History

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan; read by Laurence Kennedy

IndieBound Bestseller

It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures, and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century, this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. 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

A Slave in the White House

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor; foreword by Annette Gordon Reed; read by Judith West and Kevin Kenerly

A New York Times Bestseller!
Sound Commentary Best Audiobooks of the Year Pick

The inspiring story of Paul Jennings, a slave in President James Madison’s household, and his long struggle for freedom. Learn More

The Slave's Cause

by Manisha Sinha; read by Allyson Johnson

National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist
Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist
Southern Historical Assn James A. Rawley Award Winner

A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Learn More

Slime

by Ruth Kassinger; read by Xe Sands

Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist. 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

Small Wars, Big Data

by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro, with Vestal McIntyre; read by John McLain

The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. Learn More

Small, Medium, Large

by Colleen A. Dunlavy; read by Coleen Marlo

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An engrossing new work of economic history, Small, Medium, Large will make scholars, students, and general audiences alike think differently about the history of mass production and consumption. Learn More

The Smart Neanderthal

by Clive Finlayson; read by James Cameron Stewart

In The Smart Neanderthal, Clive Finlayson overturns classic narratives of human origins, and raises important questions about who we really are. 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

Snowblind

by Robert Sabbag; read by Andrew Eiden

Called "a triumphant piece of reporting," Snowblind recounts the exploits of former cocaine smuggler Zachary Swan, chronicling his elaborate scams and outstanding success in the early 1970s. Learn More

Soldier, Priest, and God

by F. S. Naiden; read by Stephen Bel Davies

Soldier, Priest, and God, the first religious biography of Alexander, incorporates recent scholarship to provide a vivid and unique portrait of a remarkable leader. Learn More

Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain

by Douglas T. Kenrick and David E. Lundberg-Kenrick, PhD; read by Chris Sorensen

Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world. 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

The Sound of the Sea

by Cynthia Barnett; read by Elizabeth Wiley

A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves.
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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

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

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