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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Rival Queens by Kate Williams. Elizabeth and Mary: cousins, rivals, queens. They loved each other, they hated each other - they could never escape one another. Kate Williams’ thrilling new history tells the story of Elizabeth I of England and her betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots. At the end of the Tudor era, here were two women on two thrones. But this was a man’s world, and many believed that no woman should govern.

In the early 20th century, one of the most famous women in America was Emma Goldman. Born in Russia in the late 19th century, Goldman had come to the United States and quickly grew attracted to anarchy and socialism. While many simply grumbled about the Gilded Age in private, Goldman was a woman of action, from being involved in the attempted assassination of tycoon Henry Clay Frick to publishing anarchist journals and passing around information about contraception.

The heart-pounding true story of the plot to kill the most powerful man in America. In 1892, America was on the verge of another civil war, this one over industrial slavery. It was the era of robber barons, and none was more reviled for his harsh treatment of workers than industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The deadly Homestead Steel Strike that summer had left Frick with blood on his hands, and two young, impassioned radicals thought he should pay for his crimes.

Cuando María Emma Mejía se abrió paso en la vida política colombiana, el país transitaba por uno de los periodos más violentos de su historia. Conoció de cerca una guerra en la que perdieron la vida la periodista Diana Turbay, su amiga, y Luis Carlos Galán, su jefe político. En aquellos difíciles años, en su ciudad, Medellín, lideró el programa Arriba mi barrio, referente de inclusión social en las comunas a través del reconocimiento, la identidad y el arte, donde fue testigo del trasfondo de una sociedad dividida.