Historical Memoirs

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    • A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
    • By: T. W. Neal
    • Narrated by: Sara Malia Hatfield
    • Series: Memoir, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but we’ve been "camping" for six months....

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 647 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • By: David Rockefeller
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Born into one of the wealthiest families in America, David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own....

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    • The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
    • By: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century....

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    • A Narrative
    • By: Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Series: Winning of America, Book 1
    • Length: 30 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,135 ratings
    • The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America....

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    • Women in the West, Book 1
    • By: Margot Mifflin
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • In 1851 Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures....

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    • Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541 ratings
    • Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family....

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    • The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • By: Caroline Fraser
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,201 ratings
    • The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series....

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    • The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,463 ratings
    • Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story....

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    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval....

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    • By: Woody Holton
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
    • Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of Adams's life....

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    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,110 ratings
    • In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo....

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    • The Classic Memoir of the Civil War by a Confederate Soldier
    • By: Sam R. Watkins
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with his irrepressible sense of humor and his sharp eye for the lighter side of battle....

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    • By: Gerda Weissmann Klein
    • Narrated by: Grace Conlin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050 ratings
    • A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story...

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    • Hitler's Architect
    • By: Martin Kitchen
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
    • By: Adam Makos
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,636 ratings
    • Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany....

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    • The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
    • By: Sarah Gristwood
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in 15th-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since....

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