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Girly Drinks
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
From Los Angeles Times bestselling author Mallory O’Meara comes a lively and engrossing feminist history of women drinking through the ages
Strawberry daiquiris. Skinny martinis. Vodka sodas with lime. These are the cocktails that come in... Read more
Hunting the Falcon
By: John Guy & Julia Fox
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne’s triumph and tragedy."" —Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review“A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana:... Read more
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The Escape Artist
By: Jonathan Freedland
Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller""A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?"" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus:... Read more
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A Concise History of Spain
By: William D. Phillips Jr and Carla Rahn Phillips
Narrated by: Luis Soto
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook traces Spain’s development from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics and personalities. It introduces listeners to key themes that have shaped Spain’s history and culture, including its varied landscapes and climates; the impact of waves of diverse human migrations; the importance... 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
Good to Great
By: Jim Collins
Narrated by: Jim Collins
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Built To Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies... Read more
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Sea People
By: Christina Thompson
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest... Read more
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An Ordinary Man
By: Richard Norton Smith
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 36 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
“Gerald Ford is probably remembered more for how he got to the presidency than for what he did there. In this brilliant book, Richard Norton Smith tells the rest of the story. On every other page I found something I didn’t know, bringing new and important insights into how Ford kept the nation together and moved it past its most severe political... Read more
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Arabs
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 25 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances.... Read more
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Central Asia
By: Adeeb Khalid
Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This engaging audiobook narrated by Aaqil Ahmed explores how Central Asia has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the... Read more
Gods, Heroes & Monsters
By: Mark Daniels
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Since the dawn of communication, humankind has looked around itself and used myths and legends to make sense of the world. Imaginative tales of goddesses, heroes, villains and beasts bring understanding to the biggest questions in life: Who made the world? What happens when we die? Where did we come from? How should we live our lives? Gods,... Read more
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The King of Diamonds
By: Rena Pederson
Narrated by: Erin Dion
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena... Read more
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Sheridan’s Secret Mission
By: Robert Cwiklik
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White league intent on... Read more
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Task Force Hogan
By: William R. Hogan
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the “Spearhead,” that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany—against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf—and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II.At twenty-eight, Sam Hogan is... Read more
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Pandora's Box
By: Peter Biskind
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned both—based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews... Read more
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The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life, questions we stand... Read more
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Dear Jacob
By: Patty Wetterling & Joy Baker
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy’s remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob, told by his mother, Patty. With down-to-earth candor, she details the... Read more
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The Final Witness
By: Paul Landis
Narrated by: Lane Hakel
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns. Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK’s and is at the president’s limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is... Read more
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While Idaho Slept
By: J. Reuben Appelman
Narrated by: Gary Bennett
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media’s seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of... Read more
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Bartleby and Me
By: Gay Talese
Narrated by: Mike Ortego
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters.In the concluding act of this ""incomparable"" (Air Mail) capstone book, Talese introduces readers to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting all new tale of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his... Read more
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Necessary Trouble
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by: Drew Gilpin Faust
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions?not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. To be a privileged white... Read more
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The Story of the Saxophone
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how... Read more
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The Secret History
By: Procopius
Narrated by: David Timson
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Procopius appeared to be a loyal part of the Byzantine establishment, his official writing glorifying the deeds of the Emperor Justinian (d. AD 565). However, he also produced a work that he knew could never be published within the Emperor’s lifetime: The Secret History, a vitriolic indictment of the rule of Justinian and his wife Theodora. In... Read more
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Ancient Rome
By: DK
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline.
Covering more than 1,000 years of history, and an empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria, Ancient Rome reveals in vivid detail all the key... Read more