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Tyrone Powers: The Last Idol
By:
Fred Lawrence Guiles
Narrated by:
Johnny Heller
Length:
9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged:
No
Tyrone Power was as versatile in life as he was on the screen. He was a multifaceted man and was the last idol created by the vast star-making machine Twentieth Century Fox. Coming from a family of multi-generational actors, Tyrone Power broke the proverbial mold. His on-screen charisma in the '30s and '40s propelled him to the forefront of... Read more about Tyrone Powers: The Last Idol
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The Grey Men
By:
Ralph Hope
Narrated by:
B. J. Harrison
Length:
11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged:
No
By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found... Read more about The Grey Men
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A Decade of Disruption
By:
Garrett Peck
Narrated by:
Jamie Hanes
Length:
13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged:
No
Dubya. The 9/11 terrorist attacks. Enron and WorldCom. The Iraq War. Hurricane Katrina. The disruptive nature of the internet. An anxious aging population redefining retirement. The gay community demanding full civil rights. A society becoming ever more “brown.” The housing bubble and the Great Recession. The historic election of Barack... Read more about A Decade of Disruption
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The Forgotten Slave Trade
By:
Simon Webb
Narrated by:
Liam Gerrard
Length:
6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged:
No
Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade. A century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women, and children to Africa where they were sold. This is the forgotten... Read more about The Forgotten Slave Trade
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From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge
By:
Brian Martin
Narrated by:
Chris Sorensen
Length:
10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged:
No
Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil WarDespite all we know about the Civil War, its causes, battles, characters, issues, impacts, and legacy, few books have explored Canada's role in the bloody conflict that claimed more than 600,000... Read more about From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge
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Alexander Hamilton
By:
Charles Arthur Conant
Narrated by:
John Pruden
Length:
2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged:
No
Founding father Alexander Hamilton led a passionate and meaningful life. Nicknamed Little Lion for his short stature and bold ideas, Hamilton played an integral role in the founding of America's union after the Revolutionary War, as well the drafting and executing of America's Constitution. His life, chronicled in Charles Arthur Conant's... Read more about Alexander Hamilton
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Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Audio Study
By:
Russ Ramsey
Narrated by:
Russ Ramsey
Length:
2 hours 11 minutes
Abridged:
No
The Zondervan Reflective Audio Study series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Audio Study include high-quality live recordings in which the author teaches the content of the book, discusses important points, and introduces additional sources.... Read more about Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Audio Study
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A Burning House
By:
Brandon Washington
Narrated by:
Charles Ray & Rick N. Jones
Length:
6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged:
No
Despite the civil rights progress he fought for and saw on the horizon in the 1950s and '60s, Martin Luther King Jr.—increasingly concerned by America's moral vision, admitted—"I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."In A Burning House, Brandon Washington contends that American Evangelicalism is a house ablaze:... Read more about A Burning House
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
By:
Peter J. Leithart
Narrated by:
John Behrens
Length:
4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged:
No
In his twenties, Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar. Then the drums rolled, signaling that instead he was to be exiled to the living death of Siberia. Siberia... Read more about Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Becoming C. S. Lewis
By:
Harry Lee Poe
Narrated by:
Simon Bubb
Length:
10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
During his youth, the boy who would become C. S. Lewis formed his most basic impressions and tastes regarding music, art, literature, religion, sports, friendship, imagination, education, war, and more. The issues young "Jack" Lewis wrestled with drove him toward the foundation on which his life would be built. His childhood interests,... Read more about Becoming C. S. Lewis
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Presenting Buffalo Bill
By:
Candace Fleming
Narrated by:
Eric G. Dove
Length:
6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged:
No
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many... Read more about Presenting Buffalo Bill
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Exodus from the Alamo
By:
Phillip Thomas Tucker
Narrated by:
Matt Godfrey
Length:
17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged:
No
"Contrary to movie and legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo in the war for Texan independence—including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William B. Travis—did not die under brilliant sunlight, defending their positions against hordes of Mexican infantry. Instead, the Mexicans launched a predawn attack, surmounting the walls in... Read more about Exodus from the Alamo
