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    • The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu....

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    • How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith
    • By: Elesha J. Coffman, Mark A. Noll - foreword
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. This engaging introduction provides a brisk and lively yet deeply researched survey of these intertwined forces from the colonial period to the present....

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    • By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Lara Vergnaud - translator
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • In 2018, Diegane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal.

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    • The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
    • By: Nick Bunker
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-10
    • Language: English
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    • At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation....

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    • Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire
    • By: Kal Raustiala
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Leon Nixon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
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    • A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. In The Absolutely Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala restores Bunche to his rightful place in history....

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    • By: Dinah Jefferies
    • Narrated by: Eliza Parkes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-16
    • Language: English
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    • French Indochina, 1952. Since her mother's death, 18-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
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    • South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era looks at the controversial history of the country, from the initial European explorers to the successful struggle to dismantle apartheid....

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    • By: Joseph Conrad
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-18
    • Language: English
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    • River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Alice Zeniter, Frank Wynne - translator
    • Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • Alice Zeniter's The Art of Losing is a powerful, moving family novel that spans three generations across seventy years and two shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a story of how we carry on in the face of loss....

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    • Exploration and Discovery Book. A Daring Quest in 16th-Century South America — A Saga of Greed, Exploration, and Conquest in the Heart of the New World
    • By: Reggie Welker
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • Chasing El Dorado: A Daring Quest in 16th-Century South America is a gripping historical exploration narrative set during the tumultuous era of ...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country....

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    • A Global History, 1500-2000
    • By: David Blackbourn
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
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    • Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany....

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    • Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
    • By: Elizabeth Reis
    • Narrated by: Susan Marlowe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
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    • Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men....

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    • A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
    • By: Kenan Malik
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-23
    • Language: English
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    • Not So Black and White is both a lucid history rewriting the story of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars....

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    • A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
    • By: Vikram Sampath
    • Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this concluding volume of the Savarkar series, exploring a vast range of original archival documents from across India and outside it, in English and several Indian languages, historian Vikram Sampath brings to light the life and works of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar....

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    • The American Army, 1898-1941
    • By: Edward M. Coffman
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
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    • In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army....

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    • Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
    • By: Matt Zwolinski, John Tomasi
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook narrated by Leon Nixon traces the history of libertarian thought from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo....

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