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Author: Daniel Schulman
Release Date: November 14, 2023
The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the N...
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Author: Florian Illies and Simon Pare | Narrator: Jacqui Bardelang
Release Date: September 19, 2023
An ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth centuryAs the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never shows. Mar...
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Author: Naoíse Mac Sweeney | Narrator: Shaheen Khan
Release Date: May 23, 2023
“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winn...
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Author: Jonny Steinberg | Narrator: Puleng Lange-Stewart
Release Date: May 02, 2023
From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures an...
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Author: Rebecca Boggs Roberts | Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
Release Date: March 07, 2023
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and powerWhile this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downpla...
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Author: Lynne Olson | Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
Release Date: February 28, 2023
The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War “A...
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Author: John le Carré and Tim Cornwell
Release Date: January 10, 2023
An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving listeners access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our timeThe never-before-seen correspondance of John le Carré, one of the most important novelis...
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Author: Nick Hornby | Narrator: Alex Jennings
Release Date: November 15, 2022
“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —VogueFrom the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and ...
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Author: Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth | Narrator: Greg Patmore
Release Date: November 08, 2022
A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The...
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Author: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Nancy Dougherty | Narrator: Suzanne Toren
Release Date: May 24, 2022
An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestap...
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Author: Willard Sterne Randall | Narrator: Steve Hendrickson
Release Date: February 08, 2022
An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nationIn 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s mo...
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Author: Andrew Roberts | Narrator: Philip Stevens
Release Date: November 09, 2021
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and NapoleonThe last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fasci...
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