Umar Lee

The Slaughterman's Daughter

By: Yaniv Iczkovits

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

**Winner of the... Read more

The Vanishing

By: Janine di Giovanni

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones... Read more

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

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

By: Joel Kotkin

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in... Read more

Oklahoma City

By: Andrew Gumbel & Roger G. Charles

Narrated by: Todd Waring

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly... Read more

Send for Me

By: Lauren Fox

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of familyAnnelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents’ popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious... Read more

The Last Exiles

By: Ann Shin

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE TRILLIUM AWARD

An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom

Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of... Read more

Abundance

By: Jakob Guanzon

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Evicted from their trailer on New Year's Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon:... Read more

The Free World

By: Louis Menand

Length: 34 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile Magazine

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural... Read more

The Low Desert

By: Tod Goldberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the critically acclaimed Gangsterland universe, a series called "gloriously original" by the New York Times Book Review.



With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern crime fiction assemble a... Read more

My Broken Language

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.

“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away.... Read more

The Angel

By: Uri Bar-Joseph

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country's government. But he himself had a secret: he was a spy for the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Under the codename "The Angel," Marwan turned Egypt into an open book... Read more

The Wondering Jew

By: Micah Goodman

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide



Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious... Read more

The Black Book

By: Orhan Pamuk

Length: 19 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red—a brilliantly unconventional mystery of a missing wife, and a provocative meditation on identity.

“A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention.” —The Washington Post

Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have... Read more

To the End of the Land

By: David Grossman

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 26 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war.

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical... Read more

Defenders of the Faith

By: James Reston

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling historian recounts sixteen years that shook the world—the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of ViennaIn the bestselling Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston Jr. limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate... Read more

Paul

By: N. T. Wright

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology—transforming a faith and changing the world.For centuries, Paul, the apostle who ""saw the... Read more

The Popes Against the Jews

By: David I. Kertzer

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible.

Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself called for a clear-eyed historical... Read more

The Decadent Society

By: Ross Douthat

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and private despair.

The era of the coronavirus has tested America, and our leaders and institutions have conspicuously failed. That failure shouldn’t... Read more

1919, The Year of Racial Violence

By: David F. Krugler

Narrated by: David Sadzin

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city—Washington, DC; Chicago;... Read more