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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ...

Narrated by Robert Fass, Prentice Onayemi, Allyson Johnson, Vivienne Leheny, Jennifer Ikeda, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Raphael Corkhill, Vikas Adam, various narrators, Justin D. Torres ...

Unabridged

31 hours 15 min

Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her thirty-five-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking ... Read more

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Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her thirty-five-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking
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Audiobook

Millennium

The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

by Tom Holland ...

Narrated by Tom Holland, Mark Meadows ...

Unabridged

17 hours 32 min

Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD'A splendid, highly ... Read more

$39.99 NZD

Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD'A splendid, highly
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Audiobook

Smriti Chitre

by Laxamibai Tilak ...

Narrated by Mrunal Kulkarni ...

Unabridged

20 hours 52 min

दोन टोकांचे अंतर असलेले सर्व आयुष्य... एक चित्र वरवर हलक्या फुलक्या पण आतून दाट गहिर् ... Read more

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दोन टोकांचे अंतर असलेले सर्व आयुष्य... एक चित्र वरवर हलक्या फुलक्या पण आतून दाट गहिर्
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Audiobook

The Light Between Apple Trees

Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

by Priyanka Kumar ...

Narrated by Priyanka Kumar ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. In The Light ... Read more

$37.96 NZD

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. In The Light
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Audiobook

The Frontiers of Knowledge

What We Know About Science, History and The Mind

by A. C. Grayling ...

Narrated by Richard Goulding ...

Unabridged

13 hours 43 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the ... Read more

$29.30 NZD

Brought to you by Penguin.In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the
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Audiobook

Hanging Ruth Blay

An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy

by Carolyn Marvin ...

Narrated by Hannah Cabell ...

Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby.On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth's old South Cemetery, she would have had a clear view across the pasture to the harbor and open sea.The ... Read more

$20.87 NZD

The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby.On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth's old South Cemetery, she would have had a clear view across the pasture to the harbor and open sea.The
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Audiobook

Zeiten der Erkenntnis

Wie uns die großen historischen Veränderungen bis heute prägen

by Ian Mortimer ...

Narrated by Michael A. Grimm ...

Abridged

15 hours 42 min

Welches der vergangenen zehn Jahrhunderte hat die größten Veränderungen erlebt, welches hat die Menschheit am weitesten vorangebracht? Was war das Besondere eines jeden Jahrhunderts? Auf einem Streifzug durch die vergangenen 1000 Jahre führt uns Ian Mortimer zu den großen Zeiten der Erkenntnis und des Wandels. Wir begegnen gottesfürchtigen Forschern, gewitzten Bauern, kühl kalkulierenden ... Read more

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Welches der vergangenen zehn Jahrhunderte hat die größten Veränderungen erlebt, welches hat die Menschheit am weitesten vorangebracht? Was war das Besondere eines jeden Jahrhunderts? Auf einem Streifzug durch die vergangenen 1000 Jahre führt uns Ian Mortimer zu den großen Zeiten der Erkenntnis und des Wandels. Wir begegnen gottesfürchtigen Forschern, gewitzten Bauern, kühl kalkulierenden
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Audiobook

The Private Life of the Diary

From Pepys to Tweets – A History of the Diary as an Art Form

by Sally Bayley ...

Narrated by Camilla Rockley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of – the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself.Diaries hold all manner of things: they allow us a moment to be completely personal, to self-aggrandise, to focus on self-reflection without concern of what someone on the outside might think. ... Read more

$29.99 NZD

In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of – the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself.Diaries hold all manner of things: they allow us a moment to be completely personal, to self-aggrandise, to focus on self-reflection without concern of what someone on the outside might think.
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Audiobook

Da foz do Rio Doce a Cabo Frio: Trechos selecionados de Tratado descritivo do Brasil

by Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Gabriel Soares de Sousa ...

Narrated by Guga Almeida ...

Series series MiniPops
Abridged

25 min

Os leitores capixabas e cariocas hão de considerar pitoresca a descrição da costa de seus estados há quase 500 anos. A presente seleção de textos do livro "Tratado descritivo do Brasil", de Gabriel Soares de Sousa, nos conta ainda os singulares hábitos das tribos goitacases e papanases, que resistiram de forma intensa à colonização. ... Read more

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Os leitores capixabas e cariocas hão de considerar pitoresca a descrição da costa de seus estados há quase 500 anos. A presente seleção de textos do livro "Tratado descritivo do Brasil", de Gabriel Soares de Sousa, nos conta ainda os singulares hábitos das tribos goitacases e papanases, que resistiram de forma intensa à colonização.
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Audiobook

Wizards

David Duke, America's Wildest Election, and the Rise of the Far Right

by Brian Fairbanks ...

Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general election—and he was going to lose.Then a little ... Read more

$37.96 NZD

The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general election—and he was going to lose.Then a little
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Audiobook

October 1964

by David Halberstam ...

Narrated by Angelo Di Loreto ...

Unabridged

13 hours 54 min

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR"October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals. It should be a hit with younger students of the game, who'll eat up the vivid portrayals of legends ... Read more

$42.73 NZD

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR"October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals. It should be a hit with younger students of the game, who'll eat up the vivid portrayals of legends
... Read more
Audiobook

Brasilien und die Fußball WM 2026

Die Geschichte der brasilianischen Nationalmannschaft

by Michele Martin ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Fussball WM 2026 Die Geschichte der Champions
Unabridged

3 hours 27 min

Brasilien ist mehr als eine Fußballnation – Brasilien ist ein Gefühl. Kaum ein anderes Land hat den Weltfußball so nachhaltig geprägt wie die Seleção. Fünf Weltmeistertitel, unzählige Weltstars und ein Spielstil, der Generationen von Fußballfans begeistert hat, machten Brasilien zum Synonym für Kreativität, Leidenschaft und Spielfreude. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch ... Read more

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Brasilien ist mehr als eine Fußballnation – Brasilien ist ein Gefühl. Kaum ein anderes Land hat den Weltfußball so nachhaltig geprägt wie die Seleção. Fünf Weltmeistertitel, unzählige Weltstars und ein Spielstil, der Generationen von Fußballfans begeistert hat, machten Brasilien zum Synonym für Kreativität, Leidenschaft und Spielfreude. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch
... Read more
Audiobook

Chess Opening Names - Volume 2

by Nathan Rose ...

Narrated by Nathan Rose ...

Unabridged

5 hours 52 min

Even more of the people, places and stories behind the chess openings and their namesWhen we play chess, the first few moves define the game . You may know the names already: the Italian Game, the Cambridge Springs Defense, the Smith-Morra Gambit, the Max Lange Attack, the Colle System, the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, the Paulsen Variation, the Damiano Defense, and so on.But most chess players don't ... Read more

$30.46 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Even more of the people, places and stories behind the chess openings and their namesWhen we play chess, the first few moves define the game . You may know the names already: the Italian Game, the Cambridge Springs Defense, the Smith-Morra Gambit, the Max Lange Attack, the Colle System, the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, the Paulsen Variation, the Damiano Defense, and so on.But most chess players don't
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Audiobook

Povoações e moradores da província de Santa Cruz: Trechos selecionados de "História da província de Santa Cruz"

by Pero de Magalhães Gândavo ...

Narrated by Yuri Ribeiro ...

Series series MiniPops
Abridged

19 min

Nesta seleção de textos do livro "História da província de Santa Cruz", do cronista Pero de Magalhães Gandavo, o autor descreve sucintamente como são as oito capitanias então existentes. Destacam-se a boa condição do Espírito Santo, a "mais fértil" e bem abastecida das capitanias, e também os combates necessários para afugentar os franceses que invadiam a capitania do Rio de Janeiro. ... Read more

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Nesta seleção de textos do livro "História da província de Santa Cruz", do cronista Pero de Magalhães Gandavo, o autor descreve sucintamente como são as oito capitanias então existentes. Destacam-se a boa condição do Espírito Santo, a "mais fértil" e bem abastecida das capitanias, e também os combates necessários para afugentar os franceses que invadiam a capitania do Rio de Janeiro.
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Audiobook

The United States Constitution

by James Madison and Various Authors ...

Narrated by AI Voice ...

Unabridged

33 min

This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice. ... Read more

$9.48 NZD

This program is read by an AI-based synthesized voice.
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Audiobook

A Year In The Maine Woods

by Bernd Heinrich ...

Narrated by William Sarris ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut logs he dragged out of the woods with a team of oxen. There, alone except for his pet raven, Jack ... Read more

$39.86 NZD

Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place—a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin with no running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut logs he dragged out of the woods with a team of oxen. There, alone except for his pet raven, Jack
... Read more
Audiobook

Silencing the Past

Power and the Production of History

by Michel-Rolph Trouillot ...

Narrated by Shaun Scott ...

