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Impossible Owls

by Brian Phillips; read by Steve Menasche

In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels. Learn More

The Improbable Wendell Willkie

by David Levering Lewis; read by Mike Chamberlain

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes this surprising portrait of Wendell Willkie, the businessman–turned–presidential candidate who (almost) saved America’s dysfunctional political system. Learn More

In Europe's Shadow

Robert D. Kaplan; read by Paul Boehmer

Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and Romania was a Communist backwater where "history had virtually stopped" since World War II. Learn More

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom

by Farah Jasmine Griffin; read by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature, and events from a "masterful critic and master teacher" (Walton Muyumba, Boston Globe). Learn More

In Search of Sir Thomas Browne

Hugh Aldersey-Williams; read by Simon Vance

Audie Finalist

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. Learn More

In the Dark of War

by Sarah M. Carlson; read by Teri Schnaubelt

A CIA officer's inside account of how Libya's descent into rampant violence precipitated the harrowing overland evacuation of the entire US mission from Tripoli after being trapped in the city for weeks. 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 Presence of Evil

by Tania Bayard; read by Steven Crossley

Tania Bayard introduces scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in fourteenth-century France. Learn More

In the Shadow of the Enemy

by Tania Bayard; read by Steven Crossley

Scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan must discover who wants to kill the king in the second of this richly imagined historical mystery series set in fourteenth-century France. 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

In the Wake of Madness

Joan Druett; read by Dennis Boutsikaris

The true story of a bloody mutany that inspired a young writer named Herman Melville. 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

Inca Apocalypse

by R. Alan Covey; read by Gary Tiedemann

A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts. Learn More

Indelible Ink

by Richard Kluger; read by Tom Perkins

The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ashes to Ashes. Learn More

The Indian World of George Washington

by Colin G. Calloway; read by Paul Heitsch

National Book Award Finalist 2018

The Indian World of George Washington offers a fresh portrait of the most revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told. Calloway's biography invites us to look again at the history of America's beginnings and see the country in a whole new light. Learn More

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