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    • 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction
    • By: Kenneth C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History Kenneth C. Davis provides a delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion.

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    • A Combat History of the First World War
    • By: Peter Hart
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality....

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    • How Winston Changed the World
    • By: William Nester
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Winston Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to place him in positions of power....

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    • WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • On the night of June 13th, 1944, a 12-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline....

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
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    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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    • John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....

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    • The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
    • By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Series: The Red Wheel, Book 3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....

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    • The CIA Secret War in Laos
    • By: James E. Parker Jr.
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • James E. Parker, Jr., served in Laos. Over many years he pieced together his own knowledge with CIA files and North Vietnamese after-action reports in order to tell the full story of the battle of Skyline Ridge....

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    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 685 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
    • By: Yijie Zhuang
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • We meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like....

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    • The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
    • By: Tore Skeie
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts listeners in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight into their goals, values, and what they chose to live and die for....

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    • 1880-1945
    • By: Gotz Aly
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole....

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    • A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
    • By: Clare Hunter
    • Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story....

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    • By: Sean McCollum
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • World War II was the most destructive war in history. Millions upon millions of people died, including innocent civilians. Both sides—the Allies and Axis Powers—pursued secret plans, tactics, and weapons to destroy each other resulting in horrors on a scale never before seen....

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    • How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
    • By: Sy Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn’t until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult....

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