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A Brief History of Timekeeping
by Chad Orzel; read by Mike Lenz
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone.
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A Brief History of Timekeeping
by Chad Orzel; read by Mike Lenz
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Learn More
A Brief History of the Female Body
by Dr. Deena Emera; read by Dr. Deena Emera
From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause―A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens. Learn More
Break Every Yoke
by Joshua Dubler & Vincent Lloyd; read by Leon Nixon
Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American religion. Learn More
Brave the Wild River
by Melissa L. Sevigny; read by Elizabeth Wiley
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Learn More
Boutwell
by Jeffrey Boutwell; read by Perry Daniels
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available January
The first major biography of the statesman who fought for racial and economic equality alongside Presidents Lincoln and Grant. Learn More
The Bourbon King
by Bob Batchelor; read by Joe Barrett
Love, murder, mountains of cash, bribery, political intrigue, rivers of bourbon, and a grand spectacle like few before it, the tale of George Remus provides listeners with a lens into the dark heart of Prohibition's "Bourbon Trail," the thirst of the American people, and their fascination with crime. Learn More
Borrowing Life
by Shelley Fraser Mickle; read by Tom Perkins
Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. Learn More
Born in Blackness
by Howard W. French; read by James Fouhey
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Learn More
Bombing Hitler's Hometown
by Mike Croissant; read by J. Rodney Turner
A brilliant, groundbreaking slice of military history, this riveting story of white-knuckled action over one of Europe's most heavily defended targets in the waning days of World War II also tells of the aftermath of the Linz, Austria, bombing—the heart-wrenching tales of survival and recovery, and the toll of warfare on both sides. Learn More
Bloody Tuesday
by John M. Giggie; read by Christopher Grove
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The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States. Learn More
Blood Runs Coal
by Mark A. Bradley; read by Perry Daniels
Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime
The true story of the shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal. Learn More
Blood Echoes
by Thomas H. Cook; read by Kris Koscheski
A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner. Learn More
Blitzkrieg
by Lloyd Clark, read by Shaun Grindell
In Blitzkrieg, military historian Lloyd Clark argues our understanding of blitzkrieg is based on myth. Learn More
Blacksound
by Matthew D. Morrison; read by Matthew D. Morrison
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Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface. Learn More
Black Wave
by Kim Ghattas; read by Kim Ghattas & Nan McNamara
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Learn More
Black Virgin Mountain
Larry Heinemann; read by Larry Heinemann
An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Learn More
Black Tudors
by Miranda Kaufmann; read by Corrie James
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
In Black Tudors Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in Tudor England. Learn More
A Black Theology of Liberation
by James H. Cone; foreword by Peter J. Paris; read by Amir Abdullah
The classic text in black theology, with a new introduction by Peter J. Paris and afterword by Kelly Brown Douglas. Learn More
Black Theology and Black Power
by James H. Cone, introduction by Cornel West; read by Leon Nixon
First published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power is the first systematic presentation of black theology that also introduced the voice of a young theologian who would shake the foundations of American theology. Learn More
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