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Bestsellers
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Hell's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
- By: Susan Jonusas
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood....
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Historical FICTION
- By Schmulie on 03-26-22
By: Susan Jonusas
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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War....
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Questionable
- By Stafford Lewis on 05-16-20
By: S. C. Gwynne
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
By: Stephen R. Platt
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Husband Hunters is a deliciously told historical audiobook about the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the 20th century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey....
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Bondfide Valuable History Lesson
- By A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. on 09-21-18
By: Anne de Courcy
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....
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One of the Best Stories Ever Told!
- By Tiffany on 04-10-16
By: Joan Druett
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Crimea
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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Outstanding History of the Crimean War
- By Rick Sailor on 11-08-18
By: Orlando Figes
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Hell's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
- By: Susan Jonusas
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood....
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Historical FICTION
- By Schmulie on 03-26-22
By: Susan Jonusas
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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From the New York Times best-selling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War....
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Questionable
- By Stafford Lewis on 05-16-20
By: S. C. Gwynne
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
By: Stephen R. Platt
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Husband Hunters is a deliciously told historical audiobook about the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the 20th century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey....
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Bondfide Valuable History Lesson
- By A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. on 09-21-18
By: Anne de Courcy
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....
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One of the Best Stories Ever Told!
- By Tiffany on 04-10-16
By: Joan Druett
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Crimea
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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Outstanding History of the Crimean War
- By Rick Sailor on 11-08-18
By: Orlando Figes
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the enthralling story of the American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900....
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McCullough takes it to the next level
- By gregory m loyd on 07-12-11
By: David McCullough
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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- By: Mark Mazower
- Narrated by: John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason....
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Excellent, had it not been for the narrator
- By Jean N on 05-15-22
By: Mark Mazower
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....
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Not one boring moment!
- By WRWF on 12-22-17
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
- The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
- By: Edward Shawcross
- Narrated by: Gustavo Rex
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico....
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Excellent
- By Kyle P. Dalton on 03-24-22
By: Edward Shawcross
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights....
By: Alan Taylor
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Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- By: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian Rachel Chrastil presents a definitive new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I....
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It's rare I don't finish a book...
- By Chris Corsini on 09-26-23
By: Rachel Chrastil
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Diamonds, Gold, and War
- The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
- By: Martin Meredith
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....
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Engrossing story on the evolution of the modern SA
- By Cary on 05-23-14
By: Martin Meredith
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment from Napoleon's daring escape from Elba....
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Not a close run thing!
- By carl801 on 05-13-15
By: Bernard Cornwell
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist....
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- By JK on 10-28-21
By: Orlando Figes
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- By: Dean King
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Haunting
- By thawstone on 06-05-16
By: Dean King
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- By: John W. O'Malley
- Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made a dramatic 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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The content is outstanding
- By Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on 01-04-19
By: John W. O'Malley
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
- A Japanese Woman and Her World
- By: Amy Stanley
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo - the city that would become Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West....
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Lovely microhistory
- By JS on 07-26-21
By: Amy Stanley
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Sufferings in Africa
- By: James Riley
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad....
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19th century shipwreck saga
- By Leslie Grey on 09-05-07
By: James Riley
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The Birth of the Modern
- World Society 1815–1830
- By: Paul Johnson
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 48 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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This is an extraordinary chronicle of the fifteen years, 1815–1830, that laid the foundations of modern society....
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Surprised By a Negative Review
- By Doug Smith on 09-01-13
By: Paul Johnson
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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- By: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman.
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Not a Gentleman's Work
- The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth
- By: Gerard Koeppel
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of the most notorious crime in American nautical history - a uniquely grotesque triple murder - and the long journey to truth....
By: Gerard Koeppel
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Paris, City of Dreams
- Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
- By: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today....
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Superb
- By Cheri Stocking on 02-17-23
By: Mary McAuliffe
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The Ninth
- Beethoven and the World in 1824
- By: Harvey Sachs
- Narrated by: Patrick Egan
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs....
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a gem of an audiobook
- By D. Littman on 07-19-10
By: Harvey Sachs
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American Civil War: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Grant Finley
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning with the birth of the nation, slavery divided and caused conflict for the United States of America, worsening during the country's early decades....
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Good overview of a huge topic
- By E. Sander on 06-22-19
By: Hourly History
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Lost Fatherland
- Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
- By: Iryna Vushko
- Narrated by: Angela Juarez
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.
By: Iryna Vushko
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- By: Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 28 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built....
