- 17th Century (110)
- 19th Century (408)
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Performance
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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 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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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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Performance
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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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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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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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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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American Visions
- The United States 1800-1860
- By: Edward L. Ayres
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward L. Ayers examines the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today....
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AI Reader?
- By pitjrw on 06-17-24
By: Edward L. Ayres
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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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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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Lost Kingdom
- Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
- By: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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First colonized around 200 A.D. by intrepid Polynesian islanders, Hawaii existed for hundreds of years in splendid isolation. Foreigners did not visit the islands until 1788....
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Fascinating story, sparsely told
- By Great Tutu Kona on 01-17-12
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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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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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Hearts Touched by Fire
- The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
- By: Harold Holzer
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, Traber Burns, Robin Field, and others
- Length: 50 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By William M. on 12-03-15
By: Harold Holzer
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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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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Jean on 12-04-18
By: H. W. Brands
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris, 1830-1900
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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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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Terrific book, terrible abridgement
- By Barbara on 06-21-11
By: David McCullough
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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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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- By: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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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.
By: Kassia St. Clair
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Mike Rapport
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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
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The Making of the English Working Class
- By: E.P. Thompson
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 34 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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E. P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian....
By: E.P. Thompson
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Land of Wondrous Cold
- The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
- By: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the 19th century to modern scientific breakthroughs....
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Why Antartica matters
- By r-audible c richardson iv on 07-18-23
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The Invention of China
- By: Bill Hayton
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day....
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trash
- By Maciel on 11-21-22
By: Bill Hayton
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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A Perfect Abridgement
- By M on 05-28-09
By: Charles Darwin
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Lincoln's Melancholy
- How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- By: Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Order B on 11-13-22
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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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James Madison: A Life from Beginning to End
- One Hour History US Presidents, Book 3
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook will introduce you to James Madison. Besides becoming the fourth president of the United States, he served in government for most of his life....
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A Great Short History of James Madison
- By Michael E. B. on 02-21-20
By: Hourly History
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Victorian London
- The Life of a City, 1840-1870
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled....
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Unforgettable journey into the past
- By Adeliese Baumann on 05-27-18
By: Liza Picard
New releases
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- By: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
By: Kassia St. Clair
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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. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
By: Alan Taylor
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Conquer the CLEP Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present Exam
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare for success on the CLEP Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present exam with this comprehensive study guide. Covering key topics from Absolutism and Constitutionalism to contemporary Europe, this guide offers a thorough review of essential historical events, developments, and themes. Inside, you'll find: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, 1648–1715: Explore the rise of absolute monarchies, the balance of power in Europe, and the emergence of constitutional governments. Competition for empire and economic expansion: Learn about the age of exploration, colonialism, and the economic...
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history, City of Light, City of Shadows, beneath the elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself.
By: Mike Rapport
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siècle Paris was a city at war with itself. In City of Light, City of Shadows, Mike Rapport uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anti-Semitism.
By: Mike Rapport
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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 Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- By: Kassia St. Clair
- Narrated by: Kassia St. Clair
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.
By: Kassia St. Clair
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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
By: Alan Taylor
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Conquer the CLEP Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present Exam
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Prepare for success on the CLEP Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present exam with this comprehensive study guide. Covering key topics from Absolutism and Constitutionalism to contemporary Europe, this guide offers a thorough review of essential historical events, developments, and themes. Inside, you'll find: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, 1648–1715: Explore the rise of absolute monarchies, the balance of power in Europe, and the emergence of constitutional governments. Competition for empire and economic expansion: Learn about the age of exploration, colonialism, and the economic...
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history, City of Light, City of Shadows, beneath the elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself.
By: Mike Rapport
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however, fin de siècle Paris was a city at war with itself. In City of Light, City of Shadows, Mike Rapport uncovers a Paris riven by social anxieties and plagued by overlapping epidemics of poverty, political extremism, and anti-Semitism.
By: Mike Rapport
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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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Overall
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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 ...