Bestsellers
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
- Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
- By: Jack El-Hai
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall195
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Performance187
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Story187
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil “The book is a page turner...
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Eye Opening Book
- By marc edge on 02-21-26
By: Jack El-Hai
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,190
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Performance4,334
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Story4,310
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...
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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Stay Alive
- Berlin, 1939-1945
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war...
By: Ian Buruma
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Night
- By: Elie Wiesel
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,064
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Performance8,693
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Story8,699
Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps....
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This book consumed me
- By Ella on 01-24-06
By: Elie Wiesel
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Mark Twain
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 44 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,089
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Performance1,000
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Story998
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...
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A Masterpiece of Biographical Literature
- By Adam Conley on 06-19-25
By: Ron Chernow
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King of Kings
- The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance204
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Story204
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution...
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King of Kings: A Gripping Dive into History
- By Bala on 09-01-25
By: Scott Anderson
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
- Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
- By: Jack El-Hai
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall195
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Performance187
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Story187
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil “The book is a page turner...
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Eye Opening Book
- By marc edge on 02-21-26
By: Jack El-Hai
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,190
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Performance4,334
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Story4,310
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...
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Ray Dalio, Chinas New Minister of Propoganda
- By Dudley on 01-04-22
By: Ray Dalio
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Stay Alive
- Berlin, 1939-1945
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war...
By: Ian Buruma
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Night
- By: Elie Wiesel
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,064
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Performance8,693
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Story8,699
Night is an unmistakably autobiographical account of the author's own gruesome experiences in Nazi Germany's death camps....
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This book consumed me
- By Ella on 01-24-06
By: Elie Wiesel
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Mark Twain
- By: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 44 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,089
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Performance1,000
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Story998
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...
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A Masterpiece of Biographical Literature
- By Adam Conley on 06-19-25
By: Ron Chernow
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King of Kings
- The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance204
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Story204
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution...
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King of Kings: A Gripping Dive into History
- By Bala on 09-01-25
By: Scott Anderson
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,520
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Performance6,612
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Story6,586
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s...
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First review I've written - Had to write it
- By Cynthianna on 12-21-10
By: Anne Frank
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,279
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Performance10,049
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Story10,014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a...
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John Lee is GREAT!
- By David on 09-21-18
By: Ben Macintyre
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- By: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance30
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Story30
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....
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The sober documentation of levitation and bilocation stories.
- By Arthur Sippo on 03-01-24
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The Hiding Place
- By: Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16,973
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Performance15,382
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Story15,362
At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell.....
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Inspiring
- By Sara on 03-03-14
By: Corrie ten Boom, and others
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance85
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Story85
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...
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Too long, too focused on the Middle East
- By Rahul on 07-20-25
By: Daniel Yergin
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The American Revolution
- An Intimate History
- By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Beth Hicks, Fred Sanders, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance68
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Story68
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a human-centered history of America’s founding struggle—expanding on the landmark, six-part PBS series to be aired in November 2025 “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame...
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all the battles were cool
- By Megan and Sami on 12-12-25
By: Geoffrey C. Ward, and others
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A House in the Mountains
- The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
- By: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance35
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Story36
""Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope."" —Wall Street Journal The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the ""moving finale"" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet—the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against...
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Long Winded and Drawn Out
- By Georgette Topakas on 02-10-20
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Barbarians at the Gate
- The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,088
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Performance954
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Story953
#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that...
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Good book but too dense
- By Andrew M. on 08-01-21
By: Bryan Burrough, and others
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On Tyranny
- Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,818
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Performance5,990
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Story5,936
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled...
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History does not repeat, but it does instruct.
- By Darwin8u on 11-19-18
By: Timothy Snyder
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The Guns of August
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,904
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Performance4,747
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Story4,725
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
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Wonderful
- By Mike From Mesa on 10-28-08
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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
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,332
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Performance7,904
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Story7,891
“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review Erik 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...
