History

Prairie Fever

Michael Parker; read by Gabra Zackman

Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. Learn More

Practical Equality

by Robert Tsai; read by David Shih

A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice—and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time. Learn More

The Power of Black Excellence

by Deondra Rose; read by L. Malaika Cooper

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A powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the US. Learn More

Power and Pinstripes

by Jeff Mangold; read by Mike Chamberlain

No team in American sports has as storied a history as the New York Yankees, winners of twenty-seven World Series. As the strength and conditioning coach for the Yankees for parts of three decades, Jeff Mangold was firmly imbedded in building the dynasty of the 1990s and 2000s. In Power and Pinstripes, Mangold shares priceless stories from his fourteen seasons behind the scenes in the Bronx. Learn More

The Poverty Paradox

by Mark Robert Rank; read by Barry Abrams

The Poverty Paradox represents a game changing examination of poverty and inequality. Based on decades of scholarship and research, it provides the essential blueprint for finally combatting this economic injustice in the years ahead. Learn More

The Politics of Pain

by Fintan O'Toole; read by Bruce Mann

From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism. Learn More

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

by Laura Robson; read by Lisa S. Ware

In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel. Learn More

The Politics of Maps

by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell; read by Rachel Perry

The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Learn More

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung; read by Rebecca Lam

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"—now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party—that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Learn More

The Point of No Return

by Thomas Byrne Edsall; read by Mike Chamberlain

After Donald Trump's rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War. Learn More

Pogrom

by Steven J. Zipperstein; read by Barry Abrams

Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history. Learn More

Poached

by Rachel Love Nuwer; read by Christina Delaine

Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the listener into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation. Learn More

The Pledge to America

by Drago Dzieran; read by Joel Richards

Retired Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran takes listeners behind the scenes of his incredible life, from an impoverished childhood in Communist-controlled Poland to his time as a political prisoner, to his twenty years as a member of the United States military's most elite fighting force. Learn More

A Plausible Man

by Susanna Ashton; read by Leon Nixon

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The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story. Learn More

Plagues and Their Aftermath

by Brian Michael Jenkins; read by Will Tulin

A look at the long history of epidemics and pandemics provides an enthralling account of what we can expect of a post-COVID world. Learn More

The Plague of War

by Jennifer T. Roberts; read by Anne Flosnik

A fast-paced narrative of one of antiquity's most famous clashes, The Plague of War is a must-listen for history enthusiasts of all ages. Learn More

The Picnic

by Matthew Longo; read by Tom Parks

The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. Learn More

Picasso's War

Russell Martin; read by Oliver Wyman

Picasso's War sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to WWII and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today. Learn More

The Petroleum Papers

by Geoff Dembicki; read by Steve Menasche

Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world―the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. As investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki reveals in this explosive book, the decades-long conspiracy to keep the oil sands flowing into the US would turn out to be one of the biggest reasons for the world's failure to stop the climate crisis. Learn More

Pessoa

by Richard Zenith; read by Hannibal Hills

Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Learn More

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