Historical Bio

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • By: Alexander Lee
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father's penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher's hands, to his marriage and his many affairs, to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile....

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    • A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 1)
    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • For listeners who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel - and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation....

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    • A Novel (Narratives of Empire, Book 2)
    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Narratives of Empire, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
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    • On a frozen winter morning in 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him....

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    • The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly's Mother
    • By: Grantlee Keiza
    • Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
    • Length: 21 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • Mrs Kelly is the astonishing story of one of Australia's most notorious women and her wild family, but it's also the story of the making of Australia, from struggling colony and backwater to modern nation....

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    • A Life of Colette
    • By: Judith Thurman
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of 20th-century literature, Colette was a superstar....

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    • A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
    • By: Alexander Wolff
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the 20th century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht....

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    • The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor
    • By: Paul Willetts
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • Paul Willetts brings this spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante - the king of Jazz Age con artists - who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game....

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    • A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
    • By: Susan Hood, Greg Dawson
    • Narrated by: Aimée B. Dawson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna’s son)....

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    • By: Stephen Krensky
    • Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • In this biography, discover the incredible story of Anne Frank, the courageous young writer who hid from the Nazis during World War II....

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    • A Novel of George Washington's First Love
    • By: Mary Calvi
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Dear George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America....

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    • By: Debra Shiveley Welch
    • Narrated by: Tanis Clark
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • Based on historical facts, Circle of Time weaves the story of time traveler Bridget Littleton, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Bridget's ancestor Sir John Lyttleton into a dramatic and fascinating tale of love and betrayal....

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    • By: Robbie Waisman, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • It was 1945, and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured and had no idea where his family was - let alone if they were alive....

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    • The Making of America
    • By: Teri Kanefield
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Series: The Making of America, Book 3
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Born in a cabin deep in the backwoods of Kentucky and growing up in a family considered the poorest of the poor, Abraham Lincoln rose to become the 16th president of the United States. As president, he guided the United States through the Civil War, helped end slavery in America, and strengthened the federal government....

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    • Wait! What?
    • By: Dan Gutman
    • Narrated by: Jesús E. Martínez, Tyla Collier
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • Did you know that Muhammad Ali was so terrified of flying on planes that he would bring a parachute? Siblings Paige and Turner do - and they’ve collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about him....

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