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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
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A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately...
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The Sassoons
- The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
- A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
- By: Paul Fischer
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Named One of the Best True Crime Books of the Year by The New York Times A “spellbinding, thriller-like” (Shelf Awareness) history of early cinema and the invention of motion pictures centered on the mysterious, forgotten man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy...
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
- A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-04-22
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The perfect companion to the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria A gripping account of Queen Victoria’s rise and early years in power from CNN’s official royal historian “Kate Williams has perfected the art of historical biography. Her pacy writing is...
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Becoming Queen Victoria
- The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-01-17
- Language: English
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He Has the People
- Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
- By: Jonathan Earle
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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James McPherson calls the election of 1860 "undeniably the most important—and pivotal—in all of American history." The nation was not merely divided over the issue of slavery; the opposing camps were at each other's throats. The moment John Brown and his men attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the fall of 1859 the compromises that had stitched the country together for decades unraveled. The presidential election was therefore about more than who the next president would be. It was about how soon war would follow his inauguration.
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He Has the People
- Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 17-11-26
- Language: English
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Robert Smalls
- The Life of the Escaped Slave Who Commandeered a Confederate Ship During the Civil War
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Smalls’ life illustrates what can happen when one is freed from the fetters of others’ estimations. Smalls’ metamorphosis from slave to ship pilot to U.S. Congressman displays the power of fiery determination and unrelenting ambition. News of Smalls’ incredible exploit made it all the way up to Lincoln, who eventually met him and asked why he would dare such a thing. Smalls replied with only one word: ‘Freedom.
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Robert Smalls
- The Life of the Escaped Slave Who Commandeered a Confederate Ship During the Civil War
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-02-26
- Language: English
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The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth
- How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics
- By: Jeanna Smialek
- Length: 8 hrs
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The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outearned Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction—changing economics forever At the end of the eighteenth century, Europe faced revolutions, famine, and war. It was out of this chaos that the field of economics was...
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The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth
- How a Nineteenth-Century Novelist Taught the World Economics
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 06-10-26
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea
- The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
- By: James M. Tabor
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the Atlantic. Nothing like it had ever been attempted, and Field knew nothing about electricity, telegraphy, ships, or oceans. But he believed that wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. After enduring years of global scorn, catastrophic failures, staggering losses, and brushes with death, Field would finally lay his great cable in 1866 and usher in the global information age as we know it.
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Lightning Beneath the Sea
- The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-06-26
- Language: English
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The Boundless Deep
- Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
- By: Richard Holmes
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive and...
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The Boundless Deep
- Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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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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One of NPR's "Books We Love" New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”—Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light...
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Hell's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Jowanna Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in a southern plantation. He was a son of a black slave woman and unknown white man. His mother worked as a cook in a house of plantation owners. In childhood he idn't have a surname as other slaves, but after the American Civil War that set the black slaves free Booker chose the surname of the first American President George Washington.
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Up from Slavery
- Narrated by: Jowanna Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-12-23
- Language: English
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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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The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it. Edward L. Ayers's rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs.
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American Visions
- The United States 1800-1860
- Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Maria Walewska. Le Grand Amour caché de Napoléon
- Napoléon et les femmes
- By: Octave Aubry
- Narrated by: Philippe Caulier
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Maria, jeune fille d'une famille polonaise noble mais démunie, a été mariée au riche Comte Walewski, de 50 ans son aîné. Son existence auprès de ce vieillard, pourtant doux et bon, est morne et sans joie. Alors que Napoléon entre en Pologne en libérateur avec ses troupes, elle lui est présentée lors d'une fête. Pour Napoléon, c'est le coup de foudre immédiat. Il n'en est rien de tel pour la jeune fille, pourtant objet des injonctions pressantes de son entourage : sa liaison avec Napoléon pourrait sauver la Pologne.
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Maria Walewska. Le Grand Amour caché de Napoléon
- Napoléon et les femmes
- Narrated by: Philippe Caulier
- Series: Napoléon et les femmes, Napoléon et les femmes
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: French
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The Louisiana Purchase
- A Captivating Guide to a Major Turning Point in the History of the United States of America
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Saffir
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from France and first explorations? Some people thought it cost too much and was too much land, while others saw it as the future of the United States. Who was right? Did France even have the right to sell the Louisiana Territory to the US? How did the Louisiana Territory go from being a vast wilderness to the central states? How did things end up the way they are today?
