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The Sundowner's Dance

by Todd Keisling ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

In The Sundowner's Dance, an elderly widower relocates to a retirement community and discovers his new neighbors are worshipping a meteorite.Todd Keisling's latest novel—pitched as Cocoon meets The Color Out of Space—is crawling with grief, odd neighbors, and cosmic horrors. ... Read more

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In The Sundowner's Dance, an elderly widower relocates to a retirement community and discovers his new neighbors are worshipping a meteorite.Todd Keisling's latest novel—pitched as Cocoon meets The Color Out of Space—is crawling with grief, odd neighbors, and cosmic horrors.
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The Ghost Writer

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Nathan Zuckerman Series
Unabridged

4 hours 31 min

The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the great books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff’s, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former ... Read more

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The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the great books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff’s, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former
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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The American Trilogy
Unabridged

16 hours 6 min

Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede’s ... Read more

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Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father’s glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede’s beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede’s
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Reamde

by Neal Stephenson ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

38 hours 30 min

“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.”—TimeThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both ... Read more

$48.99 USD

“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.”—TimeThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both
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Power and Progress

Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

15 hours 50 min

Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world.Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the ... Read more

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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity--in a work that fundamentally transforms how we look at and understand the world.Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the
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Hearts Touched by Fire

The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

by Harold Holzer, Harold Holzer, James M. McPherson, Stephen W. Sears, Craig L. Symonds, Joan Waugh, James I. Robertson6 ...

Narrated by various narrators, Joe Barrett, Traber Burns0, Robin Field1, Grover Gardner2, Malcolm Hillgartner3, John Pruden4, Sean Runnette5 ...

Unabridged

50 hours 58 min

In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s 125,000 readers in on the conversation by offering “a ... Read more

$39.99 USD

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In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s 125,000 readers in on the conversation by offering “a
... Read more

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For Us, the Living

A Comedy of Customs

by Robert A. Heinlein ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

7 hours 35 min

From Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name.July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before ... Read more

$16.95 USD

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From Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name.July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

A Novel

by Neal Stephenson ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

31 hours 48 min

A New York Times Notable BookThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. ... Read more

$48.99 USD

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A New York Times Notable BookThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire.
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Blood Memory

The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American BuffaloThe American buffalo—our nation's official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors ... Read more

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The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American BuffaloThe American buffalo—our nation's official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors
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Patrimony

A True Story

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he ... Read more

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Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he
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King of Kings

The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

by Scott Anderson ...

Narrated by Scott Anderson, Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

17 hours 45 min

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes ... Read more

$29.00 USD

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**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes
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The Last Million

Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

by David Nasaw ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

19 hours 29 min

From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with the German capitulation. Millions of lost and homeless concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers,
... Read more

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