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    • True Stories of America's Ghosts
    • By: Leanna Renee Hieber, Andrea Janes
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent maidens, wronged lovers, former slaves, even the odd axe-murderess—America's female ghosts differ widely in background, class, and circumstance. Yet one thing unites them: their ability to instill fascination and fear, long after death....

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 641 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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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 353 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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    • The Conflict Between Word and Image
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations....

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    • The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Marilynne K. Roach
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials....

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

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    • Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
    • By: Rosmarie Zagarri
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise....

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    • ReVisioning American History, Book 5
    • By: Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Series: ReVisioning History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance....

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    • How Love Conquered Marriage
    • By: Stephanie Coontz
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers....

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    • The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
    • By: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the turbulent 13th century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs, comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence....

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    • White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
    • By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy....

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    • 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
    • By: Rachel Ignotofsky
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of 50 notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), from the ancient to the modern world....

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    • The Women's History of the World
    • By: Rosalind Miles
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women....

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    • Memoirs of Inner Peace
    • By: Stephanie Y. Evans, Jana Long - foreword
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-19th century, with roots in African traditions....

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    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 797 ratings
    • A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism....

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    • The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,259 ratings
    • A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
    • By: Marianne Monson
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 611 ratings
    • Discover the stories of 12 women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journeys....

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