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A Ben Of All Trades
By: Michael J. Rosen & Matt Tavares
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won’t hear of it. The other trades he tries—candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner—bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit... Read more »
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Code Breaker, Spy Hunter
By: Laurie Wallmark
Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this biography, young listeners will learn all about Elizebeth Friedman (1892-1980), a brilliant American code breaker who smashed Nazi spy rings, took down gangsters, and created the CIA's first cryptology unit. Her story came to light when her secret papers were finally declassified in 2015. From thwarting notorious rumrunners with only... Read more »
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Anna Strong
By: Sarah Glenn Marsh
Narrated by: Heather Lind
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Anna Smith Strong (1790–1812) was a fearless woman who acted as a spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Recruited by Washington’s spymaster Major Benjamin Tallmadge, she joined the Culper Ring, a group of American spies. General Washington placed a huge amount of trust in his spies, and Anna helped pass him important messages... Read more »
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Through the Wardrobe
By: Lina Maslo
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things... heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself—at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the... Read more »
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Sapiens
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it... Read more »
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Jubilee
By: KT Johnston
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. But how do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with... Read more »
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Soaring in Style
By: Jennifer Lane Wilson
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But the dresses women had to wear at the time made those dreams seem almost impossible. Amelia didn't let that stop her. As a young aviator breaking records and expectations, she learned to fly her plane with flair. Later, she dared to create a... Read more »
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Pandora's Jar
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more »
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How to Think Like a Woman
By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more »
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On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more »
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Box
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box; he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work... Read more »
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The Book of Pride
By: Mason Funk
Narrated by: Mason Funk, Robin Miles, Eileen Stevens, Kevin ...
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or... Read more »
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Shakespeare
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, and... Read more »
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The New Guys
By: Meredith Bagby
Narrated by: Meredith Bagby & January LaVoy
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling, behind-the-scenes saga of a new generation that transformed... Read more »
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A Life of Service
By: Christina Soontornvat
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Given Tammy Duckworth’s personal heroism as an Army veteran, her stunning recovery from injuries sustained in the line of duty, and her subsequent career as an influential US senator, it’s easy to see why Joe Biden earmarked her as a possible running mate during his Democratic presidential campaign. Senator Duckworth has logged a long list of... Read more »
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The Earl and the Pharaoh
By: The Countess of Carnarvon
Narrated by: The Countess of Carnarvon
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert—the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it—whose country house, Highclere Castle, is the... Read more »
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 21 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the... Read more »
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The Far Traveler
By: Nancy Marie Brown
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of... Read more »
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Fascism: A Warning
By: Madeleine Albright
Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace.At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,... Read more »
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The Opium Queen
By: Gabrielle Paluch
Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium-pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage with a noble cousin, Olive felt that she had no choice but to lead a life of banditry with an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA. As her smuggling empire grew, she became so powerful... Read more »
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Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
By: Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case–his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression, and tormented Ness to his dying breath. "A careening read that’s... Read more »
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In Search of the Color Purple
By: Salamishah Tillet
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic... Read more »
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The Finest Hours
By: Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived.On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer,... Read more »
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The Enlightenment
By: Ritchie Robertson
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 40 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance,... Read more »