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The definitive audiobook on British mountaineer Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and George Mallory’s disappearance on Mount Everest in June 1924. The fates of Mallory and Irvine, who were last seen disappearing into the clouds as they headed for the summit of Everest on 8 June 1924, still...

This coming-of-age story from Declan Henry captures life growing up on a farm in Derrykinlough, a rural village on the Sligo/Mayo border in the Irish Republic during the 1970s and early 1980s. This is an evocative account of an Irish childhood and tells of a now vanished world - settled, highly traditional and moulded at every point by Catholicism. It's an account of self-discovery while encapsulating the hopes and ideals reminiscent of the time.

Pompeii was destroyed by the horrific eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, which buried at least 2,000 unlucky people. Pompeii became a mysterious tomb, hiding secrets of Rome and other civilizations that influenced the life and culture of the city and its people. Who were the Pompeiians, and how did they live before that dreadful day? What did the last days of Pompeii look like, and did the Pompeiians know that the fate of their city would be sealed that day, not to be uncovered for centuries to come?  

Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author’s childhood in an Evangelic Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of the global epidemic of violence against women. Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has...

The unsolved mysteries of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and their legendary 1924 Everest expedition. This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus conversation between the authors. There is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George Mallory and...

Strange But True Tales of Car Collecting recounts the wildest car-collecting stories, focusing on tales of the most eccentric and over-the-top collectors and collections from around the world. Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their hobby with a tendency to dig into their...

The definitive book on Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory’s disappearance on Everest in June 1924. The fate of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who were last seen disappearing into the clouds as they headed for the summit of Mount Everest on 8 June 1924, still grips the...

When you search for the past, you just might find yourself Cousins Ellie and Lucie set out to find buried treasure. Instead, they stumble into an unexpected journey—one that uncovers forgotten histories, rekindles family bonds, and digs deep into who they are becoming. Reuniting for the first...

This gripping environmental history reveals how unchecked human ambition transformed America's prairies into a wasteland. Perfect for an educational commute, this dramatic narrative plunges you straight into the terrifying black blizzards of the 1930s. Witness the devastating collision between...

Unshaken is a powerful and deeply personal memoir that chronicles one woman’s extraordinary journey through mental illness, a near-fatal stroke, and the unrelenting fight to rediscover her identity, purpose, and faith. With raw honesty and poetic reflection, the author reveals her descent into the darkness of bipolar disorder and her transformation through the grace of God. This is more than a story about mental illness—it’s a story of survival: emotional, physical, and spiritual. 

My first book, What They Broke, I Fixed, was about survival. About rising from the wreckage, others left behind and reclaiming the pieces of myself they tried to destroy. It was about finding my strength, my voice, and my worth. But this book? This is about what came after. This is not the story of someone who had it all figured out. This is the story of someone who almost lost everything—even after surviving the worst of it. This is about what happened when I finally stopped running, turned inward, and started facing what I had buried for so long. This is where the real work began.

Trove is the story of a woman whose life is up-ended when she begins an armchair treasure hunt—a search for $10,000 worth of gold coins buried in New York City, of all places—with a man who, as she points out, is not her husband. In this eloquent, hilarious, sharply realized memoir, Sandra A. Miller grapples with the regret and confusion that so often accompanies middle age, and the shame of craving something more when she has so much already.