Thomas H. Kregel

The Trial and Death of Socrates

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Plato
• Narrated By Dick Hill

The Trial and Death of Socrates presents the trial and subsequent execution of Socrates in 399 BCE. Socrates was tried on the basis of two ambiguous charges: corrupting the youth and impiety. “Euthyphro”, one of Plato's early dialogues, takes place during the weeks leading up to Socrates' trial. “Apology” is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, refused to worship the gods, and created new deities".

The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 29 mins)
• By David Abulafia
• Narrated By Jason Culp
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all the history of human interaction across a region that has brought together many of the great civilizations of antiquity as well as the rival empires of medieval and modern times.

The Enchantress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Michael Scott
• Narrated By Paul Boehmer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Adapted from the hardcover edition of The Enchantress, this long-anticipated audiobook brings the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series to its stunning conclusion. The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance - how will the legend end?

Flowers in the Attic

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 46 mins)
• By V.C. Andrews®
• Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

This best-selling thriller has captivated over 4.5 million readers of all ages; V.C. Andrews’ fans know her mixture of vivid characters and ominous moods is highly addictive. Flowers in the Attic is the first book in a gripping series featuring the Dollangagers - a family haunted by a remorseless, demonic history. This tale of obsession, also made into a haunting movie, has made V.C. Andrews’ name synonymous with the best in dark suspense.

Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence (Knowledge Products) Giants of Political Thought Series

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 30 mins)
• By George H. Smith
• Narrated By Craig Deitschman

Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws, and how this right of resistance was transformed into a right of revolution. It examines Thomas Paine's views on the difference between society and government, his defense of republican government, his total rejection of hereditary monarchy, and his belief that Americans should take up arms against the English government.

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1: 1882–1885

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Anton Chekhov
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number.

Master and Commander: Aubrey/Maturin Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Patrick O'Brian
• Narrated By Patrick Tull

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

Brave New World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aldous Huxley
• Narrated By Michael York
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Hounded: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Kevin Hearne
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old - when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer. Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries....

Reamde

• UNABRIDGED (38 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Neal Stephenson
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Richard Forthrast created T’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game. But T’Rain’s success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a player’s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the game’s virtual universe - and Richard is at ground zero.

The Selfish Gene

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Richard Dawkins
• Narrated By Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.