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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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Democracy Under Fire

by Lawrence R. Jacobs; read by Michael Butler Murray

In Democracy under Fire, Lawrence Jacobs provides a highly engaging history of political reforms since the late-eighteenth century that over time dangerously weakened democracy, widened political inequality as well as racial disparities, and rewarded toxic political polarization. Learn More

Denmark Vesey's Bible

by Jeremy Schipper; read by Sean Crisden

A timely and provocative account of the Bible's role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slavery. Learn More

Denmark Vesey's Garden

by Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts; read by Tom Perkins

Denmark Vesey's Garden joins the small bookshelf of major, paradigm-shifting new interpretations of slavery's enduring legacy in the United States. Learn More

Detroit

Charlie LeDuff; read by Eric Martin

A New York Times Bestseller!
AudioFile Editors’ Pick
A Library Journal Best Audiobooks of the Year Selection
Huffington Post Best of Year Pick

An explosive exposé of Detroit, icon of America’s lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff. Learn More

Diana's Boys

Christopher Andersen; read by Derek Partridge

Devoid of salacious gossip and groundless speculation, Diana's Boys is the first candid chronicle of the world's two most celebrated royals—and far more. Learn More

Did You Just Eat That?

by Paul Dawson & Brian Sheldon; read by Matthew Boston

When it comes to food safety and germs, there are as many common questions as there are misconceptions. And yet there has never been a book that clearly examines the science behind these important issues—until now. Learn More

Digital Civil War

by Peter Daou; read by Jonathan Yen

A deep look into the raging social media battles between red and blue Americans and the growing threat to U.S. democracy from right-wing extremism. Learn More

Dinner in Camelot

by Joseph Esposito; read by Tom Perkins

Joseph A. Esposito recounts the famed White House dinner hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy in April 1962. Learn More

Dirty Dealing

by Gary Cartwright; read by J. Rodney Turner

A must-listen book from Gary Cartwright, the author of Blood Will Tell and Galveston. Learn More

Dirty Work

by Eyal Press; read by Neil Shah

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"—the work that society considers essential but morally compromised. Learn More

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic

by Kevin M. De Cock, Harold W. Jaffe, and James W. Curran; edited by Robin Moseley; read by Curtis Michael Holland

Authentic and insightful, Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic provides an authoritative account of an epidemic and its central role in the expansion of global public health. Learn More

Dispersals

by Jessica J. Lee; read by Jessica J. Lee

NEW! Now Available

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. Learn More

Divested

by Ken-Hou Lin & Megan Tobias Neely

Divested is a clear, comprehensive, and convincing account of the forces driving economic inequality in America. Learn More

The Divide

by Jason Hickel; read by Jonathan Cowley

A provocative and timely myth buster that exposes the hidden machinations behind five centuries of global poverty and inequality. Learn More

DNA Demystified

by Alan McHughen; read by Bob Souer

DNA Demystified offers an informal yet authoritative guide to the genetic marvel of DNA. Learn More

Do Everything

by Christopher H. Evans; read by Elizabeth Wiley

The first biography of Frances Willard to be published in over thirty-five years, Do Everything explores Willard's life, her contributions as a reformer, and her broader legacy as a women's rights activist in the United States. Learn More

Do No Harm

Henry Marsh; read by Jim Barclay

Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Learn More

Doctor Who Psychology

Edited by Travis Langley, Foreword by Katy Manning; read by Esther Wane and Matthew Lloyd Davies

With a foreword by Third Doctor Companion Katy Manning and interviews with actors who played Doctors new and old, Doctor Who Psychology travels through the how and why of Who. It's all timey-wimey. Learn More

The Doctors Blackwell

by Janice P. Nimura; read by Laural Merlington

2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
One of Apple's Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021

From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Learn More

The Dogs of Avalon

by Laura Schenone; read by Esther Wane

In this David versus Goliath story (including the rescue of her own dog, Lily), Laura Schenone takes us into a complex world of impassioned people who stood up for millions of animals. Learn More