Historical Tragedy

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    • Europe's Tragedy
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles....

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    • Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last 14 days of the Russian Imperial family....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,638 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • Hearts On The Rails Series, Book 4
    • By: Rachel Wesson
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Series: Hearts on the Rails, Book 4
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Kathleen Green longs for a child of her own. Her work with the orphan trains only serve to heighten her need...

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    • Stardust Beach Book One
    • By: Stephanie Taylor
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Florida’s Space Coast—1963. People flock south to make the Sunshine State their winter playground, moving to the brand new beach towns and ...

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    • A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
    • By: Agatha Christie
    • Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
    • Series: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, Book 11
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 942 ratings
    • Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner....

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    • The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
    • By: Ric Gillespie
    • Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.

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    • A historical fiction novel of adventure, tragedy, and romance in the early days of Yellowstone (Frontier Traveler series, Book 1)
    • By: D.A. Galloway
    • Narrated by: Michael Bauer
    • Series: Frontier Traveler Series, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Does time heal all wounds? Or do some last forever? Pennsylvania, 1971: Graham Davidson is a young man with survivor’s guilt after the death of three siblings. Estranged from his father and seeking a direction in his life, Graham learns about vision quests from a Crow Indian....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Strout
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 649 ratings
    • In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was.

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    • By: Brenda Davies
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Based on a true story, The Girl Behind the Gates is the raw, heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting tale of a young woman cut down in her prime, and of the woman who finally brings her back to life....

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    • 100 Short Stories That Will Shock & Amaze You
    • By: Robert Manton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Embark on an unforgettable journey through the shadows and spotlights of our contemporary world with Scandal & Tragedy 100 Short Stories That Will ...

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    • By: S.G. MacLean
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Series: Damian Seeker, Book 6
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Multi-award-winning historical thriller writer S. G. MacLean returns to her 17th-century heartland. Charles II has been restored to the throne. A list of men who supported Cromwell must be hunted down to face a terrible traitor's death. On that list is the name of Damian Seeker....

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    • By: Barbara Davis
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A year ago, Dovie Larkin's life was shattered when her fiance committed suicide just weeks before their wedding. Now, plagued by guilt, she has become a fixture at the cemetery where William is buried, visiting his grave daily, waiting for answers she knows will never come.

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    • Stardust Beach Book Two
    • By: Stephanie Taylor
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • Francesca Lombardi’s ascent from glamorous Rockette in the late 1950s to star of the Broadway stage seemed like a given; nothing could stand in ...

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    • The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
    • By: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

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    • The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California’s Most Notorious Killers
    • By: Deborah Holt Larkin
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • This is the incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy....

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    • A Romanov Tragedy
    • By: Christopher Warwick
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity....

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