Historical Nonfiction

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    • A Novel
    • By: Lisa Wingate
    • Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 87,834 ratings
    • Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force....

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    • By: Allen Eskens
    • Narrated by: Zach Villa
    • Series: Joe Talbert, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73,760 ratings
    • College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person....

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    • The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
    • By: Larry Loftis
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....

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    • The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,482 ratings
    • A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • We meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like....

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    • Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
    • By: Alfred Lansing
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26,256 ratings
    • In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice

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    • Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
    • By: S. C. Gwynne
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15,361 ratings
    • This exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads....

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    • By: Rebecca Yarros
    • Narrated by: Tim Paige, Carly Robins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,263 ratings
    • A heart-wrenching new novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming....

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,920 ratings
    • Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

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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 396 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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    • Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
    • By: John Railey
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In the summer of 1967, 19-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound....

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    • By: Elizabeth Hardinger
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Einstein
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 813 ratings
    • Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, 15-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow has learned a lot from her mama, Polly. She knows how to lance a boil, make a pie crust, butcher a pig, and tend to every chore that needs doing....

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    • By: Gregory A. Freeman
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,913 ratings
    • The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines....

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    • A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,424 ratings
    • Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....

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    • Growing Up in Siberia
    • By: Esther Hautzig
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • Poland, 1940. The Russian army invades the beautiful city streets of Vilna. Soldiers storm 10-year-old Esther Rudomin's house and arrest her entire family....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kate Quinn
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23,972 ratings
    • The author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping WWII story of three code-breakers and the spy they must root out.

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    • The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,837 ratings
    • If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky....

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