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Wonderland
By: Steven Johnson
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
“A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” —The New York Times Book Review
From the New York Times–bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Life, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained.
This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes... Read more
Forty Autumns
By: Nina Willner
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Forty Autumns makes visceral the... Read more
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Time Travel
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions
“A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post
“A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston Globe
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and... Read more
The Crash Detectives
By: Christine Negroni
Narrated by: Christine Negroni
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety.” —Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson
A fascinating exploration of how humans and machines fail—leading to air disasters from... Read more
Blood at the Root
By: Patrick Phillips
Narrated by: Patrick Phillips
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth
County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to
the deep roots of racial violence in America.
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children.... Read more
American Revolutions
By: Alan Taylor
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 18 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh,
authoritative history that recasts our thinking
about America’s founding period.
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the... Read more
The Perfect Horse
By: Elizabeth Letts
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II
WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR RESEARCH NONFICTION
In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an... Read more
Code Warriors
By: Stephen Budiansky
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades
The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the... Read more
If You Can Keep It
By: Eric Metaxas
Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.
In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A... Read more
The Secret War
By: Max Hastings
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 30 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced... Read more
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Jungle of Stone
By: William Carlsen
Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
Length: 16 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the MayaIn 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and... Read more
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The Mathews Men
By: William Geroux
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."
—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European... Read more
Last Stand
By: Michael Punke
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twenty-three. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a gilded age that viewed the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of resources to be dug up or shot down. Supporting hide hunters was the U.S. Army, which... Read more
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
By: Ingrid von Oelhafen & Tim Tate
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2.
Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to... Read more
Gray Work
By: Jamie Smith
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men who run highly dangerous missions deep inside foreign... Read more
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Navy Seals
By: Dick Couch & William Doyle
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Captures the essence of Naval Special Warfare from our storied beginnings to the current fight.” —Admiral WILLIAM H. McRAVENWritten with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of America's most... Read more
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50 Children
By: Steven Pressman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939—the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States—for readers of In the Garden of Beasts and A Train in Winter.In early 1939,... Read more
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Operation Paperclip
By: Annie Jacobsen
Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 19 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs (The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis'... Read more
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American Gun
By: Chris Kyle & William Doyle
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPERJoin Chris Kyle on a fascinating journey to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review)Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically... Read more
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.
By: Sam Wasson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals... Read more
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Nixon and Kissinger - Abridged
By: Robert Dallek
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often... Read more
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