Dave Hedley

The Great Escape

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Paul Brickhill
• Narrated By Robert Whitfield

It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men for every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and crude homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German clothes.

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Robert Reich
• Narrated By Robert Reich

The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top - and where a grasping middle class simply does not have the resources to remain viable.

Flowers for Algernon

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Daniel Keyes
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman
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Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for mentally challenged adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon.

The End of Men: And the Rise of Women

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 1 min)
• By Hanna Rosin
• Narrated By Laural Merlington
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Men have been the dominant sex since - well, the dawn of mankind. And yet, as journalist Hanna Rosin discovered, that long-held truth is no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, women are no longer merely gaining on men; they have pulled decisively ahead by almost every measure. Already "the end of men" - the phrase Rosin coined - has entered the lexicon as indelibly as Simone de Beauvoir’s "second sex", Betty Friedan’s "feminine mystique", Susan Faludi’s "backlash", and Naomi Wolf’s "beauty myth" have.

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

• UNABRIDGED (39 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world.

Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Robert B. Stinnett
• Narrated By Rafael Ferrer

This great question of Pearl Harbor - what did we know and when did we know it? - has been argued for years. But no investigator has ever been able to prove that foreknowledge of the attack existed at the highest levels. Until now.

If you like Day of Deceit, try Trapped at Pearl Harbor and vintage audio of FDR's Day of Infamy Speech.

Spitfire Wingman from Tennessee: My Love Affair with Flight

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 15 mins)
• By James R. Haun
• Narrated By James R. Haun, James Robert Haun, David Hoffman
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As the memoir of an aerobatic master born to fling his body through cloudbanks, Spitfire Wingman from Tennessee offers a unique birds-eye view of events and personalities of WWII and the Cold War. Encounters with Patton, Vandenberg, Yeager, Truman and Nixon are replayed with perception and wit. While jockeying P-40s, P-51s, and P-47s, he was privileged to see the war both from twenty thousand feet and as a Staff Officer at 9th Air Force HQ in Brussels.

Hell Above Earth: The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Stephen Frater
• Narrated By Pete Larkin

Hell Above Earth tells an unforgettable story of two World War II American bomber pilots who forged an unexpected but enduring bond in the flak-filled skies over Nazi Germany. But there's a twist: one of them was related to the head of the Luftwaffe, Reich Marshal Herman Goering, and the other had secret orders from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to kill him if anything went wrong during their missions.

End This Depression Now!

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Paul Krugman
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro, Paul Krugman
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The Great Recession that began in 2007 is now more than four years old - and counting. Some 24 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed, and at recent rates of job creation we won’t be back to normal levels of employment until late this decade. This is a tragedy. Do we have to accept it? "No!" is the resounding answer given by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in this call to arms. We have seen this situation before and we know how to fix it; all we lack is the political will to take action.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Daniel H. Pink
• Narrated By Daniel H. Pink

From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking best seller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.