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    • By: Joel J. Miller
    • Narrated by: John Behrens
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • “Quick in the saddle and fast out of town.” Watch one of America’s most remarkable heroes come alive through fast-paced prose and gripping storytelling....

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    • The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
    • By: David L. Preston
    • Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country....

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    • The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
    • By: Jay Milbrandt
    • Narrated by: Wayne Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A pause-resisting story of the Pilgrims, the courageous band of freedom seekers who set out for a new life for themselves and forever changed the course of history....

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    • A Life in Nine Pieces
    • By: Laura Tunbridge
    • Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him....

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    • By: James A. Michener
    • Narrated by: Larry McKeever
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future - until the citizens of Budapest awoke one morning to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
    • By: Professor H.W. Brands
    • Narrated by: H.W. Brands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • This course examines the life of Franklin and his influence on both American and world history....

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    • Parables for a Planet in Crisis
    • By: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice....

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    • 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 114 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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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
    • By: Scott Weidensaul
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe....

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    • Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
    • By: Andrew Wheatcroft
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations....

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    • By: Thomas Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Philip Withers
    • Length: 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) served his country in many capacities - architect, naturalist, and linguist, author of the Declaration of Independence, and President of the United States. Not a conventional autobiography, this memoir is more of a summary of his life's work....

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    • By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 48 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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    • A Moral Reckoning
    • By: Nigel Biggar
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’—that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.....

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    • A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Rory Alexander
    • Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....

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