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Bestsellers
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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
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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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Good story, poor reading
- By Kristie Miller on 02-09-24
By: Edward L. Ayres
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Good story, poor reading
- By Kristie Miller on 02-09-24
By: Edward L. Ayres
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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 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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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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Performance
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 River War
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The northeastern quarter of the continent of Africa is drained and watered by the Nile....
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Excellent
- By TheGoldenGoose on 05-15-17
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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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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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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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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- By: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman.
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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
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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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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 Sassoons
- The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
- By: Joseph Sassoon
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as "the Rothschilds of the East"....
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A telling history
- By Nick on 05-21-24
By: Joseph Sassoon
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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- By: Mark Mazower
- Narrated by: John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason....
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Excellent, had it not been for the narrator
- By Jean N on 05-15-22
By: Mark Mazower
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War of 1812
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Henry Freeman
- Narrated by: Mike Norgaard
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The War of 1812 is often forgotten when we think about the history of the United States. Yet, the effects of what seems a minor and insignificant conflict are far-reaching, even to today....
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- By Sèitheach MacCallum on 04-08-24
By: Henry Freeman
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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
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The North Star
- Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
- By: Julian Sher
- Narrated by: Julian Sher
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The North Star weaves together the different strands of several Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada to present a riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln....
By: Julian Sher
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
- A Japanese Woman and Her World
- By: Amy Stanley
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo - the city that would become Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West....
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Lovely microhistory
- By JS on 07-26-21
By: Amy Stanley
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History
- How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
- By: George Weigel
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals....
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Well written and considered book, bad narrator
- By Brad on 12-13-19
By: George Weigel
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The Birth of the Modern
- World Society 1815–1830
- By: Paul Johnson
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 48 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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This is an extraordinary chronicle of the fifteen years, 1815–1830, that laid the foundations of modern society....
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Surprised By a Negative Review
- By Doug Smith on 09-01-13
By: Paul Johnson
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The Real Horse Soldiers
- Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi
- By: Timothy B. Smith
- Narrated by: Ben Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Benjamin Grierson’s Union cavalry thrusting through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study....
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Good book but many mispronunciations
- By Brock Williams on 09-07-19
By: Timothy B. Smith
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The Europeans
- Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist....
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DO LISTEN TO THIS BOOK!!!
- By JK on 10-28-21
By: Orlando Figes
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac
- By: Adolfo Ovies
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac is the first installment in a remarkable trilogy to examine the strategy, tactics, and relationships of the leading Union army’s mounted arm....
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Garbage
- By Alice Conley on 04-17-24
By: Adolfo Ovies
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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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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
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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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 Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.
By: Eugene Rogan
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Spoil
- Spoil - A Word Used by Lord Elgin to Describe the Treasures Looted from the Emperor of China's Summer Palace by British and French Troops in 1860
- By: Andrew Shaw
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The West looted millions of priceless relics from China during the colonial era. It's time to give them back. This book tells the story of when they were stolen, who stole them and where they are now. It also offers a way to give China back its treasures which should be acceptable to everyone.
By: Andrew Shaw
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J.E.B. Stuart
- The Soldier and the Man
- By: Edward G. Longacre
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman. James Ewell Brown Stuart led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry to the all-but-complete satisfaction of his superiors. Being human, Stuart occasionally underperformed.
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told
- True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
- By: Jonathan Hunt
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era. Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever Told – a captivating journey into the heart of the Wild West's most legendary tales! This book is a treasure trove of the Old West's most thrilling narratives, expertly curated to bring you the very best of this iconic period in American history. You'll meet legendary figures like: George Custer, the proud and overconfident Colonel and Civil War hero who led his army into a slaughter at the ...
By: Jonathan Hunt
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The Beloved Vision
- A History of Nineteenth Century Music
- By: Stephen Walsh
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beloved Vision links the music history of this singular epoch to the ideas that lay behind Romanticism in all its manifestations. In this account, we come to understand the phase in music history that has become the mainstay of the twentieth and twenty-first century concert and operatic repertoire.
By: Stephen Walsh
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Lost Fatherland
- Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
- By: Iryna Vushko
- Narrated by: Angela Juarez
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.
By: Iryna Vushko