Art History Nonfiction

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    • Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
    • By: Jeff Sypeck
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Transporting listeners far beyond Europe to the glittering palaces of Constantinople and the streets of medieval Baghdad, Becoming Charlemagne brings alive an age of empire-building that continues to resonate to this day....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Dana Arnold
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
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    • Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artifacts that make up art history....

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    • By: Ayn Rand
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • In 1958, and again in 1969, Ayn Rand gathered a small group of her friends and acquaintances and gave an informal course on writing....

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    • By: Sarah Fabiny
    • Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
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    • You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all of them, with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits....

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    • The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck
    • By: Michael Benson, Craig Singer
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • Groundbreaking pioneers of the Hollywood Dream Factory, Joseph and Nicholas Schenck may not have been household names like the Warner brothers or Louis B. Mayer, but they were infinitely more powerful, influential—and ruthless.

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    • World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
    • By: Michael Korda
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire.

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    • By: Nicholas de Monchaux
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function....

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    • How the Swampers Changed American Music
    • By: Carla Jean Whitley
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers"....

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    • The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
    • By: Javaka Steptoe
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Jean-Michael Basquiat and his unique collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen....

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    • By: Stephanie Spinner
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
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    • You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-riding, and action-packed performances....

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    • How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells, Concocted Creative Nonfiction
    • By: Lee Gutkind
    • Narrated by: Lee Gutkind
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction.

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    • A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
    • By: Alexander Wolff
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
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    • Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the 20th century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht....

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    • The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler
    • By: Michael Haas
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-24
    • Language: English
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    • What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe.

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    • True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda's life? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders? Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts....

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    • How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
    • By: Scott Borchert
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
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    • The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious - and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of broke writers and put them to work charting a country on the brink of social and economic collapse, with the aim of producing a rich and beguiling series of guidebooks to the 48 states....

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    • The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter
    • By: Dan T. Carter
    • Narrated by: Art Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman)....

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    • Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic
    • By: James Procter
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole.

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    • Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
    • By: Elizabeth Campbell
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories.

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