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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
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WOW. Just Wow
- By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24
- The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
Reads like autobiography
Reviewed: 08-19-24
My generation’s story makes sense in a vivid way that I didn’t suspect when I chose this boik
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The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.
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Vividly Told History of the Start of the Civil War
- By WLC on 05-01-24
- The Demon of Unrest
- A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Erik Larson
The story is told in a very personal way that makes it particularly appealing.
Reviewed: 07-09-24
The work is put together from, among other sources, diaries and papers of the main personalities. It gives a vivid look at the beginnings of the Civil War and why things happened as they did.
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My Search for Warren Harding
- By: Robert Plunket
- Narrated by: Robert Plunket
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at the Washington Post exclaimed, “The author pulled me in so deftly, moved me up an escalating scale of sly hyperbole so cunningly, that after a hundred pages, I seemed to have turned over the keys, so to speak, of my nervous system”; Florence King at the Dallas Times Herald, “The most exciting event in American letters for a very long time: a momentous book.”
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Mistake
- By Literary Lion on 07-06-24
- My Search for Warren Harding
- By: Robert Plunket
- Narrated by: Robert Plunket
A really funny book
Reviewed: 06-06-24
Those who are looking for a truly funny, sharp edged book will find themselves satisfied by the most non-woke work of the 1980s. The author’s reading makes it all ring true.
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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At a time when the very foundations of American democracy seem under threat, the lessons of the past offer a road map for navigating a moment of political crisis. In Democracy Awakening, acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson delves into the tumultuous journey of American democracy, tracing the roots of Donald Trump’s “authoritarian experiment” to the earliest days of the republic.
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We’d be in a much better position if everyone read this
- By Jeffrey Schwartz on 10-01-23
- Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
Well told history
Reviewed: 10-24-23
This is a book that does history justice as a discipline and brings it to life for everyone’s edification.
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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
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Gasping for Air
- By Jean Engle on 04-19-23
- The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Grann
A great tale of adventure and hardship
Reviewed: 09-26-23
Very exciting read. Well read and very clear, it is a great way to spend some downtime.
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A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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The Roaring Twenties—the Jazz Age—has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.
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This is a must read!
- By V. Richmond on 04-14-23
- A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
A work the book banners would burn
Reviewed: 05-23-23
We’ll written and told in detail, this is a book worth listening to. It documents the rise and fall of the KKK in Indiana during the 1920s and early 1930s, a story left out of most history books.
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
- Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
A fascinating consideration of human history in the grand scale
Reviewed: 01-30-23
The author masterfully identifies key events in human evolution and culture history and provides intriguing examples that make you rethink what you think you know. Beautifully read and well worth a listen.
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Bad Mexicans
- Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
- By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Narrated by: Joana Garcia
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magon, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Diaz, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of US authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime.
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Great book, but why is the narrator so bad?
- By bean on 10-14-22
- Bad Mexicans
- Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
- By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Narrated by: Joana Garcia
The narrator succeeds in destroying the book
Reviewed: 12-29-22
Ms . García’s ignorance of Spanish pronunciation is astounding and it bedeviled listening to what otherwise would have been an interesting history. Accents are mere suggestion to her and her incessant rolling of inexistente Rea changes the meaning of words. This work required a narrator who could efficiently cross from English to Spanish and who had some knowledge of Mexican place names.
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.
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Absolutely delightful to listen to
- By Barbara on 05-23-19
- Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Tremendously entertaining
Reviewed: 12-17-22
Great, fun stories, well told and masterfully narrated, I was ready for the author’s next book right away.
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The Strange Career of William Ellis
- The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
- By: Karl Jacoby
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: He was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in Texas during the waning years of King Cotton.
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Fascinating Tale of Racial Passing
- By Steven Schuster on 06-10-16
- The Strange Career of William Ellis
- The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
- By: Karl Jacoby
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
Spanish pronunciation in an otherwise intriguing story
Reviewed: 01-26-21
The story itself is great, but the author repeats the “passing” theme so many times that I was almost inclined to skip ahead. The choice of narrator was unfortunate since the book contains many Spanish names, phrases and words, which are often mispronounced, something that detracts from the listening experience, especially if you speak Spanish. Chapter 6 is the best part.
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