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Legend
- A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
- Written by: Eric Blehm
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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In Legend, acclaimed best-selling author Eric Blehm takes as his canvas the Vietnam War as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A 12-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia - where US forces were forbidden to operate. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supplying troops and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Legend
- A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2015-04-28
- Language: English
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The Written World
- The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
- Written by: Martin Puchner
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores 16 foundational texts selected from more than 4,000 years of world literature and reveals how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. Indeed, literature has touched generations and changed the course of history.
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The Written World
- The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-24
- Language: English
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The Immortal Game
- A History of Chess
- Written by: David Shenk
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its 32 figurative pieces, moving about its 64 black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool?
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The Immortal Game
- A History of Chess
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2006-09-11
- Language: English
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The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Written by: Kim Barker
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.
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The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2011-03-22
- Language: English
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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
- Written by: Seymour M. Hersh
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete, or a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden.
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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-12
- Language: English
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Duty
- Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- Written by: Robert M. Gates
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Length: 25 hrs and 38 mins
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
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Duty
- Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Robert M. Gates
- Length: 25 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-14
- Language: English
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Occult America
- White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
- Written by: Mitch Horowitz
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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The story of the American occult has remained largely untold. Now a leading writer on the subject of alternative spirituality brings it out of the shadows. Here is a rich, fascinating, and colorful history of a religious revolution and an epic of offbeat history.
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Occult America
- White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-31
- Language: English
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By All Means Available
- Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy
- Written by: Michael G. Vickers
- Narrated by: Michael G. Vickers
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
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In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA’s secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. After inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on the Soviets for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Vickers transformed the covert campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghan resistance win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to the end of the Cold War. In By All Means Available, Vickers recounts his remarkable career.
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By All Means Available
- Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy
- Narrated by: Michael G. Vickers
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-20
- Language: English
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Nobody's Normal
- How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Written by: Roy Richard Grinker
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma - from the 18th century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.
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Nobody's Normal
- How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- Written by: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2009-08-25
- Language: English
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The Women with Silver Wings
- The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
- Written by: Katherine Sharp Landdeck
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At 22, Fort had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of a lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground. Still, when the US Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings.
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The Women with Silver Wings
- The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-21
- Language: English
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Ritz and Escoffier
- The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
- Written by: Luke Barr
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In early August 1889, César Ritz, a Swiss hotelier highly regarded for his exquisite taste, found himself at the Savoy Hotel in London. He had come at the request of Richard D'Oyly Carte, the financier of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, who had modernized theater and was now looking to create the world's best hotel. D'Oyly Carte soon seduced Ritz to move to London with his team, which included Auguste Escoffier, the chef de cuisine known for his elevated, original dishes.
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Ritz and Escoffier
- The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-03
- Language: English
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Crash of the Titans
- Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
- Written by: Greg Farrell
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street. Merrill Lynch was an icon. Its sudden decline, collapse, and sale to Bank of America was a shock. How did it happen? Why did it happen?
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Time and the economy waits for no man.
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Crash of the Titans
- Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-02
- Language: English
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Skyjack
- The Hunt for D. B. Cooper
- Written by: Geoffrey Gray
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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The case of D. B. Cooper is a modern legend that has obsessed and cursed his pursuers for generations with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now, with Skyjack, Geoffrey Gray obtains a first-ever look at the FBI’s confidential Cooper file, uncovering new leads in the infamous case.
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Skyjack
- The Hunt for D. B. Cooper
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2011-08-09
- Language: English
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Morgenthau
- Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
- Written by: Andrew Meier
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 38 hrs and 44 mins
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An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century.
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Morgenthau
- Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 38 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-13
- Language: English
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath.
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-10
- Language: English
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The Long Run
- A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion
- Written by: Catriona Menzies-Pike
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. "Runner" was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that running, "a pace suited to the precarious labor of memory", was helping her to grieve the loss of her parents in ways that she had been, for 10 messy years, running away from.
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The Long Run
- A Memoir of Loss and Life in Motion
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-23
- Language: English
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The Idealist
- Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
- Written by: Nina Munk
- Narrated by: Susan Nezami
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Jeffrey Sachs - celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential best seller The End of Poverty - disagrees. In his view, poverty is a problem that can be solved. With single-minded determination he has attempted to put into practice his theories about ending extreme poverty, to prove that the world's most destitute people can be lifted onto "the ladder of development."
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The Idealist
- Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
- Narrated by: Susan Nezami
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2013-09-10
- Language: English
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Five Years to Freedom
- The True Story of a Vietnam POW
- Written by: James N. Rowe
- Narrated by: Reathel Bean
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him.
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Five Years to Freedom
- The True Story of a Vietnam POW
- Narrated by: Reathel Bean
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-13
- Language: English
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You Get What You Pay For
- Essays
- Written by: Morgan Parker
- Narrated by: Morgan Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to a battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery.
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You Get What You Pay For
- Essays
- Narrated by: Morgan Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-12
- Language: English
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