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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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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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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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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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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
Garbo
By: Robert Gottlieb
Narrated by: Maria Tucci
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her.
“Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously... 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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The Lost Café Schindler
By: Meriel Schindler
Narrated by: Caitlin Cavannaugh
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to confront not only their fractured relationship but... Read more
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The Republic
By: Plato
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Republic Socrates is asked the question ‘What is justice?’ And in order to answer it, he draws a long and detailed analogy between the individual and the city. Plato’s work forms the foundation of Western philosophy and covers a wide range of topics including political theory and ethics, with extended digressions into artistic and... Read more
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On War
By: Carl von Clausewitz
Narrated by: David Timson & Lucy Scott
Length: 31 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
‘War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.’ A classic work of military strategy, On War sets forth the theories and tactics of Carl von Clausewitz, a distinguished Prussian general who was notable for his roles in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The book covers a broad range of topics, including weapons, terrain, troops... Read more
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The Fires of Jubilee
By: Stephen B. Oates
Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York TimesThe definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the aftermath that brought America one step closer to civil war—newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document "The Confessions of... Read more
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A Jewish Founding Father?
By: Andrew Porwancher
Narrated by: Andrew Porwancher
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Thousands of miles from the Old World, on a... Read more
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When Weather Changed the Course of History
By: Caroline Winterer
Narrated by: Caroline Winterer
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. Weather and climate have been shaping human history... Read more
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
By: Alexander Lee
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 22 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas?
In... Read more