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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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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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
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    • 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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    • The World Around Us, Book 2
    • By: Jillian Roberts
    • Narrated by: Jillian Roberts
    • Series: The World Around Us, Book 2
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    • Release date: 10-29-24
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    • On the News gently introduces young children to the realities of natural disasters, terrorism and other forms of tragedy. In age-appropriate language and tone, Dr. Roberts explains what tragedy is, the feelings it may create and how to manage those feelings.

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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
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    • 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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    • 1880-1945
    • By: Gotz Aly
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
    • By: John F. White
    • Narrated by: Keval Shah
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world....

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