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    Master Thieves

    The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist

    by Stephen Kurkjian ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    In a secret meeting in 1981, a master thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the Boston criminal underworld. It took years before the ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    City of Quartz

    Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    by Mike Davis ...
    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 39 min

    No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Reading Confederate Monuments

    by Maria Seger, Joanna Davis-McElligatt ...
    Narrated by Mason Jackson ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 33 min

    Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa WoolforkReading Confederate Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret the literal and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    From Barbycu to Barbecue

    The Untold History of an American Tradition

    by Joseph R. Haynes ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported. The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions. From Barbycu to Barbecue offers a fresh new look at the story of southern barbecuing. Award winning barbecue ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Defiance of the Patriots

    The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. It set the stage for war and cemented certain values in the American psyche that many still cherish today. But why did the Tea Party happen? Whom ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Great Fortune

    The Epic of Rockefeller Center

    by Daniel Okrent ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 14 min

    In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Gangland New York

    The Places and Faces of Mob History

    by Anthony M. DeStefano ...
    Narrated by Gary Galone ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the rise of the Jewish "Kosher Nostra" and the ascendance of the Italian Mafia, mobsters have played a major role in the city's history, lurking just around the corner or inside that nondescript building. Bill "the Butcher" Poole, Paul Kelly, Monk Eastman, "Lucky" Luciano, Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, Mickey Spillane, John Gotti-each held sway ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Legacy of Conquest

    The Unbroken Past of the American West

    by Patricia Nelson Limerick, PhD ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 42 min

    The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Burning

    Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

    by Tim Madigan ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, eighty years later, the death toll of what is known as the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    To Begin the World Over Again

    How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe

    by Matthew Lockwood ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world. While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact-it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru to the colonization ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Gulf

    The Making of An American Sea

    by Jack E. Davis ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 45 min

    Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction-the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea-bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mob Cop

    My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department

    by Fred Pascente, Sam Reaves ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, one of Chicago's most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives in the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up together on Chicago's Near West Side, and as young toughs they were rousted and shaken down by Hanhardt. While Spilotro became the youngest made man ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Names of New York

    Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

    by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro ...
    Narrated by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    "A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick MirrorIn place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods.Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Bowery Boys

    Adventures in Old New York: An Unconventional Exploration of Manhattan's Historic Neighborhoods, Secret Spots and Colorful Characters

    by Greg Young, Tom Meyers ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 12 min

    The Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York's old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. Featuring fascinating guides to: - Hell's Kitchen and Columbus Circle - The Bowery and Astor Place - Tribeca and Foley Square - Chinatown and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mothers of Massive Resistance

    White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

    by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 43 min

    Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow. For decades in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    California Exposures

    Envisioning Myth and History

    by Richard White, Jesse Amble White ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so thoroughly become fact that it is visible in everyday landscapes. Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to "print the legend," collaborates here with his son, a talented photographer ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Georgetown Set

    Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington

    by Gregg Herken ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 2 min

    This fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington is a rich and colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner.In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of cold warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and well-connected civilians who ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hemingway's Key West

    by Stuart B. McIver ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 52 min

    The only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of them all. This vivid portrait of Ernest Hemingway's Key West reveals both Hemingway, the writer, and Hemingway, the macho, hard-drinking sportsman. His Key ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Gathering of Soldiers

    by Martin Hicks ...
    Narrated by Steven Miller ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 9 min

    A Gathering of Soldiers relates the story of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant who has begun a new life in Georgia just as the events leading up to the momentous civil war in America have begun to unfold. The book describes his experiences upon enlisting with a group of his peers, in a north Georgia militia company, following Abraham Lincoln's first summons for troops to invade the southern states ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Axeman of New Orleans

    The True Story

    by Miriam C. Davis ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer, while two innocent men nearly paid for one of his crimes with their lives. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, collections of true crime, novels, a graphic novel, and the FX television series American Horror Story. But the real story of the Axeman of New Orleans has never been ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Across God’s Frontiers

    Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850–1920

    by Anne M. Butler ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. In Across God’s Frontiers, Anne M. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women’s agency and power ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cold Water Crossing

    An Account of the Murders at the Isles of Shoals

    by David Faxon ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    Sometimes a murder story lingers for years after the event. This one has lingered for more than a century, especially in New England. The setting is winter, 1873 on a small, obscure island ten miles off the coast of Maine. Three women await the return of their men the following morning. A killer, who learns they are alone for one night, is rowing to their island, across ten miles of open sea. The ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

    by Elizabeth Catte ...
    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America's recent fascination with ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers

    Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840–1920

    by Jessica Wang ...
    Narrated by Sands Xe ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of "Mad dog!" possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial