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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 496 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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    • 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 641 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 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 353 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 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 135 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,197 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 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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    • The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
    • By: Nina Burleigh
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official and a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home....

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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 345 ratings
    • Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of Adams's life....

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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 722 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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    • The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
    • By: Helen Castor
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • In the tradition of Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling, eye-opening examination of women and power in England, witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds - and one who never got the chance....

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    • Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
    • By: Martha Ackmann
    • Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest and most-mythologized poets, that sheds new light on her groundbreaking poetry....

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    • By: Jill Ker Conway
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit....

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    • The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin' s youngest sister and a history of history itself....

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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 1,461 ratings
    • Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story....

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    • The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
    • By: Leanda de Lisle
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Henrietta Maria is British history's most reviled queen consort, condemned in her lifetime as a traitor and adulteress and remaining in popular memory the woman who turned her husband Catholic and so caused the English Civil War. This biography considers the story from her point of view....

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    • Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
    • By: Georgina Howell
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire....

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    • The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
    • By: Nicola Tallis
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • "Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the heartbreaking words of a 17-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554....

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    • Notorious, Mischievous, and Wayward Ladies from the Old West
    • By: Chris Enss
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • During the late 1800s, while men were settling the new frontier and rushing off to the latest boomtowns, women of easy virtue found wicked lives west of the Mississippi....

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