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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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Out of the Shadows

by Walt Odets; read by Will Damron

A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically. Learn More

Out of One, Many

by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Petrea Burchard

NEW! Now Available

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity. Learn More

Our Own Worst Enemy

by Tom Nichols; read by Tom Nichols

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves. Learn More

Our Man in Charleston

Christopher Dickey; read by Antony Ferguson

As tension over slavery and western expansion threatened to break the US into civil war, the Southern states found themselves squeezed between two nearly irreconcilable realities: the survival of the Confederate economy would require the importation of more slaves, a practice banned in America since 1807, but the existence of the Confederacy itself could not be secured without official recognition from Great Britain, who would never countenance reopening the Atlantic slave trade. How, then, could the first be achieved without dooming the possibility of the second? Learn More

Our Data, Ourselves

by Jacqueline D. Lipton; read by Corinne Davies

A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Learn More

The Other Side of Prospect

by Nicholas Dawidoff; read by Diontae Black

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. Learn More

The Other Paris

Luc Sante; read by the author

Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside, one populated by working and criminal classes that, though virtually extinct today, have shaped Paris over the past two centuries. Learn More

The Origins of Elected Strongmen

by Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and Joseph Wright; read by Suzie Althens

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January

Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform. Learn More

Origin Story

by Howard Markel; read by Mike Cooper

NEW! Now Available

A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. Learn More

Orchid Muse

by Erica Hannickel; read by Nicol Zanzarella

A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature’s most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired. Learn More

Orca

by Jason M. Colby; read by Paul Heitsch

Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place. Learn More