Barbara Bush - Abridged
By: Barbara Bush
Narrated by: Barbara Bush
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The classic #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, celebrating the life and legacy of First Lady Barbara Bush—updated with new forewords from her five children, including reflections from George W. and Jeb, as featured on A&E’s Biography.
Barbara Bush endures as one of America’s most popular First Ladies. She has won worldwide acclaim for her... Read more
See I Told You So - Abridged
By: Rush Limbaugh
Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Rush Limbaugh, America's #1 radio talk-show host, bounded to the top of the bestseller lists with The Way Things Ought to Be, the #1 New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling audio in history. Now, this consummate entertainer and provocative political commentator, whom conservatives love and liberals love to hate—this “harmless little... Read more
View audiobookTruman - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: David McCullough
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid... Read more
The Way Things Ought to Be - Abridged
By: Rush Limbaugh
Narrated by: Rush Limbaugh
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Rush Limbaugh is a way of life for over twelve million avid and devoted listeners. For three hours every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with “talent on loan from God” entertains, provokes and persuades friend sand enemies alike in a no-holds-barred show that is one of the biggest draws in radio history.
Using personal anecdotes,... Read more
Nelson Mandela - 1992 interview
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Nelson Mandela discusses his visit to the United Nations Security Council seeking peacekeepers to quell violence in South Africa. Originally broadcast on the MacNeil/Lehrer News hour on July 15, 1992. Read more
View audiobookSaving America-Saving the World
By: Helen Caldicott, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An articulate firebrand and one of the world's leading advocates of nuclear disarmament, environmentalism and citizen action delivers a scathing wake-up call about abuses of power in American government, media and industry, and the urgent need to truly care for the planet and each other. Read more
View audiobookLooking Deeply
By: Alice Walker
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
This is a thought-provoking interview with a frank and powerful thinker and writer. Alice Walker reminds us of the importance of invisible forces and connections between worlds that science has not yet acknowledged. She tells how her own life is informed by a host of “ancestors” and characters from her own writing, and how this provides her with... Read more
View audiobookThe Duel
By: John Lukacs
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
One is poised on the edge of victory, the other threatened by invasion and defeat yet holding on, his own life in the balance and also that of the free world.
In his reconstruction of the 80 days from May 10 to July 31, 1940, the author shows just how close England came to losing the war. He paints Churchill as resolute, threatened from... Read more
Mikhail Gorbachev's Resignation
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Reaction from Moscow, and a conversation with former United States National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Read more
View audiobookPeter the Great
By: Robert K. Massie & John E. Dowling
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 43 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of... Read more
View audiobookWarrior for Peace
By: Danaan Parry
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an extraordinary interview on conflict and peace. Parry tells deeply moving stories from his own life - from the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland to his own neighborhood laundromat. They are stories of anger, truth and healing. Read more
View audiobookInterview with diplomat George Kennan
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert MacNeil interviews American diplomat George Kennan about the failed coup in the Soviet Union to overthrow Gorbachev. Read more
View audiobookRetrospective on the Gulf
By: Neal Conan
Narrated by: Neal Conan
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
It was phenomenally successful in the air, strikingly decisive on the ground—and suddenly the war in the Persian Gulf was over, with an overwhelming victory for the allied forces. But what really happened? Why did the air war work so well? Why did the massive, allied casualties many predicted for the ground phase never materialize? Why was it... Read more
View audiobookThe Prize - Abridged
By: Daniel Yergin
Narrated by: Bob Jamieson
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.
Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts... Read more
Singer in the Real World
By: Holly Near
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"What has to take place for the light to come into your eye?" asks Holly Near. Not only a talented singer and songwriter, she demonstrates in this lively interview that she is also a passionate, humorous and articulate spokesperson for peace and sanity in the world. Read more
View audiobookMoney Sense
By: Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Have you mastered money in your life, or does it master you? Dominguez and Robin describe their own philosophy and techniques for knowing "how much is enough," for living below your means and not needing to work for money. They challenge us in new ways to re-examine our relationship to money and things financial. Read more
View audiobookMoney and Spirit
By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Money has become for our generation what sex was for the earlier generations," says philosopher Jacob Needleman, "a force that is at the back of almost everything people do, but which we're not yet able to face without hypocrisy." In this refreshingly candid and insightful interview, Needleman discusses the meaning of money and its place in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Next Century
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: E.G. Marshall
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
What can we learn from the events of the 20th century? David Halberstam set out to answer that question in this perceptive and eye-opening work which examines the past in order to determine the future. From the rise of the Japanese economy to the startling changes that reshaped the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Halberstam argues that the... Read more
View audiobookAn Alternative Future
By: Hazel Henderson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this radical, visionary look at our possibilities for a sustainable future, Hazel Henderson discusses the “globalization” of human affairs, and proposes new ways of evaluating and improving a city or nation’s quality of life. We need an alternative, she explains, to such indicators as the GNP, which values war weapons but not environmental... Read more
View audiobookInterview with Gerald Ford
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
An interview with former President Gerald Ford on the prospect of the United States going to war in the Persian Gulf, following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Read more
View audiobookWhere Riches Lie
By: Paul Hwoschinsky
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Money and wealth are not the same thing, asserts Hwoschinsky, a venture capitalist, wilderness photographer and author. By using a "non-financial balance sheet" to identify the assets which, more than money ever could, indicate our aliveness and true wealth--our health, relationships, education, vision and creativity--we can begin to integrate... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1
By: William Manchester
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 41 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century.His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our... Read more
View audiobookSongs of the Doomed - Abridged
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Hunter S. Thompson
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print—by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane—and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably astute social commentary.
With Thompson’s trademark... Read more
Don’T Worry--Be Happy
By: Marsha Sinetar
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Using the Hansel and Gretel myth as a metaphor for life, psychologist and writer Sinetar speaks to those who are attempting to live their deepest calling in the midst of a seductive world. She emphasizes the power of a positive view without being pollyannish, and stresses how optimism is essential for the creative process to unfold. Read more
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