A piece of the past has returned to the present with Ann Banks’ audiobook First Person America. Originally published in paperback in 1991, Audible recently released the audio version with award-winning broadcaster Tony Kahn narrating the book. Banks takes the lost history of Americans during the 1930’s and transforms it into a powerful read that shows the lives of people […]

Having been born in the late 1980s, I was fortunate to have missed the devastation and chaos that was the AIDs epidemic. A truly horrifying disease even today, it claimed the lives of countless people and sparked the need for social and medical change. Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival is Sean Strub’s personal account of politics and […]

The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is an audio book written and narrated by author Evan Osnos. This “work of nonfiction based on eight years of conversation,” though slightly daunting in length (the whole audio book, consisting of two parts, is a whopping 17 hours long), is rich in information with fascinating facts […]