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How to Cope

by Boethius; translated by Philip Freeman; read by Richard Trinder

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

A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy—a moving classic about facing life's worst events with courage and hope. Learn More

How to Care About Animals

by Porphyry; translated with commentary by Peter NobleM. D. Usher; read by

An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals—and our vital relationships with them. Learn More

How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

by Ruth Goodman; read by Jennifer M. Dixon

Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Learn More

How to be Healthy

by Galen; translated with commentary by Katherine D. Van Schaik; read by Rick Adamson and Cindy Kay

Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world. Learn More

How to Be Grateful

by Pablo of Texcoco; translated and introduced by Frances Karttunen and Camilla Townsend; read by Gary Tiedemann

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

A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks—to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestors. Learn More

How to Be Content

by Horace; selected by Stephen Harrison; translated by Stephen Harrison; introduced by Stephen Harrison; read by PJ Ochlan

In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison provides fresh, contemporary translations of poems from across Horace's works that continue to offer important lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death. Learn More

How to Be a Tudor

Ruth Goodman; read by Heather Wilds

From an historian who advised on the BBCs Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England. Learn More

How to Be a Leader

by Plutarch; translated by Jeffrey Beneker; read by Matthew Waterson

Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field. Learn More

How to Be a Bad Emperor

by Suetonius; edited, translation, & introduction by Josiah Osgood; read by PJ Ochlan

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead. Learn More

How Do We Get Out of Here

by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.; read by Frank Block

How Do We Get Out of Here? is R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s intimate memoir, detailing his leadership in the conservative movement and his relationships with its major personalities from 1968 to the present. Learn More

How Data Happened

by Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones; read by Eric Jason Martin

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. Learn More

Housewife Assassin

by Geri Spieler; read by Rosemary Benson

President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin. Learn More

The House of Erzulie

by Kirsten Imani Kasai; read by Adenrele Ojo, Ron Butler

The House of Erzulie tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Learn More

A House Full of Females

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; read by Susan Ericksen

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun—a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. Learn More

HOOF BEATS

by William T. Taylor; read by Tristan Morris

Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history. Learn More

Homie

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist For The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award For Poetry
Finalist For The 2021 Naacp Image Award For Poetry

Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Learn More

Hitler's Pawn

by Stephen Koch; read by James Anderson Foster

A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen-year-old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti-Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust. Learn More

Hitler's Holy Relics

Sidney Kirkpatrick; read by Charles Stransky

A Library Journal Best Audiobooks of the Year Winner

A real life Raiders of the Lost Ark. An American art historian turned Army sleuth races to stay one step ahead of Nazi thugs who have absconded with the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire—sacred symbols of Hitler’s “Thousand Year Reich”—and their plot to create a Fourth Reich. Learn More

Hitler's Empire

by Mark Mazower; read by Michael Page

Drawing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler's Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained, and lost their European dominion—and offers a chilling vision of what the world would have become had they won the war. 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

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