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Totally Wired
By: Andrew Smith
Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Josh Harris had been New York's first net millionaire. He founded the city's first dotcom, Pseudo.com, and paved the way for a cadre of net-savvy twentysomethings to follow, riding a wave of tech euphoria to unimagined wealth and fame for five years, before losing it all in the great dotcom crash of 2000. Long before then, however, Harris's view... Read more
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Speech Police
By: David Kaye
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Who polices speech online? Who is in charge?
"There is an epidemic sweeping the world," the Nigerian Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said. "It is the epidemic of fake news. Mixed with hate speech, it is a disaster waiting to happen." Some argue that the disaster has already happened. But is the solution as simple as ridding social media of... Read more
Rocking Toward a Free World
By: András Simonyi
Narrated by: András Simonyi
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From renowned diplomat and musician András Simonyi -- whom Stephen Colbert calls "the only ambassador I know who can shred a mean guitar!" -- comes a timely and revealing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain and longing for freedom while chasing the great power of rock and roll.
In ROCKING TOWARD A FREE WORLD, Simonyi charts the... Read more
Rockonomics
By: Alan B. Krueger
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Alan Krueger, a former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from superstar artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain key principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives.
The music industry is a leading indicator of today's economy; it is among... Read more
Scholars of Mayhem
By: Daniel C. Guiet & Timothy K. Smith
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.
When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had... Read more
The Crowded Hour
By: Clay Risen
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The “gripping” (The Washington Post) story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century.
When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men, spread around the... Read more
How to Become a Federal Criminal
By: Mike Chase
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “excellent book for people who like to start sentences with ‘Did you know that…’” (The New York Times), discover the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in America—from mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holes—written and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account.... Read more
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The Conservative Sensibility
By: George F. Will
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's "astonishing" and "enthralling" New York Times bestseller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist) -- "easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written" (Jonah Goldberg).
For more than four decades, George F.... Read more
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: Jeff Moon
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January... Read more
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Formation
By: Ryan Leigh Dostie
Narrated by: Ryan Leigh Dostie
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Named by Esquire as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year: Chanel Miller's Know My Name meets Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Anthony Swofford's Jarhead in this powerful literary memoir of a young soldier driven to prove herself in a man's world.
Raised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian community in New England, Ryan Dostie... Read more
The Land of Flickering Lights
By: Michael Bennet
Narrated by: Michael Bennet
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Land of Flickering Lights is a unique contribution to American political writing at this or any other time. Democratic Senator Michael Bennet from Colorado lifts a veil on Congress to reveal, in his words, "through a series of actual stories—about the people, the politics, the motives, the money, the hypocrisy, the stakes, the outcome—the... Read more
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Dignity
By: Chris Arnade
Narrated by: Donte Bonner
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"Candid, empathetic portraits of silenced men, women, and children." --Kirkus
Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.
Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the... Read more
Tell Me Who You Are
By: Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi
Narrated by: Winona Guo, Priya Vulchi, Elizabeth Liang & Dom...
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
An eye-opening exploration of race in America
In this deeply inspiring audiobook, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America. Spurred by the realization that they had nearly completed high school without hearing any substantive... Read more
The Death of Politics
By: Peter Wehner
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late.“Any nation that elects Donald Trump to be its president has a... Read more
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My Seditious Heart
By: Arundhati Roy
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 36 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.Radical... Read more
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The Science of Getting Rich
By: Wallace D. Wattles
Narrated by: Edward Elgood
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles and published in 1910 by the Elizabeth Towne Company. The book is still in print. The text is divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, rather than competition, is the... Read more
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1931
By: Tobias Straumann
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The reason for the financial collapse was Germany's large pile of foreign debt denominated in... Read more
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Rights of Man
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: Matt Addis
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality. Using the French Revolution and its ideals as an example, he demonstrates his belief that any government must put the inherent rights of its citizens above all else, especially... Read more
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Fighting France
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Margaret Melosh
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Fighting France is a collection of essays and articles by Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, together with her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front. The distinct articles were originally published in Scribner's Magazine in 1915. Part of the The War on All Fronts series, the book was published in 1918. Read more
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The Diary of a Dead Officer
By: Arthur Graeme West
Narrated by: Edith Harson
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Diary of a Dead Officer" paints a picture critical of everyday army life, shows us the moral and psychological struggles of soldiers during World War 1 and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. The book is composed of diverse diary entries of Arthur Graeme West, British writer and war poet, killed by a... Read more
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Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World
By: Castello Newton Holford
Narrated by: Edith Harson
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is a utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English. In Aristopia we follow Ralph Morton, an early settler in Virginia, who discovers a golden reef. He uses his wealth to build a planned society, based on the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, with... Read more
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Utopia
By: Thomas More
Narrated by: Edith Harson
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More. The book is a frame narrative primarily describing a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Utopia is an ideal society with a perfect socio-politico-legal system. Read more
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Cover-Ups & Secrets
By: Nick Redfern
Narrated by: Ellis Evans
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn’t be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The nightly news is being replaced by carefully orchestrated propaganda. Our iPhones are monitored as are our laptops... Read more
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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell
By: Barbara Hesselman Kautz, MSN, RN
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
When she was eighteen, she joined the army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it. Read more
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