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.
Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller; read by Chris Patton
The Secret introduced people around the world to a profound yet seemingly contradictory concept: to lead is to serve. With that as the foundation, Great Leaders Grow takes the next step, showing leaders and aspiring leaders how to keep growing their leadership abilities throughout their lives. Learn More
An “engrossing” (The Christian Science Monitor), “fascinating” (TimeOut New York), and “delightfully nuanced” (Entertainment Weekly) exploration of the world underground and one of its most amazing denizens. Learn More
The intriguing story of the quest to recover the missing pages from one of the world’s most important holy texts: the 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible known as Aleppo Codex. Learn More
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, Dr. Steven Woloshin; read by Sean Runnette
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Exposing the overdiagnosis of everything from high blood pressure to prostate and breast cancers , Dr. Welch traces the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of some of the worst excesses of American medical practice. Learn More
Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer; read by Simon Prebble
A trove of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs—secretly recorded by the Allies—reveals the extent of their brutality and changes our understanding of the mind-set of the German soldier during World War II. Learn More
A new interpretation of our charismatic third president, with much new information—the eyes have been on Sally Hemings, but the last taboo is money. Learn More
The story of the Mexican-American war—one of the most controversial events in nineteenth-century American history—and of how it divided the country and profoundly impacted the political lives of James Polk, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln. Learn More
The first-ever collection of stories from NPR explores the Vietnam War from the perspective of both ordinary people affected by the conflict and high-ranking policy makers and military officials. Learn More
A son’s quest to find the members of his father’s Marine company leads to a deeper understanding of the devastating Pacific battles of WWII—and the haunted men who came home from them. Learn More
From the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Bugs and Wicked Plants comes a rousing tour through the botanical origins of our most cherished libations that is as entertaining as it is enlightening. Learn More
The riveting story of the man who couldn’t remember: H. M., the famous brain-damaged patient whose case afforded untold advances in the study of memory. Learn More
Science journalist Jessica Wapner goes beyond the headlines to share the fascinating backstory on ground-breaking cancer research and the genetic science behind it.
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Supported by classified documents and first-person interviews, this reexamination of American actions against Vietnamese civilians during the war suggests a dark, pervasive policy that belies the “isolated incidents” narrative used to explain away the most notorious of the atrocities. Learn More
The brilliantly inventive novelist Ali Smith melds fiction and essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of story in our lives. Learn More
The thrilling true story of a pair of reporters swept up in the Civil War, captured, and thrown into jail, and their attempt to escape and return home to file their own extraordinary story. Learn More
Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg; read by David Drummond
This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity demonstrates how every corporation and organization can develop an innovative culture. Learn More
New York Times bestseller Indie Next List AudioFile Best of Year Selection
One of the country’s greatest living writers completes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and reflects on what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as the United States of America. Learn More
