History

Humboldt: Life on America's Marijuana Frontier

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Emily Brady
• Narrated By Dan Woren, Sonny Warner, Erin Bennett, and others
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Humboldt is a narrative exploration of an insular community in Northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. Emily Brady spent a year living with the highly secretive residents of Humboldt County, and her cast of eccentric, intimately drawn characters take us into a fascinating, alternate universe. It's the story of a small town that became dependent on a forbidden plant, and of how everything is changing as marijuana goes mainstream.

The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Fritz Zimmerman
• Narrated By Cynthia Wallace

Did a race of giant humans once roam the Biblical lands, Europe and North America? Over 300 historical accounts of giant human skeletons are presented for the first time. Massive human skeletal remains, burial mound types, symbolism, etymology, numerology and ceremonial centers are compared in the Biblical Levant, the British Isles and the Ohio Valley with stunning similarities.

Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Dale Carpenter
• Narrated By Mark Whitten

No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in our judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family.

None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Michael Hirsh
• Narrated By Corey Snow
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From award-winning journalist and combat veteran Michael Hirsh comes the thrilling inside story of the Air Force's pararescue operations in Afghanistan. The first journalist to be embedded with an Air Force combat unit in the war on terrorism, Hirsh flew from Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, with the 71st Rescue Squadron to their expeditionary headquarters at a secret location in Central Asia. Unparalleled access to the pararescue jumpers - or PJs - as well as to the courageous men and women who fly them where they have to go, often under enemy fire, allowed Michael Hirsh to uncover incredible stories of courage.

Cradles of Civilization: The Lectures of Dr. David Neiman

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Dr. David Neiman
• Narrated By Dr. David Neiman

Dr. David Neiman tracks the rise of civilization from the Agricultural Revolution to the Ceramic Age, and then the Bronze. He traces the origin of writing and its development into hieroglyphics and then into the alphabet. Dr. Neiman explores the legendary reign of Hammurabi of Babylon, the tumultuous history of ancient Egypt and gives a dramatic retelling of the earliest known piece of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh.

Lunch with Charlotte

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Leon Berger
• Narrated By Leon Berger

Every Friday for the last 25 years of her life, I had lunch with Charlotte and each week she told me more of her extraordinary story. To all appearances, she was a strong and dignified survivor, with old-world courtesies, a twinkling sense of humor, and a lilting Austrian syntax. Yet deep within, she'd been scarred by a profound personal trauma.

Finally, just before she died at the age of 91, she chose to entrust me with this profound secret, and all at once I understood how it had affected her entire adult life.