This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the spring of 1862, as the smoke of Shiloh drifted across the South, the war came calling for the men of AlabamaWilkerson McRae and his brothers left their farm to join the 2nd Alabama Cavalry. Under Sergeant Silas Ward, they trained and deployed to the pine barrens along the Alabama–Florida border, where Confederate forces worked to contain Union troops in Pensacola.War was not what they expected it to be. In harsh c...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Fog Before Dawn: The Battle That Taught America Who It WasThe War of 1812 had brought invasion, humiliation, and uncertainty. Washington had burned. American armies had stumbled. Many wondered whether the young republic could truly stand among the great powers of the world.Then, through the fog-covered fields outside New Orleans, came a battle that changed more than the course of a campa...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What happens when the heroes of a revolution believe the government they created has betrayed them?Only a few years after American independence, the new republic faced one of its first and greatest tests—not from a foreign empire, but from its own citizens. As debt, crushing taxes, and economic hardship spread across rural Massachusetts, Revolutionary War veterans found themselves fighting a very different battl...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.America's fight for independence nearly died in the winter of 1776.After devastating defeats, George Washington's exhausted army staggered across New Jersey through snow, hunger, illness, and despair. Soldiers marched barefoot. Enlistments were about to expire. British forces advanced with confidence, convinced the rebellion was finished.Yet in the darkest weeks of the Revolution, a desperate gamble changed everything.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Barbara Matthews hasn't slept through the night since September. Ninety-two days since her son Bron called to say he was going camping. Ninety-two days since she heard his voice. Ninety-two days of nothing. When her older son Derek shows up with a fragment of metal that no lab can identify — warm to the touch, humming with something that settles behind her eyes like a word she almost recognizes — Barbara knows two things: something impo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Nation That Almost Never Was is the story of a crisis few Americans remember—and a nation that nearly failed before it truly began.In the years following independence, the United States stood on the edge of fragmentation. Debt mounted, states quarreled, confidence in government collapsed, and unrest spread across the young republic. Many feared the Revolution had won freedom only to lose the future.J...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some orders cannot be taken back. Some words wait too long to be said.Commander James Rhodes has spent his entire life becoming the soldier his father built him to be. Methodical. Controlled. The man who always knows the mission and never says the wrong thing, because he has learned to say almost nothing at all. Now he is flying to the far side of the world, to a frozen crater in Siberia where something is pushing through from t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.For forty-one years, Ren has kept the lights on.He was thirty-four the day the others left the station, young enough that the years still felt like they belonged to him. He stayed. Someone had to. And so the work became his life: the corridor lines glowing gold in the deep hours, the hull ticking and settling in the cold of space, the plants in the lower bay growing because he was there to make them grow.Alone on a stati...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An abandoned pickup sits on a forest service road deep in the Montana high country. The keys are still in the ignition. The driver's door hangs open. And leading away from it, through a corridor of trees gone gray and dead, a set of bootprints crosses the ground to the edge of a smooth, warm pit burned into the earth, and stops.Ranger Calvin Rourke has spent his whole life in these mountains, and twenty years in the Army before ...