Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson
• Narrated By Dick Hill

During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany’s Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler’s insane orders to hold on to useless territory. Then, in January 1944, a disaster happened.

The New Deal: A Modern History

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Michael Hiltzik
• Narrated By Traber Burns

As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus.

In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt’s Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life.

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-Loving New York

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Richard Zacks
• Narrated By Joe Ochman
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In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. With cameos by Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, and a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable snap­shot of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory and a brilliant miniature of one of America’s most colorful presidents.

The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Scott Miller
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century.

A Journey Beyond Abuse: A Horrific Murder, Thriller, True Crime Story of Horror and Survival

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 22 mins)
• By J. G. Porter
• Narrated By Lisa Meadows

I heard Creighton tell the clerk not to say or try anything. "Act calm," he said as they were walking to the cooler. He had the gun jabbed into the clerk's neck with his right hand and the back of the clerk's shirt scrunched up in his left hand. They passed me, and Creighton finally acknowledged me. "You get back here too you stupid bitch." No way was this really happening, I thought. The man I loved was going to do this? It wasn't possible. I started to follow them both to the back cooler.