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I loved it ... and hated it ... simultaneously
- By History on 11-21-11
By: Erik Larson
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Water Mirror Echo
- Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
- By: Jeff Chang
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
""Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision to see things we do not yet see, thinking and writing with a restless, chasm-crossing, almost...
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The Truth about Bruce
- By Terese on 01-16-26
By: Jeff Chang
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It's a Gas
- The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance56
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Story56
The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world. Gases are all around us—they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our...
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Depends What You Are Looking For
- By Ice on 07-19-25
By: Mark Miodownik
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The Second World War
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,736
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Performance1,530
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Story1,527
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall...
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It Fills in Gaps I Didn't Know Existed
- By DJM on 07-31-12
By: Antony Beevor
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- By: Edith Eva Eger, Edith Eva Eger - introduction, Philip Zimbardo PhD. - introduction
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,962
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Performance5,301
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Story5,281
A New York Times Bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah “Dr. Eger’s...
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One Of The Most Powerful Books I Have Read in My Lifetime!
- By R. F. Wood on 05-11-18
By: Edith Eva Eger, and others
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Hiding Place
- By: Corrie ten Boom
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,223
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Performance2,739
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Story2,747
Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20h century....
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Amazing Courage
- By AAL on 08-05-10
By: Corrie ten Boom
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The American War on Election Corruption
- The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting
- By: Seth Keshel, Newt Gingrich - foreword
- Narrated by: Seth Keshel, Newt Gingrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
The American War on Election Corruption is an investigative exposé revealing the battle to uncover and dismantle systemic fraud threatening the integrity of US elections.
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Seth's grand slam
- By Roxanna Hagerman on 03-12-26
By: Seth Keshel, and others
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15,744
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Performance12,232
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Story12,255
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The 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...
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- By Henrik on 04-20-07
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Republic of Pirates
- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,333
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Performance7,326
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Story7,286
The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world....
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Audible is better
- By CaptainRavick on 01-19-16
By: Colin Woodard
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- By: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall588
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Performance523
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Story523
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...
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Unbiased true facts of the first world war
- By troy a myers on 07-27-20
By: Martin Gilbert
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The Few
- The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance31
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Story31
From the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes "a rousing tale of little-known heroes" (Booklist). The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and...
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Like being in the cockpit for every flight
- By William Hagerty on 01-05-26
By: Alex Kershaw
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Iran
- A Modern History
- By: Abbas Amanat
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall285
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Performance242
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Story242
This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....
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Extremely Opinionated.
- By Elijah Rose on 02-13-19
By: Abbas Amanat
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,223
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Performance7,204
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Story7,165
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- By NH on 03-21-19
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Dead Wake
- The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14,305
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Performance12,704
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Story12,680
#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...
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Naivety VS Barbarians Of War
- By Sara on 03-05-16
By: Erik Larson
New releases
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Stay Alive
- Berlin, 1939-1945
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war...
By: Ian Buruma
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.
By: Frank Dikötter
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A Fate Worse than Hell
- American Prisoners of the Civil War
- By: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imprisoned. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. Against the backdrop of a brutal internecine conflict, the Civil War’s prison camps were a harrowing milestone in the history of mass dehumanization.
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No One’s Coming
- The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
- By: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrated by: Nick Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten...
By: Kevin Hazzard
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The Death of Trotsky
- The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
- By: Josh Ireland
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as...
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Outstanding story telling.
- By John R. Davis on 03-10-26
By: Josh Ireland
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The American War on Election Corruption
- The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting
- By: Seth Keshel, Newt Gingrich - foreword
- Narrated by: Seth Keshel, Newt Gingrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
The American War on Election Corruption is an investigative exposé revealing the battle to uncover and dismantle systemic fraud threatening the integrity of US elections.
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Seth's grand slam
- By Roxanna Hagerman on 03-12-26
By: Seth Keshel, and others
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Stay Alive
- Berlin, 1939-1945
- By: Ian Buruma
- Narrated by: Ian Buruma
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war...
By: Ian Buruma
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.
