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When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Mick Wall
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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They were the last great band of the '60s and the first great band of the '70s. They rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction, and death.

The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Robyn Meredith
• Narrated By Laural Merlington
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Exotic India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour. Communist China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart, its shelves full of goods made in Chinese factories. But India and China are vastly different nations, with opposing economic and political strategies - strategies we must understand to survive in the new global economy. The Elephant and the Dragon explains how these nations have spurred a new "gold rush", and what this will mean for the rest of the world.

Miles: The Autobiography

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe
• Narrated By LeVar Burton

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Stephen Kinzer
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
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"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Rebecca Skloot
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.

WAR

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Sebastian Junger
• Narrated By Sebastian Junger

Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat - the fear, the honor, and the trust among men in an extreme situation whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another. His on-the-ground account follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

Unnatural History of the Sea

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Callum M. Roberts
• Narrated By Callum M. Roberts

Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail.

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Charles R. Cross
• Narrated By Lloyd James

For many, the name Jimi Hendrix conjures up a larger-than-life image of the man who set fire to guitars, women's hearts, and the status quo. In this groundbreaking account, music journalist Charles R. Cross takes a far deeper look. Beyond Hendrix's legendary onstage and offstage magnetism, and his excessive lifestyle, was a man who struggled to accept his role as an idol and privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had.

The Humbling

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Philip Roth
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air". When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else.

Bandana Republic: Free 15-Minute Excerpt

• UNABRIDGED (20 mins)
• By Bruce Reyes Louis
• Narrated By Chuck D, Louis Reyes Rivera, Nishat Kurwa, and others

Urban youth gangs are typically viewed as no more than training grounds for thugs and felons. This breakthrough anthology presents a far different picture, revealing present and former gang members' and street activists' artistic impulses, emotional sensitivities, political beliefs, and capacities to assess the social conditions that created them.