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Everything Is Now
- The 1960s New York Avant-Garde--Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
- By: J. Hoberman
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, Everything Is Now chronicles this collective drama as it was played...
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Everything Is Now
- The 1960s New York Avant-Garde--Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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The Next Shift
- The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
- By: Gabriel Winant
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy - particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America's cities have weathered new economic realities. In Pittsburgh's neighborhoods, he finds that a new working class has emerged in the wake of deindustrialization.
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The Next Shift
- The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
- Narrated by: BJ Harrison
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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The Brothers
- The Road to an American Tragedy
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING “A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism… [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters” (Christian Science Monitor) The National Book Award...
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The Brothers
- The Road to an American Tragedy
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-04-15
- Language: English
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The Sacred Pipe
- Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
- By: Joseph Epes Brown
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Black Elk was the only qualified priest of the older Oglala Sioux still living when The Sacred Pipe was written. This is his book: he gave it orally to Joseph Epes Brown during the latter's eight month's residence on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where Black Elk lived.
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The Sacred Pipe
- Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-11-22
- Language: English
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Dear Jacob
- By: Joy Baker, Patty Wetterling
- Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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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 boys remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob, told by his mother, Patty...
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....powerful life lessons
- By Jackie on 02-12-23
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Dear Jacob
- Narrated by: Rebecca Stern
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 18-10-23
- Language: English
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Secret City
- The Hidden History of Gay Washington
- By: James Kirchick
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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"Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James...
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A fascinating story
- By Stephen Bentley on 28-12-24
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Secret City
- The Hidden History of Gay Washington
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-05-22
- Language: English
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The New York Nobody Knows
- Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- By: William B. Helmreich
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs - an astonishing 6,000 miles.
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A real inspiration
- By george sutherland on 16-01-25
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The New York Nobody Knows
- Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-10-13
- Language: English
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The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder
- And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns
- By: Stew Magnuson
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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After covering racial unrest in the remote northwest corner of his home state of Nebraska in 1999, journalist Stew Magnuson returned four years later to consider the larger questions of its peoples, their paths, and the forces that separate them. Examining Raymond Yellow Thunder’s death at the hands of four White men in 1972, Magnuson looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. Situating long-ranging repercussions within 130 years of context, he also recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird.
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The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder
- And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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The City-State of Boston
- The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
- By: Mark Peterson
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
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In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a path-breaking and brilliant new history of early America.
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The City-State of Boston
- The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 26 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-01-20
- Language: English
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Sex on the Moon
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Casey Affleck
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA's headquarters—past security checkpoints, an electronically-locked door with cipher security codes and camera-lined hallways—and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: the moon rocks.
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Loved this!
- By Lauren on 31-05-17
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Sex on the Moon
- Narrated by: Casey Affleck
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-08-11
- Language: English
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The Year of Dangerous Days
- Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
- By: Nicholas Griffin
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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In the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutality—from journalist and award-winning author Nicholas...
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The Year of Dangerous Days
- Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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The Devil Came to St. Louis
- The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism
- By: Troy Taylor
- Narrated by: Charles Huddleston
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Listen to new interviews, never-before-published details, and chilling accounts to decide for yourself from this new evidence what you choose to believe about the time when the Devil came to St. Louis!
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Very Detailed & A Very Interesting
- By Caledonian Kitty on 24-10-24
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The Devil Came to St. Louis
- The Uncensored True Story of the 1949 Exorcism
- Narrated by: Charles Huddleston
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-04-23
- Language: English
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Looking for Betty MacDonald
- The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
- By: Paula Becker
- Narrated by: Paula Becker
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Betty Bard MacDonald (1907 - 1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year.
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Betty revealed
- By Mrs Lesley Williams on 10-12-23
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Looking for Betty MacDonald
- The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
- Narrated by: Paula Becker
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-09-16
- Language: English
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The Deepest South of All
- True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
- By: Richard Grant
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters” (Newsweek). Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere...
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The Deepest South of All
- True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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Great Fortune
- The Epic of Rockefeller Center
- By: Daniel Okrent
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
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At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis.
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Great Fortune
- The Epic of Rockefeller Center
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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What's the Matter with Kansas?
- How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
- By: Thomas Frank
- Narrated by: Thomas Frank
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins). **Unabridged for the first time with a new introduction** This program is read by the author...
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What's the Matter with Kansas?
- How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
- Narrated by: Thomas Frank
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-08-22
- Language: English
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Broadway
- A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
- By: Fran Leadon
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the 17th century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the 20th century's Great White Way. We learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness construction of the Ansonia Apartments, Trinity Church, and the Flatiron Building and the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum.
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This may be unfair but....
- By Hannah on 10-08-18
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Broadway
- A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 17-04-18
- Language: English
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Tales from the Indianapolis 500
- A Collection of the Greatest Indy 500 Stories Ever Told
- By: Jack Arute, Jenna Fryer, A. J. Foyt - foreword
- Narrated by: Tony Carnaghi
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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What’s it like to race across the blacktop of the nation’s most famous track? How does it feel to smash into a concrete wall while going over 200 miles per hour? This exciting, humorous, and poignant collection of tales takes listeners inside the most exciting race in America. Tales from the Indianapolis 500 captures horrific collisions and sweet victories from drivers past and present.
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Interesting.
- By Frieda on 29-12-25
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Tales from the Indianapolis 500
- A Collection of the Greatest Indy 500 Stories Ever Told
- Narrated by: Tony Carnaghi
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-01-13
- Language: English
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Mayhem
- Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing
- By: Michele R. McPhee
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Mayhem goes a long way toward answering questions that still linger about the notorious Boston Marathon bombing, such as: Where were the bombs made? And what had been Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relationship to the FBI? This page-turning narrative casts a spotlight on the US Government's relationship...
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Excellent book
- By Caolan Smith on 24-04-23
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Mayhem
- Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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Red Dead Redemption
- History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West
- By: John Wills - editor, Esther Wright - editor
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history.
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Red Dead Reevaluation
- By James Davie on 03-04-26
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Red Dead Redemption
- History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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