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Bestsellers
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- Written by: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will never look at spices the same again
- By Rainbow J. on 2025-01-28
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
- Written by: Susan Doran
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Written by: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- By Eugenius Radius on 2018-01-02
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- Written by: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Recounting Henry VIII's life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy....
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- Written by: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
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2 out of 5 stars
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DISAPPOINTING
- By brien thurstson on 2024-03-06
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Written by: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and surprisingly touching book
- By Jon on 2018-10-28
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- Written by: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The story of the 16th-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will never look at spices the same again
- By Rainbow J. on 2025-01-28
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
- Written by: Susan Doran
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life....
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Written by: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- By Eugenius Radius on 2018-01-02
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- Written by: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Recounting Henry VIII's life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy....
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Martin Luther
- The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
- Written by: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
From author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
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2 out of 5 stars
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DISAPPOINTING
- By brien thurstson on 2024-03-06
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Written by: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting and surprisingly touching book
- By Jon on 2018-10-28
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Conquistadores
- A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
- Written by: Fernando Cervantes
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent overview of the conquistadors
- By James Burns on 2023-04-12
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Written by: Robert Goodwin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
- Written by: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, The Time-Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England is an entertaining popular history with a twist....
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- Written by: Brad S. Gregory
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther....
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Emperor
- A New Life of Charles V
- Written by: Geoffrey Parker
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....
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God's Shadow
- Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
- Written by: Alan Mikhail
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7
Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well explained book on an influential person
- By Burak Can on 2020-08-27
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Fatal Discord
- Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
- Written by: Michael Massing
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
This deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history examines two of the greatest minds of European history - Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther - and their heated rivalry....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sprawling and captivating throughout
- By Big Gucci Kony on 2024-09-28
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- Written by: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Liza Picard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London....
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The Taste of Conquest
- The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
- Written by: Michael Krondl
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legendary cities that transformed the globe in the quest for spice....
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The Dawning of the Apocalypse
- The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
- Written by: Gerald Horne
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth"....
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The Return of Martin Guerre
- Written by: Natalie Zemon Davis
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre....
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4 out of 5 stars
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This was intriguing!
- By Roberta W on 2024-10-28
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Written by: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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The Teutonic Knights
- A Military History
- Written by: William Urban
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. William Urban's narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood....
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The Jewel House
- Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
- Written by: Deborah Harkness
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Best-selling author Deborah E. Harkness explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London....
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Popes and Feminists
- How the Reformation Frees Women from Feminism
- Written by: Elise Crapuchettes
- Narrated by: Elise Crapuchettes
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Before the Reformation, in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, being a wife or mother was not a holy vocation. The only “spiritual” calling for women was to be found in a convent. The Reformers confronted the bad theology which led to this....
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Protestants
- The Faith That Made the Modern World
- Written by: Alec Ryrie
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this dazzling global history that charts five centuries of innovation and change, Alec Ryrie makes the case that Protestants made the modern world....
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Spanish Empire
- A History from Beginning to End
- Written by: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which “the sun never sets.” It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate....
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Written by: Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, and others
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Intermittent static ruins experience
- By Anonymous User on 2024-10-28
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Written by: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography....
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Imprudent King
- A New Life of Philip II
- Written by: Geoffrey Parker
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I....
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Written by: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
- Narrated by: Frasier Mackenzie
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Cabeza de Vaca was part of a 1527 Spanish expedition to explore the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His group lost contact with their ships, and traveled on foot across Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico for the next eight years....
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London's Triumph
- Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
- Written by: Stephen Alford
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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At the start of the 16th century, England was hardly involved in the wider world, and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city....
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Margaret Beaufort
- Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
- Written by: Elizabeth Norton
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time....
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In Bed with the Tudors
- From Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I
- Written by: Amy Licence
- Narrated by: Debra Burton
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders....