We Can't Breathe
By: Jabari Asim
Narrated by: Jabari Asim
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayInsightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can’t Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the “Master Narrative” and replaces it... 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
U.S. Constitution for Dummies
By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Your complete guide to understanding the U.S. Constitution.
Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents—and sparked ongoing debates along the way. You'll get the lowdown on... Read more
Soldier, 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 audiobookDesert Fox
By: Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany—when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend—through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II, after he attempted a failed coup against Hitler.
Rommel was a man of... Read more
The 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 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 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 audiobookGeneration 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
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
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
Extremism
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
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
By: Sally Roesch Wagner
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem
Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage Movement is a comprehensive and singular volume that covers... Read more
Era of Ignition
By: Amber Tamblyn
Narrated by: Amber Tamblyn, Airea D. Matthews & Meredith Tal...
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times from one of the founders of Time’s Up: actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.
“A work of personal upheaval and political reckoning.”—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad
Amber Tamblyn has emerged as an outspoken advocate for... Read more
This Chair Rocks
By: Ashton Applewhite
Narrated by: Ashton Applewhite
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.”
—Anne Lamott, New York Times... Read more
Dark 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 audiobookSo 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
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
Spies 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
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 audiobookDear 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