By: Frank Dikötter
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A Fate Worse than Hell
- American Prisoners of the Civil War
- By: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imprisoned. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. Against the backdrop of a brutal internecine conflict, the Civil War’s prison camps were a harrowing milestone in the history of mass dehumanization.
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No One’s Coming
- The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
- By: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrated by: Nick Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten...
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The Death of Trotsky
- The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
- By: Josh Ireland
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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A LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it On August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky invited a man he knew only as...
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Outstanding story telling.
- By John R. Davis on 03-10-26
By: Josh Ireland
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The American War on Election Corruption
- The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting
- By: Seth Keshel, Newt Gingrich - foreword
- Narrated by: Seth Keshel, Newt Gingrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The American War on Election Corruption is an investigative exposé revealing the battle to uncover and dismantle systemic fraud threatening the integrity of US elections.
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Seth's grand slam
- By Roxanna Hagerman on 03-12-26
By: Seth Keshel, and others
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I Have Avenged America
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom
- By: Julia Gaffield
- Narrated by: Shana Pennington-Baird
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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"My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery," declared Jean‑Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical nation‑state during the Age of Revolution and the first country ever to permanently outlaw slavery. Enslaved for the first thirty years of his life, Dessalines (c. 1758-1806) joined the revolution that abolished slavery within the French colony. Then he became a general in the colonial army of the new French Republic. When it was discovered that France once again supported slavery, Dessalines declared war on his former allies.
By: Julia Gaffield
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Safe Passage
- The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal , and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II
- By: Evelyn Iritani
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup—the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in Asia, mostly...
By: Evelyn Iritani
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Syria
- A Modern History
- By: Daniel Neep
- Narrated by: Philip Arditti
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
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A landmark new history of Syria—a country forged in conflict, cursed by civil war and dictatorship, and pivotal to the future of the Middle East “A masterful history of Syria that is both sweeping in scope and brimming with vivid detail...a riveting and insightful book.” —Wendy Pearlman...
By: Daniel Neep
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The Last Titans
- How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
- By: Richard Vinen
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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A compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown together by war. They incarnated the resistance of Britain and France to the existential threat...
By: Richard Vinen
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Alone in Japan
- A Journey to the Future
- By: Tom Feiling
- Narrated by: Tom Feiling
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later...
By: Tom Feiling
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Case Red
- The Collapse of France
- By: Robert Forczyk
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940. Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then conducting a tough defence along the Somme, the British were forced to conduct a second evacuation from the ports of Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest and St Nazaire.
By: Robert Forczyk
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Lê Đức Thọ
- Vietnamese Revolutionary Strategy, The Vietnam War Peace Negotiations, Communist Leadership, and the Political Struggle That Ended America’s Longest War
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Lê Đức Thọ: Vietnamese Revolutionary Strategy, The Vietnam War Peace Negotiations, Communist Leadership, and the Political Struggle That Ended America’s Longest War explores the life and influence of one of the most important yet often overlooked figures of the twentieth century. Known internationally for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords and famously refusing the Nobel Peace Prize, Lê Đức Thọ played a decisive role in shaping the outcome of the Vietnam War and the political future of modern Vietnam. This book offers a clear and deeply researched look at the revolutionary ...
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Once There Was a Town
- The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
- By: Jane Ziegelman
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long-history of self-narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote books, yizkor books, remembering all that had been destroyed. Jane Ziegelman’s Once There Was a Town takes listeners on a journey through this largely uncharted body of writing and the vanished world it depicts.
By: Jane Ziegelman
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In the Shadow of the Great House
- A History of the Plantation in America
- By: Daniel Rood
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last few decades, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions of enslavers, the struggles and victories of the enslaved, and how the aftertimes of American slavery persist into the present. Yet Dan Rood’s In the Shadow of the Great House is one of the first contemporary audiobooks to focus on the primary engine of slavery, race, and capitalism in this country: the plantation.
By: Daniel Rood
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Peaky Blinders: The Real Story
- The True History of Birmingham's Most Notorious Gangs
- By: Carl Chinn
- Narrated by: Carl Chinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.
