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The Spy and the Traitor
- Written by: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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excellent
- By ed mailhot on 2019-06-11
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Written by: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Terrible start.
- By William H. on 2019-11-02
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History Revealed
- Written by: History Revealed Staff
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of the world's most notable historians....
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A little research
- By Nicole Dodd on 2020-07-29
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Written by: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- By lorenzo roberts-sthillaire on 2019-08-04
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Team of Rivals
- The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Written by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
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On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....
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best biography of lincoln
- By Matthew A Fleming on 2020-12-05
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In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
- Written by: Bonnie Greer
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you never knew existed. People whose stories tell us a different tale about who we all are....
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Very interesting
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-04
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The Spy and the Traitor
- Written by: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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excellent
- By ed mailhot on 2019-06-11
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Written by: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Terrible start.
- By William H. on 2019-11-02
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History Revealed
- Written by: History Revealed Staff
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of the world's most notable historians....
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A little research
- By Nicole Dodd on 2020-07-29
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Written by: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time....
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- By lorenzo roberts-sthillaire on 2019-08-04
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Team of Rivals
- The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Written by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 41 hrs and 32 mins
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On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention....
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best biography of lincoln
- By Matthew A Fleming on 2020-12-05
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In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
- Written by: Bonnie Greer
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you never knew existed. People whose stories tell us a different tale about who we all are....
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Very interesting
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-04
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Titan
- The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
- Written by: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
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Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist....
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Thouroughly enjoyed every minute!!
- By Andrea on 2020-01-30
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Leonardo da Vinci
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....
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The best thing I’ve read in “forever”!
- By Alla on 2018-01-19
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Alexander Hamilton
- Written by: Ron Chernow
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins
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Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton....
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Great story, amazing person, well narrated
- By Anonymous User on 2019-09-27
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Rebel Yell
- The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
- Written by: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: Cotter Smith
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
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In April of 1862 he was merely another Confederate general with only a single battle credential in an army fighting in what seemed to be a losing cause....
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Civil War historians must read
- By Mark on 2020-08-04
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Ragnar Lothbrok and a History of the Vikings
- Viking Warriors Including Rollo, Norsemen, Norse Mythology, Quests in America, England, France, Scotland, Ireland and Russia
- Written by: Noah Brown
- Narrated by: Dalan E. Decker
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Ragnar Lothbrok was a legendary warrior who left a legacy among the Vikings like none other. Today's popular TV show may have popularized Ragnar's story, but the real facts are not very well known. Discover the truth behind this Viking warrior and the rich history of the Vikings....
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Written by: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
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Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....
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Thorough and incredible
- By Anonymous User on 2018-04-01
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Alexander the Great
- Written by: Philip Freeman
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind....
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Great listen, not dry
- By Kindle Customer on 2021-01-19
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Written by: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Written between 1717 and 1790, and originally referred to by its author as simply Memoirs, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is considered the pioneering example of the genre....
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Written by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Christopher Dontrell Piper
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society....
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Essential reading for all of humanity
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-25
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Something Beautiful Happened
- A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
- Written by: Yvette Manessis Corporon
- Narrated by: Pam Turlow
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants....
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New Deal or Raw Deal?
- How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
- Written by: Burton Folsom Jr.
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton Folsom, Jr., exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions....
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Into the Silence
- The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
- Written by: Wade Davis
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
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On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber....
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Historical intrigue
- By Monica on 2019-03-19
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- Written by: Ross King
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings....
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Incomprehensible French pronunciation
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-09-14
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Hitch-22
- A Memoir
- Written by: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political....
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Don’t listen to learn more about the personal details of a public intellectual;....
- By Auntie Mel on 2018-12-12
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....
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Audio engineers need to be fired - buy the book
- By Ashton on 2020-04-14
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- 1599
- Written by: James Shapiro
- Narrated by: James Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright....
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Bonhoeffer
- Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- Written by: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in 40 years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life - the theologian and the spy - to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil....
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Exceptional, through and through.
- By Josh Ruberg on 2020-02-25
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The Professor and the Madman
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery...
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Proper Heavy
- By Mentally Guitarded on 2020-04-23
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Forged in Crisis
- The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
- Written by: Nancy Koehn
- Narrated by: Nancy Koehn
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
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An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of listeners....
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Assata
- Written by: Assata Shakur, Angela Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Sirena Riley
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list....
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Boone
- A Biography
- Written by: Robert Morgan
- Narrated by: James Jenner
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Morgan's Gap Creek was an Oprah's Book Club selection and a phenomenal New York Times best-seller. Here he turns his talent to chronicling the life of Daniel Boone....
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Decision Points
- Written by: George W. Bush
- Narrated by: George W. Bush
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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President George W. Bush narrates and describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life....
