General history and cultural history
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American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J.Blackstone Publishing 2006 UnabridgedThe inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bo...
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Saved : A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Hall, BenjaminHarperAudio 2023 Unabridged""An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death."" —Kirkus ReviewsWhen veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2...
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All That She Carried : The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Miles, TiyaBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “de...
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The Queen : Her Life
Morton, AndrewHachette Audio 2022 UnabridgedPerfect for fans of The Crown, legendary New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive story of Queen Elizabeth II's life and legacy. Painfully shy,...
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Period : The Real Story of Menstruation
Clancy, KatePrinceton University Press 2023 UnabridgedThis audiobook narrated by Kate Clancy shares a bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does...
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Seventy Times Seven : A True Story of Murder and Mercy
Mar, AlexBooks on Tape 2023 Unabridged“Alex Mar’s bold yet sensitive account of one of America’s youngest death row inmates—and the people whose lives she forever changed—is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unfo...
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Travels with Charley : In Search of America
Steinbeck, JohnBooks on Tape 2018 UnabridgedAn intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and th...
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The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Muraresku, Brian C.Macmillan Audio 2020 UnabridgedNow updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times best...
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Alakurtin tie
Lehväslaiho, ReinoWSOY 2010 1. editionTappavankuumaa terästä - sotakamreerin 44. rautaisannos! Eletään jatkosodan kolmatta syksyä Lapin rintaman takaisissa parakkirisoissa. Luutnantti Männyn toinen sissikomppania komen...
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Alakurtin tie
Lehväslaiho, ReinoWSOY 2010 1. editionTappavankuumaa terästä - sotakamreerin 44. rautaisannos! Eletään jatkosodan kolmatta syksyä Lapin rintaman takaisissa parakkirisoissa. Luutnantti Männyn toinen sissikomppania komen...
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The Cold Vanish : Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
Billman, JonHachette Audio 2020 UnabridgedPerfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roma...
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Katz, Catherine GraceHarperAudio 2020 UnabridgedThe untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful r...
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Twilight of Democracy : The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Applebaum, AnneBooks on Tape 2020 UnabridgedNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize–winning hist...
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A Curious History of Sex
Lister, KateTantor Media, Inc. 2020 UnabridgedThe act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied sign...
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Not One Inch : America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
Sarotte, M.E.Tantor Media, Inc. 2022 UnabridgedA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 "Sarotte is the unofficial...
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Countdown bin Laden : The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice
Wallace, Chris; Weiss, MitchSimon & Schuster Audio 2021 Unabridged#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and "propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deep...
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Free : A Child and a Country at the End of History
Ypi, LeaTantor Media, Inc. 2022 UnabridgedLonglisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi gr...
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Blood in the Garden : The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks
Herring, ChrisSimon & Schuster Audio 2022 UnabridgedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing...
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The Economic Weapon : The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
Mulder, NicholasTantor Media, Inc. 2022 UnabridgedThe first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of wo...
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After the Fall : Being American in the World We've Made
Rhodes, BenBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United St...