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High Yella
by Steve Majors; read by Terrence Kidd
In his remarkable and moving memoir, Steve Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood. High Yella delivers its hard-won lessons on love, life, and family with exceptional grace. Learn More
Hitler
by Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase; read by Sean Runnette
From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939—a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself. Learn More
Hitler's Pawn
by Stephen Koch; read by James Anderson Foster
A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust. Learn More
Housewife Assassin
by Geri Spieler; read by Rosemary Benson
President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin. Learn More
How Do We Get Out of Here
by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.; read by Frank Block
How Do We Get Out of Here? is R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s intimate memoir, detailing his leadership in the conservative movement and his relationships with its major personalities from 1968 to the present. Learn More
How to Be a Tudor
Ruth Goodman; read by Heather Wilds
From an historian who advised on the BBCs Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England. Learn More
I've Been Wrong Before
by Evan James; read by Charlie Thurston
From the award-winning essayist and author of the “shrewd as hell and hysterically funny” (Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties) novel Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe comes a moving and unforgettable essay collection about his travels around the globe as he reflects on the power and complexity of human relationships. Learn More
Iago
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain—the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright’s most significant personalities. Learn More
Ian McKellen
by Garry O'Connor; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
From Garry O'Connor comes the definitive biography of Sir Ian McKellen. Learn More
Ice War Diplomat
by Gary Smith; read by Kyle Tait
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Summit Series, here is the incredible story of an unlikely political stage—the hockey rink—where a Cold War, and the threat of nuclear annihilation, is no less important than a power play in the final minute. Discover a diplomacy mission like no other: caught between capitalism and communism, Canada and the Soviet Union, young Canadian diplomat Gary J. Smith must navigate the rink, melting the ice between two nations skating a dangerous path. Learn More
The Impatient Dr. Lange
by Seema Yasmin; read by Seema Yasmin
The first book about Lange and his contributions to the fight against HIV, The Impatient Dr. Lange is a powerful tribute to one of the greatest scientists, activists, humanitarians, and social entrepreneurs in the world of HIV/AIDS. Learn More
The Improbable Wendell Willkie
by David Levering Lewis; read by Mike Chamberlain
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman–turned–presidential candidate who (almost) saved America’s dysfunctional political system. Learn More
In My Mind's Eye
by Jan Morris; read by Jennifer M. Dixon
Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection. Learn More
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams; read by Simon Vance
Audie Finalist
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. Learn More
In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado; read by Carmen Maria Machado
Lambda Literary Award Winner
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. Learn More
In the Houses of Their Dead
by Terry Alford; read by Danny Campbell
The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. Learn More
In the Name of the Father
by Mark Ribowsky; read by Barry Abrams
The story of America's most sacred and carefully constructed football dynasty is revealed in this unflinching family portrait. Learn More
Indelible Ink
by Richard Kluger; read by Tom Perkins
The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ashes to Ashes. Learn More
Inexplicably Me
by Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter; read by Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter
A hilariously moving and inspirational memoir of a girl with two gay dads, navigating her way through life with joy, love, gratitude, and an excellent sense of humor. Learn More
Inseparable
by Yunte Huang; read by PJ Ochlan
2019 National Book Critics Circle Award
With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America's most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Learn More
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