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Fascinating to listen too in 2020
- By Tiffany Harrison on 2020-07-16
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About Face
- Written by: Colonel David H. Hackworth US Army Ret., Julie Sherman
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 40 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam....
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Outstanding
- By Grenade on 2020-01-10
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The Hiding Place
- Written by: Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell.....
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Loved it!
- By I & J on 2020-09-13
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- Written by: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....
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Detailed, Thorough, Sobering
- By Nick Spector on 2019-03-18
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Written by: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson - editor
- Narrated by: Levar Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?
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insight into key events in MLK's life
- By Philip Hanan on 2020-12-31
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The Floor of Heaven
- A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
- Written by: Howard Blum
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters....
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Yukon tales
- By Janice Alcock on 2018-06-01
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One Man's Wilderness
- An Alaskan Odyssey
- Written by: Sam Keith, Richard Proenneke
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed....
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Exercise Extreme Caution
- By Steven Sitko on 2019-10-04
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- Written by: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Caroline Langrishe
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The sensational biography of Princess Diana, now revised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death....
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Loved it
- By Debbie on 2019-10-27
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Caesar
- Life of a Colossus
- Written by: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....
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Excellent performance, timeless story.
- By Nicholas Taylor on 2018-02-26
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Blood in the Borderlands
- Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
- Written by: David C. Beyreis
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful Indian tribes, governed territories, became Indian agents, fought against the US government, acquired land grants, and created historical narratives.
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
- Written by: Nat Love
- Narrated by: Chris Matthews
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Thousands of Black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was 15 and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, “I had an unusually adventurous life.”
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Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull
- Inventing the Wild West, M.K. Brown Range Life
- Written by: Bobby Bridger
- Narrated by: Bobby Bridger
- Length: 25 hrs
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Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West show", William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West. Bobby Bridger draws on many historical accounts and Cody's own memoirs to show how deeply intertwined Cody's life was with the Plains Indians. In particular, he demonstrates that the Lakota and Cheyenne were active cocreators of the Wild West shows. This dual story of Buffalo Bill and the Plains Indians clearly reveals how one West was lost, and another born, within the lifetime of one remarkable man.
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Abraham Lincoln
- The Man Behind the Myths
- Written by: Stephen B. Oates
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In this multifaceted portrait, acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates, “the most popular historical interpreter of Lincoln” (Gabor S. Boritt, New York Times Book Review), exposes the human side of the great and tragic president - including his depression, his difficulties with love, and his troubled and troubling attitudes about slavery - while also confronting the many legends that have arisen around “Honest Abe”. Oates throughout raises timely questions about what the Lincoln mythos reveals about the American people.
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John Muir
- The Scotsman Who Saved America's Wild Places
- Written by: Mary Colwell
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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John Muir is regarded as the "father of America's national parks" and is a towering figure in the history of that country's involvement with ecology. This wonderful memoir pays tribute to a giant of ecology and is essential listening for lovers of natural history.
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The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and a Collection of His Writings
- How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destines and on Electricity
- Written by: Nikola Tesla
- Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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Enjoy this collection that includes Nikola Tesla's autobiography and his writings on how cosmic forces shape our destines and on electricity.
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Blood in the Borderlands
- Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
- Written by: David C. Beyreis
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful Indian tribes, governed territories, became Indian agents, fought against the US government, acquired land grants, and created historical narratives.
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
- Written by: Nat Love
- Narrated by: Chris Matthews
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Thousands of Black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was 15 and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, “I had an unusually adventurous life.”
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Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull
- Inventing the Wild West, M.K. Brown Range Life
- Written by: Bobby Bridger
- Narrated by: Bobby Bridger
- Length: 25 hrs
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Army scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world-renowned "Wild West show", William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody lived the real American West. Bobby Bridger draws on many historical accounts and Cody's own memoirs to show how deeply intertwined Cody's life was with the Plains Indians. In particular, he demonstrates that the Lakota and Cheyenne were active cocreators of the Wild West shows. This dual story of Buffalo Bill and the Plains Indians clearly reveals how one West was lost, and another born, within the lifetime of one remarkable man.
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Abraham Lincoln
- The Man Behind the Myths
- Written by: Stephen B. Oates
- Narrated by: Milton Bagby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In this multifaceted portrait, acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates, “the most popular historical interpreter of Lincoln” (Gabor S. Boritt, New York Times Book Review), exposes the human side of the great and tragic president - including his depression, his difficulties with love, and his troubled and troubling attitudes about slavery - while also confronting the many legends that have arisen around “Honest Abe”. Oates throughout raises timely questions about what the Lincoln mythos reveals about the American people.