Unabridged

5 hours 44 min

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. ... Read more

$53.17 NZD

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.
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Audiobook

England und die Fußball WM 2026

Die Geschichte der englischen Nationalmannschaft

by Michele Martin ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Fussball WM 2026 Die Geschichte der Champions
Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

England und die Fußball WM 2026. England ist das Mutterland des modernen Fußballs. Hier wurden die ersten Regeln festgelegt, hier entstanden die ältesten Vereine der Welt und hier begann die Erfolgsgeschichte einer Sportart, die heute Milliarden Menschen begeistert. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch mehr als einhundertfünfzig Jahre englischer Fußballgeschichte. Von ... Read more

$48.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

England und die Fußball WM 2026. England ist das Mutterland des modernen Fußballs. Hier wurden die ersten Regeln festgelegt, hier entstanden die ältesten Vereine der Welt und hier begann die Erfolgsgeschichte einer Sportart, die heute Milliarden Menschen begeistert. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch mehr als einhundertfünfzig Jahre englischer Fußballgeschichte. Von
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Audiobook

Titanic: The Lost Treasure

by RW Gates and Meredith Carson ...

Narrated by Austin Rising, David Micklem, Becky Parker, Michael Axtell, Samantha Boffin, David Hale, Judith McSpadden, Gina Coyle, Mark Sebastian, Jerrilee Geist ...

Unabridged

58 min

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic!Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did."If you love poetry, history, and feeling like Indiana Jones, read this book now." 5 Stars from Erin Nicole Cochran for ... Read more

$15.17 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic!Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did."If you love poetry, history, and feeling like Indiana Jones, read this book now." 5 Stars from Erin Nicole Cochran for
... Read more
Audiobook

Historia Unibertsalaren Konpendioa

by Valero Pujol ...

Narrated by Jordi Savall ...

Unabridged

16 hours 1 min

Historia unibertsalaren eszenatoki zabalean murgiltzeko gonbidapena da Valero Pujol-en Historia Unibertsalaren Konpendioa. Ahots bizidun baten bidez, entzulea denboran zehar bidaiatzera eramaten du, lehen zibilizazio handien jaiotzagatik hasi eta Erdi Aroaren atarira arte. Babilonia eta Egiptoko misterioak, Greziako distira intelektuala, Erromaren boterearen gorakada eta gainbehera, eta herri ... Read more

$28.47 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Historia unibertsalaren eszenatoki zabalean murgiltzeko gonbidapena da Valero Pujol-en Historia Unibertsalaren Konpendioa. Ahots bizidun baten bidez, entzulea denboran zehar bidaiatzera eramaten du, lehen zibilizazio handien jaiotzagatik hasi eta Erdi Aroaren atarira arte. Babilonia eta Egiptoko misterioak, Greziako distira intelektuala, Erromaren boterearen gorakada eta gainbehera, eta herri
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Audiobook

C'mon, Get Happy

The Making of Summer Stock

by David Fantle, Tom Johnson ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. In C'mon, Get Happy, authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture. The production coincided at a critical point in the careers of Kelly and an emotionally spent Garland. Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris just one year ... Read more

$47.46 NZD

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. In C'mon, Get Happy, authors David Fantle and Tom Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture. The production coincided at a critical point in the careers of Kelly and an emotionally spent Garland. Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris just one year
... Read more
Audiobook

Crímenes sorprendentes de asesinos en serie

by Ricardo Canaletti ...

Narrated by Juan Manuel Abraham ...

Unabridged

19 hours 15 min

Con el estilo inconfundible que lo convirtió en el periodista de casos criminales más leído de la Argentina, Ricardo Canaletti llega al fondo de las mentes más perversas de todos los tiempos.¿Monstruos? ¿Personas comunes que se vuelven malvadas o personas que siempre esconden el deseo de matar? Los asesinos seriales no son bestias legendarias, son individuos que viven entre nosotros. Las escenas ... Read more

$40.24 NZD

Con el estilo inconfundible que lo convirtió en el periodista de casos criminales más leído de la Argentina, Ricardo Canaletti llega al fondo de las mentes más perversas de todos los tiempos.¿Monstruos? ¿Personas comunes que se vuelven malvadas o personas que siempre esconden el deseo de matar? Los asesinos seriales no son bestias legendarias, son individuos que viven entre nosotros. Las escenas
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Audiobook

Pseudoscience

An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

by Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

9 hours 51 min

From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens. ... Read more

$61.99 NZD

From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens.
... Read more
Audiobook

Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 02

Eine Geschichte der Liebe

by Joachim Fernau, Hechendorf Studio Johannes Steck ...

Narrated by Joachim Steck ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Eine Geschichte der Liebe
Unabridged

3 hours 21 min

Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen bis zur sexuellen Befreiung. Joachim Fernau, 1909 in ... Read more

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Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen bis zur sexuellen Befreiung. Joachim Fernau, 1909 in
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