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    1848

    Year of Revolution

    by Mike Rapport ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 13 min

    A "lively, panoramic" history of a revolutionary year (New York Times) In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815-but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Oath and Honor

    A Memoir and a Warning

    by Liz Cheney ...
    Narrated by Liz Cheney ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    Read by Liz Cheney with 50+ audio source material clips included, Oath and Honor is a gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Nothing to Envy

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    Narrated by Karen White ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Martin Luther

    The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

    by Eric Metaxas ...
    Narrated by Eric Metaxas ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 39 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington PostFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation**On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Homelands

    A Personal History of Europe

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's "historian of the present," has been "breathing Europe" for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Stranger in the Shogun's City

    A Japanese Woman and Her World

    by Amy Stanley ...
    Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography**Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award**Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Deluge

    The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

    by Adam Tooze ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 57 min

    In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    D-Day

    June 6, 1944 : The Climactic Battle of WWII

    Narrated by Jesse Boggs ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 17 min

    Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    The Ship of Dreams

    The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era

    Narrated by Jenny Funnell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 35 min

    This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage).In April ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Filterworld

    How Algorithms Flattened Culture

    by Kyle Chayka ...
    Narrated by Kaleo Griffith ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 56 min

    **A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself."[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture…[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what happens to it when it collides with the homogenizing ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Pursuit of Glory

    The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    35 hours 12 min

    The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformation that saw five of the modern world's great revolutions-scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic. In this much-admired addition to the monumental Penguin History of Europe series, Tim Blanning ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 50 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.**“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New York Times Book Review<strong... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    How Democracies Die

    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 24 min

    Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face todayDemocracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. All three steps are being taken around the world - not least with the election of Donald ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Dead Wake

    The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

    by Erik Larson ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 4 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania“Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly“Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR“Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. MartinOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    In the Garden of Beasts

    Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

    by Erik Larson ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 52 min

    “Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book ReviewErik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Guns of August

    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...
    Series series The Great War Series

    Unabridged

    19 hours 10 min

    In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I.This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible it became.Tuchman masterfully portrays this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

    Why Nations Succeed or Fail

    by Ray Dalio ...
    Narrated by Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 48 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York TimesFrom legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Day the World Came to Town

    9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

    by Jim DeFede ...
    Narrated by Ray Porter ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Einstein

    His Life and Universe

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 31 min

    Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Israel

    A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

    by Noa Tishby ...
    Narrated by Noa Tishby ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel.**Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    A Spy Among Friends

    Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin**“[A Spy Among Friends] reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P. G. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Unsettled

    What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters

    Narrated by Jay Aaseng ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 14 min

    "Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.""Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent.""Climate change will be an economic disaster."You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voic... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Iron Curtain

    The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 46 min

    In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Hymns of the Republic

    The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 29 min

    From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of the most compelling narratives and one of history’s great turning points. Now, Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

    $24.99 USD