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The most boring of all polar exploration stories.
- By ASakaeva on 01-15-20
By: Fridtjof Nansen
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Palaces of Pleasure
- From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
- By: Lee Jackson
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the 19th century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement....
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Clear and reasonably comprehensive
- By thomas hanks on 02-17-23
By: Lee Jackson
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My African Journey
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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As Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1907, Winston S. Churchill toured Britain's territories in East Africa....
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A Step Back in Time
- By Jean on 01-23-16
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Chasing the Last Laugh
- Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
- By: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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“There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink....
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The Master Storyteller
- By Jean on 08-16-16
By: Richard Zacks
New releases
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Deceiving the Duke
- A Regency Romance
- By: M. Francis Hastings
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Callum leaned closer to her throat. “Why would you tease me this way? It’s torture.” “Torture? You know nothing about torture!” Her eyes narrowed, and she bit her bottom lip. “What do you think it’s like to keep such a secret from you? To have these feelings for you and be unable to say a word for fear I’d ruin everything? Not just for me, but for my sister.” His eyes bore into her. “You have feelings for me?” With that, she lifted up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to his, letting her emotions break free for the first time in her life. If that didn’t answer his ...
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The Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.
By: Eugene Rogan
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Spoil
- Spoil - A Word Used by Lord Elgin to Describe the Treasures Looted from the Emperor of China's Summer Palace by British and French Troops in 1860
- By: Andrew Shaw
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The West looted millions of priceless relics from China during the colonial era. It's time to give them back. This book tells the story of when they were stolen, who stole them and where they are now. It also offers a way to give China back its treasures which should be acceptable to everyone.
By: Andrew Shaw
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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- By: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman. James Ewell Brown Stuart led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry to the all-but-complete satisfaction of his superiors. Being human, Stuart occasionally underperformed.
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told
- True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
- By: Jonathan Hunt
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era. Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever Told – a captivating journey into the heart of the Wild West's most legendary tales! This book is a treasure trove of the Old West's most thrilling narratives, expertly curated to bring you the very best of this iconic period in American history. You'll meet legendary figures like: George Custer, the proud and overconfident Colonel and Civil War hero who led his army into a slaughter at the ...
By: Jonathan Hunt
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The Beloved Vision
- A History of Nineteenth Century Music
- By: Stephen Walsh
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beloved Vision links the music history of this singular epoch to the ideas that lay behind Romanticism in all its manifestations. In this account, we come to understand the phase in music history that has become the mainstay of the twentieth and twenty-first century concert and operatic repertoire.
By: Stephen Walsh
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Deceiving the Duke
- A Regency Romance
- By: M. Francis Hastings
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Callum leaned closer to her throat. “Why would you tease me this way? It’s torture.” “Torture? You know nothing about torture!” Her eyes narrowed, and she bit her bottom lip. “What do you think it’s like to keep such a secret from you? To have these feelings for you and be unable to say a word for fear I’d ruin everything? Not just for me, but for my sister.” His eyes bore into her. “You have feelings for me?” With that, she lifted up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to his, letting her emotions break free for the first time in her life. If that didn’t answer his ...
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The Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.
By: Eugene Rogan
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Spoil
- Spoil - A Word Used by Lord Elgin to Describe the Treasures Looted from the Emperor of China's Summer Palace by British and French Troops in 1860
- By: Andrew Shaw
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The West looted millions of priceless relics from China during the colonial era. It's time to give them back. This book tells the story of when they were stolen, who stole them and where they are now. It also offers a way to give China back its treasures which should be acceptable to everyone.
By: Andrew Shaw
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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- By: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman. James Ewell Brown Stuart led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry to the all-but-complete satisfaction of his superiors. Being human, Stuart occasionally underperformed.
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told
- True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
- By: Jonathan Hunt
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era. Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever Told – a captivating journey into the heart of the Wild West's most legendary tales! This book is a treasure trove of the Old West's most thrilling narratives, expertly curated to bring you the very best of this iconic period in American history. You'll meet legendary figures like: George Custer, the proud and overconfident Colonel and Civil War hero who led his army into a slaughter at the ...
By: Jonathan Hunt
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The Beloved Vision
- A History of Nineteenth Century Music
- By: Stephen Walsh
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beloved Vision links the music history of this singular epoch to the ideas that lay behind Romanticism in all its manifestations. In this account, we come to understand the phase in music history that has become the mainstay of the twentieth and twenty-first century concert and operatic repertoire.
By: Stephen Walsh