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Bestsellers
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Wolf Hall
- A Novel
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him....
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Superb narration, but keep a character index at hand
- By Oculus on 12-27-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Chip Atkinson on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....
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That's 10 hours of my life I'll never get back
- By Andrea L. Helms on 03-30-22
By: Allison Pataki
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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A Treat For This Academic Librarian!
- By AlTonya on 07-14-21
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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That Churchill Woman
- A Novel
- By: Stephanie Barron
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome....
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Excellent Entertaining Historical Romance Novel
- By Nicole on 07-24-19
By: Stephanie Barron
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca....
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Mixed Feelings
- By carpsmarsh on 02-14-21
By: Ariel Lawhon
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Wolf Hall
- A Novel
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him....
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Superb narration, but keep a character index at hand
- By Oculus on 12-27-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Chip Atkinson on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....
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That's 10 hours of my life I'll never get back
- By Andrea L. Helms on 03-30-22
By: Allison Pataki
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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A Treat For This Academic Librarian!
- By AlTonya on 07-14-21
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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That Churchill Woman
- A Novel
- By: Stephanie Barron
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome....
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Excellent Entertaining Historical Romance Novel
- By Nicole on 07-24-19
By: Stephanie Barron
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca....
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Mixed Feelings
- By carpsmarsh on 02-14-21
By: Ariel Lawhon
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The First Ladies
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—a forbidden friendship that changed the world....
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A Wake Up Call to history and today
- By JoeKristina Smith on 07-11-23
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....
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incredible true story about heddy Lamar
- By S. Loew on 01-26-19
By: Marie Benedict
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- By: Benjamin Labatut, Adrian West - translator
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction....
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the true heir w.g. sebald
- By Thomas on 12-23-21
By: Benjamin Labatut, and others
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Musashi
- By: Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 53 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival....
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Good Historical Novel
- By The Walking Dude on 08-11-19
By: Eiji Yoshikawa, and others
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- A Novel
- By: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....
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Enchanted
- By Lulu Can on 04-07-21
By: Pip Williams
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An American Beauty
- By: Shana Abe
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm....
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Loved everything about it
- By Leigh H. on 07-10-23
By: Shana Abe
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The Last Green Valley
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the number one best seller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph....
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Too Religious
- By Laurie N. on 06-02-21
By: Mark Sullivan
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1580s England, during the Black Plague, a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction....
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A masterpiece
- By Molly-o on 08-03-20
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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Finding Dorothy
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Letts
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee, Elizabeth Letts
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud....
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Simple
- By Douglas A. Saunders on 04-02-19
By: Elizabeth Letts
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Jackie and Maria
- A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Jackie Kennedy is beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. When she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life....
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Appendix not recorded 😔
- By tahoe23 on 08-21-20
By: Gill Paul
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The Brothers Karamazov
- (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....
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A true theater of the mind!
- By Hygge on 07-20-24
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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America's First Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph....
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Great Story Great Narration
- By MissSusie66 on 03-30-16
By: Stephanie Dray, and others
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Becoming Madam Secretary
- By: Stephanie Dray
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins....
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Inspirational historical fiction based on true events
- By TXHorn97 on 07-20-24
By: Stephanie Dray
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The Queen's Secret
- A Novel of England's World War II Queen
- By: Karen Harper
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In this riveting novel of royal secrets and intrigue, Karen Harper lifts the veil on one of the world’s most fascinating families and how its “secret weapon” of a matriarch maneuvered her way through one of the most dangerous chapters of the century....
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It doesn’t deserve a review.
- By Kevin Graves on 02-05-21
By: Karen Harper
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Miss Austen
- A Novel of the Austen Sisters
- By: Gill Hornby
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone and unwed, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister’s reputation....
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Wonderful
- By RueRue on 06-27-20
By: Gill Hornby
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A Beautiful Rival
- A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, but also broken marriages, personal tragedies, and a world that was changing dramatically for women....
