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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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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 RS on 2019-08-04
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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
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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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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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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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Incredible way to learn about history science and art
- By Mr. Micah Peterson on 2018-03-20
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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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Great story, annoying music
- By Rob Smith on 2020-07-18
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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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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 RS on 2019-08-04
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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
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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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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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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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Incredible way to learn about history science and art
- By Mr. Micah Peterson on 2018-03-20
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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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Great story, annoying music
- By Rob Smith on 2020-07-18
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Written by: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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Alternate vantage point of mid 20th century histor
- By brandon on 2020-09-30
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The Fields of Home
- Little Britches #5
- Written by: Ralph Moody
- Narrated by: Cameron Beierle
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912, as Ralph enters his teen years....
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- Written by: Dean King
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- By Conrad Noble on 2022-06-14
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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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An Underground Life
- Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
- Written by: Frank Heibert
- Narrated by: John Feather
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing....
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The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- Written by: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived....
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Phenomenal narration, and amazing survival story
- By Ben on 2018-01-31
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Kingdom of Fear
- Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
- Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson penned groundbreaking works as outrageous—and provocative—as the author himself....
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....
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Shackleton
- Written by: Ranulph Fiennes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice....
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fantastic story
- By Ralene Doiron on 2022-08-01
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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- Written by: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
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There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors....
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Not just another Churchill Biography.
- By Anonymous User on 2019-11-14
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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
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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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Adolf Hitler
- Written by: John Toland
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
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Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates....
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Stellar
- By Curtis Sagmeister on 2021-02-17
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Napoleon the Great
- Written by: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....
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Bad pronunciations
- By Amazon User on 2018-06-23
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Written by: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....
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In depth and gripping story
- By toby snelgrove on 2018-08-12
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Wild Bill
- The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
- Written by: Tom Clavin
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876, when Jack McCall famously put a bullet through his head during a card game. Best-selling author Tom Clavin has sifted through years of Western lore to bring Hickock fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story....
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WILD--WILD BILL
- By raoul bechard on 2020-09-23
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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
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The sensational biography of Princess Diana, now revised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death....
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Liked the story but not the readers
- By Mia on 2021-03-28
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A Moveable Feast
- The Restored Edition
- Written by: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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This new special edition of Hemingway's classic memoir of his early years in Paris in the 1920's presents the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published at the time of his death....
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The Indifferent Stars Above
- The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- Written by: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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In early December 1846, starving and desperate, Sarah Graves and 14 other pioneers led by George Donner set out for California on snowshoes and over the next 32 days endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors....
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Immersive and Affecting
- By Langer on 2021-08-05
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- Written by: Ray Monk
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....
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The Royals
- Written by: Kitty Kelley
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
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Kitty Kelley has gone behind palace walls to provide the first three-dimensional, comprehensive, and evenhanded portrait of the men and women who make up the British Royal family....
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Loved it!
- By Kaliah on 2019-11-19
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Written by: Clayborne Carson - editor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 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 H on 2020-12-31
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- Written by: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"....
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Depressing
- By BL on 2022-03-03
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Dark Genius of Wall Street
- The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
- Written by: Edward Renehan
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Author of The Kennedys at War and The Lion’s Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. presents a fascinating biography of one of the most hated and most admired American entrepreneurs of all time....
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Moon Man
- The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List
- Written by: Bart Sibrel
- Narrated by: Bart Sibrel
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Moon Man is Bart Sibrel’s revealing memoir recalling his harrowing journey investigating what really happened during America’s famous “Apollo” missions....
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Three Years Among the Comanches
- The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger
- Written by: Nelson Lee
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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On April 2, 1855, Texas Ranger Nelson Lee was one of four survivors of a night attack by the Comanches. He escaped death by torture by fascinating his captors with an alarm watch, convincing them he alone had the spiritual powers to make the watch work. This classic tells the tale of Lee's captivity and daring escape.
Written by: Nelson Lee
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Into Enemy Arms
- The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape with the Allied Airman She Loved
- Written by: Michael Hingston
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time, more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII. Twenty-three of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching column—and by chance hobbled into Lossen. One among them, Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey, was the man Ditha was destined to meet and fall in love with.
Written by: Michael Hingston
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Faces of Evil
- A Memoir
- Written by: Edwin J. Kitchen
- Narrated by: Kim S. Monti
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Stunning true story of a girl's survival during the most horrific and apocalyptic periods in history. Based on a memoir, a German girl is torn between two evil regimes: Stalin and Hitler during the 1930s and '40s. She must choose one to survive. She chooses survival. Relive the experience through her eyes in a tragic yet triumphant firsthand account.
