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.
A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. Learn More
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability. Learn More
As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today? Learn More
A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession. Learn More
edited by Lynn S. Zubernis and Matthew Snyder; read by Joe Hempel
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Go deeper inside the hit TV show The Boys and its characters with psychologists, media experts, filmmakers, and more—including the original comic series' cocreator and the actors behind Soldier Boy and Stormfront. Learn More
by Ja'Ron Smith and Chris Pilkerton; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
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This book provides a roadmap for modern-day conservatives to advance President Lincoln’s vision to help underserved communities across our country. Learn More
by Monique Rainford, MD; read by Monique Rainford, MD
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A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. In this book, Dr. Monique Rainford draws on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and gynecology to offer a primer on Black pregnancies and how to better care for them. Learn More
by Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec; read by Lee Goettl
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Based on rich data and qualitative evidence, Making the Supreme Court provides a sharp lens on the social and political transformations that created a new American politics. Learn More
by Robert K. Tanenbaum and Steve Jackson; read by Frank Block
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A triumphant, uplifting true justice story led by jury trial expert, Richard A. Sprague—the indomitable, nationally renowned prosecutor who engaged in the most intense manhunt investigation in police history. Learn More
by Chris Grosso and Preston Fassel; read by Joe Hempel
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Based on very real and practical commentary, life experience, and occasionally, tongue-in-cheek-misfortunes of horror legends, Necessary Death explores how the horror genre, its motifs and characters, offer individuals a unique opportunity for insight and understanding of their own lives. Learn More
Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Learn More
To gain a clear view of how the Constitution creates a baseline of authority that is available to all presidents, Jordan T. Cash examines the "isolated presidents"—presidents who were unelected, faced divided government, and were opposed by major factions of their own political parties. Learn More
by Kevin M. De Cock, Harold W. Jaffe, and James W. Curran; edited by Robin Moseley; read by Curtis Michael Holland
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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
A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today. Learn More