History Childhood

Product List
    • The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford
    • By: Marion Crawford, Jennie Bond - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Originally published in 1950, The Little Princesses was the first account of British Royal life inside Buckingham Palace as revealed by Marion Crawford, who served as governess to princesses Elizabeth and Margaret....

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    • Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
    • By: Irmgard A. Hunt
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader....

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    • The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
    • By: Jim Dent
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • In the 1930s and '40s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites - a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least 30 pounds per man, were the toughest football team around....

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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135 ratings
    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • Memoir of a 1920s Childhood
    • By: Clement T. "Bud" Mertens
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Enjoy charming tales of yesteryear… Take a look at life in the early 20th century through the eyes of a young boy. A natural storyteller, Bud ...

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    • From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour
    • By: James Marsh
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it....

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    • The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
    • By: John Taylor Gatto
    • Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,408 ratings
    • Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine....

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    • By: Mark Mazower
    • Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • In this fascinating work, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Mark Mazower uncovers the history of the Balkans with detail and clarity....

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    • The Childhood History of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy
    • By: Charlotte Yonge
    • Narrated by: David Thorn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Based on historical fact, full of intrigue and chivalry, this is the romantic childhood history of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy....

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    • The Story of a Fire
    • By: David Cowan, John Kuenster
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago more than 50 years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief....

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    • A childhood rivalry and the biggest labor dispute in sports history...
    • By: A.J. Gordon
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This nostalgic page-turner is full of humor and heart! Aloha, Oregon, Summer 1994… Rick Reese, a sports obsessed family man and factory worker ...

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    • By: Angela Shanté
    • Narrated by: Angela Shanté
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Set in New York City in the ’90s, Angela Shanté’s poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present.

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    • How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
    • By: Rachelle Bergstein
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn to them? And why are we still talking about them now in the 21st century?

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    • By: Sam Varney
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-25
    • Language: English
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    • Join the author on a trip back to a time when the roads were dirt and the times were hard. Sam Varney shares what life was like growing up in the ...

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    • How to Gather and Preserve Family Folklore
    • By: Marcha Fox
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-25
    • Language: English
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    • As a genealogist, what would you give to spend one day with one of your ancestors? To witness everyday details of his or her life, whether it ...

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