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A Knock at the Door
- The Story of My Secret Work with Israeli MIAs and POWs
- By: Ory Slonim
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Suppose one day, your son or husband, while serving in the military or working as a journalist, is taken hostage by a terrorist group - and you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive. It’s a nightmare scenario. Here for the first time is the story of Ory Slonim, the one man in Israel who, for more than two decades, was known as the “door knocker.” He had been a private Israeli lawyer when he was asked to undertake, on behalf of the Israeli government, secret negotiations to find out the whereabouts of Israeli soldiers who were taken alive.
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A Knock at the Door
- The Story of My Secret Work with Israeli MIAs and POWs
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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And the Rest Is History
- Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies
- By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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And the Rest Is History takes listeners on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad, and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along the way reveals a few surprises about the secret underbelly of recent history you won’t find in WikiLeaks. This book pinpoints precisely when the era of “fake news” actually began in America, and will change the way you think about journalism and journalists.
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And the Rest Is History
- Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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The Age of Napoleon
- By: Alistair Horne
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Alistair Horne is a leading scholar of French history. Here he trains his sights on one of the most compelling figures of the 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte. Far from a mere dictator, Napoleon was a military, political and social visionary whose legacy can still be felt in France and all over the world. Horne examines the one-time emperor at his most human, from his greatest triumphs to his disastrous failures.
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The Age of Napoleon
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-07-05
- Language: English
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From Boneshakers to Choppers
- The Rip-Rearing History of Motorcycles
- By: Lisa Smedman
- Narrated by: Kerin McCue
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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The motorcycle was invented in 1885 when two visionary Germans decided to attach a small internal combustion engine to a bicycle. From that humble origin begins a remarkable story of technological innovation, record-setting, and the formation of a whole new subculture of society. People began racing motorcycles not long after their introduction. In grueling endurance races, an American company named Harley-Davidson rode to the front of the pack with a thunderous roar.
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Entertaining but superficial
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From Boneshakers to Choppers
- The Rip-Rearing History of Motorcycles
- Narrated by: Kerin McCue
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 25-04-12
- Language: English
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Why Read
- Selected Writings 2001-2021
- By: Will Self
- Narrated by: Will Self
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, Will Self’s Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature.
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Brotherhood of the Revolution
- How America's Founders Forged a New Nation
- By: Prof. Joseph Ellis
- Narrated by: Joseph Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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This is the story of the American Revolution, the men who made it and who then secured it. It is the story of an improbable victory by a provincial collection of loosely knit colonies over the dominant military and political power in the world. It is also the story of the creation of a nation founded on principles that no one at the time regarded as viable, and that over time have come to be regarded as the most successful recipe for political success in the modern world.
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Brotherhood of the Revolution
- How America's Founders Forged a New Nation
- Narrated by: Joseph Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 27-10-08
- Language: English
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Resolute Determination
- Napoleon and the French Empire
- By: Donald M.G. Sutherland Prof.
- Narrated by: Donald M.G. Sutherland Prof.
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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In these lectures, Professor Donald M.G. Sutherland explores the life and times of Napoleon, one of history's most brilliant strategic thinkers. But despite his inarguable brilliance, Napoleon has also been denounced as unscrupulously ambitious and as alone responsible for the wars that bear his name. With his scholarly eye, Professor Sutherland imparts a fuller understanding of this polarizing figure and deftly shows how Napoleon fit into the sweep of history - and how he helped to define it.
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Resolute Determination
- Napoleon and the French Empire
- Narrated by: Donald M.G. Sutherland Prof.
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 29-07-09
- Language: English
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Elie Wiesel
- Confronting the Silence
- By: Joseph Berger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel’s prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.
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Elie Wiesel
- Confronting the Silence
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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America's Original Sin
- White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination
- By: John Rhodehamel
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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In this riveting new book, John Rhodehamel argues that Booth’s primary motivation for his heinous crime was a growing commitment to white supremacy. In alternating chapters, America’s Original Sin shows how, as Lincoln’s commitment to emancipation grew, so too did Booth’s rage and hatred for Lincoln, whom he referred to as “King Abraham Africanus the First.”
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America's Original Sin
- White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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The Souvenir
- A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War
- By: Louise Steinman
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Louise Steinman has published essays and articles in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Salon. She has also led writing workshops and curates literacy programs. The Souvenir, a powerful, best-selling book, was a featured selection of the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and others.
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The Souvenir
- A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-06-11
- Language: English
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The Family Roe
- An American Story
- By: Joshua Prager
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
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Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about “Jane Roe”, Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent years with Norma, discovered her personal papers, a previously unseen trove, and witnessed her final moments. With an explosive revelation at the core of the case, he tells her full story for the first time.
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The Family Roe
- An American Story
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- By: Mychal Denzel Smith
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of Black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years.
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Incredibly insightful
- By Amazon Customer on 17-05-17
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
- A Young Black Man's Education
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 14-06-16
- Language: English
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The Founding Fish
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: John McPhee
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Few fish are as beloved, or as obsessed over, as the American shad. Although shad spend most of their lives in salt water, they enter rivers by the hundreds of thousands in the spring and swim upstream heroic distances in order to spawn, then return to the ocean.
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The Founding Fish
- Narrated by: John McPhee
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-06-04
- Language: English
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At First Light
- A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse
- By: Mike Yorkey, Walt Larimore MD
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Landing on the Anzio beachhead in February 1944, Phil is put in charge of an Ammunition Pioneer Platoon in the 3rd Infantry Division. Their job: deliver ammunition to the frontline foxholes—a dangerous assignment involving regular forays into No Man’s Land. As Phil fights his way up the Italian boot, into Southern France and across the Rhine River into Germany, he is caught up in some of the most intense combat ever. But it’s what happens in the final stages of the war and his homecoming that makes Phil’s story incredibly special and heartwarming.
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At First Light
- A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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Sky Girls
- The True Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race
- By: Gene Nora Jessen
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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The inspiring true story of the first female pilots taking their rightful place in the exciting world of aviation. In 1929, 19 gutsy women blazed out of the darkness by setting out from California in propeller-driven planes, each competing to be the winner of the first female cross-country air race. The hazards were many, from disastrous weather to possible sabotage, but by facing the dangers with skill and determination, the racers thrilled the nation and pioneered a new future for female pilots and women's rights.
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Sky Girls
- The True Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Air Race
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-08-18
- Language: English
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The Monopolists
- Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
- By: Mary Pilon
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins.
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The Monopolists
- Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 25-02-15
- Language: English
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The Fourth Part of the World
- The Race to the Ends of the Earth
- By: Toby Lester
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Brimming with enthralling details and personalities, Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
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The Fourth Part of the World
- The Race to the Ends of the Earth
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-11-09
- Language: English
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Fire in Paradise
- By: Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. Fire in Paradise is a dramatic and moving narrative of the disaster based on hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts.
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Fire in Paradise
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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American Rhapsody
- Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
- By: Claudia Roth Pierpont
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways.
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American Rhapsody
- Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-05-16
- Language: English
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
- A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Duel Memoir.
- By: Nghia M. Vo, Christina Vo
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Captivating in its fluid movement and evocative depictions of place, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam offers listeners a rich, multilayered exploration of Vietnam through two very distinct voices and perspectives. The memoir's exploration of healing the trauma suffered by war refugees and their families echoes far beyond the personal experience of the two authors, providing a path to discussion of reconciliation and hope.
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
- A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Duel Memoir.
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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