English Railroads

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    • A Novel
    • By: Colson Whitehead
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
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    • Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • Plantation Series, Book 2
    • By: Gretchen Craig
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Series: The Plantation (Craig), Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • Ribbons of Steel, Book 1
    • By: Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson
    • Narrated by: Marnye Young
    • Series: Ribbons of Steel, Book 1
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • The year is 1835, and Carolina Adams finds herself enchanted by an unlikely suitor: the railroad. Frustrated by society's expectations upon her gender, she longs to study more masculine subjects and is thrilled when her father grants her a tutor....

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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109 ratings
    • Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life....

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    • The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer
    • By: Holly K. Dunn, Heather Ebert
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year of college at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her boyfriend, Chris Maier, were walking along railroad tracks....

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    • The History of Trains in America
    • By: Christian Wolmar
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line—the first American railroad—in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel....

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    • A Historical Clean and Wholesome Inspirational Underground Railroad Romance Novella
    • By: Cecelia Dowdy
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Ruth’s beau died - simply because he was a slave.She is determined to help other enslaved people as she assists with the Underground Railroad. ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Martha Conway
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue - until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River....

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    • By: Doug Peterson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • They ran 1,000 miles to freedom and changed the country forever. The Vanishing Woman tells the true story of Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery ...

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    • By: Doug Peterson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • “I can't die but once!” This was the rallying cry of Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor in the history of the Underground Railroad. Her ...

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    • Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival (Railroads Past and Present)
    • By: Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, Eugene E. Harmon
    • Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership....

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    • Wolf Stockburn, Railroad Detective Series, Book 1
    • By: Max O'Hara
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Series: Railroad Detective Series, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Introducing a rail-blazing new series set in the early days of the transcontinental railroad - when America headed west, outlaws climbed on board, and one man risked his life to stop them in their tracks....

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    • A History from Beginning to End (Old West)
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • In the 1850s, the United States was a nation divided. In the North, industrialization and urbanization were both significant drivers of change. In the South, a largely agrarian economy was supported by the institution of slavery.

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    • Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
    • By: Betty DeRamus
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Uplifting and occasionally heartbreaking stories of love from the time of slavery in the American south....

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