All sale audiobooks
• Filters applied: History • Clear filters
Twelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
Narrated by: Louis Gossett
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate... Read more
View audiobookDouglas MacArthur
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Under siege on the island of Corregidor, General Douglas MacArthur received a warning from the enemy. "You are well aware that you are doomed," the Japenese general wrote. "The end is near. The question is how long you will be able to resist. You are advised to surrender." Of course, there was no way Douglas was going to surrender.
Whether... Read more
Mozart
By: Jan Swafford
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 30 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he... Read more
Davy Crockett
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
David's father stood beside the stone chimney and spoke to his son. "It's time to grow up, lad," he said. "Mr. Siler has hired you to go to Virginia with him. He's run ragged trying to keep the cattle with him, and he needs a young 'un with strong legs and keen eyes to help him out. Better hitch the wagon and say your good-byes."
Growing up in... Read more
Daniel Boone
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Chief Blackfish handed Daniel a belt. "The beads represent three paths," he said. "The red path is the warpath. The white path is the path we can walk together. The black path is death--the path you will walk if you do not surrender." Daniel knew that the settlers would not give up the fort. Could he help them escape the path of death?"
In search... Read more
Marvel Comics
By: Sean Howe
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 17 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history -- Marvel Comics – and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking... Read more
View audiobookThe Holocaust
By: Dan Stone
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that “shatters many myths about the Nazis’ genocide” (Sunday Times), from one of the leading scholars of his generation.“A stunning, original, concise analysis. … Masterful.” —Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s FuriesThe Holocaust is much discussed, much... Read more
View audiobookFrancis Asbury
By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Written for readers age 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!
"Frank felt his heart beat fast. At that moment he was certain God was calling him, asking him to give up his ties to his homeland and set out across the Atlantic Ocean. He did not hesitate to stand when John Wesley asked preachers to walk forward if they felt God was calling them to the... Read more
The Happiest Man on Earth
By: Eddie Jaku
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times BestsellerIn this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned... Read more
View audiobookNo Bullet Got Me Yet
By: John Stansifer
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front lines, unarmed, ministering to the wounded, and known for... Read more
The Forbidden Daughter
By: Zipora Klein Jakob
Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman... Read more
View audiobookIntrepid Spirit
By: David Tunno
Narrated by: David Tunno
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In an ironic twist of fate, past and present cross swords. USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” must foil a world-wide jihadist plot by the descendants her historic foes, the Barbary Coast pirates in this multiple-award-winning, swashbuckling and cinematically explosive blend of action, history, romance, humor and the supernatural.
Following is the... Read more
The Survivors of the Clotilda
By: Hannah Durkin
Narrated by: Tariye Peterside
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and... Read more
View audiobookListen
By: Michel Faber
Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind."
There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen.
Michel Faber explores... Read more
Values Matter
By: Darlene Cunningham, Dawn Gauslin & Sean Lambert
Narrated by: Darlene Cunningham
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Why Values Matter...
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a Christian missions movement like no other. Since 1960, it has launched wave after wave of young missionaries now into the millions who have impacted every nation on earth by simply listening to and obeying the voice of God. In Values Matter, YWAM Co-founder Darlene Cunningham shares inspiring... Read more
Dear Jacob
By: Patty Wetterling & Joy Baker
Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy’s remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob, told by his mother, Patty. With down-to-earth candor, she details the... Read more
View audiobookGlitter and Concrete
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Natalie Duke
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*
*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*
"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York
An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... Read more
Necessary Trouble
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
Narrated by: Drew Gilpin Faust
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions?not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. To be a privileged white... Read more
View audiobookJohn Owen
By: Simonetta Carr
Narrated by: Jonathan St. John
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
John Owen was a great Puritan preacher who lived in England. In this book, Simonetta Carr informs readers about Owen s life, revealing some of the things that interested him while in school, the care he showed to people when he became a pastor, and the influential books that he wrote. Readers will also come to understand the difficult times in... Read more
View audiobookStars of the Night
By: Caren B. Stelson
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Upside of Hunger
By: Roxi Harms
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
He fled his village in eastern Hungary to escape his father's iron fist. But now, fighting for the SS, he's facing starvation on the Eastern Front as the deluge of enemy fire from the Russian army comes closer every hour.The Upside of Hunger is the powerful story of Adam Baumann's coming of age in the midst of WW2 and his journey toward manhood,... Read more
View audiobookThe Story of the Saxophone
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how... Read more
View audiobookA Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)
By: Arthur Ashe
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activist’s lifelong... Read more
View audiobookPower and Progress
By: Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world
A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of... Read more