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 72 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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    • 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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    • 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 1,369 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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    • 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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    • 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 164 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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    • 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
    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Maxim Gorky
    • Narrated by: Nicholad Boulton
    • Series: Autobiography of Maxim Gorky, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy....

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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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    • 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: Peter Gray
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 592 ratings
    • In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion....

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    • True Tales of Childhood From Creative Legends
    • By: David Stabler
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world’s most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you....

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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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    • The True Story of a Childhood Journey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp
    • By: Stephen Matthews
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of prison camps through the eyes of a child. Stephen's parents did their best to protect his emotional well-being. But there is only so much you can do to hide such a dark truth....

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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 188 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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