Written by: Edwin J. Kitchen
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King Philip VI
- A French King’s Rivalry That Would Ignite the Hundred Years’ War
- Written by: Daily Learning Academy
- Narrated by: Eric LaCord
- Length: 1 hr
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King Philip VI was the first French King of the famous House Valois, and he inherited France at the height of its power. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t remain that way for long. His fierce rivalry with King Edward of England destabilized the region, threw France into turmoil, and launched one of Europe's most infamous wars: The Hundred Years’ War. Originally born into minor nobility, Philip was never considered to one day be king. The life journey of Philip VI, the first king of House Valois, is a truly fascinating story filled with unsuspecting inheritance.
Written by: Daily Learning Academy
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I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty
- Written by: Upton Sinclair
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Upton Sinclair, the greatest of the muckraking journalists, author of "The Jungle" and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, decided to run for Governor of California in 1934. It was the depths of the Great Depression in America and around the world. He changed his party registration to Democratic, ran for, and won the nomination. In this book, Sinclair lays out step by step what he proposes to do to lift the working men and women of California out of the poverty and unemployment which had gripped the state, the nation, and the world.
Written by: Upton Sinclair
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Written by: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic—so causing a civil war—and a cruel and bigoted mother. Leanda de Lisle's White King was hailed as 'the definitive modern biography about Charles I' (Observer). Here she considers Henrietta Maria's point of view, unpicking the myths to reveal a very different queen.
Written by: Leanda de Lisle
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Three Years Among the Comanches
- The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger
- Written by: Nelson Lee
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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On April 2, 1855, Texas Ranger Nelson Lee was one of four survivors of a night attack by the Comanches. He escaped death by torture by fascinating his captors with an alarm watch, convincing them he alone had the spiritual powers to make the watch work. This classic tells the tale of Lee's captivity and daring escape.
Written by: Nelson Lee
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Into Enemy Arms
- The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape with the Allied Airman She Loved
- Written by: Michael Hingston
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time, more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII. Twenty-three of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching column—and by chance hobbled into Lossen. One among them, Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey, was the man Ditha was destined to meet and fall in love with.
Written by: Michael Hingston
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Faces of Evil
- A Memoir
- Written by: Edwin J. Kitchen
- Narrated by: Kim S. Monti
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Stunning true story of a girl's survival during the most horrific and apocalyptic periods in history. Based on a memoir, a German girl is torn between two evil regimes: Stalin and Hitler during the 1930s and '40s. She must choose one to survive. She chooses survival. Relive the experience through her eyes in a tragic yet triumphant firsthand account.
Written by: Edwin J. Kitchen
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King Philip VI
- A French King’s Rivalry That Would Ignite the Hundred Years’ War
- Written by: Daily Learning Academy
- Narrated by: Eric LaCord
- Length: 1 hr
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King Philip VI was the first French King of the famous House Valois, and he inherited France at the height of its power. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t remain that way for long. His fierce rivalry with King Edward of England destabilized the region, threw France into turmoil, and launched one of Europe's most infamous wars: The Hundred Years’ War. Originally born into minor nobility, Philip was never considered to one day be king. The life journey of Philip VI, the first king of House Valois, is a truly fascinating story filled with unsuspecting inheritance.
Written by: Daily Learning Academy
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I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty
- Written by: Upton Sinclair
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Upton Sinclair, the greatest of the muckraking journalists, author of "The Jungle" and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, decided to run for Governor of California in 1934. It was the depths of the Great Depression in America and around the world. He changed his party registration to Democratic, ran for, and won the nomination. In this book, Sinclair lays out step by step what he proposes to do to lift the working men and women of California out of the poverty and unemployment which had gripped the state, the nation, and the world.
Written by: Upton Sinclair
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Written by: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic—so causing a civil war—and a cruel and bigoted mother. Leanda de Lisle's White King was hailed as 'the definitive modern biography about Charles I' (Observer). Here she considers Henrietta Maria's point of view, unpicking the myths to reveal a very different queen.
Written by: Leanda de Lisle
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The Cartainos
- Men of Passion, Men of Stone
- Written by: L. Salvatore Scarpitta
- Narrated by: L. Salvatore Scarpitta
- Length: 45 hrs and 13 mins
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After stowing away as a boy to come to America around 1905, an Italian immigrant sculptor later stands firm in his love for an unfaithful woman. Trapped behind enemy lines during World War II, he and his family go on to save over 600 Allied troops. This is the epic multi-generational true story of Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta and family. His story was only partially told in a 1953 episode of This Is Your Life.
Written by: L. Salvatore Scarpitta
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The Scandalous Hamiltons
- A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
- Written by: Bill Shaffer
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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It's a story almost too tawdry to be true—a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple's baby nurse—all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray Hamilton, though little known today, was one of the sensations of the Gilded Age.
