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    Radioactive

    Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

    by Lauren Redniss ...
    Narrated by Nicola Barber ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 5 min

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley.NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINIALIST."Vivid and ethereal." —New York Times“Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read—part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.”— Malcolm GladwellRadioactive is the mesmerizing, la... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Lone Survivor

    The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

    by Marcus Luttrell ...
    Narrated by Kevin T. Collins ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 12 min

    Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Women in White Coats

    How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

    by Olivia Campbell ...
    Narrated by Jean Ann Douglass ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 29 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!For fans of** Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Exam... ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Delta Force

    A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit

    by Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox ...
    Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 8 min

    Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. With this call to arms, Charlie Beckwith revolutionized American armed combat. Beckwith's acclaimed memoir tells the story of Delta Force as only its maverick creator could tell it-from the bloody baptism of Vietnam to the top-secret training grounds of North Carolina to political battles in the upper levels of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Windfall

    The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

    by Erika Bolstad ...
    Narrated by Marni Penning ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more: their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land?and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel

    Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

    by Douglas Brunt ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERT****he hidden history of one of the world’s greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I—this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel.September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Extreme Ownership

    How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

    by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin ...
    Narrated by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    "These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The HustleAn updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership audiobook that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Churchill

    Walking with Destiny

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    Narrated by Stephen Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    50 hours 28 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain’s savior.” —Wall ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    The Savior Generals

    How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq

    by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    Narrated by Bob Souer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson. Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Zarah Leander - Das Leben einer Diva (Ungekürzt)

    by Jutta Jacobi ...
    Narrated by Elga Schütz ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    Mehr als nur die Geschichte einer großen Diva. "Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein", "Yes, Sir", "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" - ihre Lieder sind Evergreens und machten Zarah Leander zur Legende. Die Stimme allein war Wahrzeichen der Leander. Doch die Karriere der Diva birgt auch ihre Schatten: ihr Wirken im Dritten Reich. Autorin Jutta Jacobi schildert bislang ungekannte Fakten, die das Leben der ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    1776

    by David McCullough ...
    Narrated by David McCullough ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The House of Dudley

    A New History of Tudor England

    by Joanne Paul ...
    Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 13 min

    The shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving, manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of-the dashing and daring House of Dudley. Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side-or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Making of Oliver Cromwell

    by Ronald Hutton ...
    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 42 min

    The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell-providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)-the only English commoner to become the overall head of state-is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Truly, Madly

    Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

    by Stephen Galloway ...
    Narrated by Molly Parker Myers ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided to a friend, he was the man she was going to marry. There was just ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Fearless

    The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown

    by Eric Blehm ...
    Narrated by Paul Michael ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 20 min

    Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan--but he was ready. In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, "I'm not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Mozart

    The Reign of Love

    by Jan Swafford ...
    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours 22 min

    From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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    Inside Delta Force

    The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit

    by Eric L. Haney ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    The inspiration for the hit television series The UnitDelta Force. They are the US Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside—until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    A Certain Idea of France

    The Life of Charles de Gaulle

    by Julian Jackson ...
    Narrated by John Banks ...

    Unabridged

    35 hours 19 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce

    The Untold Story of an American Tragedy

    by Kent Nerburn ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 52 min

    Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation-the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands in what is now eastern Oregon to Montana. There, only forty ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Military Memoirs of a Confederate

    by Edward Porter Alexander ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 13 min

    One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil WarUnlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation.The memoir starts with Alexander heading to Utah ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Washington

    A Life

    by Ron Chernow ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    41 hours 50 min

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    In the Hands of Providence

    Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

    by Alice Rains Trulock ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 56 min

    Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the brilliant charge that saved Little Round Top. Promoted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Reminiscences of the Civil War

    by John Brown Gordon ...
    Narrated by Tim Getman ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 40 min

    Reminiscences of the Civil War is John Brown Gordon’s first-hand account of the war as seen through the eyes of the prominent officer. Gordon was trusted and admired by many, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The work begins with him being elected as the commander of the “Raccoon Roughs” and his recollection of the Battle of Manassas. He also describes the South’s surrender at ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Scourge of War

    The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman

    by Brian Holden Reid ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 53 min

    In The Scourge of War, preeminent military historian Brian Holden Reid offers a deeply researched life and times account of William Tecumseh Sherman. By examining his childhood and education, his business ventures in California, his antebellum leadership of a military college in Louisiana, and numerous career false starts, Holden Reid shows how unlikely his exceptional Civil War career would seem. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD