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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Savage Country
by Robert Olmstead; read by Danny Campbell
In September 1873, Elizabeth Coughlin, a widow bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged and mysterious brother-in-law, Michael. Learn More
Sargent's Women
by Donna M. Lucey; read by Elizabeth Wiley
The fascinating backstories of four women painted by John Singer Sargent come alive in this seductive, multilayered biography. Learn More
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold; introduction by Barbara Kingsolver; read by Cassandra Campbell
First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Learn More
Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
by James H. Cone; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
In this powerful and passionate memoir—his final work—James H. Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those—like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow—who had no voice. Learn More
Sadness Is a White Bird
by Moriel Rothman-Zecher; read by Neil Shah
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist
A young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country. Powerful, important, and timely, Sadness Is a White Bird explores one man's attempts to find a place for himself, discovering in the process a beautiful, against-the-odds love that flickers like a candle in the darkness of a never-ending conflict. Learn More
The Saddest Words
by Michael Gorra; read by Joe Barrett
Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today. Learn More
Rum, Sodomy, Prayers, and the Lash Revisited
by Matthew S. Seligmann; read by John Lee
"Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash." This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones that were subject to major reform initiatives while Churchill was in charge of the Royal Navy between October 1911 and May 1915. Learn More
Rough Magic
By Lara Prior-Palmer; read by Henrietta Meire
A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book of the Season The Millions Most Anticipated in May O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
Told with terrific suspense and style, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of the world's longest, toughest horse race. Learn More
The Role of the Scroll
by Thomas Forrest Kelly; read by Adam Verner
Scrolls have always been shrouded by a kind of aura, a quality of somehow standing outside of time. They hold our attention with their age, beauty, and perplexing format. Beginning in the fourth century, the codex—or book—became the preferred medium for long texts. Why, then, did some people in the Middle Ages continue to make scrolls? Learn More
Rock Stars on the Record
by Eric Spitznagel; read by Michael Butler Murray
An all-star lineup of rock-n-rollers—from Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell to Suzi Quatro and Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire—relay the uproariously wild, sentimental, and unexpected pre-stardom stories behind their favorite records. Learn More
The Road to Delano
by John DeSimone; read by Ramon de Ocampo
Foreward Indie Finalist
HighBridge Audio presents a new novel by John DeSimone. Learn More
Riskwork
by Michael Power; read by Shawn Compton
This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings—aviation, mental health, railway project management, energy, toy manufacture, financial services, chemicals regulation, and NGOs. Learn More
Rise of the Machines
Thomas Rid; read by Robertson Dean
Drawing on new sources and interviews with hippies, anarchists, sleuths, and spies, Thomas Rid's Rise of the Machines offers an unparalleled perspective into our anxious embrace of technology and today’s clash of digital privacy and security. Learn More
The Rise of Real-Life Superheroes
by Peter Nowak; read by Peter Nowak
Lifelong comic-book fan and veteran journalist Peter Nowak meets with real-life superheroes in North America and around the world to get their stories and investigate what the movement means for the future of society.
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The Rise of Athens
by Anthony Everitt; read by Michael Page
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian. Learn More
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
by Manisha Sinha; read by Deepa Samuel
NEW! Now Available
A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. Learn More
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
by Gary Gerstle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. Learn More
The Ripple Effect
by Enze Han; read by David Pham Huynh
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available August
Many studies of China's relations with Southeast Asia focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regional influence. Yet, scholars and pundits often fail to appreciate the complexity of the contemporary Chinese state and society, and just how fragmented, decentralized, and internationalized China is today. In The Ripple Effect, Enze Han argues that a focus on the Chinese state alone is not sufficient for a comprehensive understanding of China's influence in Southeast Asia. Learn More
Righteous Rebels, Revised Edition
by Patrick Range McDonald; read by Paul Boehmer
In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. Learn More
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