A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Emerson W. Baker
• Narrated By Marc Vietor
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers - mainly young women - suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work.

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Marilynne K. Roach
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the 20 who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted", 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders.

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Steven Novella

No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Bandy X. Lee - editor
• Narrated By Nanette Gartrell, Luba Kessler, Bandy X. Lee, and others

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump describes the consensus view held by two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.

The Foundations of Western Civilization

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

The Witches: Salem, 1692

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Stacy Schiff
• Narrated By Eliza Foss

It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other.

The Italians before Italy: Conflict and Competition in the Mediterranean

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett

Take a riveting tour of the Italian peninsula, from the glittering canals of Venice to the lavish papal apartments and ancient ruins of Rome. In these 24 lectures, Professor Bartlett traces the development of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, showing how the modern nation of Italy was forged out of the rivalries, allegiances, and traditions of a vibrant and diverse people.

Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Lisa Lister
• Narrated By Lisa Lister
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A witch is a wise woman, a healer. Yet for so long the word witch has had negative connotations. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why identifying as a healer in past centuries led women to be burned at the stake, and why the witch is reawakening in women across the world today. This book provides an overview of the different schools of witchcraft and the core principles and practices within them.

The Bell Witch: An American Haunting

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Brent Monahan
• Narrated By Cameron Beierle

Known throughout Tennessee as "Old Kate", the Bell Witch took up residence with John Bell's family in 1818. It was a cruel and noisy spirit, given to knocking and gnawing sounds before finding its own voices. With these voices and supernatural acts, the Bell Witch tormented the Bell family. The extraordinary tale recounts the only documented case in U.S. History when a spirit "actually caused a man's death".

Witch Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Marc Aronson
• Narrated By Alan Nebelthau

In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has begun. The witch trials will eventually claim 25 lives, shatter the community, and forever shape the American social conscience

America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Owen Davies
• Narrated By J. Paul Guimont
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America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers of intolerance and persecution. The refrain 'Remember Salem!' was invoked frequently over the ensuing centuries. As time passed, the trials became a milepost measuring the distance America had progressed from its colonial past, its victims now the righteous and their persecutors the shamed.

The House of the Seven Gables

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.

The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
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Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and 25-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more in this mesmerizing work of detection. With uniquely gripping analysis, the authors reexamine and reinterpret the accepted facts, evidence, and victimology of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime.

The Crucible

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Arthur Miller
• Narrated By Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley, Jr., and others

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In the ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor, The Crucible mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s.

American Legends: The Salem Witch Trials

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 23 mins)
• By Charles River Editors
• Narrated By Bob Neufeld
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Today, the Salem Witch Trials are often remembered as being a relic of a superstitious past. Salem has transformed itself into a tourist haven and Halloween destination by capitalizing off the Salem Witch trials. But it was deadly serious in 1692, when 19 men and women found themselves taken to "Gallows Hill" and hanged for being witches.

Witch: A Tale of Terror

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Charles MacKay, Sam Harris - introduction
• Narrated By Sam Harris

For centuries in Europe, innocent men and women were murdered for the imaginary crime of witchcraft. This was a mass delusion and moral panic, driven by pious superstition and a deadly commitment to religious conformity. In Witch: A Tale of Terror, best-selling author Sam Harris introduces and reads from Charles Mackay's beloved book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Mitch Horowitz
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Mitch Horowitz presents a meticulously researched, compulsively readable history of the mystical and spiritual experience in our country. Focusing on the impact that the 19-century movements of Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and transcendentalism have had on America, Horowitz portrays a colorful cast of characters as he explains the origins of the Ouija board, the political influence of Spiritualism on the Senate, and the source of the mysterious slogan on the back of the dollar bill.

Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jeff Guinn
• Narrated By George Newbern
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In the 1950s a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the Gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement. Eventually Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to Northern California. He became involved in electoral politics and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader.

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside - translator
• Narrated By Jonathan Keeble

The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping best seller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops; resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940.

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Colin Dickey
• Narrated By Jon Lindstrom
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Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie homes", Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Nathaniel Philbrick
• Narrated By George Guidall
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Elizabeth Norton
• Narrated By Jennifer Dixon
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The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife, when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before.

Without Mercy: Obsession and Murder Under the Influence

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Gary Provost
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce
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On any Sunday morning in the Florida Redlands, Dee Casteel might have served you pancakes at the IHOP. She was a hard-working, cheerful waitress, one of the nicest people you'd ever want to know. She was also a three-bottle-a-day alcoholic, hopelessly in love with the IHOP's manager, Allen Bryant. Bryant wanted his live-in lover, IHOP owner Art Venecia, dead. And Dee Casteel helped him to arrange it.

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen
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A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen 19th-century diaries, letters, albums, minute books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never before told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage", whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, 50 years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress.