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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 356 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 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 427 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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    • 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 Hawaiian Islands
    • By: Gavan Daws
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The 19th century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights....

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    • A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
    • By: Helmut Walser Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past....

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
    • By: Thomas C. Foster
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media....

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,566 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,697 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • The Fascinating Biographies of Bad Girls, Seductresses, Rebels and One-of-a-Kind Women
    • By: Marlene Wagman-Geller
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Amazing women with a story to tell. Join Mae West as she shakes up the entertainment industry with her wit and wisdom or create colorful art pieces with Yayoi Kusama that are larger than life itself....

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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

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    • Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
    • By: Suzanne Simard
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,327 ratings
    • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

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    • The Last Season
    • By: Anne deCourcy
    • Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War....

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    • Nose-Diving into History
    • By: Ben Thompson, Erik Slader
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Series: Epic Fails, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this first installment of the brand new Epic Fails series, Ben Thompson and Erik Slader take listeners through the Wright brothers' many mishaps and misadventures as they paved the way for modern aviation....

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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    • The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
    • By: Ric Gillespie
    • Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.

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    • By: Jay Allison, Dan Gediman
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Series: This I Believe, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features 80 Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins with the book's title....

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    • Richard J. Daley of Chicago
    • By: Mike Royko
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.

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    • The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
    • By: Jacob Heilbrunn
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon....

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    • By: Ernesto Che Guevara
    • Narrated by: Jason Manuel Olazabal
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world....

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