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    • The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
    • By: Eric Metaxas
    • Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
    • Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
    • By: Joel F. Harrington
    • Narrated by: James Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
    • 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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    • Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
    • By: Tracy Borman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history....

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    • A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
    • By: Fernando Cervantes
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • 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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    • Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
    • By: Michael Massing
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • 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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    • The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
    • By: Tracy Borman
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western imagination for centuries....

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    • The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
    • By: Tracy Borman
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • 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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    • The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • 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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    • A New Life of Charles V
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Kim MacQuarrie
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 947 ratings
    • In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru....

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    • How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
    • Within a short time span, a tiny country whose population did not exceed a million created a maritime empire that stretched from Brazil to Nagasaki....

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    • A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
    • By: Ruth Goodman
    • Narrated by: Heather Wilds
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII....

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    • Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
    • By: Deborah Harkness
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Best-selling author Deborah E. Harkness explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London....

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    • The Maker of Modern France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Carole Boyd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, a diplomat par excellence....

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    • By: Natalie Zemon Davis
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • 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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    • The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth"....

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    • The Centre of the World 1519-1682
    • By: Robert Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
    • Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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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    • Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Alan Mikhail
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • 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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