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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Black Virgin Mountain
Larry Heinemann; read by Larry Heinemann
An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Learn More
Black Wave
by Kim Ghattas; read by Kim Ghattas & Nan McNamara
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Learn More
Blacksound
by Matthew D. Morrison; read by Matthew D. Morrison
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Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface. Learn More
Blitzkrieg
by Lloyd Clark, read by Shaun Grindell
In Blitzkrieg, military historian Lloyd Clark argues our understanding of blitzkrieg is based on myth. Learn More
Blood Echoes
by Thomas H. Cook; read by Kris Koscheski
A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner. Learn More
Blood Runs Coal
by Mark A. Bradley; read by Perry Daniels
Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime
The true story of the shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal. Learn More
Blood Sugar 101
by Jenny Ruhl; read by Randye Kaye
Written in clear and understandable language, this book provides all the tools needed to understand how blood sugar works and achieve blood sugar health. Learn More
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
by Dr. Jen Gunter; read by Jen Gunter, MD
"The world's most famous and outspoken gynecologist" (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free advice on the topic that impacts more than 72 million Americans every month: menstruation.
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Bloody Tuesday
by John M. Giggie; read by Christopher Grove
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The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States. Learn More
Bluesman
by Andre Dubus III; read by Andre Dubus III
With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award–nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty. Learn More
Bold School
by Weston Kieschnick; read by Weston Kieschnick
Bold School is a book that restores teachers to their rightful place in effective instruction. Learn More
Bombing Hitler's Hometown
by Mike Croissant; read by J. Rodney Turner
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A brilliant, groundbreaking slice of military history, this riveting story of white-knuckled action over one of Europe's most heavily defended targets in the waning days of World War II also tells of the aftermath of the Linz, Austria, bombing—the heart-wrenching tales of survival and recovery, and the toll of warfare on both sides. Learn More
The Book of Ceremony
bySandra Ingerman ; read by Laural Merlington
With The Book of Ceremony, shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman presents a rich and practical resource for creating ceremonies filled with joy, purpose, and magic. Learn More
Born in Blackness
by Howard W. French; read by James Fouhey
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Learn More
Borrowing Life
by Shelley Fraser Mickle; read by Tom Perkins
Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. Learn More
Boss of the Grips
by Eric K. Washington; read by David Sadzin
A long-overdue biography of the head of Grand Central Terminal's Red Caps, who flourished in the cultural nexus of Harlem and American railroads.
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The Bourbon King
by Bob Batchelor; read by Joe Barrett
Love, murder, mountains of cash, bribery, political intrigue, rivers of bourbon, and a grand spectacle like few before it, the tale of George Remus provides listeners with a lens into the dark heart of Prohibition's "Bourbon Trail," the thirst of the American people, and their fascination with crime. Learn More
The Boxing Kings
by Paul Beston; read by Alexander Cendese
For much of the twentieth century, boxing was one of America's most popular sports and the heavyweight champions were figures known to all. Boxing fans, sports historians, and those interested in U.S. race relations as it intersects with sports will all find in The Boxing Kings a fascinating reminder of how engrained boxing once was in the American social and cultural fabric. Learn More
Brain Food
by Lisa Mosconi, PhD; read by Norah Tocci
Like our bodies, our brains have very specific food requirements. And in this eye-opening book from an author who is both a neuroscientist and a certified integrative nutritionist, we learn what should be on our menu. Learn More
The Brain on Cannabis
by Rebecca Siegel, MD, Margot Starbuck; read by Chloe Cannon
From the Amen Clinics, America's frontline resource for brain health and treatment of brain injury, comes the most comprehensive and myth-busting guide yet on marijuana use and its effects on the brain—including how to effectively talk to young people about recreational marijuana use. Learn More
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