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Dividing Lines
by Deborah N. Archer; read by Diana Blue
From an eminent legal scholar and the president of the ACLU, an essential account of how transportation infrastructure—from highways and roads to sidewalks and buses—became a means of protecting segregation and inequality after the fall of Jim Crow. Learn More
Do Everything
by Christopher H. Evans; read by Elizabeth Wiley
The first biography of Frances Willard to be published in over thirty-five years, Do Everything explores Willard's life, her contributions as a reformer, and her broader legacy as a women's rights activist in the United States. Learn More
The Doctors Blackwell
by Janice P. Nimura; read by Laural Merlington
2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography One of Apple's Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021
From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Learn More
The Dogs of Avalon
by Laura Schenone; read by Esther Wane
In this David versus Goliath story (including the rescue of her own dog, Lily), Laura Schenone takes us into a complex world of impassioned people who stood up for millions of animals. Learn More
Don't Believe a Word
by David Shariatmadari; read by Damian Lynch
An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Learn More
Doomed to Fail
by J.J. Anselmi; foreword by Cat Jones; read by Adam Lofbomm
Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Learn More
Downriver
by Heather Hansman; read by Allyson Ryan
Heather Hansman, a former raft guide and an environmental reporter, decided to paddle the Green River from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the west. Learn More
The Driest Season
by Meghan Kenny; read by Amy Melissa Bentley
A stunning debut, The Driest Season creates a moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to make sense of her father's time on earth, and of her own. Learn More
The Eagle in the Mirror
by Jesse Fink; read by Jerome Pride
Internationally bestselling author Jesse Fink unravels a gripping real-life international whodunit in this long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis, one of the most consequential figures in modern history. Learn More
Early Graves
by Thomas H. Cook; read by Kris Koscheski
Drawing on police records and extensive interviews, Thomas H. Cook recounts the story of Judith Ann Neelley, who at nineteen became the youngest woman ever sentenced to death row. Learn More
Earning the Rockies
by Robert D. Kaplan; read by William Dufris
A concise and deeply moving portrait of the American landscape from coast to coast, Earning the Rockies offers a detailed and pragmatic framework for our foreign policy by examining the specific geography from which American power springs. Learn More
The Earth is Weeping
by Peter Cozzens; read by John Pruden
A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West. Learn More
The Eastern Front
by Nick Lloyd; read by Elliot Fitzpatrick
The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War, where a more fluid conflict resulted in the destruction of great empires and the rise of the Soviet Union. Learn More
The Edge of the Plain
by James Crawford; read by James Crawford
A wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an exploration of their role in shaping our world today. Learn More
Eight Bears
by Gloria Dickie; read by Cassidy Brown
A global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face. Learn More
The Eighteenth Century
by John O. Voll; read by PJ Ochlan
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The latest book from the author of Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring. Learn More
The Einstein of Sex
by Daniel Brook; read by Patrick Mealey
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An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld. Learn More
Eisenhower vs. Warren
by James F. Simon; read by Jonathan Yen
The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Compellingly written, Eisenhower vs. Warren brings to vivid life the clash that continues to reverberate in political and constitutional debates today. Learn More
Election Meltdown
by Richard L. Hasen; read by Tim Paige
As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L. Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing the mistrust. Learn More
The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City
by Margaret Creighton; read by Callie Beaulieu
The 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, meant to herald the twentieth century, went tragically, spectacularly, awry. Learn More
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