How We Win
By: Farah Pandith
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a war being fought, and we are losing it.Despite the billions of dollars spent since 9/11 trying to defeat terrorist organizations, the so-called Islamic State, Al Qaeda, and other groups remain a terrifying geopolitical threat. In some ways the threat has grown worse: The 9/11 hijackers came from far away; the danger today can come... Read more
View audiobookOutsiders
By: Zachary Kramer
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Contemporary discrimination has changed in important ways from the forms it took in the 1960s, the era in which our civil rights law system originated. Previously, the primary targets of discrimination were groups: African Americans, women, and Latinos, among others. The goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to integrate marginalized groups... Read more
View audiobookThe Billionaire Boondoggle
By: Pat Garofalo
Narrated by: Pat Garofalo
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"An alarming, fact-driven jeremiad urging change and action." –Kirkus
This program is read by the author.
The first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump.
From stadiums and movie productions to casinos and mega-malls to... Read more
American Cipher
By: Matt Farwell & Michael Ames
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan
”An unsettling and riveting book filled with the mysteries of human nature.” —Kirkus
Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in... Read more
Love Your Enemies
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American.Meanwhile, one in six Americans have stopped talking to close friends and family members over... Read more
View audiobookSoldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die
By: Giles Milton
Narrated by: Giles Milton
Length: 15 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.
Seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in... Read more
Gandhi
By: Ramachandra Guha
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 36 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and... Read more
View audiobookGreen and Prosperous Land
By: Dieter Helm
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature. News about Britain’s wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist and Natural Capital Committee chair Dieter... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Sanctuary in Aleppo
By: Alaa Aljaleel & Diana Darke
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo.
"I'll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart for humans has mercy for every living thing."
When war... Read more
Happily Imperfect
By: Stacey Solomon
Narrated by: Stacey Solomon
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned and loved for her refreshing candour on everyday issues, social, domestic and intimate, Stacey Solomon reminds us how important it is to embrace ourselves; the good, bad and the ugly. Stacey’s authenticity and her courage to say what others daren’t opens discussions on sensitive but significant topics; her lack of... Read more
View audiobookMutual Aid
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921), one of the most individual political figures of his time, is best known as an influential anarchist communist. But he was also a scientist, geographer and philosopher, a man who, having grown up on his aristocratic father's extensive country estate in Russia, had a deep understanding of and love for animals (wild and... Read more
View audiobookDark Agenda
By: David Horowitz
Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author David Horwitz exposes not only the progressive war against Christianity but also a war against America and its founding principles—which are Christian in their origin. Dark Agenda is about an embattled religion, but, most of all, it is about our imperiled nation. Tackling a broad range of issues from prayer in... Read more
View audiobookReal Queer America
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more
Bending Toward Justice
By: Doug Jones
Narrated by: Doug Jones & Rick Bragg
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
“For 40 years, justice had gone undone in the brutal murder of four young girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...Doug Jones said no more. Justice had to be done. Those young girls deserved it. Their families deserved it. The community needed it. It took courage, commitment, and persistence. And—maybe most of all—heart.” — Former Vice... Read more
View audiobookSpies of No Country
By: Matti Friedman
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it's all true.
The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag unit known as the Arab Section, conceived during World War... Read more
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?
By: Tina Cassidy
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “heroic narrative” (The Wall Street Journal), discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women’s equality.
Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC, in March of 1913, a day before he is set to take the presidential oath of office.... Read more
So Here's the Thing . . .
By: Alyssa Mastromonaco
Narrated by: Alyssa Mastromonaco
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? comes a fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews on topics important to young women, ranging from politics and career to motherhood, sisterhood, and making and sustaining relationships of all kinds in the age of social media.
Alyssa Mastromonaco is back... Read more
Radical Transformational Leadership
By: Monica Sharma
Narrated by: Robert Sherwood
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates... Read more
View audiobookExtremism
By: J.M. Berger
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition—a logical starting point in a search for understanding—tells us only that extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme." In this volume in the MIT Press... Read more
View audiobookMadame Fourcade's Secret War
By: Lynne Olson
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island
“Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to... Read more
Dear America: Young Readers' Edition
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this young readers’ adaptation of his adult memoir Dear America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.
Jose Antonio Vargas was only twelve years old when he was brought to the United States from the... Read more
The End of the Myth
By: Greg Grandin
Narrated by: Eric Pollins
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
*WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION*
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.
Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing... Read more
An American Summer
By: Alex Kotlowitz
Narrated by: Alex Kotlowitz
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What... Read more
Generation Citizen
By: Scott Warren
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
America is at a crossroads. We are alienated from civic engagement, and our democracy is in doubt. Yet there is a new energy in the air. Young people are again taking up the role they've often held: as leaders of change, demanding a better future, wielding their votes to uphold democracy and lead the country forward.
Enter Generation Citizen,... Read more