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  • Why Nations Fail Audiobook By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson cover art

    • Why Nations Fail

    • The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    • By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,430 ratings
    • Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

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  • Mao Audiobook By Jung Chang, Jon Halliday cover art

    • Mao

    • The Unknown Story
    • By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,598 ratings
    • The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....

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  • The Famine Plot Audiobook By Tim Pat Coogan cover art

    • The Famine Plot

    • England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
    • By: Tim Pat Coogan
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the 19th century and finally calls to account those responsible....

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  • Homo Deus Audiobook By Yuval Noah Harari cover art

    • Homo Deus

    • A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27,029 ratings
    • Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....

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  • Global Crisis Audiobook By Geoffrey Parker cover art

    • Global Crisis

    • War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century....

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  • The Hard Road Out Audiobook By Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator cover art

    • The Hard Road Out

    • One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
    • By: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship....

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  • Late Victorian Holocausts Audiobook By Mike Davis cover art

    • Late Victorian Holocausts

    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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  • The Girl with Seven Names Audiobook By Hyeonseo Lee, David John cover art

    • The Girl with Seven Names

    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,514 ratings

    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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  • Nothing to Envy Audiobook By Barbara Demick cover art

    • Nothing to Envy

    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,126 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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  • The Graves Are Walking Audiobook By John Kelly cover art

    • The Graves Are Walking

    • The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 423 ratings
    • It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country....

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  • Tombstone Audiobook By Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman - editor/introduction, Stacy Mosher - translator/editor, Guo Jian - tran

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  • Churchill's Secret War Audiobook By Madhusree Mukarjee cover art

    • Churchill's Secret War

    • The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
    • By: Madhusree Mukarjee
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II....

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  • Invasion: New York Audiobook By Vaughn Heppner cover art

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  • The Year Without Summer Audiobook By William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman cover art

    • The Year Without Summer

    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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  • Black Potatoes Audiobook By Susan Campbell Bartoletti cover art

    • Black Potatoes

    • The Story of the Great Irish Famine
    • By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people....

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  • Stuffed and Starved Audiobook By Raj Patel cover art

    • Stuffed and Starved

    • The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    • By: Raj Patel
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight....

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  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Audiobook By Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor co

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  • The Cultural Revolution Audiobook By Frank Dikötter cover art

    • The Cultural Revolution

    • A People's History, 1962—1976
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine....

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  • Catalyst Audiobook By Rachel Grant cover art

    • Catalyst

    • By: Rachel Grant
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Series: Flashpoint, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • When a food storage depot in famine-struck South Sudan is torched, American aid worker Brie Stewart flees, only to land in a market where she's the next item up for auction....

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  • China After Mao Audiobook By Frank Dikötter cover art

    • China After Mao

    • The Rise of a Superpower
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

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