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The U.S. Constitution
by David J. Bodenhamer; read by Walter Dixon
Today we face serious challenges to the nation's constitutional legacy. Endless wars, a sharply divided electorate, economic inequality, and immigration, along with a host of other issues, have placed demands on government and on society that test our constitutional values. Understanding how the Constitution has evolved will help us adapt its principles to the challenges of our age. Learn More
Empress
by Ruby Lal; read by Suzanne Toren
Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Her legend still lives, but her story was lost—until now. Learn More
The Year of Our Lord 1943
by Alan Jacobs; read by Paul Boehmer
In The Year of Our Lord 1943, Alan Jacobs explores the poems, novels, essays, reviews, and lectures of five Christian intellectuals. Learn More
The Menendez Murders
by Robert Rand; read by Eric martin
Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the source material for NBC's Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders. Learn More
Burning Down the Haus
by Tim Mohr; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
AudioFile Earphones Winner BookPage Best Books of 2018 Best books of the year by Rolling Stone, BookPage, and Amazon
Rollicking, cinematic, deeply researched, highly readable, and thrillingly topical, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance. Learn More
Restraining Great Powers
by T.V. Paul; read by Paul Heitsch
Professor T.V. Paul's Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era provides the first comprehensive history and overview of soft balancing. Learn More
Falstaff
by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—one of Shakespeare's greatest enduring and most complex comedic characters. Learn More
Poached
by Rachel Love Nuwer; read by Christina Delaine
Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the listener into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation. Learn More
Hitler's Collaborators
by Philip Morgan; read by Julian Elfer
Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Learn More
The Burden
Edited by Rochelle Riley; Foreword by Nikole Hannah Jones; read by Allyson Johnson
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past. Learn More
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
Feuding Fan Dancers
by Leslie Zemeckis; read by Christa Lewis
Leslie Zemeckis continues to discover the forgotten feminist histories of the golden age of entertainment, turning her sights on the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance.
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The Wish Child
by Catherine Chidgey; read by Simon Vance
Winner of the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize
This internationally bestselling historical novel follows two children and a mysterious narrator as they navigate the falsehoods and wreckage of World War II Germany. Learn More
The Age of Walls
by Tim Marshall; read by Nigel Patterson
Tim Marshall, the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography, analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. Learn More
American Audacity
by William Giraldi; read by Stephen Graybill
In American Audacity one of the most gifted literary essayists of his generation defends stylistic boldness and intellectual daring in American letters. Learn More
Black Flags, Blue Waters
by Eric Jay Dolin; read by Paul Brion
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Learn More
The Oath and the Office
by Corey Brettschneider; read by Mike Chamberlain
An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting—or running—for our highest office. Learn More
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders
by Melani McAlister; read by Donna Postel
More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life. Since then the movement has been analyzed and over-analyzed, declared triumphant and, more than once, given up for dead. But because outside observers have maintained a near-relentless focus on domestic politics, the most transformative development over the last several decades—the explosive growth of Christianity in the global south—has gone unrecognized by the wider public, even as it has transformed evangelical life, both in the US and abroad. Learn More
Overlooking the Border
By Dana Hercbergs; read by Christina Delaine
Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Learn More
Chopin's Piano
by Paul Kildea; read by Matthew Waterson
The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Learn More
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