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Education and Citizenship
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Twain delivered this speech at the dedication of new buildings at the College of the City of New York. The mayor who preceded him mentioned that good citizenship should take precedence even over education. Twain uses this introduction to transition into a funny discussion of the motto “In God we trust” being stamped into U.S. coins and how... Read more
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Lady Death
By: Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.
Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including twenty-nine enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being... Read more
Duel Under the Stars
By: Wilhelm Johnen
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Wilhelm Johnen flew his first operational mission in July 1941, having completed his blind-flying training. In his first couple of years he brought down two enemy planes. The tally went up rapidly once the air war was escalated in spring 1943, when Air Marshal Arthur Harris of the RAF Bomber Command began the campaign dubbed the Battle of the... Read more
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Scarred by war, Yemen’s children carry burdens beyond their years
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Yemen, some of the most vulnerable victims are the 2 million children on the brink of starvation, or those who lost limbs during the fighting. In Aden, many children have been fit with prosthetic limbs, but with rudimentary materials and old technology, they are sometimes barely functional. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in... Read more
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La estrategia McKinsey
By: Shu Hattori
Narrated by: Gabriel Órtiz
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Qué necesitas para ser un gran líder? La estrategia McKinsey comparte las mejores prácticas de un exclusivo grupo de ejecutivos y consultores de McKinsey & Company, la legendaria firma de consultoría que da servicio al ochenta por ciento de las corporaciones más grandes del mundo. Con base en su gran experiencia como Engagement Manager... Read more
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Inner City Pressure
By: Dan Hancox
Narrated by: Ash Hunter
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is... Read more
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Survival is a struggle in the rubble of Yemen’s war
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
With its infrastructure broken, the constant threat of starvation and a failed state, Yemen is on the brink of collapse. Less than half of its health facilities are functional amid a health crisis that has seen epidemics of preventable and largely eradicated diseases like cholera. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports in partnership with... Read more
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Yemen was poor before, but "the war just finished us"
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
It's being called the forgotten war. With access for journalists limited and dangerous, Yemen, home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, goes largely ignored. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs was able to enter the country to learn how its people are struggling, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Read more
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Leistet Widerstand!
By: Jean Feyder
Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Widerstand leisten, für eine gerechtere Welt Jean Feyder war Diplomat und ehemaliger Vertreter Luxemburgs bei der WTO und beobachtet die internationale Politik seit Jahren aus nächster Nähe. Seine Bilanz ist erschütternd: Handelskriege, Umweltzerstörung und die systematische Bevormundung von Entwicklungsländern durch den reichen Norden - die... Read more
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Nam-Sense
By: Arthur Wiknik, Jr.
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view . . .
Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was a nineteen-year-old kid from New England when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968. After completing various NCO training programs, he was promoted to... Read more
Touching the Dragon
By: James Hatch & Christian D'Andrea
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & James Hatch
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“Jimmy Hatch is a personal hero of mine.”
—Anderson Cooper
“Irresistible. . . . A wounded SEAL’s shame becomes a salvation.”
—J. Ford Huffman, Military Times
James Hatch is a former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief, master naval parachutist, and expert military dog trainer and handler. On his fateful final mission in Afghanistan, his SEAL team... Read more
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
By: Richard Hofstadter
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs. In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe... Read more
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Jim Brown
By: Dave Zirin
Narrated by: Dave Zirin
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A unique biography of Jim Brown—football legend, Hollywood star, and controversial activist—written by acclaimed sports journalist Dave Zirin.
Jim Brown is recognized as perhaps the greatest football player to ever live. But his phenomenal nine-year career with the Cleveland Browns is only part of his remarkable story, the opening salvo to a much... Read more
Trump/Russia
By: Seth Hettena
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Is the forty-fifth president of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump’s long involvement with Russia in damning detail—including new reporting never before published.As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the relationship... Read more
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
By: Yossi Klein Halevi
Narrated by: Yossi Klein Halevi
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli... Read more
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When the Center Held
By: Donald Rumsfeld
Narrated by: Danny Campbell & Donald Rumsfeld
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant.
In the wake of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it seemed the United States was coming... Read more
How Bernie Won
By: Jeff Weaver
Narrated by: Jeff Weaver
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
In this audiobook, the brilliant manager of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign explains how Bernie took on the entire establishment and changed modern American politics for good.
When Jeff Weaver hopped in a car with Bernie Sanders in the summer of 1986, he had no idea the Vermont backroads would lead... Read more
Three Days in Moscow
By: Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney
Narrated by: Bret Baier
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. "An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.” — Jay WinikMoscow, 1988: 1,000 miles behind the Iron Curtain, Ronald Reagan stood for... Read more
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From Broken Glass
By: Steve Ross
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.
On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and... Read more
The Left Behind
By: Robert Wuthnow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a... Read more
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First Train Out of Denver
By: Leo Jenkins
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
On a tenebrous winter morning in Denver, Colorado, Leo Jenkins felt the weight of the world crushing him. Leo has a decision to make—maintain a comfortable position in a career he's no longer passionate about—or take a massive leap of faith. Giving up everything he's ever known, Jenkins sells his business, purges every possession that won't fit... Read more
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A Tiger among Us
By: Bennie G. Adkins & Katie Lamar Jackson
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Foreword by Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and Senator from Nebraska
Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among... Read more
Brothers of the Gun
By: Marwan Hisham & Molly Crabapple
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom.
In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends—fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq—joined the first protests of the... Read more
Accessing the Media
By: Jill Osborn
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Accessing the Media takes the reader behind the scenes to understand how best to work with press to get publicity. Perfect for politicians, business leaders, lobbyists, and media junkies, this reference provides an insider's look at how the modern newsroom works, detailing the different roles of reporters, editors, and producers. Readers will... Read more
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