Holiday History

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    • The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
    • By: Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
    • Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between....

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    • the perfect page-turning holiday read for 2021
    • By: Olivia Hayfield
    • Narrated by: Jess Nesling
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Following the scandalous revelations about his love life, disgraced media mogul Harry Rose is searching for redemption....

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    • Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year
    • By: Linda Raedisch
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 22-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures....

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    • The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
    • By: Donald Clarke
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and...

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    • By: Lucy Foley
    • Narrated by: Emma Gregory
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Constantinople, 1921. Each day Nur gazes across the waters of the Bosphorus to her childhood home, a grand white house, nestled on the opposite bank....

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    • How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
    • By: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Narrated by: Lucy Lethbridge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From portable cameras to postcards and suntans, Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for home....

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    • How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened
    • By: Steve Kozak
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact....

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    • Holiday Histories
    • By: Sally Lee
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 2 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • Young listeners learn about the early traditions which have led to our present-day celebration of Valentine's Day....

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    • Uncover the Secrets and History of Beloved Holiday Classics
    • By: Ace Collins
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-10
    • Language: English
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    • Ace Collins exposes the stories behind the greatest secular hit songs of Christmas---who wrote them, how they became famous, and why they still have such a strong impact on Christmas....

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    • 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
    • By: Abigail Pogrebin, A.J. Jacobs - foreword
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin's My Jewish Year, a chronicle of the author's journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism....

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    • The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday's Traditions
    • By: Brian Earl
    • Narrated by: Brian Earl
    • Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions reveals the surprising, quirky, mysterious, and sometimes horrifying stories behind the most wonderful time of the year....

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    • What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
    • By: Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke....

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    • A Pink Carnation Christmas
    • By: Lauren Willig
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Series: Pink Carnation, Book 6.5
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby....

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    • Fact vs. Fiction in U.S. History
    • By: Peter Mavrikis
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Every November, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving Day. But what actually happened at the first Thanksgiving? And when did it happen? Discover the facts and find out the fiction surrounding one of America’s favorite holidays.

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    • This or That?: History Edition
    • By: Jessica Rusick
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Series: This or That?: History Edition
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • In September 1620, 102 brave travelers and their crew stepped upon a ship called the Mayflower in England. Most were members of a religious group now known as the Pilgrims. They were bound for North America to start a new life. They endured many hardships and made many tough choices.

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    • Chronos Origins, Book 2
    • By: Rysa Walker
    • Narrated by: Kate Rudd, Eric G. Dove
    • Series: Chronos Origins, Book 2
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The United States’ past is hijacked in a time-warping adventure of future interdimensional, high-risk games by the bestselling author of the CHRONOS series....

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    • One Family's Descent into Genocide Memory
    • By: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A Jewish father shleps his reluctant children around Europe on a hard-charging tour of Holocaust sites and memorials in order to impress on them the profound evil of Hitler’s war against the Jews and the importance of combatting genocide....

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    • History Smashers
    • By: Kate Messner
    • Narrated by: Annette Amelia Oliveira
    • Series: History Smashers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-22
    • Language: English
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    • In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and made friends with Wampanoag people who gave them corn. RIGHT? WRONG! It was months before the Pilgrims met any Wampanoag people, and nobody gave anybody corn that day....

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