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Homie

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist For The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award For Poetry
Finalist For The 2021 Naacp Image Award For Poetry

Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Learn More

Housewife Assassin

by Geri Spieler; read by Rosemary Benson

President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin. Learn More

How Do We Get Out of Here

by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.; read by Frank Block

How Do We Get Out of Here? is R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s intimate memoir, detailing his leadership in the conservative movement and his relationships with its major personalities from 1968 to the present. Learn More

I Dream with Open Eyes

by George Prochnik; read by Malcolm Hillgartner

A journey of reckoning and renewal, this story of family history and future dreams is an examination of the individual imagination as a catalyst for social change. Learn More

Icons and Instincts

by Vincent Paterson; read by Peter Berkrot

For the first time, the choreographer of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Björk, and many others reveals stage stories through his extraordinary journey. Learn More

The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution

by D.H. Robinson; read by Liam Gerrard

In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture. Learn More

Illiberal America

by Steven Hahn; read by Mitch Crawford

If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals. Learn More

In Defense of Liberal Democracy

by Manuel Hinds; read by Timothy Andres Pabon

Manuel Hinds examines America's past and present (up to and including the 2020 presidential election) to illustrate how current events can be as dramatic as any historical legacy in warning us of the danger of abandoning our democratic principles. Learn More

In the Country of Women

by Susan Straight; read by Donna Postel

In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. Learn More

In the Houses of Their Dead

by Terry Alford; read by Danny Campbell

The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. Learn More

In the Matter of Nat Turner

by Christopher Tomlins; read by Paul Boehmer

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South. Learn More

In the Shadow of the Round Tops

by Allen R. Thompson; read by Shawn Compton

Exciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimpse into what happened on that fateful day—July 2, 1863. Learn More

The In-Betweens

by Mira Ptacin; read by Chloe Cannon

A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. Learn More

Indigenous Continent

by Pekka Hamalainen; read by Kaipo Schwab

A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history from Indigenous perspectives, overturning the dominant origin story of the United States.
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The Inevitability of Tragedy

by Berry Gewen; read by Paul Woodson

A new portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: Realism, balance of power, and national interest. Learn More

Infinite Baseball

by Alva Noe; read by Barry Abrams

Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today's shorter attention spans. But for the true fan, baseball is always compelling to watch—and intellectually fascinating. Learn More

Information Wars

by Richard Stengel; read by Christopher Grove

Richard Stengel shows how disinformation is impacting our global society in this timely, must-listen book. Learn More

Inside the Reagan White House

by Frank Lavin; read by N. Rezin Crawford

An inside look at the most successful president of modern times. Learn More

Insurrection

by Hawa Allan; read by Hawa Allan

A brilliant debut by lawyer and critic Hawa Allan on the paradoxical state of black citizenship in the United States. Learn More

The Isolated Presidency

by Jordan T. Cash; read by Joshua Saxon

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

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