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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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9 hours 48 min

**New York Times BestsellerThis American Book Award winning titleabout Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history**A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States includes both a new foreword by ... Read more

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The Armada Legacy: The fast paced action thriller, from the bestselling Ben Hope series, perfect for fans of Dan Brown (Ben Hope, Book 8)

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The Hundred-Year Marathon

China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

by Michael Pillsbury ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

One of the US government’s leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country’s rise—and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world’s leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take ... Read more

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One of the US government’s leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country’s rise—and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world’s leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take
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Bear Witness

The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land

by Ross Halperin ...

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As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. But it wasn't until they moved to an extraordinarily dangerous neighborhood in Honduras that they came to a radical conclusion: The charity world was combating poverty incorrectly.In gripping prose, journalist Ross Halperin chronicles how these two best ... Read more

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The Gotti Wars

Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

by John Gleeson ...

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“Riveting…an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful and multifaceted, The Gotti Wars can’t be missed.” —Esquire, The Best Nonfiction Books of the YearA “meticulous chronicle of good triumphing over evil” (The Washington Post) from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America’s most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Go ... Read more

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Gangsters vs. Nazis

How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America

by Michael Benson ...

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8 hours 53 min

As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobsters waged their own personal ... Read more

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As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobsters waged their own personal
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The Price of the Ticket

Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985

by James Baldwin ...

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34 hours 3 min

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.”Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his ... Read more

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Blood in the Water

The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy

by Casey Sherman ...

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**"**Blood in the Water is a twisty true crime narrative of greed, suspicion, and revenge, taking us from the high seas to the mansion of an enormously wealthy family. Compelling and cinematic, it keeps you guessing about the complicated family at the heart of this saga until the very last page."—Shawn Cohen, New York Times bestselling author of College Girl, Missing<... ... Read more

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Battle Cry of Freedom

The Civil War Era

by James Macpherson ...

Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

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James M. McPherson, professor emeritus of U.S. history at Princeton, is one of the foremost scholars of the CivilWar. In this informative and meticulously researched masterpiece, he clarifies the differing ways of life and philosophythat led to this shattering conflict.Abraham Lincoln wondered whether “in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government.”Jefferson Davis ... Read more

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The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin ...

Narrated by Jesse Martin ...

Unabridged

2 hours 25 min

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American Midnight

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis

by Adam Hochschild ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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15 hours 6 min

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The Odyssey of Echo Company

The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

by Doug Stanton ...

Narrated by CJ Wilson ...

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8 hours 50 min

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The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

by Daniel James Brown ...

Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

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10 hours 55 min

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois ... Read more

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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3

Red River to Appomattox

by Shelby Foote ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

58 hours 23 min

Here is the final volume of the highly acclaimed narrative history named one of the best nonfiction books of the century by National Review.In The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3, Shelby Foote follows the events of the war from 1862 through 1864, discussing the strategies of both the North and the South and assessing the performance of the Union generals. The book opens with the beginning of the ... Read more

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Here is the final volume of the highly acclaimed narrative history named one of the best nonfiction books of the century by National Review.In The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3, Shelby Foote follows the events of the war from 1862 through 1864, discussing the strategies of both the North and the South and assessing the performance of the Union generals. The book opens with the beginning of the
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Prequel

An American Fight Against Fascism

by Rachel Maddow ...

Narrated by Rachel Maddow ...

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13 hours 9 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.“A ripping read—well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same punch and assurance that she brings to a broadcast. . . ... Read more

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The Lost City of Z

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

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10 hours 4 min

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker ... Read more

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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker
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Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

15 hours 9 min

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela... ... Read more

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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt ...

Narrated by John Berendt, Jeff Woodman, Will Damron ...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book ReviewShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it ... Read more

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His Very Best

Jimmy Carter, a Life

by Jonathan Alter ...

Narrated by Michael Boatman ...

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31 hours 4 min

From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, “splendid” (The Washington Post)biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian.Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and ... Read more

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The Boys in the Boat

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by Daniel James Brown ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

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14 hours 24 min

The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race.For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most ... Read more

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Iron Empires

Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

by Michael Hiltzik ...

Narrated by Nick Tecoksy ...

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14 hours 57 min

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. ... Read more

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Friday Night Lights

A Town, a Team, and a Dream

by H.G. Bissinger ...

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14 hours 33 min

The 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Sports Illustrated’s best football book of all time, with a new afterword by the author.Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa—the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn’t known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from ... Read more

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The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough ...

Narrated by David McCullough ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Read more

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A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

by Timothy Egan ...

Narrated by Timothy Egan ...

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10 hours 29 min

**"With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history—how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly resonant today." -- David Grann, author of THE WAGER and KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOONA historical thriller by ... Read more

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