History Childhood

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    • 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 70 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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    • 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 260 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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    • Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
    • By: Kathryn Lasky
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Welcome to the bizarre court of Henry VIII, where even a princess fears losing her head like her mother....

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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 1,359 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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    • 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 163 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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    • Discovering the Secrets of Christ's Childhood Years
    • By: Paul Perry
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Bible contains but a few verses about the years the Holy Family spent in Egypt - their flight from Herod's death sentence, the weary journey, ...

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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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    • 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 60 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • By: Linda Sue Park
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 909 ratings
    • Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters’ village. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage by setting off on a difficult and dangerous journey that will change his life forever....

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    • A Short History [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Lawrence M. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Lawrence M. Friedman is Professor of Law at Stanford University and author of 23 books about law and legal history....

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    • The Biography of a Place
    • By: Harry Crews, Tobias Wolff - foreword
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • A Childhood is the highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South.

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    • By: Cynthia Kadohata
    • Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem....

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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 117 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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    • 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 1,109 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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