Written by: Bill Shaffer
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My People the Sioux (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Written by: Luther Standing Bear
- Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Luther Standing Bear was seemingly everywhere in the course of his extraordinary life. He met Chief Crazy Horse on the eve of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was enrolled in the first class at the government-run Carlisle Indian Industrial School, witnessed the Ghost Dance movement, toured the US and Europe with showman Buffalo Bill, and devoted his later years to Indian rights. His firsthand accounts of those experiences—and his reflections on Sioux culture, customs, and traditions—combine to make this narrative a landmark of Native American literature.
Written by: Luther Standing Bear
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself
- Tredition Classics
- Written by: Henry Bibb
- Narrated by: Randall White
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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In this harrowing autobiography, Henry Bibb recounts his journey from the bonds of slavery to his fight for freedom in the Northern abolitionist movement. Born a slave in antebellum Kentucky, Bibb details his escape via the Underground Railroad to Canada and his struggle to free his wife and child, still in chains across the border, whatever the odds. His story is not only one of the most important narrative accounts of slavery in the United States but stands as a testament to the power of the human spirt and its zeal for liberty.
Written by: Henry Bibb
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John Brown
- Written by: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Narrated by: Kristen Wallace
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Few figures are more seminal in the abolitionist movement in America than John Brown. His firebrand approach to the movement arose out of his religiously inspired and deep-seated belief that slavery was not only morally unjust but that its removal from American society could only be achieved through armed insurrection. Prominent African American W. E. B. Du Bois chronicles the life of John Brown in this 1909 biography. In the words of Du Bois, John Brown was "a man whose leadership lay not in his office, wealth or influence, but in the white flame of his utter devotion to an ideal."
Written by: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Written by: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 26 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Following Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom, this third memoir by the iconic abolitionist expands on Douglass’s time in bondage, his escape, and his reinvention as an influential statesman—providing many details that, in earlier years, would have endangered himself and others. It also offers a fascinating window into Douglass’s political activism and his connections to major American figures of the mid-nineteenth century, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and three different US presidents.
Written by: Frederick Douglass
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A Thief and a Hero
- Written by: Robert Jeffrey
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A Thief and a Hero tells the extraordinary story of Gentle Johnny Ramensky: the son of Lithuanian immigrant parents who went on to become a household name as the foremost safe-blower in the country. His daring escapes from prison would further endear him to the public and eventually bring him to the attention of the British army. When the Second World War broke, he was hand-picked to join the Commandos and rechristened himself Ramsay.
Written by: Robert Jeffrey
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The Kingdom of Uthman Ibn Affan R.A.
- The Most Charitable Caliph (The Muslim Rulers’ Series, Book 3)
- Written by: Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhre
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Kingdom of Hazrat Uthman Ibn Affan R.A. is a golden and insightful book written to help listeners understand in detail the amazing personalities of one of the greatest companions of Prophet Muhammad. It is a must-listen, irrespective of your religious inclination, if you want to understand the before, during, the kingdom, and the huge contribution of Uthman to Islam as well as his special inclination to the prophet that distinguishes him from all other companions.
Written by: Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams
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Down Along with That Devil's Bones
- A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy
- Written by: Connor Towne O'Neill
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people preparing to erect a statue to celebrate the memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the most notorious Confederate generals, a man whom Union general William Tecumseh Sherman referred to as “that devil.” After that day in Selma, O’Neill, a white Northerner transplanted to the South, decided to dig deeply into the history of Forrest and other monuments to him throughout the South.
Written by: Connor Towne O'Neill
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Too Many
- The Divine Impacts of Leaders Throughout Recent History
- Written by: James Syver
- Narrated by: Adam James Connor
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From John Paul II to Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others in between, Too Many by James Syver shares the stories of 20 people who have impacted history and the lives of many. Each was moved to state their trust and belief in their Creator, and in large measure, credit Him for their work. Syver discusses each person’s background and character, what propelled them forward, how they inspired future generations, and how they were guided by their faith. From contemplations to inspiring actions, these vignettes underscore a personal belief and trust in the divine.
Written by: James Syver
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Silencing the Women
- The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons
- Written by: Kathy-Ann Becker
- Narrated by: Kathy-Ann Becker
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Silencing the Women: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons is the true story of what happened to an early New England colonial Puritan woman settler who was too beautiful, too rich, and too outspoken for her times. Enmeshed in a web of jealousy and gossip, she struggled to overcome victimization by the harsh judgments of church, state, and gender expectations. How she survived in the fearsome wilderness of the Connecticut River Valley Massachusetts Bay Colony is a love story told by a descendant.
Written by: Kathy-Ann Becker
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Light in the Dark
- The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust
- Written by: Robert Marshall
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair.
Written by: Robert Marshall