Historical fiction

Sam Samurai: Time Warp Trio, Book 10 (Unabridged)

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Sam, Fred and Joe are working on a haiku when they get accidentally transported to ancient Japan!

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550L
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01:38
Sam Samurai: Time Warp Trio, Book 10 (Unabridged)

Viking and Liking It: Time Warp Trio, Book 12 (Unabridged)

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Everyone's favorite time travelers get sent from Fred's room in Brooklyn into the middle of a Viking adventure!

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530L
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01:16
Viking and Liking It: Time Warp Trio, Book 12 (Unabridged)

Oh Say, I Can't See: Time Warp Trio #15 (Unabridged)

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In the middle of Christmas night, 1776 - in a surprise attack - General George Washington bravely led his American Colonial troops across the Delaware River to New Jersey. There, the Americans victoriously battled the hated British. Everyone knows that. But what is little known is that the Time Warp Trio was on board that fateful boat ride. Itâ¿¿s true.

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560L
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01:10
Oh Say, I Can't See: Time Warp Trio #15 (Unabridged)

Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

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Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas.

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750L
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04:45
Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

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Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in the mid-1800s and was expected to live her life without the freedoms she dreamed of. But Charlotte was smart and determined, and she figured out a way to live her life the way she wanted. She became an expert horse rider, a legendary stagecoach driver, and the first woman ever to vote - at a time when such things were outlawed for women.

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720L
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02:21
Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

Woods Runner (Unabridged)

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Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.

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870L
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03:42
Woods Runner (Unabridged)

The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (Unabridged)

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Cowboy stories and movies about the Wild West are full of amazing characters. Yet many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but - some were violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves.

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950L
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03:56
The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (Unabridged)

The Amethyst Ring (Unabridged)

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Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro.

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980L
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08:01
The Amethyst Ring (Unabridged)

The Road to Damietta (Unabridged)

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Rich in the atmosphere of 13th-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro's eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony.

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980L
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07:48
The Road to Damietta (Unabridged)

The 290 (Unabridged)

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Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he's working on. It seems the ship, enigmatically named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built for the Confederate navy.

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910L
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02:33
The 290 (Unabridged)

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