Social History Ghosts

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    • Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism
    • By: Samuel M. Katz
    • Narrated by: Ganim Peter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • This is the untold story of how Israel fought back with an elite force of undercover operatives drawn from the nation's diverse backgrounds and ethnicities....

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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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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
    • By: Shaun Walker
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Shaun Walker provides new insight into contemporary Russia and its search for a new identity, telling the story through the country's troubled relationship with its Soviet past....

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    • Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....

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    • An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
    • By: Russell Cobb
    • Narrated by: Chris Baetens
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed.

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    • Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
    • By: Gordon Corera
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 836 ratings
    • With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present....

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    • Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Laura Beers
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For the seventy-fifth anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell's still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.

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    • The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
    • By: Steve Luxenberg
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences....

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    • How One Small Mexican-American Community Gave So Much in World War II and Korea
    • By: Carlos Harrison
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • They came from one street, but death found them in many places: in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky....

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    • A Ghost Story
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Vaishali Sharma
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Capitalism examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people....

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    • By: Chantel Acevedo
    • Narrated by: Edward A. Mendoza
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process....

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    • In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
    • By: Eileen Pollack
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In June 1889 a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold on to land....

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    • Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
    • By: Kwasi Kwarteng
    • Narrated by: Kwasi Kwarteng, Elliot Levey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Kwasi Kwarteng brings a unique perspective and impeccable academic credentials to a narrative history of the British Empire....

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    • Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
    • By: Monica Black
    • Narrated by: Erin Dion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A revelatory counterhistory of postwar Germany, not as a reborn democracy but as a nation convulsed by apocalyptic visions, witchcraft trials, and supernatural obsessions....

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    • By: Rani-Henrik Andersson
    • Narrated by: J. Bruce McRell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A broad range of perspectives from natives and nonnatives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published....

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    • How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes
    • By: Gail Jarrow
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • It is the early twentieth century and the spiritualism movement is soaring in America. World War I and an influenza pandemic have killed hundreds of thousands. People are desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, so they seek the help of mediums, psychics, and fortune tellers.

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    • Delivering Unopened Mail from a Pennsylvania Ghost Town
    • By: Jessica Weible
    • Narrated by: Julie John
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • What begins as yet another assignment for a reporter, a young millennial who relies happily on email and texting as the primary means of communication, develops into a heartfelt mission to tell the story of the people and places in the letters....

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    • Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of Northeast Japan....

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