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  • The Rise and Fall of Alexandria Audiobook By Justin Pollard, Howard Reid cover art

    • The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

    • Birthplace of the Modern Mind
    • By: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,021 ratings
    • Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome....

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  • When Women Ruled the World Audiobook By Maureen Quilligan cover art

    • When Women Ruled the World

    • Making the Renaissance in Europe
    • By: Maureen Quilligan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious 16th century.

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  • God's Jury Audiobook By Cullen Murphy cover art

    • God's Jury

    • The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Cullen Murphy
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826-the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy....

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  • The Scarlet Letter Audiobook By Nathaniel Hawthorne cover art

    • The Scarlet Letter

    • By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Narrated by: Michael Learned
    • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 901 ratings
    • Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of 17th-century New England....

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  • Sister Queens Audiobook By Julia Fox cover art

    • Sister Queens

    • The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
    • By: Julia Fox
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings

    • The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn....

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  • Four Princes Audiobook By John Julius Norwich cover art

    • Four Princes

    • Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early 16th century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers....

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  • King of Shadows Audiobook By Susan Cooper cover art

    • King of Shadows

    • By: Susan Cooper
    • Narrated by: Jim Dale
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London....

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  • Thunderer Audiobook By Julian Stockwin cover art

    • Thunderer

    • Thomas Kydd, Book 24
    • By: Julian Stockwin
    • Narrated by: Christian Rodska
    • Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 24
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings

    • 1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London, he's greeted by the Prince Regent, who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his present command, insists he be given a bigger ship....

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  • The Story of Civilization, Volume III The Making of the Modern World Audiobook By Phillip Campbell cover art

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  • The Other Boleyn Girl Audiobook By Philippa Gregory cover art

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  • The Shakespeare Stealer Audiobook By Gary Blackwood cover art

    • The Shakespeare Stealer

    • By: Gary Blackwood
    • Narrated by: Stuart Blinder
    • Series: The Shakespeare Stealer, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings

    • Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" - or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform....

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  • The Last Jew Audiobook By Noah Gordon cover art

    • The Last Jew

    • By: Noah Gordon
    • Narrated by: Phillip Church
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story....

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  • In the Company of the Courtesan Audiobook By Sarah Dunant cover art

    • In the Company of the Courtesan

    • A Novel
    • By: Sarah Dunant
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 401 ratings

    • My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment....

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  • Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? Audiobook By Roberta Edwards cover art

    • Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to....

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  • Mysteries of the Middle Ages Audiobook By Thomas Cahill cover art

    • Mysteries of the Middle Ages

    • The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • By: Thomas Cahill
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Hinges of History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science....

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  • The Richest Man Who Ever Lived Audiobook By Greg Steinmetz cover art

    • The Richest Man Who Ever Lived

    • The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
    • By: Greg Steinmetz
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the 16th century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly 2 percent of European GDP....

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  • The Last White Rose Audiobook By Alison Weir cover art

    • The Last White Rose

    • A Novel of Elizabeth of York
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Series: Tudor Rose, Book 1
    • Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings

    • New York Times best-selling author Alison Weir explores the life of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth, the first queen of the Tudor dynasty, in this stunning historical novel....

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  • Leonardo's Brain Audiobook By Leonard Shlain cover art

    • Leonardo's Brain

    • Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
    • Leonardo's Brain uses Da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity....

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior Audiobook By Paul Strathern cover art

    • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

    • Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings

    • Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history....

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  • The Queen’s Spy Audiobook By Clare Marchant cover art

    • The Queen’s Spy

    • By: Clare Marchant
    • Narrated by: Alex Hogg, Russell Bentley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • 1584: Elizabeth I rules England. But a dangerous plot is brewing in court, and Mary Queen of Scots will stop at nothing to take her cousin’s throne....

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