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    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    Narrated by Mark Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 13 min

    "An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York TimesA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the ... Read more

    $32.99 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

    The 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 in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    The Looming Tower

    Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

    by Lawrence Wright ...
    Narrated by Lawrence Wright ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 31 min

    A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    How to Hide an Empire

    A History of the Greater United States

    by Daniel Immerwahr ...
    Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 25 min

    A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited? In How to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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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 ...

    Unabridged

    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

    $22.99 USD

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    Beyond the Wall

    A History of East Germany

    by Katja Hoyer ...
    Narrated by Sam Peter Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany, "a fascinating, sparkling book, filled with insights" (Peter Frankopan)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    They Said It Couldn't Be Done

    The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History

    by Wayne Coffey ...
    Narrated by Gary Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    “One of sports’ most storied championship teams gets its proper due” (Tom Verducci) in this definitive history of the 1969 Miracle Mets from the New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Winter.“If you want to know what it was like to live and witness a baseball miracle in tumultuous times, this book is for you.”—Ron Darling, former New York Mets All-Star and bestselling author of Game 7, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Narrated by James Fouhey ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 49 min

    Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the "New World." Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    First Family

    by Cassandra A. Good ...
    Narrated by Courtney Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War.While it’s widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised numerous children together. In ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    History of West Africa: A Captivating Guide to West African History, Starting from Ancient Civilizations through the Medieval Period to the Present

    by Captivating History ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 21 min

    If you want to discover the captivating history of West Africa, then pay attention...Beginning in prehistoric times, West Africa has always been an incredible region. Early nomadic tribes settled into some of the earliest communities on Earth and learned how to work with metal. Various West African tribes then became adept at working with metal and were some of the most skilled artisans in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Talking to Strangers

    What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free PresMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Spare

    by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex ...
    Narrated by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 39 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, and healing.“Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker**It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Promised Land

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 10 min

    A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • Marie ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Promise of the Grand Canyon

    John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West

    by John F. Ross ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 4 min

    **“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--NatureA timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West.**John Wesley ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Fifth Act

    America's End in Afghanistan

    by Elliot Ackerman ...
    Narrated by Elliot Ackerman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    **“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George PackerA powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy**Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Not "A Nation of Immigrants"

    Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ...
    Narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United StatesWhether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Nothing to Fear

    FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America

    by Adam Cohen ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 11 min

    Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history-the tense, feverish first one hundred days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government. When FDR took his oath of office in March 1933, more than 10,000 banks had gone under following the Crash of 1929, a quarter of American workers were ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    You Never Forget Your First

    A Biography of George Washington

    by Alexis Coe ...
    Narrated by Alexis Coe, Brittany Pressley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… [You Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who always finishes in the first ranks of our leaders.” —Boston GlobeAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not quite the man ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

    The Origins of Our Discontents

    by Isabel Wilkerson ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 10 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Gulf

    The Making of An American Sea

    by Jack E. Davis ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 45 min

    Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction-the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea-bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The War

    An Intimate History, 1941-1945

    by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns ...
    Narrated by Ken Burns ...

    Abridged

    8 hours 49 min

    The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS seriesThe individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are ordinary men and women who experienced–and helped to win–the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.Focusing on the citizens of four towns–Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The First World War

    A Complete History

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Roger Clark ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 34 min

    It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    K2

    Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

    by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 39 min

    A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the TopAt 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    When Brooklyn Was Queer

    by Hugh Ryan ...
    Narrated by Hugh Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 31 min

    The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present dayHugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or ... Read more

    $19.99 USD