Light History

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    • Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
    • By: Jill Jonnes
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • In the final decades of the 19th century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age battled as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
    • By: Seb Falk
    • Narrated by: Seb Falk
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,316 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939–1945
    • By: Neill Lochery
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated....

    Regular price: $14.58

    • Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 25 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 546 ratings
    • The Cave and the Light reveals how two Greek philosophers became the twin fountainheads of Western culture, and how their rivalry gave Western civilization its unique dynamism down to the present....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • A Novel (Kingsbridge, Book 5)
    • By: Ken Follett
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 4
    • Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,036 ratings
    • The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.

    Regular price: $29.25

    • Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
    • By: Jon Meacham
    • Narrated by: Jon Meacham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,637 ratings
    • Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations....

    Regular price: $24.75

    • The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
    • By: Rick Atkinson
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Series: The Liberation Trilogy, Book 3
    • Length: 32 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,999 ratings
    • The eagerly awaited final volume in Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy. It is the 20th century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler....

    Regular price: $29.96

    • A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
    • By: Heather Greene
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy
    • By: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Sunlight Editions)
    • By: Daniel Sjursen
    • Narrated by: Daniel Sjursen
    • Series: Truth to Power
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • Brilliant, listenable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
    • By: Judy Batalion
    • Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 589 ratings
    • One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters....

    Regular price: $26.99

    • By: Chris Stark
    • Narrated by: Chris Stark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Blending fiction and fact, Carnival Lights ranges from reverie to nightmare and back again in a lyrical yet unflinching story of an Ojibwe family’s struggle to hold on to their land, their culture, and each other....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
    • By: Susan Cahill
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • From the moment he met her, she wasn't the least bit easy to read. Vol. 2, Series No. 7
    • By: Jacie Middlemann
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone has a story…and a dream. Patricia didn’t trust easily. Her ex-husband had taught her all the reasons not to. But Daine wasn't the type...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • The Evolution of Artificial Light
    • By: Jane Brox
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Brilliant offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history - from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Paris in the Belle Époque
    • By: Mike Rapport
    • Narrated by: Paul Daintry
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 416 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

    Regular price: $21.49