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    A Bite-Sized History of France

    Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    From the cassoulet that won a war to the crêpe that doomed Napoleon, from the rebellions sparked by bread and salt to the new cuisines forged by empire, the history of France is intimately entwined with its gastronomic pursuits. A witty exploration of the facts and legends surrounding some of the most popular French foods and wines by a French cheesemonger and an American academic, A Bite-Sized ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 50 min

    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Empires of the Sea

    The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

    by Roger Crowley ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    Empires of the Sea tells the story of the fifty-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean: one of the fiercest and most influential contests in European history. It traces events from the appearance on the world stage of Suleiman the Magnificent—the legendary ruler of the Ottoman Empire—through "the years of devastation" when it seemed possible that Islam might master the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

    Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill

    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 22 min

    Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehensive history of the decisive campaign in the eastern theater. In this second of three volumes, A. Wilson Greene narrates the critical months from August through October 1864, during which Ulysses S. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Don't Know Much About the Civil War

    Don't Know Much About the Civil War

    Narrated by Kenneth C. Davis ...
    Series series Don't Know Much About

    Abridged

    5 hours 48 min

    “Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review“Lively and relevant.” —USA TodayMillions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Barn

    The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

    Narrated by Wright Thompson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    **The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, TIME, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and Boston Globe • Nominated for a PEN America Literary Award“It literally changed my outlook on the world…incredible.” —Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the ... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Destructionists

    The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

    by Dana Milbank ...
    Narrated by Dana Milbank ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 58 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist"A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party fell prey to Trumpism."—The New York Times Book Review**In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    The Forgotten War That Changed American History

    Narrated by Brian Kilmeade ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 52 min

    “Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.” —Brad ThorThis is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    We Are the Land

    A History of Native California

    Unabridged

    15 hours 49 min

    Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Anne Frank

    The Diary of a Young Girl

    by Anne Frank ...
    Narrated by Susan Adams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms—"the Annex"—in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Unbroken

    A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 56 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street JournalHailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography**On a May ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    Narrated by Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 2 min

    Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity

    From the Middle Ages to Modernity

    by David Starkey ...
    Narrated by David Starkey ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    The crown of England is the oldest surviving political institution in Europe. Throughout this book Dr David Starkey emphasises the Crown's endless capacity to adapt to circumstances and reshape national policy, whilst he unmasks the personalities and achievements, the defeats and victories, which lie behind the kings and queens of British history. Each of these monarchs has contributed to the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Killers of the Flower Moon

    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    We Die Alone

    A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

    by David Howarth ...
    Narrated by Stuart Langton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    One of the most enthralling true adventure stories ever written, We Die Alone, set in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1943, is an epic tale of survival against staggering odds.It begins with an ambushed commando raid that leaves all but one of the expatriate resistance fighters dead or captured. Though wounded, Jan Baalsrud, the sole survivor, takes off on a courageous, incredible trek into the wilds of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    How Fascism Works

    The Politics of Us and Them

    by Jason Stanley ...
    Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 44 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer**“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.” ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Scourge of Henry VIII

    The Life of Marie de Guise

    by Melanie Clegg ...
    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    Mary, Queen of Scots continues to intrigue both historians and the general public—but the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own right, she was born into the powerful and ambitious Lorraine family, spending her formative years at the dazzling, licentious court of François I. Although briefly courted by Henry VIII, she instead married his nephew, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    King John

    Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: the Road to Magna Carta

    by Marc Morris ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 26 min

    King John is familiar to everyone as the villain from the tales of Robin Hood—greedy, cowardly, despicable, and cruel. But who was the man behind the legend? Was he a monster or a capable ruler cursed by bad luck? In this new book, bestselling historian Marc Morris draws on contemporary chronicles and the king's own letters to bring the real King John vividly to life.John was dynamic, inventive, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War

    Narrated by Lorna Raver ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 55 min

    During the Civil War, 620,000 soldiers lost their lives—equivalent to six million in today's population. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from material, political, intellectual, and spiritual angles.Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives, but the life of the nation, and describes how a deeply religious culture ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    On Freedom

    Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “visionary” (The Guardian) exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny“[Snyder’s] deep political and philosophical examination of how to . . . create and sustain freedom provides a hopeful view for the future.”—Los Angeles TimesFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JE ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Oregon Trail

    A New American Journey

    by Rinker Buck ...
    Narrated by Rinker Buck ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 42 min

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the PEN New England Award“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books“Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oreg... ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Six Victories

    North Africa Malta and the Mediterranean Convoy War November 1941-March 1942

    Narrated by Michael Page ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    In October 1941, the British Admiralty based a surface strike force in Malta to attack Axis sea lanes between Italy and Africa. Aided by Ultra intelligence, submarines, and bombers based in Malta, this force dominated the Central Mediterranean. From the end of October through the middle of December 1941, less than a third of the supplies shipped from Italian ports arrived in Libya. Shortages of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Brothers

    John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

    Narrated by David Cochran Heath ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    A joint biography ofJohn Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseenwar that decisively shaped today’s worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, twoimmensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreignadventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother,Allen Dulles, was ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Fall of Carthage

    The Punic Wars 265-146BC

    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, namely the ascendancy of Rome. An epic of war and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD