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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Italian History, Starting from the First Settlements Through the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • It is not an easy job to draw the border between the history of Italy and the history of Rome. In so many places, the two political and geographical entities collide. They wouldn’t be possible without each other, but they each have their own story....

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    • Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943
    • By: John Gooch
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa....

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    • Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
    • By: James Hankins
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 23 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars....

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    • A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
    • By: David Gilmour
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake....

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    • The History of the IRA
    • By: Richard English
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now - at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland - than it was even a few years ago....

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    • 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence—from a foremost author of historic Italy.

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    • By: Hernan Diaz
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Orlagh Cassidy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,586 ratings
    • Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth.

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    • By: Kelly Rimmer
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34,032 ratings
    • In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....

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    • A Novel
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,570 ratings
    • From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

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    • Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
    • By: Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Anthony Doerr
    • Narrated by: Zach Appelman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64,757 ratings
    • When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....

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    • A Brief History of Spain
    • By: Giles Tremlett
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Best-selling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious listeners and hispanophiles....

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    • A History of Italian Cinema
    • By: Joseph Luzzi
    • Narrated by: Joseph Luzzi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Professor Joseph Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard College and an award-winning author, offers a comprehensive look at Italian cinema from its inception in 1895 through its major periods....

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    • Submitting to My Stepbrother Book 3
    • By: M. Francis Hastings
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • We’d been apart less than two days, and he was still determined to make up for lost time. “You like it when I touch you here?” he murmured ...

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    • The History and Legacy of the Mediterranean Island Since the Middle Ages
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Mark Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. It has rarely been governed as an independent, unified state. The island has always occupied a front-row seat to some of the most important events in history, and nowhere is this more obvious than during antiquity....

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    • Ancient Shelters and Modern Inspirations
    • By: Kam Ng, ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • This eBook explores the fascinating world of cave dwellings, diving into their origins, historical significance, and enduring appeal in modern ...

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