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Dunkirk
By: Joshua Levine
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble & Leighton Pugh
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerThe epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark RylanceIn 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Rescue
By: Peter Hernon
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in commemoration of the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe—a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe in August 1914, the new German luxury ocean liner SS... Read more
View audiobookWhat is the Bible?
By: Rob Bell
Narrated by: Rob Bell
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.In Love Wins, Rob Bell confronted the troubling questions that many... Read more
View audiobookThe Golden Passport
By: Duff McDonald
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 21 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm.With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner workings of a singular... Read more
View audiobookLosing Isn't Everything
By: Curt Menefee & Michael Arkush
Narrated by: Curt Menefee
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A refreshing and thought-provoking look at athletes whose legacies have been reduced to one defining moment of defeat—those on the flip side of an epic triumph—and what their experiences can teach us about competition, life, and the human spirit.Every sports fan recalls with amazing accuracy a pivotal winning moment involving a favorite team or... Read more
View audiobookAltamont
By: Joel Selvin
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.In the annals of rock history, the Altamont... Read more
View audiobookKick
By: Paula Byrne
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Paula Byrne brings J.F.K.’s adored little sister, Kick, back to life.” —Vanity FairFrom celebrated biographer Paula Byrne, the remarkable life of the vivacious, unconventional—and nearly forgotten—young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love.
Encouraged to be “winners”... Read more
Eve of a Hundred Midnights
By: Bill Lascher
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II—a saga of love, adventure, and danger.On New Year’s Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where... Read more
View audiobookLove Wins
By: Debbie Cenziper & Jim Obergefell
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage.In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as... Read more
View audiobookBound for Canaan
By: Fergus Bordewich
Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
An important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for changeThe civil war brought to a climax the country’s bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery’s denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what... Read more
View audiobookFirst Women
By: Kate Andersen Brower
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.One of the most underestimated—and challenging—positions in the world, the... Read more
View audiobookPacific
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.As the Mediterranean shaped the... Read more
View audiobookThe Hunter Killers
By: Dan Hampton
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else could.”--Colonel LEO THORSNESS, Wild Weasel pilot and Medal of Honor recipientAt the height of the Cold War, America's most elite aviators bravely... Read more
View audiobookConvictions
By: Marcus J. Borg
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result is a manifesto for all progressive Christians... Read more
View audiobookU.S. Marshals
By: Mike Earp & David Fisher
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp—a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp—offers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nation’s development for more than two hundred years.Mike Earp spent his career with the... Read more
View audiobookHow Jesus Became God
By: Bart D. Ehrman
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus... Read more
View audiobook1421
By: Gavin Menzies
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic... Read more
View audiobookFrozen in Time
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller!Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the... Read more
View audiobookThe Pope's Last Crusade
By: Peter Eisner
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on untapped resources, exclusive interviews, and new archival research, The Pope’s Last Crusade by Peter Eisner is a thrilling narrative that sheds new light on Pope Pius XI’s valiant effort to condemn Nazism and the policies of the Third Reich—a crusade that might have changed the course of World War II.A shocking tale of intrigue and... Read more
View audiobookOklahoma City
By: Andrew Gumbel & Roger G. Charles
Narrated by: Todd Waring
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly... Read more
View audiobookOutlaw Platoon
By: Sean Parnell & John Bruning
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh,... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Sniper
By: Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD—NOMINATED FOR SIX ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTUREFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during... Read more
View audiobookLost in Shangri-La
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!"" —Simon Winchester,... Read more
View audiobookThe Dressmaker of Khair Khana
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
""We're far more accustomed to—and comfortable with—seeing women portrayed as victims of war who deserve our sympathy rather than as resilient survivors who demand our respect…"" Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s fearful rise to... Read more
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