Hard America

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    • The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Jacob York
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 342 ratings
    • In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
    • By: Jay Mathews
    • Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators....

    Regular price: $18.03

    • The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer
    • By: Woody Guthrie
    • Narrated by: Arlo Guthrie
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • This remarkable autobiography brings to life both his vibrant personality and a vision of America we cannot afford to let die. Funny, cynical, and earthy, Bound for Glory is the stirring account of Guthrie's life and a superb portrait of America's Depression years....

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    • The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity
    • By: Colin G. Calloway
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • Hard Neighbors follows the people who came to be known as Scotch-Irish and traces their relations with Native Americans, examines their experiences as marginalized people, and demonstrates their roles as protective and disruptive forces on the edge of colonialism.

    Regular price: $25.79

    • America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
    • By: Frye Gaillard
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • With A Hard Rain, Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times.

    Regular price: $30.09

    • An action & adventure romance in the dark jungles of South America
    • By: Carolyn V. Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Stranded in a tropical rainstorm at Iquitos, Peru, burned-out art therapist Dianti Robertson waits for a boatman long overdue. She must complete ...

    Regular price: $8.99

    • A Rooseveltian Renaissance for Trump 2.0 American Renewal in the Chinese AI Century
    • By: Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider, EPM Mavericks, Puli Murugan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Ay Yi Yai Yi! It’s halftime, America! Welcome to the intermission of empire, featuring interpretive dances by decaying institutions choreographed...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
    • By: Jasmine Brown
    • Narrated by: Wanda Rush
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight....

    Regular price: $18.72

    • Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life
    • By: John D. Billings
    • Narrated by: Edward Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Military life has usually been a unique and peculiar experience for most civilians exposed to it....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
    • By: Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame
    • Narrated by: Dave Winfield, JD Jackson, Reynaldo Piniella, Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-25
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame explores how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s game

    Regular price: $18.00

    • Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail
    • By: Shaun Attwood
    • Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Shaun Attwood was a millionaire day trader in Phoenix, Arizona, but his hedonistic lifestyle of drugs and parties came to an abrupt end in 2002 when a SWAT team broke down his door....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,746 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

    Regular price: $22.49

    • A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America
    • By: Karine Jean-Pierre
    • Narrated by: Karine Jean-Pierre
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Most political origin stories reinforce the feeling that politics is a closed system: If you weren’t participating in debate club, the Young Democrats, and Model UN, you have no chance. Karine Jean-Pierre’s story breaks the mold....

    Regular price: $24.29

    • What Race Across America and My Sister's Brain Cancer Taught Me about Endurance and How to Do Hard Things
    • By: Maria Parker
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • “A poignant, heartbreaking and powerful story, a chance for each of us to find a way to level up, contribute and do things we never thought ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • By: G.C. Jones
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • G.C. "Red" Jones' classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
    • By: Blaine Harden
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of a missionary....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Michael Dowd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • The future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion....

    Regular price: $15.60

    • Book 1
    • By: T. I. WADE
    • Narrated by: Steve Carlson
    • Series: America One, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • From the age of seven Ryan Richmond dreamed about going to Space....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • Hard science fiction laced with political satire
    • By: Don Johnston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • “First contact is an intriguing hook…” Kirkus Reviews In 2045, radio waves surge from the M13 nebula. Amid impeachment threats, President Rex...

    Regular price: $3.99