Audiobooks Narrated by Jonathan Reese

Buddha's Teachings is a collection of writings on the essence of Buddhism, selected and edited from the vast Buddhist canon, and presented in a concise, easy-to-read, and nonsectarian format. It also includes a brief history of Buddhism.

''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,'' the premier title in this collection, is one of the most widely anthologized American short stories and is considered Bierce's best work.

Even as a child, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." Better known to us as "King of the Wild Frontier," Davy Crockett was not only a frontiersman but also a politician who became a celebrity and a folk hero during his lifetime.

In the South of the 1890s, Booker T. Washington stood as the often controversial personification of the aspirations of the black masses.

In 1886, the U.S. had no navy to speak of. But it did have Alfred T. Mahan, a captain of the U.S. Navy...

This audiobook brings together three collections of Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran's aphorisms, parables, and poetic essays: The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman.

Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.

Originally published in 1910, The North Pole is Robert E. Peary's own account of his expedition to become the first man ever to reach the North Pole.

Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, German American) Jewry.

Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II....