Historical Women

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    • A Novel
    • By: Ariel Lawhon
    • Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer, Ariel Lawhon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,264 ratings
    • Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kristin Hannah
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51,666 ratings
    • From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

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    • By: Anya Seton
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 905 ratings
    • In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson....

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    • The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
    • By: James Wyllie
    • Narrated by: Dalya Raphael
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle....

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    • By: Marie Benedict
    • Narrated by: Emily Rankin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17,118 ratings
    • The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly....

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    • Clara Barton and the Civil War
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a 39-year-old woman who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency....

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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 1,328 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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    • A Riveting WW2 Historical Saga of Espionage, Love & Betrayal. Inspired by a real story.
    • By: Hannah Byron
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A riveting WWII historical fiction novel of espionage, betrayal, and the personal cost of sending women to war—based on a true story. London, ...

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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 34 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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    • A Novel Based on the Book of Luke
    • By: Doug Peterson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • If you love the TV series, THE CHOSEN, you'll love THRONES IN THE DESERT. THRONES IN THE DESERT does what no Biblical novel has done before. It ...

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    • A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret
    • By: Eve Haas
    • Narrated by: Jane Carr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,046 ratings
    • Eve Haas is the daughter of a German Jewish family that took refuge in London after Hitler came to power. Following a terrifying air raid in the blitz, her father revealed the family secret....

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    • By: Catherine Anderson
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • Annie Trimble lives in her own world. Shunned by the town for being a simpleton, Annie is kept close to home by her parents. She enjoys her freedom roaming the woods and befriending wild creatures. Frequently taunted, Annie's world is shattered when one man takes the torment too far....

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    • By: Susan Meissner
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,535 ratings
    • A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away....

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    • A WW2 historical novel about a mother’s devotion
    • By: Alex Amit
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the shadow of the Nazi regime, one woman fights to shield her daughter from the talons of evil. Paris, 1941. Sarah, a Jewish woman, finds ...

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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 524 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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    • Lady of Ashes Series, Book 1
    • By: Christine Trent
    • Narrated by: Polly Lee
    • Series: Lady of Ashes, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Only a woman with an iron backbone could succeed as an undertaker in Victorian England, but Violet Morgan takes great pride in her trade....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Gail Tsukiyama
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama takes listeners back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amid the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk....

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    • By: Darcie Wilde
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Series: Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, Book 4
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,000 ratings
    • Rosalind is pleased when she's invited to Cassel House to help her friend Louisa prepare for her upcoming wedding. But that's not the only event on her agenda. The trip will also afford Rosalind the chance to see Devon Winterbourne, the newly minted duke of Casselmaine....

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    • By: Diane C. McPhail
    • Narrated by: Jessica Marchbank
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared....

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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 431 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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