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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The Source
by Martin Doyle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment―over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Learn More
Space 2.0
by Rod Pyle; foreword by Buzz Aldrin; read by Jack de Golia
In Space 2.0, space historian Rod Pyle, in collaboration with the National Space Society, will give you an inside look at the next few decades of spaceflight and long-term plans for exploration, utilization, and settlement.
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Spies of No Country
by Matti Friedman; read by Simon Vance
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but it's all true. Learn More
Spies of the Deep
by W. Craig Reed; read by Paul Woodson
Twenty years after the most terrifying submarine disaster in naval history, the untold story about why the Russians buried the truth and how Vladimir Putin used the incident to ignite a new Cold War finally comes to light. Learn More
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms
by Amy B. Zegart; read by Amy B. Zegart
A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America's leading intelligence experts. Learn More
Spirit Run
by Noe Alvarez; read by Ramon de Ocampo
Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch •New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 2020 Amazon Editors Pick Best Nonfiction 2020
The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in an Indigenous marathon from Canada to Guatemala, reimagining North America and his place in it. Learn More
Splinters of Infinity
by Mark Wolverton; read by Steve Marvel
The riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize–winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the universe. Learn More
A Spy Named Orphan
by Roland Philipps; read by Jonathan Cowley
A Spy Named Orphan is the first full biography of one of the most intriguing and important spies of the twentieth century. Learn More
Spy Schools
by Daniel Golden; Jonathan Yen
In Spy SchoolsPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage—and why that is troubling news for our nation's security. Learn More
Spying on the Reich
by R. T. Howard; read by Julian Elfer
Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished British, French, German, Danish, and Czech archival sources, Spying on the Reich tells the story of Germany and its rearmament in the 1920s and 1930s; its relations with foreign governments and their intelligence services; and the relations and rivalries between Western governments, seen through the prism of the cooperation, or lack of it, between their spy agencies. Learn More
Square Haunting
by Francesca Wade; read by Corrie James
Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, Mecklenburgh Square has borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. Square Haunting is a glorious portrait of five of the square's inhabitants: Hilda Doolittle, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Harrison, Eileen Power, and Virginia Woolf. Learn More
Star Trek Psychology
Edited by Travis Langley, Foreword by Chris Gore; read by Paul Boehmer & Natasha Soudek
In a fun and accessible way, Star Trek Psychology delves deep into the psyches of the show's well-known and beloved characters. Learn More
State of Play
by Bill Ripken; read by Danny Campbell
Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case. Learn More
The Statesman and the Storyteller
Mark Zwonitzer; read by Joe Barrett
In the tradition of the bestselling historical works of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and Walter Isaacson, award-winning documentarian Mark Zwonitzer brings two extraordinary American figures—and friends—into the spotlight at a time when their country was taking center stage in the world. Learn More
Still Standing
by Ellis Henican & Governor Larry Hogan; read by Governor Larry Hogan
Still Standing reveals how an unlikely governor is sparking a whole new kind of politics—and introduces the exciting possibilities that lie ahead. Learn More
Still Waters
by Curt Stager; read by Matthew Josdal
Still Waters is a fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea. Learn More
Stolen Girls
by: Wolfgang Bauer; translated by Eric Frederick Trump; read by Bahni Turpin
One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. In Stolen Girls, Wolfgang Bauer gives voice to these girls, allowing them to speak for themselves—about their lives before the abduction, about the horrors during their captivity, and their dreams of a better future.
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Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think
by Byron Reese; read by Stephen Bel Davies
What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way? This fascinating tale explores the three leaps in our history that made us what we are—and will change how you think about our future. Learn More
Storming the Heavens
by Gerald Horne; read by Bill Quinn
The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. Learn More
Stormtroopers
by Daniel Siemens; read by Roger Clark
Stormtroopers is the first full history of the Nazi Stormtroopers whose muscle brought Hitler to power, with revelations concerning their longevity and their contributions to the Holocaust. Learn More
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