General history and cultural history
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The House of Hidden Meanings : A Memoir
RuPaulHarperAudio 2024 UnabridgedRead by Ru Paul ***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a de...
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The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Grann, DavidBooks on Tape 2023 Unabridged#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals...
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Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of SussexBooks on Tape 2023 Unabridged#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The...
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Ghosts of Honolulu : A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Harmon, Mark; Carroll, LeonHarper Select 2023 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRead by the author."A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer wor...
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Master Slave Husband Wife : An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Woo, IlyonSimon & Schuster Audio 2023 UnabridgedOne of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Li...
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King : A Life
Eig, JonathanMacmillan Audio 2023 UnabridgedWinner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator! This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won mu...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine : A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Khalidi, RashidMacmillan Audio 2020 UnabridgedThis program includes an introduction read by the author. A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middl...
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Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents
Wilkerson, IsabelBooks on Tape 2020 Unabridged#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garn...
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Music Is History
Questlove; Greenman, BenRecorded Books, Inc. 2021 UnabridgedIn MUSIC IS HISTORY bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to e...
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A Promised Land
Obama, BarackBooks on Tape 2020 UnabridgedA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWAR...
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The Nazi Conspiracy : The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Meltzer, Brad; Mensch, JoshMacmillan Audio 2023 Unabridged"Scott Brick, with his rich baritone and impeccable pacing, delivers a commanding performance of a riveting, unconfirmed WWII incident."- AudioFile Magazine From the New York Times...
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River of the Gods : Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Millard, CandiceBooks on Tape 2022 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ri...
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Say Nothing : A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Keefe, Patrick RaddenBooks on Tape 2019 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be an FX limited series streaming on HULU • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in North...
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: the Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Offerman, NickBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedA humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three j...
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The Escape Artist : The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Freedland, JonathanHarperAudio 2022 UnabridgedWinner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller""A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and mis...
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Killing the SS : The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
O'Reilly, Bill; Dugard, MartinMacmillan Audio 2018 UnabridgedConfronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after Wo...
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The Palace Papers : Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil
Brown, TinaBooks on Tape 2022 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to con...
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Empress of the Nile : The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
Olson, LynneBooks on Tape 2023 UnabridgedNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the fl...
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Pandora's Jar : Women in the Greek Myths
Haynes, NatalieHarperAudio 2022 Unabridged"Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!"—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid...
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Ukraine : What Everyone Needs to Know
Yekelchyk, SerhyTantor Media, Inc. 2020 UnabridgedUkraine's sudden prominence in American politics has compounded an already-widespread misunderstanding of what is actually happening in the nation. In the American media, Ukraine h...