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The Louisiana Purchase
- A Captivating Guide to a Major Turning Point in the History of the United States of America
- Narrated by: Jason Saffir
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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Asylum Between Nations
- Refugees in a Revolutionary Era
- By: Janet Polasky
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic—refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish Altona, opened their doors, as did the federated Swiss cantons and the newly independent Belgian monarchy. The refugees thrived and the societies that harbored them prospered.
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Asylum Between Nations
- Refugees in a Revolutionary Era
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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Siglo de las luces…y las sombras [Century of Lights...and Shadows]
- Una historia de los liberales en México a través de las batallas, fervores, escritos y derrotas de Ireneo Paz
- By: Ángel Gilberto Adame
- Narrated by: Julio Doblán
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
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A pesar de sus paradójicas luminarias, la historia de México a veces es cruel con sus caudillos. Los arrincona, los hunde en empresas destinadas al fracaso, los arrumba en el olvido; prueba de ello es la mítica figura de Ireneo Paz, emblema de los liberales mexicanos, militar, poeta, crítico de su tiempo, novelista, editor vehemente y al final de sus días...solo un fantasma.
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Siglo de las luces…y las sombras [Century of Lights...and Shadows]
- Una historia de los liberales en México a través de las batallas, fervores, escritos y derrotas de Ireneo Paz
- Narrated by: Julio Doblán
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 24-08-23
- Language: Spanish
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The Tale Untwisted
- General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders
- By: Gene M. Thorp, Alexander B. Rossino
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. For more than 150 years, historians have debated if George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, dawdled after receiving a copy of the orders before advancing to challenge Lee's forces. Authors Gene Thorp and Alexander Rossino document in exhaustive fashion how "Little Mac" in fact moved with uncharacteristic energy to counter the Confederate threat and take advantage of Lee's divided forces.
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The Tale Untwisted
- General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Marie Curie
- History of the Pioneer Radioactivity Researcher
- By: Kelly Mass
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 48 mins
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Marie Salomea Skodowska Curie was a Polish-born, naturalized-French researcher and chemist who originated radioactivity research. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first and only woman to win it two times, and the only individual to win the Nobel Prize in two different clinical classifications.
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Marie Curie
- History of the Pioneer Radioactivity Researcher
- Narrated by: Chris Newman
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 22-07-23
- Language: English
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General Grant and the Verdict of History
- Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
- By: Dr. Frank P. Varney
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts on behalf of the Union. But has he received too much credit? Have others who fought the war with him suffered unfairly? General Grant and the Verdict of History explores these issues. Professor Frank P. Varney examines Grant's relationship with three noted Civil War generals: the brash and uncompromising "Fighting Joe" Hooker; George H. Thomas, the commander who earned the sobriquet "Rock of Chickamauga"; and Gouverneur Kemble Warren.
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General Grant and the Verdict of History
- Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Sarmiento (Spanish Edition)
- El presidente que cambió a la Argentina [The President Who Changed Argentina]
- By: Daniel Balmaceda
- Narrated by: Marcelo Pintos
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Sarmiento renunció a la masonería antes de asumir, vivió de prestado en casas de parientes y sufrió un grave atentado por parte del mismo bando que propició el asesinato de Urquiza. Cargó con la epidemia de la fiebre amarilla y la mayor tragedia naval de su tiempo. Completó su mandato en medio de una rebelión militar. Lo trataron de borracho, corrupto, inútil y anticonstitucional. Pero el contexto hostil no le impidió expandir los ferrocarriles y el telégrafo, promover la ciencia y la tecnología, impulsar el uso de maquinaria agrícola.
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Sarmiento (Spanish Edition)
- El presidente que cambió a la Argentina [The President Who Changed Argentina]
- Narrated by: Marcelo Pintos
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: Spanish
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Cherokee Civil Warrior
- Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty
- By: W. Dale Weeks
- Narrated by: Jason Grasl
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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John Ross served the Cherokee Nation in a public capacity for nearly fifty years, thirty-eight as its constitutionally elected principal chief. Historian W. Dale Weeks describes Ross's efforts to protect the tribe's interests amid systematic attacks on indigenous culture throughout the nineteenth century. At the outset of the Civil War, Ross called for all Cherokees to remain neutral in a war they did not support—a position that became untenable when the US withdrew its forces from Indian Territory.
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Cherokee Civil Warrior
- Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty
- Narrated by: Jason Grasl
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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