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  • Black Flags, Blue Waters Audiobook By Eric Jay Dolin cover art

    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,243 ratings

    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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  • The Thirty Years War Audiobook By Peter H. Wilson cover art

    • The Thirty Years War

    • Europe's Tragedy
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings

    • The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

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  • Born to Be Hanged Audiobook By Keith Thomson cover art

    • Born to Be Hanged

    • The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
    • By: Keith Thomson
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 318 ratings

    • The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island....

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  • The Island at the Center of the World Audiobook By Russell Shorto cover art

    • The Island at the Center of the World

    • The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
    • By: Russell Shorto
    • Narrated by: Russell Shorto
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 537 ratings
    • In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....

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  • Under the Black Flag Audiobook By David Cordingly cover art

    • Under the Black Flag

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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  • The Year of Lear Audiobook By James Shapiro cover art

    • The Year of Lear

    • Shakespeare in 1606
    • By: James Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....

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  • Vermeer's Hat Audiobook By Timothy Brook cover art

    • Vermeer's Hat

    • The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
    • By: Timothy Brook
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl....

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  • Away Off Shore Audiobook By Nathaniel Philbrick cover art

    • Away Off Shore

    • Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world....

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  • They Flew Audiobook By Carlos M. N. Eire cover art

    • They Flew

    • A History of the Impossible
    • By: Carlos M. N. Eire
    • Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....

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  • The Journal of the Plague Year Audiobook By Daniel Defoe cover art

    • The Journal of the Plague Year

    • London, 1665
    • By: Daniel Defoe
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed thousands of helpless citizens....

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  • The Devils of Loudun Audiobook By Aldous Huxley cover art

    • The Devils of Loudun

    • A True Story of Demonic Possession
    • By: Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil....

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  • Killers of the King Audiobook By Charles Spencer cover art

    • Killers of the King

    • The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
    • By: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings

    • January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....

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  • Thunderclap Audiobook By Laura Cumming cover art

    • Thunderclap

    • A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
    • By: Laura Cumming
    • Narrated by: Laura Cumming
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming tells the fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.

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  • The Pirate Hunter Audiobook By Richard Zacks cover art

    • The Pirate Hunter

    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 953 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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  • The Invention of Science Audiobook By David Wootton cover art

    • The Invention of Science

    • A New History of the Scientific Revolution
    • By: David Wootton
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....

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  • Nature's Mutiny Audiobook By Philipp Blom cover art

    • Nature's Mutiny

    • How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
    • By: Philipp Blom
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 97 ratings

    • An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe....

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  • Becoming Queen Victoria Audiobook By Kate Williams cover art

    • Becoming Queen Victoria

    • The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
    • By: Kate Williams
    • Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • In 1819, a girl was born to the fourth son of King George III. No one could have expected such an unassuming, overprotected girl to be an effective ruler....

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  • 1619 Audiobook By James Horn cover art

    • 1619

    • Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
    • By: James Horn
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings

    • Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history....

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  • Spain Audiobook By Robert Goodwin cover art

    • Spain

    • The Centre of the World 1519-1682
    • By: Robert Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
    • Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....

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  • The Enlightenment Audiobook By Anthony Pagden cover art

    • The Enlightenment

    • And Why It Still Matters
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....

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