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Staff Favorites: Nonfiction
It's often that much harder to get sucked into a nonfiction book, so these are our most compelling picks. They're sure to both entertain and teach.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention;... Read more
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The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
By: Anthony Brandt
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled... Read more
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The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Set during the Dust Bowl, amidst the Great Depression, a dedicated group of basketball beauties, the Cardinals of Oklahoma Presbyterian College, are determined to challenge societal strictures and Babe Didrickson on their quest for the National Championship title. Faced with much criticism, judged less feminine for participating in a competitive... Read more
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Alexander Hamilton - Abridged
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
"Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently... Read more
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Bunker Hill
A City, a Siege, a Revolution
The American Revolution Series: Book #1
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)
In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to... Read more
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The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
By: Charles Fishman
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again. In fact, water can be made so clean that it actually becomes toxic.
As... Read more
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Unstoppable
Harnessing Science to Change the World
By: Bill Nye
Narrated by: Bill Nye
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.
In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all... Read more
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF... Read more
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The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough.
Not all pioneers went west.
In The Greater Journey, David McCullough... Read more
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