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 88,150 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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    • 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 15,488 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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    • 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 261 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 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 429 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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    • 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 14,040 ratings
    • Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

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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 25 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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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 709 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Series: The Red Wheel, Book 3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....

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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 24,378 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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    • 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 75,304 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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    • 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 835 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 1,934 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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    • 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 5,601 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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    • 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 290 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 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 8,531 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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    • 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 29 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Bryn Greenwood
    • Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22,357 ratings
    • As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight....

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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 68 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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