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The Princess Royal
By:
Helen Cathcart
Narrated by:
Lorna Bennett
Length:
10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged:
No
To understand what it is to be a Princess Royal, Helen Cathcart skillfully portrays the lives of the foremost royal daughters from the days when princesses were "ladyes" and the King's eldest son was styled Prince Royal, through to our present Princess Royal.There have been seven Princess Royals throughout British history, the inaugural of whom... Read more about The Princess Royal
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Red Leviathan
By:
Ryan Tucker Jones
Narrated by:
Ryan Tucker Jones
Length:
10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged:
No
The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today’s oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews... Read more about Red Leviathan
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The Academy and the Award
By:
Bruce Davis
Narrated by:
Jim Meskimen
Length:
17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged:
No
The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy AwardsFor all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s... Read more about The Academy and the Award
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Pilsner
By:
Tom Acitelli
Narrated by:
Ax Norman
Length:
9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged:
No
On the night of April 17, 1945, Allied planes dropped 111 bombs on the Burghers' Brewery in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, destroying much of the birthplace of pilsner, the world's most popular beer style and the bestselling alcoholic beverage of all time. Still, workers at the brewery would rally so they could have beer to toast their American,... Read more about Pilsner
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The Little Red Guard
By:
Wenguang Huang
Narrated by:
Adam Verner
Length:
7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged:
No
In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she'd died. This was in Xi'an, a city in central China, at a time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his... Read more about The Little Red Guard
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The Battle of Gettysburg
By:
Clara MacCarald
Narrated by:
Qarie Marshall
Length:
13 minutes
Abridged:
No
Explores the Battle of Gettysburg of the US Civil War. Authoritative text, engaging discussion topics, and questions to prompt critical thinking make this an exciting and informative short audiobook. Short Audiobook Cover Image Copyright Currier & Ives/Library of Congress; Courtesy of the Library of Congress, 90709061 Read more about The Battle of Gettysburg
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The Importance of Not Being Ernest
By:
Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by:
Adam Grupper
Length:
9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged:
No
An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No OtherDiscover Hemingway’s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Timesbestselling author of Salt Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts.... Read more about The Importance of Not Being Ernest
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The Tastemaker
By:
Tony King
Narrated by:
Ben Higgins
Length:
7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged:
No
The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years and features stories of his time working with everyone from the Beatles to the Ronettes and Elton John to the Rolling Stones. 'This is a brilliant book by a brilliant man. A magician with perfect taste. Thank... Read more about The Tastemaker
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The Servant Economy
By:
Jeff Faux
Narrated by:
Jim Seybert
Length:
10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged:
No
America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer that no one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge is that things are still pretty great for the people who run America. It was an accident of history, Jeff... Read more about The Servant Economy
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Bully of Asia
By:
Steven W. Mosher
Narrated by:
Al Kessel
Length:
11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged:
No
The signs are everywhere. China unilaterally claims the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim. It suddenly activates an air-defense identification zone over the East China Sea, and it threatens to down any aircraft that does not report its position. It builds roads into Indian... Read more about Bully of Asia
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The Ball in the Air
By:
Michael Bamberger
Narrated by:
David Morse
Length:
9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
After a lifetime of writing about the professional sport, Michael Bamberger, “the poet laureate of golf” (GOLF magazine), delivers an exhilarating love letter to the amateur game as it’s played—and lived—by the rest of us.Over Michael Bamberger’s celebrated writing career, he has written a handful of books and hundreds of Sports Illustrated... Read more about The Ball in the Air
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The Invasion of Normandy
By:
Moira Rose Donahue
Narrated by:
Qarie Marshall
Length:
11 minutes
Abridged:
No
Explores the Invasion of Normandy of World War II. Authoritative text, engaging discussion topics, and questions to prompt critical thinking make this an exciting and informative short audiobook. Short Audiobook Cover Image Copyright New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress; Courtesy of the Library... Read more about The Invasion of Normandy
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