American Heritage

Reluctant Race Men

by Joan L. Bryant; read by Deanna Anthony

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of the disparate challenges nineteenth-century Black American reformers lodged against the concept of race. Learn More

A gonzo ride through war-torn Yemen as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Learn More

Rethinking American Grand Strategy

edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Andrew Preston; read by Teri Schnaubelt, Steve Menasche

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy.
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Rethinking Rescue

by Carol Mithers; read by Christina Delaine

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Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time—poverty and homelessness—in asking the very humane question, Who deserves the love of a pet? Learn More

Revolution

by KT McFarland; read by KT McFarland

When Trump's first Deputy National Security Advisor left Washington, she disappeared from sight. Now former government official and political commentator KT McFarland returns with tenacity, resolve, and the truth about the Trump Administration and those seeking to destroy it. Learn More

Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783

by William L. Kidder; read by Paul Heitsch

Discover how eighteenth-century Princeton and its residents—including two signers of the Declaration of Independence—contributed to and were affected by the American Revolution. Learn More

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

by Gary Gerstle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left. Learn More

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

by Manisha Sinha; read by Deepa Samuel

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A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history. Learn More

Rough Magic

By Lara Prior-Palmer; read by Henrietta Meire

A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book of the Season
The Millions Most Anticipated in May
O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 2019

Told with terrific suspense and style, Rough Magic captures the extraordinary story of one young woman who forged ahead, against all odds, to become the first female winner of the world's longest, toughest horse race. Learn More

The Saddest Words

by Michael Gorra; read by Joe Barrett

Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today. Learn More

Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody

by James H. Cone; read by Bill Andrew Quinn

In this powerful and passionate memoir—his final work—James H. Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those—like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow—who had no voice. Learn More

Saints and Liars

by Debórah Dwork; read by Alexandra Cohler

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A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II. Learn More

A Sand County Almanac

by Aldo Leopold; introduction by Barbara Kingsolver; read by Cassandra Campbell

First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Learn More

Saving the News

by Martha Minow ; read by Eliza Foss

A detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America's media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. Learn More

Scandinavia: A History

by Ewan Butler; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies

Here is the dramatic story of Scandinavia—from its earliest Germanic origins and Viking sea raids to its battles for independence and its involvement in World War II. Learn More

Scenes of Subjection

by Saidiya Hartman; read by Lisa Reneé Pitts

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Learn More

The Science of Breaking Bad

by Dave Trumbore & Donna J. Nelson; read by Tom Perkins & Tiffany Morgan

All the science in Breaking Bad—from explosive experiments to acid-based evidence destruction—explained and analyzed for authenticity. Learn More

Search and Destroy

by Ryan Lovelace; read by Terrence Bayes

In this deeply researched account, one of Washington's top legal reporters reveals the massive funding, sophisticated organization, and fanatical zeal behind the campaign to stop Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the nation’s highest court. Learn More

The Search for Reagan

by Craig Shirley; read by Bob Johnson

Never before has anyone explored the mind, soul, and heart of Ronald Reagan. The Search for Reagan explores the challenges and controversies in Reagan's life and how he successfully dealt with each, depicting a man who was never as conservative as some conservatives wanted him to be, but rather as conservative as he was comfortable being—a man who wanted to win on his own terms and integrity. Learn More

The Secret History of Home Economics

by Danielle Dreilinger; read by Rachel Perry

The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. Learn More

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