآلهة هي أنثى، هي سيدة الطبيعة فصنع لها تماثيل صغيرة من الطين في البداية، ثمّ تماثيل حجرية أكبر ثمَّ بنى لها المعابد... Read more
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