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Lawrence in Arabia
By: Scott Anderson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 23 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
New York Times• Christian Science Monitor• NPR • Seattle Times• St. Louis Dispatch
National Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the... Read more
The Escape Artist
By: Jonathan Freedland
Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller""A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?"" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus:... Read more
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The Infernal Machine
By: Steven Johnson
Narrated by: Steven Johnson
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON
A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map
Steven Johnson’s... Read more
Stalin
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
Length: 27 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But though the facts of Stalin’s reign are well known,... Read more
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The Bastard of Istanbul
By: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families.
In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a... Read more
The Counterfeit Countess
By: Elizabeth B. White & Joanna Sliwa
Narrated by: Gilli Messer
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir.
World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It... Read more
Work
By: James Suzman
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman
Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth... Read more
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
By: Peter Biskind
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 23 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us... Read more
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The Innovators
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.
What were the talents that allowed... Read more
Empires of the Silk Road
By: Christopher I. Beckwith
Narrated by: Jim Lee
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Jim Lee, who tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world... Read more
The Ottomans
By: Marc David Baer
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
Length: 17 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep... Read more
Palestine 1936
By: Oren Kessler
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict. The revolt was the crucible in which Palestinian identity coalesced, uniting all in a... Read more
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The Young Lords
By: Johanna Fernández
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 23 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to link local problems to international crises riveted... Read more
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The Last Folk Hero
By: Jeff Pearlman
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson.
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed.... Read more
The Nine
By: Gwen Strauss
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris.
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author, as well as an archival... Read more
Scenes of Subjection
By: Saidiya Hartman
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.
Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people... Read more
It's Not TV
By: Felix Gillette & John Koblin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“A read so riveting, it's not hard to imagine watching it unfold on Sunday nights.” —The Associated Press
“An incisive account that is more than a rosy victory lap for one of TV’s most influential channels.” —Eric Deggans, NPR’s “Books We Love”
“It’s Not TV proves to be a lively companion to all these shows.” —Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review... Read more
Thank You For Voting
By: Erin Geiger Smith
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.Voting is a prized... Read more
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The Threat
By: Andrew G. McCabe
Narrated by: Andrew G. McCabe
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!
This program is read by the author.
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on... Read more
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 27 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it"... Read more
Even This I Get to Experience
By: Norman Lear
Narrated by: Norman Lear
Length: 18 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling memoir from the creator of some of the most iconic television programs ever, including All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
“Charming, candid, and copious . . . There is still a lot of zest, passion, and whimsy in the man who taught Americans to laugh at their... Read more
Troy
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War.
Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor,... Read more
God Gave Rock and Roll to You
By: Leah Payne
Narrated by: Leah Payne
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Few things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the 1950s and the 1960s more than thought of their children falling prey to the "menace to Christendom" known as rock and roll. The raucous sounds of Elvis Presley and Little Richard seemed tailor-made to destroy the faith of their young and, in the process, undermine the moral... Read more
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The Force of Nonviolence
By: Judith Butler
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst... Read more
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