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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Light and Legacies
by Janaka Bowman Lewis; read by Janaka Bowman Lewis
An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature. Learn More
Light of the Stars
by Adam Frank; read by Kevin Pariseau
Booklist 2018 Editors' Choice
In Light of the Stars, astrophysicist and NPR commentator Adam Frank reveals what the latest research on alien civilizations may tell us about our own. Learn More
Lightning Sky
by R.C. George read by John McLain
A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II. Learn More
Lima :: Limon
by Natalie Scenters-Zapico; read by Kyla Garcia
In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Learn More
Limelight
by Martin Popoff; read by Michael Butler Murray
Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the '80s, and the second book of Popoff's staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes listeners from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Learn More
Lincoln's Body
Richard Wightman Fox; read by Pete Larkin
A groundbreaking, magisterial study that explains why, like Walt Whitman, we "love the President personally."
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. Learn More
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. Learn More
Lions of the West
Robert Morgan; read by David Drummond
America’s Manifest Destiny—as envisioned by Thomas Jefferson and nine other Americans—comes to life in bestselling historian and biographer Robert Morgan’s skilled hands. Learn More
Listen Up!
by Mark Howard & Chris Howard; read by Peter Berkrot
An album-by-album account of working with iconic artists such as Anthony Kiedis, Michael Stipe, Gord Downie, and Bono, from a leader in the field. Learn More
Literature and the New Culture Wars
by Deborah Appleman; read by Cathi Colas
Our current "culture wars" have reshaped the politics of secondary literature instruction. Due to a variety of challenges from both the left and the right—to language or subject matter, to potentially triggering content, or to authors who have been canceled—school reading lists are rapidly shrinking. Deborah Appleman's Literature and the New Culture Wars is a timely and eloquent argument for a reasoned approach to determining what literature still deserves to be read and taught and discussed. Learn More
Lithium
by Walter A. Brown; read by Shawn Compton
The remarkable untold story of a miracle drug, the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, and the fight to bring lithium to the masses. Learn More
The Little Book of Black Holes
by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius; read by Andrew Eiden
The Little Book of Black Holes takes readers deep into the mysterious heart of the subject, offering rare clarity of insight into the physics that makes black holes simple yet destructive manifestations of geometric destiny. Learn More
The Little Book of Support for New Moms
by Beccy Hands & Alexis Stickland; read by Gemma Dawson
A survival guide to the emotional and physical roller coaster of becoming a new mom. Learn More
Live From New York
by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales; read by Christina Delanie and Paul Woodson
In Live From New YorkJames Andrew Miller and Tom Shales raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies. Learn More
The Lives of Isaac Stern
by David Schoenbaum; read by Tom Perkins
A centennial celebration of the career and legacy of the first made-in-America violin virtuoso and one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians. Learn More
Living I Was Your Plague
by Lyndal Roper; read by Michael Page
From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image. Learn More
London's Triumph
by Stephen Alford; read by John Lee
For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. Learn More
The Long Fix
by Vivian Lee; read by Charles Constant
In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health care crisis and presents a concrete action plan for reform. Learn More
The Long Game
by Rush Doshi; read by Kyle Tait
In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Learn More
The Long Hangover
by Shaun Walker; read by Michael Page
The Long Hangover is a book about a lost generation: the millions of Russians who lost their country with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent attempts to restore to them a sense of purpose. It shows that the legacy of the collapse is one with which Russia and Russians are still grappling. Learn More
The Long Ships
by Frans G. Bengtsson; read by Michael Page
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Learn More
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