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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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At the Center of All Beauty

by Fenton Johnson; read by Sean Runnette

From Fenton Johnson, a profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude. Learn More

At the Frontier of God's Empire

by Ji Li; read by Kathleen Li

At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China tells the remarkable story of Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876–1948). Learn More

At What Cost

by Nicholas Freudenberg; read by Stephen Bel Davies

An incisive and powerful investigation of corporate impact on human and planetary well-being. Learn More

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants

James Wolcott; read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants is a hilarious and scathing critique of the so-called news establishment. Wolcott’s book pokes, prods, and stirs up controversy. It also makes some serious points about the lamentable state of our news, and our nation. Learn More

The Auctioneer

Simon de Pury; read by Ralph Lister

2016 Voice Arts Award Nominee

In this eye-opening memoir, Simon de Pury, a distinguished auctioneer and art dealer, provides a lively account of his flashy career and today's soaring art market - revealing a jet-setting, powerful, and private club of elites who buy, sell, and collect the world’s most expensive art. Learn More

Audience of One

by James Poniewozik; read by Matthew Josdal

Earphones Award Winner
Publishers Weekly Best of 2019

An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president. Learn More

Authoritarian Nightmare

by Bob Altemeyer & John W. Dean; Rick Adamson

To fully understand the Trump phenomenon, John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise: authoritarianism. Learn More

The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist

By Ben Barres; read by Paul Boehmer

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science. Learn More

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt; read by Tavia Gilbert

Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. Learn More

The Away Game

by Sebastian Abbot; read by Robert Fass

The Away Game is a compelling human story from inside what may be the biggest search for talent in sports history. Learn More

Bach's Musical Universe

by Christoph Wolff; read by Paul Heitsch

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Learn More

Bad Mexicans

by Kelly Lytle Hernández; read by Joana Garcia

"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of US history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Learn More

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Joshua Hammer; read by Paul Boehmer

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pull off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. Learn More

Bagehot

by James Grant; read by Jonathan Cowley

The definitive biography of one of the most brilliant and influential financial minds—banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist. Learn More

The Battle of Gettysburg

by Bruce Catton; read by Eric Martin

Bruce Catton, Pulitzer-Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed historians of the Civil War, vividly recreates the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Learn More