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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer
• Narrated By Holter Graham
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From the streets of Iraq to the mountaintops of Afghanistan and to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group - commonly known as SEAL Team Six - has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts listeners alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the 24-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives.

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Why Everything You Do Matters to God

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Michael E. Wittmer
• Narrated By Maurice England

This planet is more than just a stopover on your way to heaven. It is your final destination. God wants you to enjoy your earthly existence, and to think otherwise is to miss the life he intends for you. Exploring the book of Genesis, Heaven Is a Place on Earth gently but firmly strips away common misconceptions of Christianity and broadens your worldview to reveal the tremendous dignity and value of everyday life. Taking you from creation, to the fall, to redemption, and to glimpses from the book of Revelation, Michael Wittmer opens your eyes to a faith that encompasses all of life.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Isabel Wilkerson
• Narrated By Robin Miles
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to previously untapped data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

• UNABRIDGED (24 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jeremy Scahill
• Narrated By Tom Weiner
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From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond, Scahill speaks to the CIA agents, mercenaries, and elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of American war-fighting. He goes deep into al Qaeda-held territory in Yemen and walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of US night raids and drone strikes - including families of US citizens targeted for assassination by their own government - who reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden.

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Amy S. Greenberg
• Narrated By Caroline Shaffer
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A Wicked War presents the definitive history of the 1846 war between the United States and Mexico - a conflict that turned America into a continental power. Amy Greenberg describes the battles between American and Mexican armies, but also delineates the political battles between Democrats and Whigs - the former led by the ruthless Polk, the latter by the charismatic Henry Clay and a young representative from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln. Greenberg brilliantly recounts this key chapter in the creation of the United States authority and narrative flair.

Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Brian D. McLaren, Tony Campolo
• Narrated By Maurice England
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If you're brave enough to take an honest look at the issues facing the culture-controlled church - and the issues in your own life - read on.

Do you ever look at how the Christian faith is being lived out in the new millennium and wonder if we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing? That we still haven't quite 'gotten it'? That we've missed the point regarding many important issues? It's understandable if we've relied on what we've been told to believe or what's widely accepted by the Christian community. But if we truly turned a constructive, critical eye toward our beliefs and vigorously questioned them....

Homosexuality: What the Bible Says & Why It Matters

• ORIGINAL (59 mins)
• By Gene Robinson

Debates about homosexuality are based on what people think the Bible says about the subject – but is what we’ve been taught really what the Bible says?

Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as a Slave-Trading Dynasty

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Thomas Norman DeWolf
• Narrated By Thomas Norman DeWolf

In 2001, at 47, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, of Rhode Island, curried favor with President Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 1 min)
• By N. T. Wright
• Narrated By Antony Ferguson
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We are all spiritual seekers, intuitively knowing there is more to life than we suspect. This is a book for anyone who is hoping there is something more while we’re here on Earth. There is. We are being called to join the revolution, and Wright insightfully encourages readers to find new purpose and clarity by taking us on an eye-opening journey through key biblical passages that promise to radically alter the work of the church and the direction of our lives.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Jack Weatherford
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.

War and Peace, Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Leo Tolstoy
• Narrated By Neville Jason

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the book as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.