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Bestsellers
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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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!
- De WRWF en 12-22-17
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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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....
De: Alan Taylor
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Hell's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
- De: Susan Jonusas
- Narrado por: Lee Osorio
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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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
- De Schmulie en 03-26-22
De: Susan Jonusas
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- De: Joan Druett
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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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!
- De Tiffany en 04-10-16
De: Joan Druett
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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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
- De gregory m loyd en 07-12-11
De: David McCullough
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Kassia St. Clair
- Duración: 10 h
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The Race to the Future sets the drivers' derring-do against the backdrop of a larger geopolitical and technological race to the future. Bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair shows how the Peking-to-Paris provided an impetus for profound social, cultural, and industrial change.
De: Kassia St. Clair
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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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!
- De WRWF en 12-22-17
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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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....
De: Alan Taylor
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Hell's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
- De: Susan Jonusas
- Narrado por: Lee Osorio
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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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
- De Schmulie en 03-26-22
De: Susan Jonusas
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- De: Joan Druett
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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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!
- De Tiffany en 04-10-16
De: Joan Druett
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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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
- De gregory m loyd en 07-12-11
De: David McCullough
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- De: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrado por: Kassia St. Clair
- Duración: 10 h
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The Race to the Future sets the drivers' derring-do against the backdrop of a larger geopolitical and technological race to the future. Bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair shows how the Peking-to-Paris provided an impetus for profound social, cultural, and industrial change.
De: Kassia St. Clair
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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- De: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 14 h y 29 m
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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
- De Stafford Lewis en 05-16-20
De: S. C. Gwynne
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- De: Dean King
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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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
- De thawstone en 06-05-16
De: Dean King
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Lincoln's Melancholy
- How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- De: Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Narrado por: Derek Shetterly
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies....
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Good and in depth view
- De Order B en 11-13-22
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Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- De: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrado por: Sarah Borges
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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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...
- De Chris Corsini en 09-26-23
De: Rachel Chrastil
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- De: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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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
- De Carl A. Gallozzi en 09-05-18
De: Stephen R. Platt
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
- The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
- De: Edward Shawcross
- Narrado por: Gustavo Rex
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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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
- De Kyle P. Dalton en 03-24-22
De: Edward Shawcross
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- De: Anne de Courcy
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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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
- De A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. en 09-21-18
De: Anne de Courcy
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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From New York Times best-selling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in 19th-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy....
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Excellent
- De Jean en 12-04-18
De: H. W. Brands
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
- De: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrado por: Bernard Cornwell, Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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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!
- De carl801 en 05-13-15
De: Bernard Cornwell
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Paris, City of Dreams
- Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
- De: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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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
- De Cheri Stocking en 02-17-23
De: Mary McAuliffe
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Hearts Touched by Fire
- The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
- De: Harold Holzer
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett, Traber Burns, Robin Field, y otros
- Duración: 50 h y 56 m
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In July 1883, just a few days after the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument....
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A good audiobook with one big flaw
- De William M. en 12-03-15
De: Harold Holzer
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The Sassoons
- The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
- De: Joseph Sassoon
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as "the Rothschilds of the East"....
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A telling history
- De Nick en 05-21-24
De: Joseph Sassoon
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- De: Mike Rapport
- Narrado por: Paul Daintry
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French....
De: Mike Rapport
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Red Sky Morning
- The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
- De: Joe Pappalardo
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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The explosive and bloody true history of Texas Rangers Company F, hard men who risked their lives to bring justice to a lawless frontier....
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A good story
- De John R. Maxey en 07-26-23
De: Joe Pappalardo
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With Musket and Tomahawk Vol I
- The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777
- De: Michael Logusz
- Narrado por: Dennis Johnson
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence....
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JSW Crap
- De Douglas en 05-17-22
De: Michael Logusz
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Liberty's Torch
- The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
- De: Elizabeth Mitchell
- Narrado por: Andi Ackerman
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty's Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor....
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quite a journey
- De Andy en 08-29-14
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The Beloved Vision
- A History of Nineteenth Century Music
- De: Stephen Walsh
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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The emotional resonance of nineteenth century has moved generations musicians and resonated with countless listeners. It has inspired artists and writers. But no writer until how has adopted such an insightful narrative approach as Stephen Walsh.
De: Stephen Walsh
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- De: Thorstein Veblen
- Narrado por: Mark Sebastian
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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His most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, is a treatise on economics and a social critique of consumption and of consumerism, based on the social stratification of people and the division of labor....
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Very analytical, but good education.
- De Sam Eppert en 10-22-21
De: Thorstein Veblen
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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- De: Mark Mazower
- Narrado por: John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
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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
- De Jean N en 05-15-22
De: Mark Mazower
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
- A Japanese Woman and Her World
- De: Amy Stanley
- Narrado por: Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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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
- De JS en 07-26-21
De: Amy Stanley
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- De: Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrado por: Ulf Bjorklund
- Duración: 28 h y 10 m
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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.
- De ASakaeva en 01-15-20
De: Fridtjof Nansen
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Chasing the Last Laugh
- Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
- De: Richard Zacks
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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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
- De Jean en 08-16-16
De: Richard Zacks
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The Real Horse Soldiers
- Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi
- De: Timothy B. Smith
- Narrado por: Ben Collins
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Benjamin Grierson’s Union cavalry thrusting through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study....
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Good book but many mispronunciations
- De Brock Williams en 09-07-19
De: Timothy B. Smith
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
- The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
- De: Doug Macdougall
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography....
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Good but could have been better
- De subrookie en 09-05-19
De: Doug Macdougall