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    • The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,329 ratings
    • A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

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    • A Life
    • By: Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,459 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times best-selling author of The Storm of War....

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    • By: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,284 ratings
    • In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling"....

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    • Learning to Live in Provence
    • By: Keith Van Sickle
    • Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Can a two-career couple really pick up stakes and move to Provence? Keith and Val had a dream....

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    • By: Gertrude Stein
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In Paris France, with a new introduction from Adam Gopnik - Stein unites her childhood memories of Paris with her observations about everything from art and war to love and cooking. The result is an unforgettable glimpse into a bygone era, one on the brink of revolutionary change....

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    • A Story of Courage and Couture
    • By: Justine Picardie
    • Narrated by: Justine Picardie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior's "New Look" created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him - and his last name - famous overnight....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,182 ratings
    • David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

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    • By: Peter Sagan
    • Narrated by: Sy Thomas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Peter Sagan, at just 28 years of age, is already one of cycling's greatest riders of all time. In My World, for the very first time, bike racing fans will have the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes of Sagan's cycling life....

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    • D-Day to Saint-Lô Through German Eyes
    • By: Vince Milano, Bruce Conner
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Based on firsthand testimony, this is the story of how one German division changed the course of the invasion, and almost the war....

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    • The German Perspective
    • By: Peter Margaritis
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness....

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    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

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    • The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an 18th-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project....

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    • A Year of the Good Life
    • By: Janine Marsh
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Series: The Good Life France, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • A little over 10 years ago, Janine Marsh and her husband gave up their careers in London to chase the good life in the countryside of northern France. Janine is now the go-to expat in the area for those seeking to get to grips with a very different way of life....

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    • Greg Lemond, Laurent Fignon, and the Epic Tour de France of 1989
    • By: Nige Tassell
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • The gripping story of the greatest race in cycling history, when Greg LeMond cinched victory by a mere eight seconds....

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    • A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
    • By: Anne Nelson
    • Narrated by: Anne Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Michael Anthony
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 651 ratings
    • Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc....

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    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain....

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    • The Journey
    • By: Antonia Fraser
    • Narrated by: Donada Peters
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 564 ratings
    • France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....

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