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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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Good Morning, Olive

by Robert Viagas; read by Roman Howell

Good Morning, Olive (named for one of the most beautiful and temperamental of Broadway's ghosts) is about the ghosts that haunt theatres in New York and around the world. Learn More

The Goodness Paradox

by Richard Wrangham; read by Michael Page

The Goodness Paradox is a highly accessible, authoritative, and intellectually provocative, a startlingly original theory of how Homo sapiens came to be. Learn More

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

by Lerone A. Martin; read by Langston Darby

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation. Learn More

The Great Air Race

by John Lancaster; read by Jonathan Todd Ross

The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest―and put American aviation on the map. Learn More

The Great Departure

Tara Zahra; read by Elizabeth Wiley

A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Learn More

Great Leaders Grow

Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller; read by Chris Patton

The Secret introduced people around the world to a profound yet seemingly contradictory concept: to lead is to serve. With that as the foundation, Great Leaders Grow takes the next step, showing leaders and aspiring leaders how to keep growing their leadership abilities throughout their lives. Learn More

The Great River

by Boyce Upholt; read by Gabriel Vaughan

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A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America. Learn More

The Great Shift

by James L. Kugel; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today. Learn More

The Greek Connection

by James H. Barron; read by Robert Fass

In The Greek Connection, James H. Barron uncovers the story of one of the most fascinating figures in twentieth-century political history. Learn More

Grinnell

by John Taliaferro; read by Joe Barrett

The alarm that George Bird Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro's commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Learn More

Grow and Hide

by Colleen M. Grogan; read by Christina Delaine

A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. Learn More

Guardian

by Thomas Pecora with Jon Land & Lindsay Preston; read by Eric Jason Martin

A CIA security officer recounts a twenty-four-year career protecting America's intelligence personnel and senior USG Officials against a backdrop of the War on Terror. Learn More

Gumbo Life

by Ken Wells; read by PJ Ochlan

A sprightly, deeply personal narrative about how gumbo—for 250 years a Cajun and Creole secret—has become one of the world's most beloved dishes. Learn More

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

by Linda Colley; read by Susan Ericksen

Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. Learn More

Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond; read by Grover Gardner

This Pulitzer Prize-winning work is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life. Learn More

Hacking Darwin

by Jamie Metzl; read by Eric Martin

From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives—sex, war, love, and death. Learn More

Haiti After the Earthquake

Paul Farmer and colleagues; read by Meryl Streep and an ensemble cast

An AudioFile Best Audiobooks of the Year Selection and Earphones Award Winner!

A vivid first-hand account of an epic catastrophe—and a powerful call to action—from a celebrated physician famous for his work in Haiti. Learn More

Half the Sky

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn; read by Cassandra Campbell

An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
Winner-Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year
A New York Times Bestseller!

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“Women hold up half the sky”—Chinese proverb

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as your guide, undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances—and an equally extraordinary group that have triumphed. Learn More

Hallucinations from Hell

by Gregg H. Turner; read by Gregg H. Turner

From his time at Creem Magazine in the 1970s and '80s to the formation of the Angry Samoans in Los Angeles, and all the travels, trials, and tribulations that occurred after, Gregg Turner takes us through a wild ride of stories he's heard, stories he's lived, and some he may or may not have made up. Learn More

Halsey's Typhoon

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin; read by Eric Conger

A gripping true account of courage and survival at sea against impossible odds—and one of the finest untold World War II sagas of our time. Learn More