Sterling Point Books: Ben Franklin: Inventing America

Sterling Biographies: Thomas Edison: The Man Who Lit Up the World

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Martin Woodside
• Narrated By Kevin Pariseau

Meet the Wizard of Menlo Park, and see how he grew from a lonely, inquisitive boy who carried out experiments in his basement to the smart, enterprising, and imaginative inventor who gave us the stock-market ticker, helped develop the phonograph and cinema, and even came up with the first storage battery and electric car.

Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Philip Dray
• Narrated By David Chandler

Award-winning author Philip Dray delves into the lesser-known side of an American icon in Stealing God's Thunder. Benjamin Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father than as a man of science, challenged religion, science, and reason with his inventions. But in a time when everything was blamed on sin, it was the lightning rod, Franklin's attempt to control the heavens, that caused the greatest controversy.

Sterling Biographies: Albert Einstein: The Miracle

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Tabatha Yeatts
• Narrated By A. C. Fellner

Featuring kid-friendly explanations of the scientific principles, this compelling biography follows Einstein from his childhood through his early career struggles, and on to the theoretical breakthroughs and groundbreaking writings that won him the Nobel Prize. Equally important, we get a complete portrait of the man, who - deeply affected by the Holocaust - dedicated his life to pacifism and equal rights for all.

Sterling Biographies: Abraham Lincoln: From Pioneer to President

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ellen Blue Phillips
• Narrated By Roscoe Orman

"Honest Abe", "The Great Emancipator", "The Martyr": Abraham Lincoln was perhaps America's greatest president. He is also deeply beloved by many, who are inspired by Lincoln's unwavering sense of justice and willingness to fight for his beliefs.

Young listeners will marvel at Lincoln's path to greatness, from his humble beginnings as a poor Illinois rail splitter up through his election as America's 16th president, and into the dark days of the Civil War - leading to his tragic assassination.

Sterling Biographies: Benjamin Franklin

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Maria Mihalik Higgins
• Narrated By Emilio Delgado

What do libraries, streetlights, and fire stations have in common? What about bifocal lenses and the odometer? Sayings like "haste makes waste?" Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents: a scientist who experimented with electricity; a diplomat who served as envoy to France and negotiated peace with England; a mapmaker, printer, and writer famous for his Poor Richard's Almanack.