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The Counterrevolution

by Bernard E. Harcourt; read by Stephen R. Thorne

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans. Learn More

Coup d'Etat

by Jerome R. Corsi; read by Jerome R. Corsi

Coup d'Etat blows the lid off the Deep State's efforts to prevent the Trump presidency, disrupt his agenda, and prevent his reelection. Learn More

Courting Mr. Lincoln

by Louis Bayard; read by Tavia Gilbert & Robert Fass

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A Washington Post Bestseller
A Indie Next Pick
An Apple Books Best of the Month for April
A People Magazine Best Book of the Week

Louis Bayard, a master storyteller at the height of his powers, delivers a must-listen tale of love, longing, and forbidden possibilities. Learn More

The Covent Garden Ladies

by Hallie Rubenhold; read by Lucy Rayner

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris's List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics, and "specialties." Learn More

A Covert Action

by Seth G. Jones; read by Jonathan Yen

A Covert Action is the dramatic untold story of one of the CIA's most successful Cold War intelligence operations. Learn More

Cowboys Over Iraq

by Jimmy Blackmon; foreword by General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.); read by Shawn Compton

Cowboys Over Iraq tells the amazing story of leadership, innovation, initiative, and a brotherhood that was forged in the crucible of combat during the invasion of Iraq. Learn More

Crackup

by Samuel L. Popkin; read by John Pruden

A consistently surprising analysis of how and why the Republican Party imploded in the last decade, setting the stage for the rise of Trump and extremist candidates more generally. Learn More

Crisis of Command

by Stuart Scheller; read by Stuart Scheller

Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and still-ongoing betrayal of military members by top leadership, from generals to the commander in chief, comes to light. Learn More

The Crooked Path to Abolition

by James Oakes; read by Bob Souer

The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's brilliant history of Lincoln's antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. Learn More

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

by James H. Cone; read by Leon Nixon

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Learn More

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

Kai Bird; read by Joe Caron

A Daily Beast “Best Book” Pick

This is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s vivid memoir of a childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia, and a personal account of three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East. Learn More

Crystal Eastman

by Amy Aronson; read by Elizabeth Wiley

As the first biography of Crystal Eastman, this book gives renewed voice to a woman who spoke freely and passionately in debates still raging today—gender equality and human rights, nationalism and globalization, political censorship and media control, worker benefits and family balance, and the monumental questions of war, sovereignty, and freedom. Learn More

Cyberwar

by Kathleen Hall Jamieson; read by Emily Durante

Drawing on path-breaking work in which she and her colleagues isolated significant communication effects in the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the eminent political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson marshals the troll posts, unique polling data, analyses of how the press used the hacked content, and a synthesis of half a century of media effects research to argue that, although not certain, it is probable that the Russians helped elect the 45th president of the United States. Learn More

The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman

by Niko Stratis; read by Niko Stratis

F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available May

A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. Learn More

Dancing Down the Barricades

by Matthew Frye Jacobson; read by Jonathan Yen

NEW! Now Available

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Learn More

Dannemora

by Charles A. Gardener; read by Jonathan Yen

In June 2015 two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's "North Country," launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Now Charles A. Gardner—a lifelong resident of the community and a former prison guard—tells the whole story from an insider's point of view. Learn More

Dark Carnivals

by W. Scott Poole; read by Enrique McGavin

The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power. Learn More

Dark Constellations

Pola Oloixarac; read by Justine Eyre

A Remezcla Best Book by Latino and Latin American Authors of 2019

Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac's wildly ambitious second novel investigates humanity's quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the nineteenth-century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. Learn More

Dark Places of the Earth

Jonathan M. Bryant; read by Tom Zingarelli

A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significantand long-forgottenSupreme Court cases in American history. Learn More

The Darkest Glare

by Chip Jacobs; read by Joel Richards

In The Darkest Glare, Chip Jacobs recounts a spectacular, noir-ish, true-crime saga from one of the deadliest eras in American history. You'll never gaze out windows into the dark again. Learn More

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