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Notes from the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith & Marcus Shelby
Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. In Notes from the Field, she renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith has put it: “Rich kids... Read More »
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Collection 1
By: Black Eye Entertainment
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe’s confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the overweight detective genius. In total, Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City. Wolfe’s residence, a luxurious... Read More »
Angels in America
By: Tony Kushner, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Beth Malone, James McArdle, Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Bobby Cannavale & Edie Falco
Narrated by: Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Beth Malone, James McArdle, Lee Pace, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Bobby Cannavale & Edie Falco
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National... Read More »
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: The Colonial Radio Players
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The people of Earth are preparing for war—a war that could potentially destroy the planet. Explorers are sent to Mars to find a new place for humans to colonize. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor—of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It... Read More »
The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller
Narrated by: Irene Aranga, Rene Auberjonois, Ed Begley Jr., Georgia Brown, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Richard Dreyfuss, Judyann Elder, Hector Elizondo, Fionnula Flanagan, Ann Hearne, Carol Kane, Stacy Keach, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Marian Mercer, Franklyn Seales, Madolyn Smith, Joe Spano & Michael York
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy Keach star in this full-cast performance of Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible, a central work in the canon of American drama.
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic - with ruthless... Read More »
Love's Labor's Lost
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A play replete with puns and double-entendres, this is one of Shakespeare's earliest and most lighthearted.The young king of Navarre and three of his courtiers have vowed to lock themselves away for three years of study and fasting, and to forswear the company of women for this period. No sooner is their vow made than it is tested, however, as... Read More »
Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip Hop History
By: Chuck D & Shepard Fairey
Narrated by: Chuck D, D.R.E.S. tha BEATnik & Shepard Fairey
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.
In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar worldwide phenomenon. Yet there is no definitive history of the genre-until now.
Based on... Read More »
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
By: Fred Rogers
Narrated by: John Lithgow & Kate Mulgrew
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times Best Seller
For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charming treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers. The audiobook includes the iconic song Won't You Be My... Read More »
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The Shakespeare Book
By: DK
Narrated by: Roger May
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems.
With detailed plot summaries and an in-depth analysis of the major characters and themes, this is a brilliant, innovative... Read More »
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Talk Radio’s America
By: Brian Rosenwald
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The cocreator of the Washington Post's Made by History blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump. Radio hosts form a deep bond with their audience, which gives them enormous political power. Unlike elected representatives, however, they must entertain... Read More »
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Our Miss Brooks: Wishing Well School Dance
By: Al Lewis
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
There's going to be a Wishing Well Dance at Madison High, and everyone wants a lock of Miss Brooks' hair. To most of us a school dance isn’t the most exciting thing in the world but to our Miss Brooks, the one planned for last Friday night was a most welcome diversion. Read More »
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Fibber McGee and Molly: Women Taking Over...Vaccum Cleaner
By: Jim Jordan
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Fibber is dismayed to see women taking over all the men's jobs in Wistful Vista. Read More »
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Abbott and Costello: Costello Looking For a Leading Lady in His New Play
By: John Grant
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott is putting on a new play, called, They Just Got Wind Of Costello In Alaska or Smellbound. Who's going to be the leading lady? Read More »
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Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies
By: Jack Boyle
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A movie star is shot while in a trunk, but no bullet went through the trunk and the bullet wasn't inside the trunk either. The commercials for Champagne Velver beer heard on this program and the others following were not part of the original network broadcast, nor even an integral part of the Ziv syndication discs. The commercials were found on... Read More »
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Abbott and Costello: Gold Mine
By: John Grant
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Bud is going to invest Lou's $75. They launch into the do gold orr routine. Bud has convinced Lou to invest his $75 in a gold mine. Abbott and Costello arrive in Gold Tooth. They go to the Red Dog saloon. They then start mining for gold in the mine. The mine is giving way but it turns out it was all just a dream. Read More »
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Suspense: August Heat
By: Mel Dinelli
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true. Read More »
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Abbott and Costello: Drugstore
By: John Grant
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello talk about Lou being at Susan Miller's house. They decide to get a job in a drugstore. Bud is the assistant manager. Lou waits on several customers. Veola kisses Lou over and over again. Lou tries to sell an alarm clock Read More »
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Whitehall 1212: The Winchester Bottles
By: Wyllis Cooper
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A Winchester bottle is the exhibit in the Black Museum associated with the murder of a four year old girl. A set of mysterious fingerprints on the bottle cannot be identified. Scotland Yard decides to fingerprint the entire town of Blackbourne! Read More »
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The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Queen Bee Caper
By: Jason James
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Sam has been hired by Miss Elizabeth Collie to investigate a number of thefts that have occurred at the Miss Wigginson School for Girls. Herself and Ursula Cavanagh, one of the board directors, have decided that they know who the culprit is, they just have to prove it. They have no evidence but they just want Sam to prove that their suspicions... Read More »
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Crime Classics: Younger Brothers. Why Some of Them Grew No Older
By: Elliot Lewis
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Life and death in 1866 Missouri...mostly death. Before the civil war there was a border war. The boys from Kansas took guns to hand and shot up the boys from Missouri and the next Saturday night vice versa. Then it go so they didn’t wait until Saturday night, every day was bloody day for everybody. The question now arises, why? The answer is... Read More »
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Philo Vance Detective: Money Machine Murder Case
By: Jackson Beck
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A gang of conmen is selling machines that they say can manufacture genuine $1 bills. It's a neat scam, but it leads to murder! How did the traveling monogram illusion work? Frank Kent, an inmate of the state hospital has been broken out. The hospital is actually a mental institution. Frank was there because his mind is permanently in another... Read More »
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The Whistler: Custom Built Blonde
By: Gladys Thornton
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
It was past midnight when Jerry Coonan left the cocktail bar with a tall blond in a mink coat. On the way out he gave the high sign to Red Stafford and Shorty Burton sitting idly at the bar waiting for the tip off and as he guided her out the front door he could see them get off their stools and prepare to leave. Jerry chuckled softly to... Read More »
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Abbott and Costello: Visit to Tin Pan Alley
By: John Grant
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The boys pay a visit to the Ned Blanc Music Company in Tin Pan Alley. Costello takes singing lessons. Read More »
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Abbott and Costello: Lou Hides From His Girlfriend
By: John Grant
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Abbott and Costello discuss the bees on the farm of Lou's uncle. Read More »
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