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"Mein Sohn bleibt bei mir!" - Als politische Geisel in türkischer Haft - und warum es noch nicht zu Ende ist (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: Mesale Tolu
Narrated by: Vera Teltz
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sie war eine prominente deutsche Geisel der türkischen Regierung: Als angebliche Terrorunterstützerin saß die Journalistin und Übersetzerin Mesale Tolu mit ihrem kleinen Sohn in Haft; danach wurde ihr die Ausreise aus der Türkei verweigert. Jetzt, wieder in Deutschland, berichtet sie über diese Zeit: über die Brutalität von Polizei und Justiz,... Read more
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Our Lost Declaration
By: Mike Lee
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founder's takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America.
There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written in Philadelphia in the oppressively hot summer of... Read more
Murphy's Law
By: Jack Murphy
Narrated by: Jack Murphy
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“Sure to go down as an important piece of military-memoir history…a fast-paced, insightful, hold-nothing-back memoir” (Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal, New York Times bestselling author) from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant-turned-journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career.
Growing... Read more
The Democracy Fix
By: Caroline Fredrickson
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite representing the beliefs of a minority of the American public on many issues, conservatives are in power not just in Washington, DC, but also in state capitals and courtrooms across the country. They got there because, while progressives fought to death over the nuances of policy and to bring attention to specific issues, conservatives... Read more
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Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
By: Russell Kirk
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk's groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially a popular version of The... Read more
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Around America to Win the Vote
By: Mara Rockliff
Narrated by: Marge Sudheimer
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women’s suffrage... Read more
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Loon
By: Jack McLean
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam," writes Jack McLean in his must-listen memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint.... Read more
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The Empire and the Five Kings
By: Bernard-Henri Levy
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom, and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and peoples on all continents looked to America to stand up for the values that created the Western world, and to oppose autocracy and repression. Even when America did not live up to its ideals, it still recognized their... Read more
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The Moment of Lift
By: Melinda Gates
Narrated by: Melinda Gates
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Now with a new afterword!
How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most... Read more
Love & Courage
By: Jagmeet Singh
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party—Jagmeet Singh—comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.
In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone was celebrated across the nation.
About a month earlier, in... Read more
Nomaden der Arbeit
By: Jessica Bruder
Narrated by: Claudia Burges
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Zehntausende Menschen in Amerika sind unterwegs. Sie leben in Wohnmobilen, Vans, Anhängern. Übernachten auf Supermarkt-Parkplätzen, neben den Highways, in der Wüste. Sie schaufeln Zuckerrüben in North Dakota, reinigen Toiletten in den Nationalparks von Kalifornien, arbeiten Zwölf-Stunden-Schichten im Amazon-Versandzentrum im winterlichen Texas.... Read more
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The Mueller Report
By: The Washington Post
Narrated by: Matt Zapotosky, Rosalind S. Helderman, Marc Fis...
Length: 19 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The Crucial #1 New York Times Bestseller
“The Mueller report is that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype…the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff... Read more
Airhead
By: Emily Maitlis
Narrated by: Emily Maitlis
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Airhead, written and read by Emily Maitlis.
As anchor for the BBC's key political news programme, Newsnight, Emily Maitlis has interviewed some of the most powerful and controversial figures on the political scene. She plans each interview meticulously, knowing what she wants to ask and where she wants it... Read more
White
By: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.
White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his... Read more
The Myth of Capitalism
By: Denise Hearn & Jonathan Tepper
Narrated by: Pamela Almand
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping... Read more
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A Lot of People Are Saying
By: Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals how the new conspiracists are undermining democracy—and explains what can be done about it
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government... Read more
The Problem of Democracy
By: Nancy Isenberg & Andrew Burstein
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 22 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship."--The Wall Street Journal
How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy, from the New York Times bestselling... Read more
Firefighting
By: Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner & Henry M....
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Should be required reading for all policy makers.” —Warren Buffett
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now.
In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to... Read more
Republic of Lies
By: Anna Merlan
Narrated by: Anna Merlan & Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
"This well-produced audiobook is also well researched, and well intentioned." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.
American... Read more
Falter
By: Bill McKibben
Narrated by: Bill McKibben & Oliver Wyman
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a foreword read by the author.
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest... Read more
Escape from Stalag Luft III
By: Bram Vanderstok
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number eighteen of seventy-six men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. The 1963 film The Great Escape, was largely based on this autobiography but—with Vanderstok's agreement—filmmakers chose to turn his story into an Australian character named... Read more
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A Mighty Long Way
By: Carlotta Walls LaNier & Lisa Frazier Page
Narrated by: Carlotta Walls LaNier
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would... Read more
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Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
By: James H. Cone
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
James H. Cone is widely recognized as the founder of Black Liberation Theology—a synthesis of the Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the spirit of Black pride embodied by Malcolm X. Prompted by the Detroit riots and the death of King, Cone, a young theology professor, was impelled to write his first book, Black Theology and... Read more
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Nervous States
By: William Davies
Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions—particularly fear and anxiety.... Read more
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