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    • Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....

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    • The Life
    • By: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 44 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials and illuminated with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh's troubled, restless soul....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,580 ratings
    • Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....

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    • Beryl and Edwina Mysteries, Book 5
    • By: Jessica Ellicott
    • Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
    • Series: A Beryl and Edwina Mystery, Book 5
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 732 ratings
    • As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn’t be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they’re the perfect match....

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
    • By: Michael D'Antonio
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day....

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    • A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
    • By: Rebecca Frankel
    • Narrated by: Natalie Pela
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids....

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    • An Elusive Woman
    • By: Lucy Worsley
    • Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
    • With access to rarely seen personal letters and papers, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century....

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    • Reaching Helen Keller
    • By: Sarah Miller
    • Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Sarah Miller's accomplished debut presents a fictionalized account of Anne Sullivan's life and her time as Helen Keller's teacher....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bhikhu Parekh
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts....

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    • Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
    • By: Anne deCourcy
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional prime minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style, and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon....

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    • The True Life of Mary Stuart
    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 25 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy....

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    • The Biography of Alexander Hamilton
    • By: University Press
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • University Press returns with another short and captivating portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures, Alexander Hamilton. Alexander ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Heather Morris
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage
    • Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31,421 ratings
    • This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • By: Jennie Rooney
    • Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman unmasked in 1999, at age 87, as the KGB's longest-serving British spy, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a brilliant young physicist during the Second World War....

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    • A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 937 ratings
    • For listeners who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel - and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Charles Frazier
    • Narrated by: Molly Parker
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War....

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