Gideon Gideon

Journey: Sunfall, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By D. Gideon
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce, Becket Royce
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Ripley's a tomboy at heart who has never met a stranger. Her plans were to finish her veterinary studies and take her family to the country, where life wouldn't be such a struggle. She thought the worst she'd have to deal with at the University of Maryland were the unwelcome advances and attitudes of affluent students, and the occasional East Coast hurricane. She never expected the sun to fall down.

Advent: Sunfall, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By D. Gideon
• Narrated By Kevin Pierce, Becket Royce
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Ripley and her friends have escaped the University's lockdown and started their journey home on foot. They've found an opportunity to get supplies they sorely need, but the risk is high. Marco insists that the world is already far more dangerous than it seems, while Ripley's not yet convinced. She's about to get a very bloody wake-up call.

Wife 22: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Melanie Gideon
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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Maybe it was those extra five pounds I'd gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other. But when the anonymous online study called "Marriage in the 21st Century" showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn't long before I was assigned both a pseudonym and a caseworker. And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.

What Have We Learned: Lessons from Afghanistan & Iraq

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Foreign Affairs, Gideon Rose, Jonathan Tepperman
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

CFR Senior Fellow Max Boot, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Director Richard Betts, RAND Senior Political Scientist Rick Brennan, Georgetown Professor Daniel Byman and Brookings Fellow Jeremy Shaprio, and former U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Peter Tomsen debate the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq.

How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Gideon Rose
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In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the same opponent in just over a decade, win lightning victories both times, and yet still be woefully unprepared for the aftermath? Because Americans always forget the political aspects of war.

Never Lose Your Flames

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Francis Gideon
• Narrated By Kevin Chandler
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Cop-turned-bounty-hunter Gabe Dominguez is hired to capture firestarter Nat Wyatt. For a dragon-shifter like Gabe, apprehending Nat is easy, but transporting him involves more time, energy, and blood loss than he envisioned. An attack from a band of fairies, an out-of-control forest fire, and a showdown at an auction don't faze Gabe, but Nat's innocence might stop him entirely.

The Science of Story Selling: How to Win the Hearts & Minds of Your Prospects for Profit and Purpose

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Gideon F. For-mukwai
• Narrated By Katherine Thompson
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This audiobook captures tried and tested tools the author has used to win public speaking awards across countries and cultures in Asia and America. Combining elements of both neuroscience and dramatic arts, the author shows how to win hearts and minds with the hidden power of storytelling to sell ideas, products, and services.

Politics; SI Swimsuit Issue; Maggie Siff

• ORIGINAL (53 mins)
• By Charlie Rose, John Micklethwait, Gideon Rose, and others

Guest host John Micklethwait leads a discussion about Russia and the Trump administration with Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine, Mario Calvo Platero, the U.S. editor of Il Sole 24 Ore, and the author of How America Lost its Secrets, Edward Epstein.

We continue with a look at the 2017 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue with guest host Andrew Ross Sorkin, model Kate Upton, and editor MJ Day

We conclude with actor Maggie Siff, she stars as Wendy Rhoades in the Showtime series Billions.

A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
• Narrated By Erik Singer

In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, he grabs his sneakers, glad of the chance to be committed to something and someone.

Hollywood Loves Cape Town. But You'd Better Nail that American Accent

• ORIGINAL (4 mins)
• By Gideon Brower
• Narrated By Marco Werman

"Hollywood Loves Cape Town. But You'd Better Nail that American Accent" is from the July 4, 2016 edition of PRI's The World.

Schumpeter's Heirs

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

Entrepreneurs drive innovation and dynamism, which in turn drive growth. So our lead package explores entrepreneurialism today - what it involves, what it accomplishes, and what can be done to spur and profit from it.

Energy’s Hottest Sector

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

Over the past several years, the shale revolution has upended oil and gas markets in the United States and the world at large. At first, shale development was dismissed as unworkable, then it was minimized as unsustainable. Now, having helped drive a massive drop in the global price of oil, it is hailed as an economic and geopolitical game changer. But shale isn’t the only energy story of interest, nor even the only potentially revolutionary one.

Hi, Robot

• UNABRIDGED (2 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

From the cotton gin and the steam engine to electricity and the transistor, new technologies have been revolutionizing the world for centuries, transforming life and labor and enabling an extraordinary flourishing of human development. Now some argue that advances in automation and artificial intelligence are causing us to take yet another world-historical leap into the unknown.

Notes from the Chairman

• UNABRIDGED (23 mins)
• By Gideon Rose, Martin Dempsey
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

In September 2015, General Martin Dempsey retired from the US Army after more than four decades in uniform. Commissioned as an armor officer following his graduation from West Point, he served in both the Gulf War and the Iraq war and eventually rose to become chief of staff of the US Army and then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He spoke with Foreign Affairs’ editor, Gideon Rose, in June.

What Obama Gets Right

• UNABRIDGED (38 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

How should one judge a president’s handling of foreign policy?

China Now

• UNABRIDGED (3 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

When is an anticorruption campaign not just an anticorruption campaign? When it might be a harbinger of a regime’s approaching developmental crisis.

The Trouble With Race

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Gideon Rose
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

Everybody knows that racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate in recent months, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one, with a long and tortured history.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Gideon Defoe
• Narrated By John Lee

Not since Moby-Dick.... No, not since Treasure Island.... Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a group of seafarers to rival The Pirates! and their leader, the greatest ocean-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time on the bounding main, somehow manages to keep his beard silky and in good condition.

Valley of the Moon

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Melanie Gideon
• Narrated By William Hope, Laurel Lefkow
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In the heart of the Sonoma Valley, on the edge of a sun-drenched meadow, lies the idyllic community of Greengage - where the residents wear simple clothes and lead quiet lives and whose manners could almost seem to be of another time. Into this world stumbles single mother Lux Lysander, trying to lose herself in the peaceful beauty of the Californian countryside while her young son visits his grandparents. It's a world far away from the unpaid bills piling up and the overwhelming sense of struggle to make ends meet.