Circus History

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    • Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
    • By: John Woolf
    • Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria....

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    • Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
    • By: Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 896 ratings
    • The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combined - and collided - to help bring the Lakers three straight championships and restore the franchise as a powerhouse....

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    • A True Story of an American Tragedy
    • By: Stewart O'Nan
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • One of America's most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in this account of the great Hartford circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and its people....

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    • P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Best-selling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings - James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling - all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus....

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    • The History of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Johanna Oosterwyk
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Greatest Show on Earth: The History of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus examines the origins of the famous circuses, the background of the important individuals involved....

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    • A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time
    • By: Ryan McGee
    • Narrated by: Ryan McGee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team....

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    • By: Eddie V. Rickenbacker
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker was best known as one of the commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots....

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    • How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
    • By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid....

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    • 13 Ghost Stories
    • By: Linda Anthony Hill
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Hill House Manor is a haunted house in Texas. These stories are inspired by legends and other reported events associated with the old manor house. ...

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    • A Strange and Terrifying Journey into the Upside-Down World of Trump’s MAGA Rallies
    • By: Carl Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In this daring work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of reporting, Carl Hoffman journeys deep inside Donald Trump’s rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president’s base....

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    • Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
    • By: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • They called it Satan's Circus, a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway....

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    • By: Eddie Rickenbacker
    • Narrated by: Brett W. Downey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Eddie Rickenbacker was a WWI fighter ace. He arrived in France as a fresh greenie who knew little about flying and less about air combat....

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    • Tragedy Under the Big Top
    • By: Michael Skidgell
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies....

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    • The Life and Legacy of History's Most Famous Circus Animal
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Modern views of animals range from hunters who pay big money to go on safaris in Africa to vegans who refuse to use even the wool or milk from a fellow creature....

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    • By: Alyssa Helton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • Writer Michael Tallen is burnt out. He’s been trying to write a novel his whole life but to no avail and is now reduced to churning out ‘fluff ...

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    • By: Edward Whittemore
    • Narrated by: Brian Zelis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past....

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    • Performing and Laboring Under America's Big Top Shows, 1830-1920
    • By: Micah D. Childress
    • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth"....

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    • By: Eddie Rickenbacker
    • Narrated by: Johann Zeiger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Air Force played an important part in World War I. It included those who went up in balloons to gather intelligence. The planes were death traps; guns jammed and engines died all the time....

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