Among You Taking Notes...
By: Naomi Mitchison
Narrated by: Jacqueline King
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN
'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAPH
26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether the point of a place like this may be that it will keep alive certain ideas of freedom which... Read more
Tamerlane: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mongol Conqueror
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: KC Wayman
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until... Read more
View audiobookÜber Tyrannei
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Ulrich Matthes
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Schau nicht nur zu! Wir sind nicht klüger als die Menschen, die erlebt haben, wie überall in Europa die Demokratie unterging und Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus kamen. Aber einen Vorteil haben wir. Wir können aus ihren Erfahrungen lernen. 20 Lektionen aus dem 20. Jahrhundert 1 Leiste keinen vorauseilenden Gehorsam. 2... Read more
View audiobookSo Help Me God
By: Mike Pence
Narrated by: Mike Pence
Length: 21 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence.
Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty; but there is a greater one—to God and the Constitution.
Mike Pence spent more hours in the Oval Office than any of his predecessors. On the surface, the affable evangelical Christian from a gas-station-owning family in... Read more
The Oswalds
By: Paul R. Gregory
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple’s arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK’s assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in our country’s history.Merely two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,... Read more
View audiobookStriking Back
By: Lucas Kello
Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Faced with relentless technological aggression in the twenty-first century, how can Western nations fight back to protect national security and preserve international stability?Before the cyber age, foreign interference in Western democratic politics played out in a comparatively narrow arena—limited to the realm of print and broadcast. The... Read more
View audiobookOhne Staat werden wir alle sterben
By: Dawid Snowden
Narrated by: Dawid Snowden
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Dieser Beitrag ist für alle gehorsamen, unterwürfigen Gläubigen einer Staatsreligion, die sich seit Ewigkeiten einem destruktiven, unmenschlichen Herrschaftssystem unterwerfen und damit jede evolutionäre Neuausrichtung der Gesellschaft blockieren. Viele Staatsgefangene sind in Denkstrukturen gefangen, die sie durch jahrelange... Read more
View audiobookTrue Reconciliation
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
Narrated by: Jody Wilson-Raybould
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.
There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbia’s... Read more
The Nature of Economies
By: Jane Jacobs
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Decades after The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs—one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations—brought us a modern classic on economies and ecology. Original and eloquent, this book looks at the connection between the economy and nature,... Read more
View audiobookSilent Spring Revolution
By: Douglas Brinkley
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 29 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of... Read more
View audiobookSuppressing the Truth in Dallas
By: Charles Brandt
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 NYT bestseller I Heard You Paint Houses / The Irishman
Featuring the eyewitness testimony of Earlene Roberts and Victor RobertsonWith this book, “Dallas” is now completely solved, by a professional and rational analysis.
Charles Brandt, who handled over fifty-six homicides as the chief deputy attorney general of Delaware,... Read more
Against the Wind
By: Neal Gabler
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 46 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism.
“Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the... Read more
In Defence of Wealth
By: Derek Bullen
Narrated by: Louis Ferreira
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Are the rich bad for society? The author of this book, a successful Canadian entrepreneur who made his fortune and created 3000 jobs, has written a manifesto celebrating the achievements of people who have earned their wealth. He says that many of the critics are overlooking one crucial thing: we need business people to build companies and... Read more
View audiobookIn Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
By: Gershon Baskin
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in the States, then later lived on a kibbutz in Israel, where he announced to his parents that he had decided to make aliya, emigrate to Israel. They... Read more
View audiobookWounded I Am More Awake
By: Julia Lieblich & Esad Boskailo
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.
This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it... Read more
Lost to the World
By: Shahbaz Taseer
Narrated by: Adam Karim
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group.... Read more
The Idea of Prison Abolition
By: Tommie Shelby
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment
Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences... Read more
"You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
By: Torie Bosch
Narrated by: Mack Sanderson & Emily Schwing
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audiobook, Mack Sanderson and Emily Schwing reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse
Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that,... Read more
The Trauma of Caste
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Narrated by: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator... Read more
Free Market
By: Jacob Soll
Narrated by: Craig Van Ness
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out... Read more
Business zur Ehre Gottes
By: Wayne Grudem
Narrated by: Thomas Hamm
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Kann Business an sich moralisch gut und gottgefällig sein? Manchmal erscheint Business so zwielichtig - Endergebnisse werden manipuliert, Verbraucher werden getäuscht, oder jemand wird befördert, nur weil er Beziehungen hat. Wayne Grudem stellt ein neues Konzept vor: Business selbst verherrlicht Gott, wenn es auf eine Weise betrieben wird,... Read more
View audiobookThe Peacemaker
By: William Inboden
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 23 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize
One of the Wall Street Journal’s best political books of 2022
A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom... Read more
Personality and Power
By: Ian Kershaw
Narrated by: Matt Bates
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
One of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall
How far can a single leader alter the course of history?
From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern... Read more
Crassus
By: Peter Stothard
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory
Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might... Read more