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How Football (Nearly) Came Home
By: Barney Ronay
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The summer of 2018: England sweltered in the most sustained heatwave for 42 years, the government tore itself apart over deals and no deals, and hundreds of miles away, in a taciturn and strange state, the national football team did the unthinkable in the World Cup: they didn’t screw it up. The... Read more
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Frauen. Wahl. Recht.
By: Angela Kreuz & Dieter Lohr
Narrated by: Kira Bohn, Eva Sixt, Gunna Wendt, Martin Hofer,...
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Der 19. Januar 1919 stellt für die deutsche Geschichte und die Frauenbewegung ein zentrales Datum dar, das die Geschichtsschreibung indes beiläufig nennt, aber nicht weiter ausführt. Die Ereignisse im zeitlichen Umfeld dieses in jeder Hinsicht milden Wintertages waren weitaus dramatischer und erinnerungsträchtiger: Vier Tage zuvor waren Rosa... Read more
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Philosophy of Mind
By: Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Philosophy of Mind is the third and final part of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the collection in which Hegel (1730-1831) offered an overview of his life's work. Though originally written in 1817, he revised it in 1830, thus providing a finished form the year before his death.
Hegel used the three parts of the Encyclopaedia -... Read more
An Unexplained Death
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Mikita Brottman
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere—a once-grand hotel—and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism.
“The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word ‘Missing,’ printed in a bold, high-impact font, are... Read more
The War Before the War
By: Andrew Delbanco
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Excellent . . . stunning.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates
The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War
A New York Times Notable Book Selection * Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize* Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * A New York Times Critics' Best Book
For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one... Read more
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
By: Klaus Schwab & Nicholas Davis
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Today, technology is changing everything--how we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and goverments function, and even what it means to be human.
One need not... Read more
The Candidate Losers
By: the Speech Resource Company
Narrated by: Robert Wikstrom
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Success in public life is often defined by winning elections, although many candidates that do not win go on to contribute publicly and make positive changes. Speeches are featured from those candidates that fell short of the votes needed to beat their rivals but continued to fight for their political ideals and issues.Produced by the Speech... Read more
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Loaded
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
With President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves, with the NRA portrayed as a group of "patriots" helping to Make America Great Again, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed, historical perspective on the... Read more
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
By: James Longo
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsburg Imperial family became the catalyst for his vendetta against a vanished empire, a dead archduke, and his royal orphans. That hatred drove Hitler's rise to power and led directly to the tragedy of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
The royal... Read more
Sicily: Land of Love and Strife
By: John Julius Norwich
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, A Filmmaker's Journey, the process of capturing the island nation on film is revealed. A country rich with natural beauty and historic sites, and a people distinguished by their passion, struggles, philosophy, and the depth and diversity of their culture, has unfortunately been overshadowed by its association... Read more
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Gene Machine
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome—an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms—that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental... Read more
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Beyond the Call
By: Eileen Rivers
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of three women who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men and worked with local women to restore their lives and push back the Taliban
They marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired weapons out of the windows of military vehicles, defending their units in deadly battles. And they did things that... Read more
Fire And Blood
By: T. R. Fehrenbach
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 35 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
There have been many Mexicos: the country of varied terrain, of Amerindian heritage, of the Spanish Conquest, of the Revolution, and of the modern era of elections and the rule of bankers. Mexico was forged in the fires of successive civilizations, and baptized with the blood of millions, all of whom added tragic dimensions to the modern Mexican... Read more
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The Story of Greece and Rome
By: Tony Spawforth
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization... Read more
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Mortal Republic
By: Edward J. Watts
Narrated by: Matt Kugler
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author.
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome... Read more
Winner Takes All
By: Christina Binkley
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and culture critic Christina Binkley comes an updated revision of her New York Times bestselling account of sex, drugs, and the rise of Las Vegas. With a new prologue on the rise and fall of Steve Wynn.
"It's a great drama on the greatest stage. . . Wynn, Kerkorian, and Loveman represent three opposing... Read more
Behind the Throne
By: Adrian Tinniswood
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
An "enchanting" upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Wall Street Journal). Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on... Read more
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The Culture of Fear
By: Barry Glassner
Narrated by: Michael Moore & William Dufris
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things-now updated for the age of Trump
In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago. But are we living in exceptionally perilous times? In his... Read more
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World
By: Vashti Harrison
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Adenrele Ojo
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times bestseller!
From the author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world.
Featuring the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little... Read more
Reconstruction
By: Allen C. Guelzo
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential... Read more
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The Indispensable Composers
By: Anthony Tommasini
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 20 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times
When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he realized that his passion for this music was not... Read more
Churchill
By: Andrew Roberts
Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
Length: 50 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018
One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018
One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018
“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always... Read more
The Children
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 32 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong you-are-there quality, The Children is a story one of America's preeminent... Read more
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What Would Cleopatra Do?
By: Elizabeth Foley & Beth Coates
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“Fun, cheeky” (Booklist), and a visual delight, What Would Cleopatra Do? shares the wisdom and advice passed down from Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Dorothy Parker, and forty-seven other heroines from past eras on how to handle common problems women have encountered throughout history and still face today.
What Would Cleopatra Do? tackles issues by... Read more