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Australia: A History - How an ancient land became a great democracy
- Written by: Tony Abbott
- Narrated by: Tony Abbott
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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How an ancient land became a great democracy. Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative' Geoffrey Blainey, historian 'I think it's very good' Tom Holland, historian Australia is...
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Australia: A History - How an ancient land became a great democracy
- Narrated by: Tony Abbott
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-13
- Language: English
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James May's 20th Century
- Written by: James May, Phil Dolling
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.-
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lovely book, narrating a bit crispy
- By Loraine on 2021-05-08
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James May's 20th Century
- Narrated by: James May
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2007-08-20
- Language: English
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Notes from the Other Side of Night
- From Communism to a Fragile Freedom
- Written by: Juliana Geran Pilon, Mircea Eliade - foreword, Wilfred M. McClay - introduction
- Length: Not yet known
- Unabridged
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In Notes from the Other Side of Night, Juliana Geran Pilon provides a beautiful memoir of a return to her native Romania in 1975, which she left with her family when she was just fourteen. Poetically weaving together hard-won adult insights with her childhood perceptions, Pilon tells the haunting stories of her parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. She recounts the chilling realities of anti-Semitism, political imprisonment, and judicial execution under Romania’s ruthless communist authorities.
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Notes from the Other Side of Night
- From Communism to a Fragile Freedom
- Length: Not yet known
- Release date: 2026-09-01
- Language: English
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Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- Written by: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
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Not quite what I was expecting
- By Gloria Rose on 2021-07-26
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Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-07
- Language: English
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Midnight in Peking
- How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
- Written by: Paul French
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through...
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Midnight in Peking
- How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-24
- Language: English
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Upstairs & Downstairs
- My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
- Written by: Hilda Newman, Tim Tate
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families. In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to this period between the wars; a gilded era which would soon be dramatically changed by the Second World War.
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It was good
- By RW on 2022-08-22
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Upstairs & Downstairs
- My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-19
- Language: English
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Two Who Survived
- Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust
- Written by: Rose Schindler, Max Schindler, M. Lee Connolly
- Narrated by: Rose Schindler, Michael Beck
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Two Who Survived chronicles the true story of two children from different worlds: a city boy and a country girl. When the persecution of Jews begins, both are plucked from their reality and thrust into concentration camps. They are stripped of everything they know and forced to navigate a truly incomprehensible, volatile, dangerous, and unpredictable world.
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Amazing & moving story.
- By Frogclan10 on 2023-01-02
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Two Who Survived
- Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Rose Schindler, Michael Beck
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-20
- Language: English
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Three Revolutions
- Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World
- Written by: Simon Hall
- Narrated by: Simon Hall
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions. Here, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together for the first time. At the heart of each revolution was an epic journey: Lenin's 1917 return to Russia from exile in Switzerland; Mao's 'Long March' of 1934-35, covering some 6,000 miles across China; and Fidel Castro's return to Cuba.
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Three Revolutions
- Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World
- Narrated by: Simon Hall
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2025-07-01
- Language: English
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- Written by: John W. O'Malley
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources, but in the first half of the 19th century, the foundations upon which the church had rested were shaken. For many people, liberalism in the guise of liberty, equality, and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations. At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made an effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. Author John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two.
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A good historical insight into VAT 1
- By Mark on 2024-02-12
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-16
- Language: English
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- Written by: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers...
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Outstanding Book
- By Penseur on 2024-07-20
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2011-05-24
- Language: English
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The Wall Dancers
- Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
- Written by: Yi-Ling Liu
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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An eye-opening exploration of the Chinese internet that reveals the intricate dance between freedom and control in contemporary China “The Wall Dancers is history told in a gripping, novelistic style. It is at once a crash course in contemporary Chinese politics and culture and an epic story...
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The Wall Dancers
- Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
- Narrated by: Jen Zhao
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2026-02-03
- Language: English
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The Invisible Bridge
- The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
- Written by: Rick Perlstein
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs
- Unabridged
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In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term - until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon’s resignation “our long national nightmare is over” - but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives.
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Too many irrelevant names nobody knows or cares about. Too much information. Lost the story in too much detail.
- By Anonymous on 2026-01-16
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The Invisible Bridge
- The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs
- Release date: 2014-08-05
- Language: English
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Written by: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier.
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-29
- Language: English
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Thirteen Days
- A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Written by: Robert F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes the hour-by-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a foreword to this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light from the former Soviet Union.
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Thirteen Days
- A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-11
- Language: English
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The Nobel Prize
- A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige
- Written by: Burton Feldman
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Founded 100 years ago by the inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize is the world's most celebrated and controversial honor. It grants its winners instant celebrity and acclaim for "service to mankind", despite accusations that it is too trendy, arbitrary, and narrow-minded. In examining both its fame and notoriety, Burton Feldman opens up the Nobel institution and process: how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures (political, moral, personal, and academic).
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Almost there
- By RW on 2023-04-18
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The Nobel Prize
- A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-15
- Language: English
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Land Power
- Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
- Written by: Michael Albertus
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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An award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege. But the true power of land ownership is even greater than we might think. In Land Power...
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Land Power
- Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2025-01-14
- Language: English
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- Written by: Richard Cockett
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-12-26
- Language: English
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Achtung Panzer!
- Written by: Heinz Guderian
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937...
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Achtung Panzer!
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-30
- Language: English
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Assad or We Burn the Country
- How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
- Written by: Sam Dagher
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
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From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army...
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Assad or We Burn the Country
- How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-28
- Language: English
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The Last Empire
- The Final Days of the Soviet Union
- Written by: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
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On Christmas, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: Earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades. As Serhii Plokhy reveals, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the US.
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Detailed account of events leading to fall of USSR
- By Charles Martin on 2022-04-27
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The Last Empire
- The Final Days of the Soviet Union
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-28
- Language: English
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