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summertime

by Richard Crawford; read by David Colacci

Acclaimed music historian Richard Crawford traces the arc of Gershwin's remarkable life, seamlessly blending colorful anecdotes with a discussion of Gershwin's unforgettable oeuvre.
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The Sum of Our Dreams

by Louis P. Masur, read by Jonathan Yen

In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. Learn More

Strong Towns

by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.; read by Matthew Boston

Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Learn More

Storming the Heavens

by Gerald Horne; read by Bill Quinn

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. Learn More

Still Standing

by Ellis Henican & Governor Larry Hogan; read by Governor Larry Hogan

Still Standing reveals how an unlikely governor is sparking a whole new kind of politics—and introduces the exciting possibilities that lie ahead. Learn More

State of Play

by Bill Ripken; read by Danny Campbell

Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case. Learn More

Spirit Run

by Noe Alvarez; read by Ramon de Ocampo

Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
•New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 2020
Amazon Editors Pick Best Nonfiction 2020

The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in an Indigenous marathon from Canada to Guatemala, reimagining North America and his place in it. Learn More

Space 2.0

by Rod Pyle; foreword by Buzz Aldrin; read by Jack de Golia

In Space 2.0, space historian Rod Pyle, in collaboration with the National Space Society, will give you an inside look at the next few decades of spaceflight and long-term plans for exploration, utilization, and settlement.
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The Source

by Martin Doyle; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment―over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Learn More

Sounds Like Titanic

by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman; read by Elizabeth Wiley

National Book Critics Circle Finalist
Goodreads Highly Anticipated Book of 2019

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician—or so she thinks. Learn More

Song in a Weary Throat

by Pauli Murray; read by Allyson Johnson

A prophetic memoir by the activist who "articulated the intellectual foundations" (The New Yorker) of the civil rights and women's rights movements. Learn More

Smogtown

By Chip Jacobs & Wiliam J. Kelley; read by Charles Constant

Brimming with forgotten anecdotes and new revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown is a journalistic classic for the modern age. Learn More

Small Town, Big Oil

by David W. Moore; read by Rebecca Gibel

Small Town, Big Oil is the story of how the residents of Durham, led by three women, handed Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis the most humiliating defeat of his business career and spared the New Hampshire seacoast from becoming an industrial wasteland. Learn More

Slouching Towards Los Angeles

by Steffie Nelson; read by Eric Jason Martin & Xe Sands

This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Joan Didion a sensation—Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five—while bringing together some of the finest voices of today's Los Angeles and beyond. Learn More

The Sit Room

by David Scheffer; read by Joe Barrett

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody Balkans War. Learn More

Shula

by Mark Ribowsky; LJ Ganser

Spanning seven decades, the notorious loss of Super Bowl III, and an historic undefeated season with the Dolphins, Shula is the definitive biography of a coaching legend. Learn More

Shortlisted

by Renee Knake Jefferson & Hannah Brenner Johnson; read by Kitty Hendrix

The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected—for the US Supreme Court. Learn More

Shortest Way Home

by Pete Buttigieg; read by Pete Buttigieg

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A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Learn More

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

by Linda Gordon; read by Hillary Huber

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A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America. Learn More

Self-Portrait in Black and White

by Thomas Chatterton Williams; read by Thomas Chatterton Williams

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. Learn More

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