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Ganges
By: Sudipta Sen
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora.
Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the... Read more
Prisoner
By: Jason Rezaian
Narrated by: Jason Rezaian
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for eighteen months and whose release—which almost didn’t happen—became a part of the Iran nuclear deal.In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were... Read more
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Slaves in the Family
By: Edward Ball
Narrated by: Edward Ball
Length: 20 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family makes its audio debut, with a new preface by the author.
The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among... Read more
Unexampled Courage
By: Richard Gergel
Narrated by: Richard Gergel & Tom Zingarelli
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history.
Richard Gergel’s Unexampled Courage details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard... Read more
The Presidents and the Pastime
By: Curt Smith
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 19 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith's extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the "most American" sport, and the U.S. presidency.
Smith, who USA Today calls "America's voice of authority on baseball broadcasting," starts before America's... Read more
Johann Sebastian Bach
By: Christoph Wolff
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 21 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.
Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait.... Read more
El violento siglo americano
By: John W. Dower
Narrated by: Javier Ruiz Taboada
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
John W. Dower hace balance de la violencia que el mundo ha sufrido desde el fin de la segunda guerra mundial. Primero fue una mal llamada guerra fría –donde el general Le May se jactaba de haber matado a más de un millón de civiles coreanos con sus bombarderos- después la «guerra contra el terror», sin olvidar las guerras sucias de América... Read more
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The Ancient Egyptian Roots of Christianity
By: Moustafa Gadalla
Narrated by: Susie Hennessy
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian roots of Christianity, both historically and spiritually. This Expanded Version of the book consists of three parts to coincide with the terms of trinity. The first part demonstrates that the major biblical ancestors of the biblical Jesus are all Ancient Egyptian prominent characters. The second part... Read more
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Haunted Houses of England and Wales - Abridged
By: Elliott O'Donnell
Narrated by: Madeleine Mayfair
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Prepare for a scare! This collection of bone-chilling ghost stories from England and Wales is certain to send shivers down your spine. Settle in for more than four hours of haunted tales from the early twentieth century—that’s more than four hours of audio! Read more
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Fidel Castro: A Captivating Guide to a Cuban Communist Revolutionary Who Served as the President of Cuba for Over 30 Years
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Desmond Manny
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Explore the Captivating History of Fidel CastroFidel Castro. Depending on whom you ask, the name can inspire revulsion, hatred, admiration, incredulity, awe, fear, or even love. His story is one that has changed the course of the history of the world and the face of the island of Cuba.Castro was more than just a politician. His is a story that... Read more
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Islamic Folklore The Spider of Mount Thawr and Prophet Muhammad SAW English Edition
By: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro
Narrated by: Madina Binti Adam
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Audiobook Islamic Folklore The Spider of Mount Thawr and Prophet Muhammad English Languange Version Based from The Noble Quran & Al-Hadith.
I am a spider who is higher in rank than other spiders. With all humility, if all the spiders in this world were put in one hand and I was put in the other I would outweigh them in superiority. I am not... Read more
The Great Anglo-Boer War
By: Byron Farwell
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 23 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great Boer War (1899–1902)—more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War—was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it... Read more
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Blood Will Tell
By: Kyra Cornelius Kramer
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
With his tumultuous love life, relentless pursuit of a male heir, and drastic religious transformation, England's King Henry VIII's life sounds more like reality television than history. He was a man of fascinating contradictions—he pursued a woman he loved for almost a decade only to behead her less than four years after their marriage. He... Read more
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Hershey
By: Michael D'Antonio
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The name Hershey evokes many things: chocolate bars, the company town in Pennsylvania, one of America's most recognizable brands. But who was the man behind the name? In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman... Read more
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Brazil: A Biography
By: Lilia M. Schwarcz & Heloisa M. Starling
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
Length: 28 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown.
In an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred... Read more
México bizarro
By: Alejandro Rosas & Julio Patán
Narrated by: Alejandro Rosas & Julio Patán
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrado por los propios autores Alejandro Rosas y Julio Patán. En breves e irreverentes anécdotas, en las que la acidez y el humor se desbordan sin timidez, México bizarro retrata un país tan surrealista que lo mismo tiene sabor a chiste que a pesadilla. En sus capítulos se encuentran episodios como aquel en que una vidente fue contratada por... Read more
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The Shortest History of Europe
By: John Hirst
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilization.
The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilization, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning and Christianity and German warrior culture. Over the... Read more
The Indian World of George Washington
By: Colin G. Calloway
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 23 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time—Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle—and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them... Read more
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The Job
By: Ellen Ruppel Shell
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts, to a father of three in Appalachia finding purpose and meaning working in a convenience store chain, to an unemployed autoworker retraining in "advanced manufacturing," Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological... Read more
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Orca
By: Jason M. Colby
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s—the victims of... Read more
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When Death Becomes Life
By: Joshua D. Mezrich
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
""With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation—a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the unsettling ethical issues that haunt this miraculous lifesaving treatment. Mezrich's compassionate and honest voice, punctuated by a sharp and... Read more
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The Banished Immortal
By: Ha Jin
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po
In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary... Read more
Silence
By: Jane Brox
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Another "dazzling epic" from the author of Brilliant, exploring an overlooked yet elemental force in our lives-silence-from contemporary Cistercian monks to an extraordinary 19th-century prison. *Lev Grossman, Time The author of the "dazzling epic" (Time) Brilliant delivers an indelible view of the ways silence affects those who seek it and... Read more
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The House of Rothschild
By: Niall Ferguson
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 28 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast... Read more