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Germany: A History
by Francis Russell: read by A.T. Chandler
Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Franics Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany—from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the Thirty Years' War to the iron rule of Otto von Bismarck, and from the formation of the Weimar Republic to the fighting of two world wars. Learn More
Germany, 1923
by Volker Ullrich; translated by Jefferson Chase; read by Christopher Douyard
From a New York Times bestselling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic. Learn More
George Washington
by Kevin J. Hayes; read by David Colacci
This sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America. Learn More
Genetics in the Madhouse
by Theodore M. Porter; read by Mike Chamberlain
A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one. It is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for "feebleminded" children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. Learn More
Gene Smith's Sink
by Sam Stephenson; read by Coleen Marlo
The result of twenty years of research, Gene Smith's Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer's beguiling legacy and the subjects around him. Learn More
Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner; read by J.D. Jackson
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. Learn More
Gandhi Before India
by Ramachandra Guha; read by Derek Perkins
Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Learn More
Gandhi
by Ramachandra Guha; Derek Perkins
New York Times Notable Books 2018 Kirkus Best of 2018 Nonfiction
The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in world history. Learn More
The Gamesmaster
by Flint Dille; read by Eric Michael Summerer
Flint Dille's memoir is an entertaining blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the exciting, groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age. Learn More
The Future of War
by Lawrence Freedman; read by Michael Page
In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and admirals of the day not because the idea of submarines was technically unfeasible, but because no one could imagine that any nation would be so depraved as to sink civilian merchant shipps. The future of war more often than not surprises us less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension but because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined wanting to cross. Learn More
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin; read by Bob Souer
Kirkus Best 100 Nonfiction Books of 2020
With A Furious Sky, bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Learn More
Funny Weather
by Olivia Laing; read by Sophie Aldred
"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century. Learn More
The Fruit of All My Grief
by J. Malcolm Garcia; read by Danny Campbell
Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media. Learn More
Frontline Bodies
by Nicolas Martin-Breteau; translated by Lucy Garnier; foreword by Damion L. Thomas; read by Amir Abdullah
A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. Learn More
Frontier Rebels
by Patrick Spero; read by Joe Barrett
Frontier Rebels is the untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. Learn More
From Silk to Silicon
Jeffrey E. Garten; read by Jonathan Yen
The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments. Learn More
From Cold War to Hot Peace
by Michael McFaul; read by LJ Ganser
From one of America's leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present Learn More
Freedom Soldiers
by Jonathan Lande; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
F O R T H C O M I N G ! Available December
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Freedom on Trial
by Scott Farris; read by Keith Sellon-Wright
Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn. Learn More
Free Exercise
by Chris Beneke; read by Graham Rowat
The latest book from the author of Beyond Toleration. Learn More
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