Racing History

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    • Formula 1 Racing's Greatest Rivalry
    • By: Tom Rubython
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • The greatest duel in Formula 1 history: the 1976 season between Austrian Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt....

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    • The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach - Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners About Training and Racing
    • By: Philip Maffetone, Bill Katovsky
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • The world's fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago....

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    • The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World’s Greatest Racehorse
    • By: Lawrence Scanlan
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited....

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    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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    • Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower
    • By: Matt Fitzgerald, Robert Johnson
    • Narrated by: Rob Grgach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners - with extraordinary results - and now you can do it, too....

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    • By: Lauren Landish
    • Narrated by: Melissa Moran, Lance Greenfield
    • Series: Bennett Boys Ranch, Book 3
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • Luke is damn near invisible, or at least that’s how he usually feels. He takes care of things around the ranch before his boss-brother even knows there’s a problem. But when he finds Shayanne sitting in a tree on his property, that all changes....

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    • An American Legend
    • By: Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,862 ratings
    • Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini....

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    • Rajo Jack’s Drive to Integrate Auto Racing
    • By: Bill Poehler
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The powers-that-be in auto racing in the 1920s prohibited everyone who wasn't a White male from the sport. Dewey Gaston, a Black man who went by the name Rajo Jack, broke into the epicenter of racing in California, refusing to let the pervasive racism of his day stop him....

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    • Journals 1985 - 1993
    • By: Jordan Mechner
    • Narrated by: Yuri Lowenthal
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • The creator of one of the most innovative and best-selling video games of all time gives an unvarnished look into the process in this one-of-a-kind compilation....

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    • Why Humanity Will Soon Vanish
    • By: Lyle Lewis, Sue Coulstock
    • Narrated by: Lyle Lewis, Heather Henderson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A former endangered species biologist looks at the ongoing sixth mass extinction through the prism of human behavior, personal experience, ecology, evolutionary biology, and contemporary conservation efforts....

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    • The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
    • By: Ashlee Vance
    • Narrated by: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives....

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    • By: William Nack
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 743 ratings
    • In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown....

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    • The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise
    • By: Joe Drape
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,517 ratings
    • History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality....

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    • By: Linda Carroll, David Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Taking listeners on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own....

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    • How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,312 ratings
    • Fly Girls recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky....

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    • Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century
    • By: Sharon B. Smith
    • Narrated by: Rob Gorden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
    • By: Kim Wickens
    • Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington....

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    • Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing
    • By: Kyle Petty, Ellis Henican
    • Narrated by: Kyle Petty
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • Stock-car racing star, country singer, and sports broadcaster Kyle Petty shares his familial legacy, intertwined with NASCAR’s founding and history, in Swerve or Die—written with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellis Henican....

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    • The Winners of America's Triple Crown of Horse Racing
    • By: Edward Bowen
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only 13 horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season)....

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    • An American Legend (Abridged Edition)
    • By: Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrated by: Campbell Scott
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • Seabiscuit was a rough-hewn, undersized horse with a sad little tail and knees that wouldn't straighten all the way. For two years, he fought his trainers and floundered at the lowest level of racing...

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