History • Culture
Experience our world: as it was, as it is, as it might become with these audiobooks about history, the arts, culture, education, and politics. Don't miss Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, or Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Writers, or Gwen Ifill's The Breakthrough.
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My Baby First Birthday
by Jenny Zhang; read by Jenny Zhang
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine
Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Learn More
Mutations
by Sam McPheeters & Tobi Vail; read by Sam McPheeters
In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, Sam McPheeters examines the diverse realms of punk he intersected—New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, New England, and downtown Los Angeles—and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place. Learn More
Music for Prime Time
by Jon Burlingame; read by Paul Woodson
The first serious, journalistic history of music for American television, Music for Prime Time only tells the backstory of every great TV theme but also examines the many neglected and frequently underrated orchestral and jazz compositions for television dating back to the late 1940s. Learn More
Muse of Fire
by Michael Korda; read by Malcolm Hillgartner
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The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire. Learn More
Muscle
by Roy A. Meals, MD; read by Jonathan Yen
An entertaining deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training. Learn More
Murder at the Capitol
by C. M. Gleason; read by James Anderson Foster
In July 1861, just months after the Battle of Fort Sumter plunges the young nation into civil war, President Lincoln's top priority is to unite the country, while Adam Quinn finds himself on the trail of a murderer. Learn More
Murder at Morrington Hall
by Clara McKenna; read by Sarah Zimmerman
Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match—and a murderer . . . Learn More
The Muralist
B.A. Shapiro; read by Xe Sands
2016 Voice Arts Award Nominee
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger comes a thrilling new novel of art, history, love, and politics that traces the life and mysterious disappearance of a brilliant young artist on the eve of
World War II. Learn More
World War II. Learn More
Mr. B
by Jennifer Homans; read by Cassandra Campbell
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man the New York Times called "the Shakespeare of dancing"—from the bestselling author of Apollo's Angels. Learn More
Mourning Lincoln
Martha Hodes; read by Donna Postel
The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor. Learn More
Most Honorable Son
by Gregg Jones; read by Christopher Douyard
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The first comprehensive biography of unjustly forgotten Japanese American war hero Ben Kuroki, who fought the Axis powers during World War II and battled racism, injustice, and prejudice on the home front. Learn More
A Most Elegant Equation
by David Stipp; read by Sean Pratt
In David Stipp's hands, Euler's identity becomes a contemplative stroll through the glories of mathematics. The result is an ode to this magical field. Learn More
The Monster's Bones
by David K. Randall; read by Roman Howell
A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. Learn More
Monster of Their Own Making
by Jack Buckby; read by Dominic Vaughn
Recounting his experiences amongst far-right terrorists and extremists, Jack Buckby shows how conservatives and liberals are both wrong about the far right. Learn More
Monopolized
by David Dayen; read by Stephen R. Thorne
From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives. Learn More
Monarch Manor
by Maureen Leurck
Maureen Leurck's Monarch Manor is an unforgettable and moving novel of sacrifice and hope, and the way love between a parent and child can transform them both. Learn More
The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe
by Gerd-Rainer Horn; read by Michael Page
The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles & Rebellions, 1943–1948 reconstructs the parameters of the contest over the shape of postwar Western Europe from a transnational perspective. Learn More
Moctu and the Mammoth People
by Neil Bockoven; read by Timothy Andres Pabon
Moctu and the Mammoth People is a compelling, well-researched story of a strong, young, dark-skinned Cro-Magnon boy who must fight his rival for leadership of his tribe and the right to mate the beautiful Nuri. Learn More
Mistress of Life and Death
by Susan J. Eischeid; read by Elisabeth Lagelee
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing machine and one of the few female perpetrators of the Holocaust. Learn More
Mission, Race, and Empire
by Jennifer C. Snow; read by Ann Marie Lee
A new history of the Episcopal Church from its origins in the early British Empire up to the present, told through the lenses of empire and race. Learn More
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