The National Book Awards
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The Good Lord Bird
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade - and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave....
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Abolition Huck Finn arouses interest in history
- By Abram H on 12-13-13
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The Good Lord Bird
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-20-13
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2013
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The Unwinding
- An Inner History of the New America
- By: George Packer
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way....
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Can't understand the low ratings!
- By Janet Pittman Henley on 05-27-13
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The Unwinding
- An Inner History of the New America
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-21-13
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2013
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The Round House
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked....
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Heavy in My Heart
- By Mel on 01-02-13
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The Round House
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-02-12
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2012
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- By Dr. on 06-14-12
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-07-12
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2012
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- By: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- By A reader on 05-01-12
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-29-11
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2011
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Lord of Misrule
- By: Jaimy Gordon
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts are all struggling to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive....
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Worthy of the National Book Award
- By fmg on 03-06-11
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Lord of Misrule
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-28-11
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2010
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Just Kids
- By: Patti Smith
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy....
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Darkly Self Centered & Narrow View
- By Sara on 10-05-15
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Just Kids
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 07-26-11
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2010
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Mockingbird
- By: Kathryn Erskine
- Narrated by: Angela Jayne Rogers
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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In Mockingbird—a poignant gem by acclaimed author Kathryn Erskine—a talented young artist struggles to overcome a disability....
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Excellent book for ALL readers
- By Kaui on 07-12-12
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Mockingbird
- Narrated by: Angela Jayne Rogers
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-17-10
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature, 2010
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The First Tycoon
- The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- By: T.J. Stiles
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
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A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....
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Great! If you can get through it...
- By john on 08-08-10
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The First Tycoon
- The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 28 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-21-09
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2009
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Claudette Colvin
- Twice Toward Justice
- By: Phillip Hoose
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama....
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The funny yet touching story of women leders!
- By Talia on 02-06-12
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Claudette Colvin
- Twice Toward Justice
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-10-09
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature, 2009
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Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- By: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 40 hrs and 20 mins
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This audiobook re-imagines the legend of the sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors....
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A great American Novel
- By SHAWN on 02-15-09
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Shadow Country
- A New Rendering of the Watson Legend
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Series: Shadow Country Trilogy, Book 1-3
- Length: 40 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-13-09
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2008
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The Hemingses of Monticello
- An American Family
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....
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Worried at first
- By Phillip Goodson on 12-13-08
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The Hemingses of Monticello
- An American Family
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-04-08
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2008
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Tree of Smoke
- A Novel
- By: Denis Johnson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
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This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel....
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tree of smoke
- By ed spilka on 12-13-07
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Tree of Smoke
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-04-07
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2007
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- By: Tim Weiner
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders....
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Flawed but Important
- By Michael on 07-18-08
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Legacy of Ashes
- The History of the CIA
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-03-07
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2007
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1
- The Pox Party
- By: M. T. Anderson
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations....
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YA fiction at its very best
- By Ryan on 09-20-10
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1
- The Pox Party
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Series: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-11-06
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature, 2006
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Europe Central
- By: William T. Vollmann
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 31 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional....
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A Must Listen
- By Armen on 03-15-09
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Europe Central
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 31 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-21-08
- Language: English
- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2005
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