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God's Love Compels Us
Taking the Gospel to the World
2015
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With contributions from popular Bible teachers, including David Platt, John Piper, D. A. Carson, Andy Davis, Mack Stiles, Michael Oh, and Stephen Um, this collection of biblical expositions explores how God's love for us is meant to drive Christians out into the world on mission for him. Addressing "hot topics" that are actively discussed today—such as whether or not people without Christ are really lost and the Christian's responsibility to fight for social justice—this ...
The Ides of March
A Novel
Unabridged
8 hours 44 min
2020
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“Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero’s destruction there is the true catharsis.”—Edward Weeks, AtlanticFirst published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the Rome of Julius Caesar. Through imaginary letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of its magnetic personalities.In th...
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Theophilus North
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Richard Poe
Unabridged
14 hours 15 min
2020
EN
The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder’s twin brother who died at birth. This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder’s nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating material about the novelist, story and setting.Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks ...
The Shadow System
Mass Incarceration and the American Family
- Narrated by
- Janina Edwards
Unabridged
8 hours 43 min
2020
EN
From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with his daughter desp...
Narcotopia
In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
- Narrated by
- Patrick Winn
Unabridged
15 hours 30 min
2024
EN
The gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state—and America’s struggle to thwart them.In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. They dominate the Golden Triangle, a mountainous stretch of Burma between Thailand and China. Their 30,000-strong army, wielding missiles and attack drones, makes Mexican cartels look like street gangs.Wa moguls are unrivaled in the region’s $60 billion meth trade and i...
The West
A New History in Fourteen Lives
- Narrated by
- Shaheen Khan
Unabridged
14 hours 8 min
2023
EN
**“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times—is a powerful figment of our collective imagination. An urge...
Beverly Hills Spy
The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
- Narrated by
- Sam Dewhurst-Phillips
Unabridged
10 hours 12 min
2024
EN
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre’s greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.Frederick Rutland was an accomplished aviator, British WWI war hero, and real-life James Bond. He was the first pilot to take off and land a plane on a s...
Chilean Poet
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Gisela Chípe
- Translated by
- Megan McDowell
Unabridged
12 hours 2 min
2022
EN
**A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE”“A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet]broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times“Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.” —The New York Review of Books
Don't Call Me Princess
Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
- Narrated by
- Peggy Orenstein
Unabridged
10 hours 8 min
2018
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The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.”Named one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review, ...
- Narrated by
- Robb Moreira
Unabridged
6 hours 46 min
2022
EN
One of The Millions' ""Most Anticipated Books of 2022""One of PureWow’s ""10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in January""One of BookShop.org's ""Notable New Releases""One of The New York Times Book Review’s ""16 New Books Coming in January""One of Poets & Writers' ""New and Noteworthy Books”""David Sanchez's first novel—brillia...
The Complications
On Going Insane in America
- Narrated by
- James Gloucester
Unabridged
12 hours 56 min
2024
EN
An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for major national media outlets, and taught writing and literatur...
The Three-Cornered War
The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
- Narrated by
- Cynthia Farrell
Unabridged
10 hours 16 min
2020
EN
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryA dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait” (Publishers Weekly).Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation” (Library Journal, starred review), reframin...











