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A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet
- My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth
- By: Rita Gabis
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past: Prior to immigration, he had fought the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler's army swept in.
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A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet
- My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Intimate Bond
- How Animals Shaped Human History
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationships with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationships with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond we share with our fellow fauna.
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The Intimate Bond
- How Animals Shaped Human History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2015
- Language: English
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Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
- How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar's Empire
- By: Douglas Boin
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later - and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. The intolerant zeal of Christians, wrote Edward Gibbon, swept Rome's old gods away, and with them the structures that sustained Roman society. Not so, argues Douglas Boin.
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Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
- How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar's Empire
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2015
- Language: English
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A Higher Form of Killing
- Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
- By: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants.
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A Higher Form of Killing
- Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2015
- Language: English
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The Emperor Far Away
- Travels at the Edge of China
- By: David Eimer
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shaghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage "the mountains are high and the Emperor far away", meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate.
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The Emperor Far Away
- Travels at the Edge of China
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2014
- Language: English
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Central Park
- An Anthology
- By: Andrew Blauner - editor
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck, L. J. Ganser, Edoardo Ballerini, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Central Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the country. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. Eight hundred forty-three carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction - 20 pieces in all.
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Central Park
- An Anthology
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck, L. J. Ganser, Edoardo Ballerini, Scott Aiello, Jonathan Davis, Steven Crossley, Jeff Woodman, Adrian Benepe
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-08-2014
- Language: English
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S Street Rising
- Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
- By: Ruben Castaneda
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country’s premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix.
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S Street Rising
- Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2014
- Language: English
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Defeating Hitler
- Whitehall's Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War
- By: Paul Winter
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Published for the very first time, the top-secret report Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933-1945 was prepared by Whitehall's highest intelligence body, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and presented to Britain's Chiefs of Staff in 1946 to "set down certain aspects of the War whilst there are still sources available who were closely connected with the events described". Paul Winter sets this unique and important document in its historical setting, providing biographies of key figures referenced in the report and a timeline of the crucial events of the Second World War.
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Defeating Hitler
- Whitehall's Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2014
- Language: English
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- By: Clay Risen
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, "it seems preordained", as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory.
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2014
- Language: English
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Women in Waiting
- Prejudice at the Heart of the Church
- By: Julia Ogilvy
- Narrated by: Kelly Birch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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The role of women in the Christian Church is the subject of heated debate. In this powerful book Julia Ogilvy interviews twelve of the most notable Christian women of our time, providing a telling and at times shocking analysis of the situation today. The women – from the Dean of York and the Presiding Bishop in America to Helena Kennedy QC and Dr Elaine Storkey – share some of the pain, disappointment and hurt they have experienced and reflect on the impact of a patriarchal Church on the suffering of women across the world.
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Women in Waiting
- Prejudice at the Heart of the Church
- Narrated by: Kelly Birch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2014
- Language: English
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Newcomers' Lives
- The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
- By: Peter Unwin - editor
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent British history and have been indispensable for the way we live now.
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Newcomers' Lives
- The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2014
- Language: English
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In the Kingdom of the Sick
- A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
- By: Laurie Edwards
- Narrated by: Holly Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold pain and disability. There has been an alarming rise in illnesses that defy diagnosis through clinical tests or have no known cure. Millions of people, especially women, with illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome face skepticism from physicians and the public alike.
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In the Kingdom of the Sick
- A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
- Narrated by: Holly Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2014
- Language: English
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Nothin' But Blue Skies
- The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
- By: Edward McClelland
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy" - the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II, thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots, strikes, burning rivers, and oil embargoes. A vibrant, quintessentially American character bloomed in the region's cities, suburbs, and backwaters.
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Nothin' But Blue Skies
- The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2014
- Language: English
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As Green as Grass
- Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War
- By: Emma Smith
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma’s father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown - from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality.
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As Green as Grass
- Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2014
- Language: English
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The Wars of Reconstruction
- The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
- By: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality - in the face of murderous violence - in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and 13 years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively.
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The Wars of Reconstruction
- The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2014
- Language: English
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Island Summers
- Memories of a Norwegian Childhood
- By: Tilly Clume-Seymour
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1947 Tilly’s grandmother bought an island. Its name is Småhølmene and it sits just off the coast of Norway. At first sight, the island seems bare, hardly more than a collection of rocks rising determinedly out of the water. Glittering and bittersweet, Island Summers lovingly portrays three generations of women and the island that became so irrevocably part of their lives. Now Mor-mor’s great-grandchildren are taking their turn, enjoying endless summers on Småhølmene, continuing the story that was begun over 50 years ago.
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Island Summers
- Memories of a Norwegian Childhood
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Attacking Ocean
- The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines.
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The Attacking Ocean
- The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
- Narrated by: Ben Bartolone
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Society for Useful Knowledge
- How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
- By: Jonathan Lyons
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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From celebrated historian of knowledge Jonathan Lyons comes The Society for Useful Knowledge, telling the story of America's coming-of-age through its historic love affair with practical invention, applied science, and self-reliance. Lyons illustrates how a social movement in support of useful knowledge is key to understanding the flow of American history and the development of our society and culture from colonial times to our digital present.
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The Society for Useful Knowledge
- How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Double V
- How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
- By: Rawn James Jr.
- Narrated by: Rob Cleveland
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle.
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The Double V
- How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
- Narrated by: Rob Cleveland
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Half Century
- The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
- By: Larry J. Sabato
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
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John F. Kennedy died half a century ago - yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato - himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency - explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors.
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The Kennedy Half Century
- The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2013
- Language: English
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