By: Carl Chinn
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The Doctors' Riot of 1788
- Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
- By: Andy McPhee
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the “resurrectionists”–body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical students themselves) who would sneak into a cemetery under the cover of darkness, remove a body, and then sell it to a physician or anatomist–usually for around $100.
By: Andy McPhee
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The Five Poets
- Soviet Ocean Liners of the 1960s, Their Poetic Names, Cold War Voyages, and the Last Days of Marco Polo
- By: Cyril Marlen
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Some ships pass through history almost unnoticed. They are built, they serve, they age, and they disappear, leaving behind little more than a few photographs, an entry in a register, and the faint memory of a name painted once on steel. And then some ships carry something larger than themselves. Ships that become symbols without entirely meaning to. Ships that reflect the ambitions, anxieties, and identity of the age that produced them.
By: Cyril Marlen
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Die letzten Tage der Diktatur
- Spione, Drahtzieher und das Ende der Nazi-Herrschaft
- By: Svenja Falk
- Narrated by: Sanja Nowara
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Das »Dritte Reich« ist gefallen–doch die Geschichte steht nicht still. In Flensburg kreuzen sich die Wege von Agenten, Überlebenden und alten Eliten. Zwischen zerfallender Macht und zaghaftem Aufbruch wird verhandelt, getäuscht, geschwiegen–und der Grundstein für erstaunliche Karrieren gelegt. Dies ist die spannende Geschichte einer Zwischenzeit, in der die Konturen der heutigen Welt bereits erkennbar sind.
By: Svenja Falk
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On Both Sides of the Wall
- A Resistance Fighter's Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto
- By: Vladka Meed, Elie Wiesel - introduction, Steven D. Meed - translator
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Vladka Meed, born Feigele Peltel, was just a teenager when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Increasingly devastated by the deportation and murder of 300,000 Jews—including her mother, brother, and sister—who were sent from Warsaw to the death camp of Treblinka, she heeded the call for armed resistance, joining the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), established in Warsaw in July 1942.
By: Vladka Meed, and others
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Full Speed Into Darkness: The Destruction Of The Titanic
- By: Tyler Dale
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of April 14, 1912, the largest ship ever built struck an iceberg and sank in less than three hours, killing more than 1,500 people. But the Titanic disaster did not begin with the iceberg. It began years earlier, in the boardrooms and shipyards where ambition, rivalry, and a dangerous faith in engineering converged to produce a vessel that everyone believed was unsinkable...and that no one had adequately prepared to lose. This book traces the full arc of the catastrophe, from the cutthroat competition between White Star and Cunard that drove the ship's conception, through the ...
By: Tyler Dale
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World War I
- The Firestorm That Reshaped the World
- By: Ben Walker
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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World War I: The Firestorm That Reshaped the World History for Curious Minds In 1914, Europe believed it was stable. Its empires were powerful. Its economies were expanding. Its leaders were confident that diplomacy, alliances, and military readiness would prevent catastrophe. Within weeks, that confidence collapsed. World War I: The Firestorm That Reshaped the World explores how a tightly wound system of alliances, mobilization timetables, industrial power, and imperial ambition transformed a regional assassination into a global conflict. Part of the History for Curious Minds series, this ...
By: Ben Walker
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Unsettled Ground
- Reflections on Germany’s Attempts to Make Amends
- By: Jeffrey Katz
- Narrated by: Jeffrey L. Katz
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Germany one felt the world’s wrath for crimes committed during the Nazi regime. More recently, it received extravagant praise for facing up to the atrocities. The country now boasts of new Jewish museums, Holocaust memorials, restored synagogues, and classroom lessons designed to honor its Jewish heritage and teach tolerance. This effort was led not by politicians or historians, but by local citizen activists, few of them Jewish, almost all of them born after World War II. They could have shrugged off responsibility for evils done before they were born.
