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Nervous Systems
By: Andreas Killen
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ.The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new... Read more
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The Watchmaker's Daughter
By: Larry Loftis
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of her... Read more
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The Ship Beneath the Ice
By: Mensun Bound
Narrated by: Mensun Bound & Charles Armstrong
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's... Read more
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Fighting For YES! (Audio Descriptive)
By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Judith Heumann
Narrated by: Ali Stroker & Judith Heumann
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing “NO.” In the 1970s, an important disability rights law, Section 504 of The... Read more
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Fighting For YES! (Audio Descriptive)
By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Judith Heumann
Narrated by: Ali Stroker & Judith Heumann
Length: 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing “NO.” In the 1970s, an important disability rights law, Section 504 of The... Read more
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The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth II
By: Pearson Phillips
Narrated by: Nanette Newman
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: No
The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen huge changes in the lifestyle and expectations of peoples and nations. She has proved to be the constitutional monarch par excellence – while primarily a figurehead she has guided the concept of monarchy through difficult times, both national and personal. And even when her family has been rocked by... Read more
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The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I
By: Elizabeth Jenkins
Narrated by: Karen Archer
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout her vivid life, Elizabeth I was the centre of a complicated web of political intrigue that made up the Elizabethan constitution. Elizabeth Jenkins, in her classic biography, reveals the woman behind the skilful politician, showing her belief in personal sacrifice to secure peace for the country she loved more than any man. Read more
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Tears Over Russia
By: Lisa Brahin
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village,... Read more
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The Lion and the Fox
By: Alexander Rose
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him.
In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a Confederate, the other his Union rival—were dispatched to neutral... Read more
Elizabeth Taylor
By: Kate Andersen Brower
Narrated by: Eleanor Caudill
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor’s glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and... Read more
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New York Jew
By: Alfred Kazin
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than thirty years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; strong and intimate revelations of many of the most important... Read more
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Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon & Marni Penning
Length: 28 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives... Read more
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Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Quentin Tarantino
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times bestsellerThe long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary... Read more
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Blood & Ink
By: Joe Pompeo
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century.On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New... Read more
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Dangerous Rhythms
By: T. J. English
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.""[A] brilliant and courageous book."" —Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship... Read more
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The Complete Letters of Pliny the Younger
By: Pliny
Narrated by: Russell Bentley & Ben Onwukwe
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The extant letters of Pliny, written between AD 97 and 112, give us a unique insight into Imperial Rome under the early Antonine emperors. Organised into 10 books, the letters reflect a wide range of topics, mirroring Pliny’s own public and private interests. Among many other subjects, the letters also include an eye-witness account of the... Read more
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The Sky Is for Everyone
By: Virginia Trimble & David A. Weintraub
Narrated by: Kate Harper, Katherine Fenton, Kaliswa Brewster...
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This inspiring audiobook shares the stories of trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe
Features a prelude, chapter introductions, and postlude read by Kaliswa Brewster
With additional narration by Marnie Chesterton, Katherine Fenton, Pooneh Ghoddoosi, and Kate Harper
The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of... Read more
The Road to Eleusis
By: Albert Hofmann
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the... Read more
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By the Grace of the Game
By: Dan Grunfeld
Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York, in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who had discovered and secretly honed his basketball talent on the outdoor courts of New York... Read more
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Woke Up This Morning
By: Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa
Narrated by: Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa & Full Cast
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive oral history of the landmark television series and streaming hit The Sopranos, packed with untold stories from behind the scenes and on the set. Stars Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa—whose Talking Sopranos podcast has become a sensational fan favorite—talk intimately with virtually everyone who has been involved with the... Read more
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Poetics/Rhetoric
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Art of Rhetoric, a guide on the principles behind oratorical skill, is a core text on the art of persuasion. Aristotle contends that rhetoric is one of the key elements of philosophy – along with logic and dialectic. The work consists of three books: the first is a general overview, the second concerns the means of persuasion that an orator... Read more
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Gettysburg
By: Stephen W. Sears
Narrated by: Jaime Renell
Length: 20 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle—even on single charges—or on... Read more
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The Oaken Heart
By: Margery Allingham
Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy (‘Auburn’) when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens’ post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London evacuees in a rural community of just over 600.... Read more
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The Worst Hard Time
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Jacob York
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through... Read more