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Reading Toni Morrison
- Written by: A. J. Verdelle, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: A. J. Verdelle
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Toni Morrison has touched an enormous swath of our national and global society through her writing. She has attained the highest heights in literature—including the Nobel Prize—and has earned her place in the literary canon, ranking among the most important American writers of all time. In Reading Toni Morrison, Professor A.J. Verdelle of Morgan State University will bring new insight and context to the work of an American literary master, one whose project was ultimately to write about Black people and their experiences through their own eyes.
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Reading Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: A. J. Verdelle
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 05-02-26
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby at 100
- Written by: Sheila Liming, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Sheila Liming
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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In the six lectures of The Great Gatsby at 100, you will join Sheila Liming of Champlain College to revisit the context and culture of the Roaring ‘20s, which inspired the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his disastrous pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. As you’ll discover, while Gatsby is framed as a love story, it’s also a story of the American experience, revealing the unspoken rules of wealth and class and the false promises of self-made success in a world of Old Money privilege.
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The Great Gatsby at 100
- Narrated by: Sheila Liming
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Man and His Work
- Written by: Rafael Walker, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Rafael Walker
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem in New York City, Baldwin would become an author and activist of international renown—one whose legacy has continued long beyond his death in 1987. Who was James Baldwin? How did he become the master of multiple literary genres and a champion for some of the era’s most notable political and social causes? And how is his influence still being felt today?
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James Baldwin: The Man and His Work
- Narrated by: Rafael Walker
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
- Written by: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...
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Letter to My Daughter
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 13-10-08
- Language: English
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An American Childhood
- Written by: Annie Dillard
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard’s poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
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An American Childhood
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 25-01-11
- Language: English
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No Ordinary Assignment
- A Memoir
- Written by: Jane Ferguson
- Narrated by: Jane Ferguson
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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""A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and...
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No Ordinary Assignment
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jane Ferguson
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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The Statesman and the Storyteller
- John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
- Written by: Mark Zwonitzer
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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John Hay, Lincoln's private secretary and later secretary of state under presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous as "Mark Twain", grew up 50 miles apart on the banks of the Mississippi River in the same rural antebellum stew of race, class, and want. This shared history drew them together in the late 1860s, and their mutual admiration never waned in spite of sharp differences.
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The Statesman and the Storyteller
- John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
- Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
- Narrated by: Bill Meisle
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
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Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible...
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Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Bill Meisle
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 11-01-02
- Language: English
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America's Reluctant Prince
- The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- Written by: Steven M. Gillon
- Narrated by: Tim Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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*A New York Times Bestseller* A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon. Through the lens of...
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America's Reluctant Prince
- The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Tim Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 09-07-19
- Language: English
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The Sisterhood
- How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
- Written by: Courtney Thorsson
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Calling themselves "The Sisterhood," the group would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.
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The Sisterhood
- How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 17-02-26
- Language: English
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- Written by: John Matteson
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 21 hrs
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December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country's law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American.
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A Worse Place than Hell
- How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 21 hrs
- Release Date: 06-07-21
- Language: English
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The Story of Charlotte's Web
- E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
- Written by: Michael Sims
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. In The Story of Charlotte's Web, Michael Sims shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile-fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole."
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The Story of Charlotte's Web
- E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 04-11-11
- Language: English
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Starry and Restless
- Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
- Written by: Julia Cooke
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The riveting story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism. She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances...
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Starry and Restless
- Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath
- A Biography
- Written by: Linda Wagner-Martin
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.
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Sylvia Plath
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Buster Keaton
- A Filmmaker's Life
- Written by: James Curtis
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 31 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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**One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022** From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and...
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Buster Keaton
- A Filmmaker's Life
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 31 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
- Written by: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
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More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply...
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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 01-08-13
- Language: English
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American Ramble
- A Walk of Memory and Renewal
- Written by: Neil King
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an...
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American Ramble
- A Walk of Memory and Renewal
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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Love, Kurt
- The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
- Written by: Kurt Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut - editor
- Narrated by: Lucas Hedges, Edith Vonnegut
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter “If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.” Kurt Vonnegut’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning...
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Love, Kurt
- The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
- Narrated by: Lucas Hedges, Edith Vonnegut
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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American Mirror
- The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
- Written by: Deborah Solomon
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
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"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided 20th-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. But who was this man who served as our unofficial "artist in chief" and bolstered our country's national identity?
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American Mirror
- The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 22-11-13
- Language: English
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Cooler Than Cool
- The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
- Written by: C. M. Kushins
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
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AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORK A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Consistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard’s stories, manuscripts and adaptations." - Wall Street Journal Drawing on unprecedented archival and family...
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Cooler Than Cool
- The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 10-06-25
- Language: English
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