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A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more

A Fever in the Heartland

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Timothy Egan

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history—how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly resonant today." -- David Grann, author of THE WAGER and... Read more

Off with Her Head

By: Eleanor Herman

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris.
Imagine Donald Trump as a woman, called Donna. Would Donna Trump have been viewed as blunt, honest, and refreshing?... Read more

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

By: Jonathan Blitzer

Narrated by: André Santana & Jonathan Blitzer

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller • A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch • One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks • Named a Notable Book by New York Times and Washington... Read more

Fight Like Hell

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.

Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

By: Edward Dolnick

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.

In the early 1800s the natural world was a safe and cozy place, or so people believed.... Read more

Fascism: A Warning

By: Madeleine Albright

Narrated by: Madeleine Albright

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

?#1 New York Times Bestseller “Albright outlines the warning signs of fascism and offers concrete actions for restoring America’s values and reputation. There is priceless wisdom on every page.” —Booklist (starred review)“Fascism [is] the work of a woman who knows authoritarianism when she sees it. And she sees the seeds of it not only in a slew... Read more

After Jesus Before Christianity

By: Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig & W...

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.Christianity has... Read more

White Trash

By: Nancy Isenberg

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller
A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016
Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads
San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books
A Washington Post Notable... Read more

Ireland: A Short History

By: Joseph Coohill

Narrated by: Enda Oates

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the St Andrews Agreement and decommissioning of IRA weapons, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how differing interpretations of history, ancient and modern, have influenced modern Irish society. Combining factual information with a critical approach, Coohill... Read more

How Women Made Music

By: National Public Radio, Inc & Alison Fensterstock

Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers, Janina Edwards...

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone, Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift, Solange, and many more.NPR’s launch of the multi-platform series Turning the Tables in 2017,... Read more

The Plantagenets

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 21 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—by the author of Powers and Thrones.

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In... Read more

The Woman Who Smashed Codes

By: Jason Fagone

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.”— The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her... Read more

Heretic

By: Catherine Nixey

Narrated by: Lalla Ward

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

""A brilliant book...illuminates a forgotten world."" —The Times, Best of the Year""Heretic tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the same time, somewhat improbably, it supplies at least one good joke per paragraph; you have to keep turning back to enjoy them again."" ―The Economist, Best of... Read more

Wild Swans

By: Jung Chang

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.

An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window... Read more

How Jesus Became God

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus... Read more

The Princess Spy

By: Larry Loftis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and... Read more

The Exceptions

By: Kate Zernike

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles.

“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity,... Read more

The Year 1000

By: Valerie Hansen

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*

From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world’s societies at the end... Read more

Fight of the Century

By: Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman

Narrated by: an All Star Cast

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.

On January 19, 1920, a small group of... Read more

Australia's Greatest Escapes

By: Colin Burgess

Narrated by: Steve Shanahan

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Australia's greatest escape stories from two world wars 
 
Australia’s Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience – escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled through stinking... Read more

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

The Hunt for History

By: Nathan Raab & Luke Barr

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, delivers a “diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane” (The Wall Street Journal) that recounts his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity.

A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters... Read more

The Light of Days

By: Judy Batalion

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until... Read more