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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi
- My Journey into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began
- Written by: Rabbi Jason Sobel, Kathie Lee Gifford
- Narrated by: Rabbi Jason Sobel, Kathie Lee Gifford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God's Word and a deeper knowledge of God Himself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing seen too small a word
- By Ideen Robinson on 2019-09-18
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- Written by: Declan Walsh
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....
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Palestinian Walks
- Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
- Written by: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh’s elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor....
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The Road to Oxiana
- Written by: Robert Byron
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Byron set off from Venice with friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. They travel by any means necessary and encounter several setbacks, but their risks are rewarded as they encounter some of the greatest examples of Eastern art and architecture....
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The Buried
- An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
- Written by: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a wonderful book!
- By cy. on 2019-08-22
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- Written by: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition....
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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi
- My Journey into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began
- Written by: Rabbi Jason Sobel, Kathie Lee Gifford
- Narrated by: Rabbi Jason Sobel, Kathie Lee Gifford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God's Word and a deeper knowledge of God Himself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing seen too small a word
- By Ideen Robinson on 2019-09-18
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- Written by: Declan Walsh
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....
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Palestinian Walks
- Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
- Written by: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh’s elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor....
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The Road to Oxiana
- Written by: Robert Byron
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Robert Byron set off from Venice with friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. They travel by any means necessary and encounter several setbacks, but their risks are rewarded as they encounter some of the greatest examples of Eastern art and architecture....
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The Buried
- An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
- Written by: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a wonderful book!
- By cy. on 2019-08-22
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- Written by: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition....
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The Monk of Mokha
- Written by: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
The true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful expression of grit.
- By Andy Riegl on 2019-08-29
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Walking the Bible
- A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
- Written by: Bruce Feiler
- Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The first person ever to complete the perilous 10,000 mile journey across the inscrutable desert landscape of the Middle East, Bruce Feiler, a fifth generation Southern Jew, embarks upon a quest to reconnect with the stories of the Bible, and uncover fresh answers to profound questions....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fresh perspective on a very old story.
- By Trevor Hammond on 2019-10-03
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
- Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
- Written by: Gerard Russell
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival....
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Istanbul
- Memories and the City
- Written by: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pamuk’s many faces mirror Istanbul’s
- By Bryan on 2019-08-17
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- Written by: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....
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My Wild Garden
- Notes from a Writer's Eden
- Written by: Meir Shalev, Joanna Chen
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, "neither neatly organized nor well kept", as he cheerfully explains....
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Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul
- Written by: John R. Hale, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John R. Hale
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Award-winning Professor John R. Hale of the University of Louisville is your guide to the fabulous civilizations of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans, and to the natural wonders and idyllic landscapes that surround them....
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The Innocents Abroad
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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What do you get when you combine classic travel literature with the inimitable wit of Mark Twain? You get The Innocents Abroad....
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Through Dust and Darkness
- A Motorcycle Journey of Fear and Faith in the Middle East
- Written by: Jeremy Kroeker
- Narrated by: Jeremy Kroeker
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard, and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness....
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All of Us, We All Are Arameans
- Written by: Eileen Pollack
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Stuck with a plane ticket to Israel bought for her by a Polish Catholic ex-boyfriend, Eileen Pollack sets out on a hectic, solitary journey around the country....
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Istanbul
- City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
- Written by: Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than two millennia, Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia....
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Arabian Sands
- Written by: Wilfred Thesiger
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides....
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Written by: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford....
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Great Railway Bazaar
- Written by: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour....
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Discover Morocco: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Exploring Morocco Like a Local
- Discover Travel Guides
- Written by: Joe Stanton
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you planning a vacation in Morocco? Do you want to be well prepared and well informed before you leave? Now you can ready to enjoy the delights of this fascinating and historical country....
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Reports from Hell
- Written by: Chas Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A gonzo ride through war-torn Yemen as only Chas Smith could provide....
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Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn
- A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran
- Written by: Jamie Maslin
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Jamie Maslin decides to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road. Then, unexpectedly stranded in Iran, Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into the subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture....
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Égypte Antique
- Les merveilles de l'archéologie
- Written by: Maria Pia Cesaretti, Silvia Einaudi, Maria Beatrice Galgano, and others
- Narrated by: Cyrille Alabouvette
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Un voyage fantastique vers la splendeur du Royaume des Pharaons : Alexandrie, Gizeh, Saqqara, Dendéra, Karnak, Louqsor, Deir el-Bahari, Deir el-Médineh...
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The Hezbollah Hiking Club
- Written by: Dom Joly
- Narrated by: Dom Joly
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Hezbollah Hiking Club is a funny, heartwarming travel book full of insight into the Middle East, religion, friendship and growing old disgracefully....
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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
- Written by: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia to offer startling close-ups of a volatile region few Westerners understand....
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Tel Aviv Noir
- Written by: Assaf Gavron - editor, Etgar Keret - editor
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Evans, Victor Bevine, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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For Tel Aviv Noir, Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron have masterfully assembled some of Israel's top contemporary writers into a compulsively readable collection....
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Israel for Travelers
- The Total Guide: The Comprehensive Traveling Guide for All Your Traveling Needs
- Written by: The Total Travel Guide Company
- Narrated by: Patricia Oliszynski
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When you decide to choose Israel for your next holiday, you know that you are in for the best experience of your life. There are so many things to see and discover in Israel, with the mix of new and old being almost intoxicating....
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The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah
- Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East
- Written by: Adam Valen Levinson
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to "learn about the world 9/11 made us fear"....
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Full Moon over Noah's Ark
- An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond
- Written by: Rick Antonson
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia, this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood....
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A flood of great stories
- By Peter Armstrong on 2021-03-28
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The First Love Story
- Adam, Eve, and Us
- Written by: Bruce Feiler
- Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years....
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In a Time of Monsters
- Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt
- Written by: Emma Sky
- Narrated by: Emma Sky
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East traveling through a region in revolt....
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To Jerusalem and Back
- A Personal Account
- Written by: Saul Bellow
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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This extraordinary book is the result of Saul Bellow’s sojourn in Israel in 1975....
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Tourism and Travel in Ancient Egypt
- Travel Like an Egyptian
- Written by: Mohammed Yehia Z. Ahmed
- Narrated by: Becky Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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How did the ancient Egyptians travel in this quaint old land thousands of years ago? What sort of transportation did they use? For how long did they go? What destinations did they visit? Find out....
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House of Stone
- A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- Written by: Anthony Shadid
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma.....
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The Dead Sea and the Jordan River
- Written by: Barbara Kreiger
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River....