- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: June 6, 2006
- Price: $29.95
This audiobook will serve as the companion to the History Channel's ten-hour documentary series Ten Days That Changed America set to air in April 2006. As the name indicates, the audiobook profiles ten historical events that shaped our national history, culture, and consciousness. Although the publication will be tied directly to... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: July 14, 2009
- Price: $35.00
The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 2, 2006
- Price: $14.95
In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples.
In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 22, 2008
- Price: $29.95
Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation’s destiny and character. Davis’s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nation’s fate hung in the balance.
Spanning a period... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 20, 2009
- Price: $38.00
For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 30, 2007
- Price: $34.95
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: September 16, 2008
- Price: $34.95
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: November 11, 2008
- Price: $39.95
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 23, 2010
- Price: $25.00
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- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 3, 2006
- Price: $29.95
In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true—if an army of... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: November 6, 2007
- Price: $29.95
In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: September 4, 2007
- Price: $19.99
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: July 15, 2008
- Price: $34.95
In the days following September 11, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: September 22, 2009
- Price: $40.00
This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.
During the Cold War, world superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: July 17, 2007
- Price: $12.00
The two most treasured documents of American freedom together on one audiobook.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 as an act of rebellion, The Declaration of Independence powerfully expresses the political principles of an emerging nation. As justification for severing... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: August 7, 2007
- Price: $34.95
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 3, 2005
- Price: $19.95
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 1, 2003
- Price: $24.95
A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don’t Know Much About series.
When Don't Know Much About History first appeared, it created a sensation. With humor, great stories, and a trademark conversational style, the book brought Americans a fresh new... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: November 8, 2005
- Price: $49.95
A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the million-selling New York Times bestseller that launched the entire Don’t Know Much About® series.
When Don't Know Much About® History first appeared, it created a sensation. With humor, great stories, and a trademark conversational style, the book brought Americans a fresh new... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 24, 2007
- Price: $29.95
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: September 22, 2009
- Price: $55.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 4, 2004
- Price: $37.95
The highest praise greeted the hardcover publication of this engrossing, brilliant book - THE definitive story of the Great War, the war that created the modern world, unleashing the terrors of mechanized warfare and mass death, and establishing the political fault lines that imperil European stability to this day.
Keegan takes us... Read more »
James Bradley with Ron Powers
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: August 29, 2006
- Price: $14.99
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 23, 2007
- Price: $29.95
During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives had far-reaching consequences–for politics, domestic policy, and international affairs–and their marital troubles became a national soap opera. Based on unparalleled access to scores of... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: September 23, 2008
- Price: $29.95
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgetable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of... Read more »
