The Unknown American Revolution
By: Gary B. Nash
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 20 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved... Read more
View audiobookPresidents of War
By: Michael Beschloss
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 26 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives
“Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.”—Bill Gates
Widely... Read more
Queen of Spies
By: Paddy Hayes
Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of Daphne Park, the female British secret intelligence officer who rose through the male-dominated ranks to become the Queen of SpiesFrom living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar es Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life―one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of... Read more
View audiobookImprudent King
By: Geoffrey Parker
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 18 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his... Read more
View audiobookElectronic Health Records for Dummies
By: Anita Samarth & Trenor Williams, MD
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The straight scoop on choosing and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system
Doctors, nurses, and hospital and clinic administrators are interested in learning the best ways to implement and use an electronic health records system so that they can be shared across different health care settings via a network-connected information... Read more
Reconsidering Race
By: Kazuko Suzuki & Diego A. von Vacano
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age of Discovery) or the eighteenth century (the Age... Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Emperor
By: Mark Braude
Narrated by: Mark Braude
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“A suspenseful, fast-paced account. . . . Braude’s prose glints with humor and humanity.” —Seattle Times
A gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba
In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the... Read more
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
By: Aaron Mahnke
Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore—now a streaming television series—including “Echoes,” “Withering Heights,” and “Behind Closed Doors” as well as rare material.
Sometimes you walk into a room, a building, or even a town, and you feel it. Something seems off—an... Read more
The League
By: John Eisenberg
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $14 billion in annual revenue. But it was not always a success. In The League, John Eisenberg focuses on the pioneering... Read more
View audiobookTrust
By: David Johnston
Narrated by: David Johnston
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.
Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies rely. One of Canada's most revered governors general,... Read more
True Indie
By: Don Coscarelli
Narrated by: Don Coscarelli
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From Don Coscarelli, the celebrated filmmaker behind many cherished cult classics comes a memoir that's both revealing autobiography and indie film crash course.
Best known for his horror/sci-fi/fantasy films including Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-tep and John Dies at the End, now Don Coscarelli’s taking... Read more
Why Baseball Matters
By: Susan Jacoby
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans. Furthermore, baseball's greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital... Read more
View audiobookWomen Who Fly
By: Serinity Young
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women—some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses—reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Queen Mother
By: Lady Colin Campbell
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 25 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of the Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote... Read more
What Christians Ought to Believe: Audio Lectures
By: Michael F. Bird
Narrated by: Michael F. Bird
Length: 4 hours 43 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, What Christians Ought to Believe: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as... Read more
View audiobookDominion
By: Peter Ackroyd
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Dominion, the fifth volume in Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.Spanning the end of the Regency, Ackroyd takes listeners from the accession of the profligate George IV, whose... Read more
View audiobookKilling the SS
By: Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including... Read more
How to Be a Friend
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, which is one of the greatest ever written on the subject, the famous Roman politician and philosopher Cicero offers a compelling... Read more
View audiobookPower Ball
By: Rob Neyer
Narrated by: Rob Neyer
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A’s and eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades.On September 8, 2017, the Oakland A’s faced off against the Houston Astros in a... Read more
View audiobookBehold, America
By: Sarah Churchwell
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018
The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for
In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases -- the "American dream" and "America... Read more
If You Ask Me
By: Eleanor Roosevelt
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Amanda Carlin
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Experience the “heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous” (Woman’s World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.
In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her... Read more
The Cryotron Files
By: Iain Dey & Douglas Buck
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting true story of Dudley Buck―American scientist, government agent, and Cold War hero―whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him firmly in the sights of the KGB.Dr. Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died suddenly on May 21, 1959, at the age of thirty-two. He was the star... Read more
View audiobookA People’s History of Computing in the United States
By: Joy Lisi Rankin
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism.The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a... Read more
View audiobookAdolf Hitler
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Nicolas Villanueva
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Explora el alzamiento de Adolf Hitler¿Fue Hitler, tal y como preguntó Ian Kershaw, una consecuencia natural de la historia alemana o una aberración? No es que Hitler hubiera estado escondido, esperando para atacar. El Führer realmente había estado siguiendo una política exterior agresiva y salvaje durante casi diez años, y fue nombrado Hombre... Read more
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