Holiday History

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    • Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year
    • By: Linda Raedisch
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures....

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    • By: Sally Lee
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Young listeners learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Halloween....

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    • Candid Stories
    • By: Bruce David Forbes
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving - came to be what they are today....

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    • Holiday Histories
    • By: Sally Lee
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Young listeners learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Valentine's Day....

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    • History Smashers
    • By: Kate Messner
    • Narrated by: Annette Amelia Oliveira
    • Series: History Smashers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and made friends with Wampanoag people who gave them corn. RIGHT? WRONG! It was months before the Pilgrims met any Wampanoag people, and nobody gave anybody corn that day....

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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Series: The Gulag Archipelago, Book 1
    • Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,007 ratings
    • Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Series: The Gulag Archipelago, Book 3
    • Length: 21 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

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    • An Experiment in Literary Investigation
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Series: The Gulag Archipelago, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

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    • The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
    • By: Donald Clarke
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues....

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    • the perfect page-turning holiday read for 2021
    • By: Olivia Hayfield
    • Narrated by: Jess Nesling
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Following the scandalous revelations about his love life, disgraced media mogul Harry Rose is searching for redemption....

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    • 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
    • By: Abigail Pogrebin, A.J. Jacobs - foreword
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism....

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    • What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History
    • By: Robert Tracy McKenzie
    • Narrated by: N. Rezin Crawford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American holiday, veteran historian Tracy McKenzie helps us to better understand the tale of America's origins—and for Christians, to grasp the significance of this story and those like it....

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