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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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    • The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
    • By: Kirstin Downey
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the 20th century....

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    • By: Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 499 ratings
    • A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt....

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • By: Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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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 1,464 ratings
    • Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story....

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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 324 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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    • A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    • By: Loung Ung
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,201 ratings
    • One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five....

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    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

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    • The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
    • By: Bruce Goldfarb
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics....

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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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    • A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
    • By: Bernice Lerner
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In All the Horrors of War, Bernice Lerner follows both Hughes and Genuth as they move across Europe toward Bergen-Belsen in the final, brutal year of World War II....

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    • Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
    • By: Wendy Holden
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,282 ratings
    • Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot....

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    • The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
    • By: William Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25....

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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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    • Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
    • By: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines....

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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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    • An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
    • By: Molly Peacock
    • Narrated by: Jill Tanner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In The Paper Garden, celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany....

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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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    • The Last Victorian
    • By: Kathryn Hughes
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The daughter of a respectable businessman, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exile when she began a scandalous liaison with married writer and scientist George Henry Lewes....

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