United States Nonfiction

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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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    • Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
    • By: Jen Lancaster
    • Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives....

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    • One Boy's True Story
    • By: Andrea Warren
    • Narrated by: Laura Hicks
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 510 ratings
    • Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes....

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,538 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
    • By: William Hogeland
    • Narrated by: William Hogeland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name and imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight?

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    • The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, Book 1)
    • By: Rick Atkinson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson - introduction
    • Series: The Revolution Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,501 ratings
    • Rick Atkinson recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence, from the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777....

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    • Eastern United States
    • By: Scott Jones
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • National Park Mysteries: Eastern United States is the first gripping entry in the National Park Mysteries series, where the lush and historic ...

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,118 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War
    • By: Thomas B. Allen, Roger MacBride Allen
    • Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Thomas B. Allen’s expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen’s knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the 16th president....

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    • History, Memory, Politics
    • By: Julien Zarifian
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust.

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    • By: Chris Van Allsburg
    • Narrated by: Angela Goethals
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Queen of the Falls highlights the death-defying attempt of 62-year-old former charm school teacher Annie Edson Taylor to be the first woman to survive the perilous plunge over Niagara Falls....

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    • Western United States
    • By: Scott Jones
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • National Park Mysteries: Western United States delves into the intriguing and often unexplained phenomena that pervade the vast wilderness of ...

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    • A Book About the People and Places of the United States
    • By: Holly Schroeder, Jeffrey Yesh
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Series: Country Abcs
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and culture of the United States....

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    • A History of Multicultural America
    • By: Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems....

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    • The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
    • By: Michael Gross
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For decades, writers have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America....

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    • A True Story of Resilience, Survival and Unbroken Spirit of a Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II
    • By: CORRIE SMITH
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A True Story of Resilience Survival and Unbroken Spirit A Civilian Dutch Woman in Europe During World War II Treasures of Sadness is the story of ...

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    • American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
    • By: David Wallace Adams
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools....

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    • Richard J. Daley of Chicago
    • By: Mike Royko
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.

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