Nate Christensen

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 43 mins)
• By David Kushner
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry.

Listening Is an Act of Love

• ABRIDGED (55 mins)
• By Dave Isay
• Narrated By Dave Isay

Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious private oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.

I Survived A Secret Nazi Extermination Camp: A Shocking True Story

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Mark Irwin Forstater
• Narrated By David Suchet, Mark Forstater

Rudolf Reder was the only postwar survivor of Belzec, an infamous Nazi death camp where 700,000 Jews were killed in a few short months. David Suchet reads Mr. Reder's little-known but remarkable and shocking firsthand account of how the SS organised death on an industrial and inhuman scale. Mark Forstater provides an introduction to the audio and adds a personal memoir of his own family, and how he discovered Mr. Reder's witness statement.

Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By David Kushner
• Narrated By Adam Verner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes.

Witness to Nuremberg: The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Richard Sonnenfeldt
• Narrated By Robert Blumenfeld

In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.

The Divine Comedy

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Dante Alighieri, Herbert A. Kenny (translator)
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

This unique poetic translation by Herbert A. Kenny, historian and poet, is the first that incorporates the Biblical, theological and historical allusions of the greatest poem im Christendom into the text itself. It can now be appreciated without a glossary or accompanying notes. Listen as the liquid lines take you through the horrors of the "Inferno", the mysteries of "Purgatorio" and the glories of "Paradiso".