By: Jeffrey Katz
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Edwin Booth Explained
- The Life, Art, and Legacy of America’s Greatest Shakespearean Actor
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Architects of the Nineteenth Century: Biographical Studies of the Figures Who Shaped Modern Culture, Politics, and Art BOOK ONE: Edwin Booth Explained: The Life, Art, and Legacy of America’s Greatest Shakespearean Actor is a comprehensive biography of one of the most influential and complex figures in American cultural history. Best known as the greatest Shakespearean actor the United States ever produced, Edwin Booth’s life was marked by artistic brilliance, personal discipline, and extraordinary moral burden. Born into a legendary theatrical family and shaped by the volatile genius of...
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IRON CURTAINS & BROKEN PROMISES
- How Alliances Fractured and the World Split in Two
- By: Elliot Christopher
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cold War defined a generation — but it did not begin with missiles or walls. It began in conference rooms, in uneasy negotiations, and in the slow erosion of trust between wartime allies. In Iron Curtains & Broken Promises, historian Elliot Christopher uncovers the hidden dynamics behind the birth of the Cold War. Through cinematic storytelling and carefully researched scholarship, this first volume in the Hidden History Files: The Cold War series explores how Europe fractured, how nuclear deterrence reshaped global strategy, and how proxy wars became the new battlegrounds of ...
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Drowned in Silence 2
- Fifteen More Sea Wrecks That Shook the World
- By: James Calloway
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The ocean is a graveyard of forgotten nightmares. Beneath the crushing weight of the dark water lie the remains of humanity's greatest ambitions and most devastating failures. In this gripping continuation, journey into the abyss to uncover harrowing accounts of catastrophic loss, unimaginable terror, and desperate bids to stay alive against the unforgiving elements. From legendary doomed voyages to blazing infernos, these pages chronicle the final, terrifying moments of passengers and crew pushed beyond the limits of human endurance. Discover the chilling mysteries of vessels lost without ...
By: James Calloway
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The Russian Revolution
- The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power
- By: Ben Walker
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power A History for Curious Minds How did one of the largest empires on earth collapse in a matter of months? And how did that collapse give rise to one of the most powerful ideological states of the twentieth century? The Russian Revolution: The Fall of the Romanovs and the Rise of Soviet Power offers a clear and structured guide to one of history’s most consequential turning points. Rather than overwhelming you with dates or assuming prior expertise, this book helps you see the forces that drove events—how ...
By: Ben Walker
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The Power of Will in International Conflict
- How to Think Critically in Complex Environments
- By: Wayne Michael Hall
- Narrated by: John Esplana
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Will has been—and always will be—the basis for succeeding in any conflict or competition. To win in a conflict or competition, decision-makers must comprehend the meaning and implications of will and successfully transform theories about it into practice.
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Matthew Arnold Explained
- Life, Poetry, Criticism, and the Making of Modern Culture
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Architects of the Nineteenth Century: Biographical Studies of the Figures Who Shaped Modern Culture, Politics, and Art BOOK THREE: Matthew Arnold Explained: Life, Poetry, Criticism, and the Making of Modern Culture is a comprehensive and deeply researched biography that explores the life, ideas, and lasting influence of one of the most important intellectual figures of the Victorian era. Written for thoughtful readers, students, and lovers of literary and cultural history, this book presents Matthew Arnold not only as a poet, but as a cultural critic, educational reformer, and moral thinker...
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John Ruskin Explained
- Art, Architecture, Nature, Social Reform, and the Moral Vision That Shaped the Modern World
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Architects of the Nineteenth Century: Biographical Studies of the Figures Who Shaped Modern Culture, Politics, and Art BOOK TWO: John Ruskin Explained: Art, Architecture, Nature, Social Reform, and the Moral Vision That Shaped the Modern World is a comprehensive and deeply engaging biography of one of the most influential and challenging thinkers of the nineteenth century. Spanning art criticism, architecture, economics, education, and environmental thought, this book presents John Ruskin not as a narrow Victorian moralist, but as a visionary whose ideas continue to shape modern debates ...