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Uncounted
by Gilda R. Daniels; read by Gilda R. Daniels
Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Learn More
Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior
by David Hone; read by Graham Mack
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available November
Written by one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior presents the latest findings on dinosaur behavior and explaining how researchers interpret the often minimal and even conflicting information available to them. Learn More
Underserved
by Ja'Ron Smith and Chris Pilkerton; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
This book provides a roadmap for modern-day conservatives to advance President Lincoln’s vision to help underserved communities across our country. Learn More
An Unholy Traffic
by Robert K. D. Colby; read by James R. Cheatham
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Offering an original perspective on the intersections of slavery, capitalism, the Civil War, and emancipation, Robert K. D. Colby illuminates the place of the peculiar institution within the Confederate mind, the ways in which it underpinned the CSA's war effort, and its impact on those attempting to seize their freedom. Learn More
The United States of English
by Rosemarie Ostler; read by Christa Lewis
The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between. Learn More
Unmasking Obama
by Jack Cashill; read by John McLain
In Unmasking Obama, Jack Cashill contends that while the major media were spinning their collective fairy tale about the Obama presidency, the alternative conservative media—America's "samizdat"—were telling the truth. Learn More
Until Justice Be Done
by Kate Masur; read by Allyson Johnson
2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History
A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in the decades before the Civil War. Learn More
Unworthy Republic
by Claudio Saunt; read by Stephen Bowlby
National Book Award Longlist 2020 Washington POst 10 Best Books of the Year 2020
A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy. Learn More
The Upside-Down World
by Benjamin Moser; read by Paul Boehmer
Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Learn More
The Upstander
by Jori Epstein; foreword by Michael Berenbaum; read by Jori Epstein
Infused with raw emotion and vivid detail, this memoir relays holocaust survivor Max Glauben's powerful lifetime commitment to actively thwarting hate and galvanizing resilience. Max insists you, too, can transform your adversity into your greatest strength. Learn More
The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow
by Jake Anderson; read by Chris Abernathy
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An immersive descent into one of the most mysterious and bizarre unsolved cases of this century. Through extensive research, personal interviews, and exclusive evidence, Jake Anderson unearths the truth behind the disappearance of a loving, plucky family that was gradually worn down, warped—by pain and pathology—into a radicalized cell. Learn More
Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism
by Katja Franko and David R. Goyes; read by Ana Clements
Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence inflicted on Medellín, Colombia, and critically examines the status of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the impact of commercial exploitation of the city's violent past on the victims of mass drug violence and on the present nature of the city. Learn More
Victory Is Assured
by Stanley Crouch; introduction by Jelani Cobb; afterword by Wynton Marsalis; edited by Glenn Mott
The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America's most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays. Learn More
The View from My Foxhole
by William Swanson; read by Michael Butler Murray
The View from My Foxhole tells William Swanson's story of fighting in Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Learn More
The Vikings
by Frank R. Donovan; read by Chris Sorensen
Author and historian Frank R. Donovan presents the history of the Vikings. Learn More
Violence and the Sacred
by René Girard; read by Peter Noble
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Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth. Learn More
Voices from the Confederacy
by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.; read by J. Rodney Turner
They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. Learn More
Voices of Guinness
by Tim Strangleman
In this book, Tim Strangleman tells the story of the Guinness brewery at Park Royal, showing how the history of one plant tells us a much wider story about changing attitudes and understandings about work in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Learn More
The Vote Collectors
by Nick Ochsner and Michael Graff; read by Nick Ochsner
The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time. Learn More
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