Library History

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    • A Fragile History
    • By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....

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    • Major Great Civilizations of Antiquity
    • By: Taylor Quinn
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the secrets of our past and unlock a deeper understanding of human development. Immerse yourself in the legacies of ancient civilizations ...

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    • A Catalogue of Wonders
    • By: Stuart Kells
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve....

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    • By: Constance Savery
    • Narrated by: Karen Savage
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisoner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisoner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden friendship with him....

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    • The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,274 ratings
    • John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

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    • Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Selena Wisnom
    • Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 05-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.

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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 5 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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    • And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
    • By: Joshua Hammer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 456 ratings
    • This audiobook tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers....

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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 Struggle for Sacred Ground (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
    • By: Jeff Ostler
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In this enthralling narrative, professor and award-winning author Jeffrey Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux’s loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it.....

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • By: Amy Goldsmith
    • Narrated by: Laoise Sweeney
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A teen girl’s attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown.

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    • The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
    • By: Irene Vallejo, Charlotte Whittle - translator
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Long before books were mass-produced, hand-copied scrolls made from Nile River reeds were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and pharaohs, determined to possess them, dispatched emissaries to the edges of the known world to bring them back.

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    • History Smashers
    • By: Kate Messner
    • Narrated by: Debi Tinsley
    • Series: History Smashers
    • Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On April 15, 1912 an "unsinkable" ship called the Titanic unexpectedly hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Right? Wrong! Nobody was really talking about the Titanic being unsinkable until after it sank....

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    • The Invisible Library, Book 5
    • By: Genevieve Cogman
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Series: The Invisible Library Series, Book 5
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Peace talks are always tricky...especially when a key diplomat gets stabbed. This murder rudely interrupts a top-secret summit between the warring dragons and Fae, so librarian-spy Irene is summoned to investigate....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Making of History
    • By: Selena Wisnom
    • Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-25
    • Language: English
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    • When a team of Victorian archaeologists began to dig into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest stores of knowledge ever seen: a library.

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