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John Muir
- The Scotsman Who Saved America's Wild Places
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- How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destines and on Electricity
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My City of Dreams
- Written by: Lisa Gruenberg
- Narrated by: Lisa Gruenberg
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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In this carefully researched and hauntingly written memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder. In dreamlike sequences she weaves known facts of the lives of those lost into tableaus of imagined family dinners, conversations, and leisure activities set in the Vienna landscape. She especially brings back to life some of the girls and women whose fates remain largely unknown. These flights into the past are presented within the framework of Gruenberg's own family, her husband and daughters, and her father.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his 20s, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain.
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Escaping with His Life
- From Dunkirk to D-Day & Beyond
- Written by: Sir Nicholas Young
- Narrated by: Sir Nicholas Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Very few British soldiers could lay claim to such a full war as Leslie Young. Having survived the retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk, he volunteered for the newly formed commandos and took part in their first operation: the raid on the Lofoten Islands. He fought and was captured in Tunisia. He went on the run before his POW camp at Fontanellato was taken over by the Nazis after the September 1943 Italian armistice. He spent six months on the run in the Apennine mountains aided by brave and selfless Italians, many of whom were actively fighting their occupiers.
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Red Road from Stalingrad
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Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid firsthand account of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red Army's soldiers.
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Back to the Land in Silicon Valley
- Written by: Marlene Anne Bumgarner
- Narrated by: Lisa Feltes
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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When Marlene Bumgarner and her husband moved to a rural plot of land in 1973, she thought of herself as simply a young mother seeking an affordable and safe place in which to raise her child. By the time she left the land nearly a decade later, she had written two books and a weekly newspaper column, served as contributing editor to a national magazine, a college instructor, and a sought-after public speaker. Her natural food store The Morgan Hill Trading Post was the first one in her community.
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Gatsby's Oxford
- Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904 - 1929
- Written by: Christopher A. Snyder
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby - war hero and Oxford man - at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals, including the Inklings, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot.
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Toto & Coco
- Spies, Seduction and the Fight for Survival
- Written by: Alan Frame
- Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Toto Koopman - beautiful, mixed-race, bisexual Vogue cover girl in 1930s Paris and lover of the all-powerful press baron and wartime cabinet minister Lord Beaverbrook. Coco Chanel, brilliant couturier and parfumier, rich beyond dreams and friend of Winston Churchill, the greatest-ever Briton. Both the toast of Parisian and London high society.
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From Cowgirl to Congress
- Journey of a Suffragist on the Front Lines
- Written by: Jessie Haver Butler, MIla Johansen
- Narrated by: Angela Iannone
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From Cowgirl to Congress is an eyewitness account of Jessie Haver Butler, a suffragist on the front lines of the women’s movement. She was there and you get to be a fly on the wall. Jessie escaped a childhood of unthinkable tragedies on a Colorado cattle ranch to attend Smith College, which propelled her into the center of the fight for the rights of women. When women won the right to vote on August 18, 1920, Jessie became the first official woman lobbyist at the Capitol in Washington, DC.
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
- Written by: Sojourner Truth
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African-American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, she overcame obstacles to become a leading abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Published originally in 1850 and later updated, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth was dictated by Sojourner Truth to her neighbor, Olive Gilbert.
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If I Survive
- Nazi Germany and the Jews: 100-Year Old Lena Goldstein's Miracle Story (Faces of Eve, Book 1)
- Written by: Barbara Miller
- Narrated by: Nikki Delgado
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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“If I survive.” This thought haunted Lena. Her loved ones were cruelly forced from her arms in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and perished in Treblinka Death Camp. This is a true story of Holocaust survival. In WW2 books, it is a searing story of human rights abuses and genocide. The story of Nazi Germany and the Jews is a story of anti-Semitism, Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers, and World War II.
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The King in the North: Booktrack Edition
- The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
- Written by: Max Adams
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in battle earned him the epithet Whiteblade, an exiled prince who returned to claim his birthright, the inspiration for Tolkien's Aragorn. Oswald of Northumbria was the first great English monarch, yet today this legendary figure is all but forgotten. In this panoramic protrait of Dark Age Britain, archaeologist and biographer Max Adams returns the king in the North to his rightful place in history.
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Civil War Experiences of a German Emigrant
- Company D, 12th Michigan Regiment
- Written by: First Lt. Joseph Ruff
- Narrated by: Scott Ellis
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning as a green new recruit with no fanfare, no uniform, and only the bare necessities, Joseph became a seasoned soldier, at times living by his wits and off the land. Joseph recounts, in harrowing detail, his confrontations with the enemy and numerous narrow escapes. There was more than one occasion when Joseph felt that divine providence had not only saved him personally, but had guided the war, as well.