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The Fire Agent

A Novel

by David Baerwald ...

New York Times Editors' Choice * A LitHub most anticipated book of 2026“Paced like a thriller, written like a dream.”***—The Boston Globe***“The Fire Agent has it all. This is one of those books that feels like a “book club” novel, but reads like an adventure movie.”—Men's Journal“A spy novel, a war story, a love story—brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all.”... ... Read more

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New York Times Editors' Choice * A LitHub most anticipated book of 2026“Paced like a thriller, written like a dream.”***—The Boston Globe***“The Fire Agent has it all. This is one of those books that feels like a “book club” novel, but reads like an adventure movie.”—Men's Journal“A spy novel, a war story, a love story—brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all.”...
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FIRE AGENT, THE

A Novel

by David Baerwald ...

Narrated by David Baerwald ...

Unabridged

19 hours 33 min

“A spy novel, a war story, a love story—brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all.”—Graham Yost, executive producer of The Americans and Slow HorsesAn unforgettable, sweeping novel of espionage, love, and war that reframes our understanding of the first half of the twentieth century.Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baerwald is a gift... ... Read more

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“A spy novel, a war story, a love story—brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all.”—Graham Yost, executive producer of The Americans and Slow HorsesAn unforgettable, sweeping novel of espionage, love, and war that reframes our understanding of the first half of the twentieth century.Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baerwald is a gift...
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Lost at Sea

Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America

by Joe Kloc ...

Narrated by David Baerwald ...

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6 hours 51 min

A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”—an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats—that explores the struggles and resilience of those surviving on the fringes of society.In the wake of the financial crisis, the number of anchor-outs living in Richardson Bay more than doubles as their long-simmering feud with the wealthy residents of ... Read more

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A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the “anchor-outs”—an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats—that explores the struggles and resilience of those surviving on the fringes of society.In the wake of the financial crisis, the number of anchor-outs living in Richardson Bay more than doubles as their long-simmering feud with the wealthy residents of
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Shadowlands

Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff

by Anthony McCann ...

Narrated by David Baerwald ...

Unabridged

17 hours 22 min

Bloomsbury presents Shadowlands by Anthony McCann, read by David Baerwald.Los Angeles Times BestsellerAn “epic exploration” of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation—"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment” (Maggie Nelson).In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Shadowlands by Anthony McCann, read by David Baerwald.Los Angeles Times BestsellerAn “epic exploration” of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation—"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment” (Maggie Nelson).In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied
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Ends of the Earth

Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

by Neil Shubin ...

Narrated by Fred Berman ...

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7 hours 43 min

****Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future.“Urgent [and] prescient…The book captures Shubin’s reverence for both the beauty and the mysteries hidden in the cold, barren tundra.” ... Read more

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****Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future.“Urgent [and] prescient…The book captures Shubin’s reverence for both the beauty and the mysteries hidden in the cold, barren tundra.”
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain

The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

by Gordon H. Chang ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

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9 hours 51 min

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the ... Read more

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A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the
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Sea of Glory

America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick ...

Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Abridged

5 hours 51 min

**"A treasure of a book."—David McCulloughThe harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**A New York Times Notable BookAmerica's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more ... Read more

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**"A treasure of a book."—David McCulloughThe harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**A New York Times Notable BookAmerica's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more
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After the North Pole

A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice

by Erling Kagge ...

Narrated by Atli Gunnarsson ...

Unabridged

11 hours 26 min

The Norwegian explorer, philosopher and acclaimed writer tells of his historic 58-day journey to the North Pole on skis in this provocative memoir that is a profound meditation on nature and the history of explorers' obsession.The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation, one of the places that ... Read more

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The Norwegian explorer, philosopher and acclaimed writer tells of his historic 58-day journey to the North Pole on skis in this provocative memoir that is a profound meditation on nature and the history of explorers' obsession.The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation, one of the places that
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Gentleman Bandit

The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber

by John Boessenecker ...

Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

Unabridged

10 hours 20 min

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker separates fact from fiction in the first new biography in decades of Black Bart, the Wild West’s most mysterious gentleman bandit.Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker separates fact from fiction in the first new biography in decades of Black Bart, the Wild West’s most mysterious gentleman bandit.Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine
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What the Dead Know

Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

by Barbara Butcher ...

Narrated by Barbara Butcher ...

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min

A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) true crime memoir from Barbara Butcher, a trailblazing New York City death investigator, who reveals the untold stories behind more than 5,500 death scenes, including the nation’s most horrific tragedy: the 9/11 attacks.When Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism, she found an unexpected lifeline in a job at the ... Read more

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A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) true crime memoir from Barbara Butcher, a trailblazing New York City death investigator, who reveals the untold stories behind more than 5,500 death scenes, including the nation’s most horrific tragedy: the 9/11 attacks.When Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism, she found an unexpected lifeline in a job at the
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Enough Is Enuf

Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

by Gabe Henry ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Unabridged

5 hours 49 min

A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, ... Read more

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A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has,
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American Nightmare

The History of Jim Crow

by Jerrold M. Packard ...

Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as ... Read more

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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as
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