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The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation
2020
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A true story of greed and murder of Native Americans by their countrymen Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he learned the real cause was a gunshot wound, and that her murder may well have been engineered by his own grandfather. As McAuliffe peeled away layers of suppressed history, he learned that Sybil was a victim of the "Osage Reign of Terror"-...
Stories Can Save Us
America’s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How
- by
- Matt TullisBen MontgomeryAudra D.S BurchBrin-Jonathan ButlerPamela ColloffJohn Woodrow CoxKim CrossBronwen DickeyMirin FaderLatria GrahamDavid GrannElon GreenVanessa GrigoriadisEva HollandMitchell S. JacksonChris JonesTom JunodAbbott KahlerMichael KruseJeanne Marie LaskasRachel MonroeVann R. Newkirk IIBradford PearsonAndrea PitzerEli SaslowLeah SottileWright ThompsonSarah Weinman
2024
EN
Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories.Thr...
The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation
- Narrated by
- Kalani Queypo
Unabridged
12 hours 39 min
2021
EN
A true story of greed and murder of Native Americans by their countrymen Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he learned the real cause was a gunshot wound, and that her murder may well have been engineered by his own grandfather. As McAuliffe peeled away layers of suppressed history, he learned that Sybil was a victim of the "Osage Reign of Terror"-...
- Narrated by
- Dion Graham
Unabridged
8 hours 28 min
2023
EN
**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read'** Guardian‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator'I cannot think of anyone who would not love this book . . . It is an extraordinary true story, beautifully written' Richard Osman...
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
- Narrated by
- Will PattonAnn Marie LeeDanny Campbell
Unabridged
9 hours 4 min
2017
EN
**WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO ****‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a w...
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Adults
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Narrated by
- Joe OchmanKyla GarciaJon Lindstrom
Unabridged
6 hours 57 min
2023
EN
The New York Times bestseller and the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime winner Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young readers.**KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE NIRO**This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people – one of history's most rut...
The Lost City of Z
A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
- Narrated by
- Mark Deakins
Unabridged
10 hours 5 min
2023
EN
**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost WorldFawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In...
- Narrated by
- Will Patton
Unabridged
2 hours 29 min
2024
EN
**One man's perilous quest to cross Antarctica in the footsteps of Shackleton.Henry Worsley** was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 20th-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never complete...
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
- Narrated by
- Mark Deakins
Unabridged
13 hours 2 min
2024
EN
By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER‘Chilling . . . Poignant . . . Haunting and gripping . . . gets into worlds that are otherwise invisible to us’Daily MailA Polish detective tries to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novelAn arson investigator races to prove whether a ...
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Exit West
A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
- Narrated by
- Mohsin Hamid
Unabridged
4 hours 42 min
2018
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Exit West written and read by Mohsin Hamid.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night.This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.This is their story: a love story, but also a ...
- Narrated by
- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Unabridged
10 hours 38 min
2017
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'One of the best books I've read this year. Just astounding.' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train.Law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, working on a retrial for death-row convicted murderer and child molester, Ricky Langley, finds herself thrust into the tangled story of his childhood. As she examines the minute details of Ricky's case, she is forced to face her own history, to unearth long-buried family secrets, and to reckon with how her...
- Narrated by
- Rebecca Lowman
Unabridged
14 hours 49 min
2018
EN
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, read by Rebecca Lowman.‘Greer didn’t really know why Faith took an interest. But what she knew for sure, eventually, was that meeting Faith Frank was the thrilling beginning of everything. It would be a very long time before the unspeakable end.’Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the woman who will shape her life. Fait...











