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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Louis V. Gerstner
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann

In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction, victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Max Brooks
• Narrated By Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, and others

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

• ABRIDGED (9 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Narrated By Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Thomas

We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.

Give Me a Break

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 43 mins)
• By John Stossel
• Narrated By John Stossel

When he hit the airwaves 30 years ago, John Stossel helped create a whole new category of news, dedicated to protecting and informing consumers. As a crusading reporter, he chased snake-oil peddlers, rip-off artists, and corporate thieves, winning the applause of his peers.

But along the way, he noticed that there was something far more troublesome going on: While the networks screamed about the dangers of exploding BIC lighters and coffeepots, worse risks were ignored.

Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Richard Miniter
• Narrated By James Jenner

New York Times best-selling author Richard Miniter is an award-winning investigative journalist whose insights have shed light on many of today¹s most vital issues. With Disinformation he takes the popular media to task for the myths they spread about the War on Terror. Miniter has spoken to high-profile sources, sifted through countless information, and traveled the globe to learn that 22 of the most common beliefs about the War on Terror are nothing more than urban legends.

One Bullet Away: The Making of Marine Officer

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Nathaniel Fick
• Narrated By Nathaniel Fick

A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth, and advances to the pinnacle, Recon, four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq.

The Modern Scholar: 'God Wills It!': Understanding the Crusades

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Thomas F. Madden
• Narrated By Thomas F. Madden

As late as 1518, plans were laid by Pope Leo X and the monarchs of Europe to set aside their internal quarrels and once more embark on a holy crusade to wrest the Middle East from the Ottoman Turks. Finding accord and even enthusiasm for the enterprise, all was on course for a multiyear military campaign to push east from North Africa through Egypt and south through the Balkans to squeeze the Turks in a pincer movement and finally oust the Muslims from the Holy Land.

Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Rodger W. Claire
• Narrated By Adam Grupper

From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So, when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned, especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists had already formulated a secret program to extract weapon-grade plutonium from the reactor, a first critical step in creating an atomic bomb.

His Excellency: George Washington

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Joseph J. Ellis
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.

Shadow Divers: Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Robert Kurson
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all in an effort to identify this sunken U-boat and its crew.