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Not even if it were free
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-24
By: Gill Paul
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When We Were Young & Brave
- A Novel
- By: Hazel Gaynor
- Narrated by: Rosie Jones, Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path....
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heart wrenching And inspiring!!
- By Justin Drogoszewski on 11-22-20
By: Hazel Gaynor
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- By: Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Natiki Hope Pressley
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Freeman, the “spook who sat by the door,” is enlisted in the CIA’s elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Black Chicagoans to combat racism as “Freedom Fighters” in this explosive novel....
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The Book that Threatened the White Establishment
- By Kerr on 06-22-20
By: Sam Greenlee, and others
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....
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Absolutely the best!
- By Katherine Dunigan on 06-29-24
By: Mark Sullivan, and others
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Fast Girls
- A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team.
- By: Elise Hooper
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Kristyl Dawn Tift, Reba Buhr, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed author Elise Hooper explores the gripping, real-life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany....
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Don't skip epilog
- By Zona Trahan on 03-23-21
By: Elise Hooper
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Children of the Stars
- By: Mario Escobar
- Narrated by: Zach Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From international best-selling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the Second World War....
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Innocence can only be lost once
- By Kenny Russell on 09-01-21
By: Mario Escobar
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The Huguenot Chronicles, Books 1 - 3
- Merchants of Virtue, Voyage of Malice, Land of Hope
- By: Paul C.R. Monk
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Three books. Lots of harrowing, historical adventure! Listen to find out more....
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Interesting, what struggles
- By Margaret on 05-21-19
By: Paul C.R. Monk
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I Was Anastasia
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Sian Thomas, Ariel Lawhon
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia....
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Even knowing the true story,still enjoyed the book
- By Emily on 04-02-18
By: Ariel Lawhon
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The Enigma of Arrival
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work....
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A noveau novel
- By Chike M Nzerue on 05-02-20
By: V. S. Naipaul
New releases
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Hospital
- By: Sanya Rushdi, Arunava Sinha - translator
- Narrated by: Maryanne Fonceca
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. Based on real-life events, translated from Bengali by the award-winning Indian translator Arunava Sinha, Hospital is an extraordinary story that portrays the experience of psychosis and its treatments in an unflinching and understated way, while struggling more broadly with the definition of sanity in our society.
By: Sanya Rushdi, and others
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Captain for Hire
- Dangerous Waters: Adventures of a Boat Delivery Captain as He Struggles to Make an Honest Living in a Sea of Drug Smugglers (Captain for Hire Dangerous Waters, Book 1)
- By: Robert Ramon
- Narrated by: Steven Osarczuk
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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At an early point in his yacht delivery, career, Capt. Bob Ventura had become painfully aware of the dangers and possible pitfalls of pursuing yacht deliveries in the dangerous waters of the Caribbean during the 70s and 80s. He began moving boats to South America at a time when the Columbian cartels had a commanding and very dangerous presence in parts of the Caribbean, but the thrill of danger and adventure overpowered any misgivings he may have had.
By: Robert Ramon
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The Lost Queen
- By: Carol McGrath
- Narrated by: Mary Galloway
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina. There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and, surviving it all, she and Richard marry in Cyprus and continue to the Holy Land.
By: Carol McGrath
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Water Fire Steam
- By: Mitzi Zilka
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1884. Rolla Alan Jones, an ambitious dreamer fresh out of an East Coast engineering school, is commissioned to design and build the first water system in Spokane Falls, Washington, a booming town of twenty-thousand. He is everyone's golden boy for five years, until the city burns down on August 4, 1889. The once-celebrated engineer is scapegoated for the catastrophe alleging his system yielded inadequate water pressure....
By: Mitzi Zilka
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Body Friend
- By: Katherine Brabon
- Narrated by: India Dupré
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Story
In the wake of a major operation, a twenty-eight-year-old woman with chronic illness has twelve weeks to heal, or rather, to acclimate to her new body and prepare herself to leave the routines, comforts, and interiority of her convalescence. In the hydrotherapy pool, she meets Frida, a young woman who looks strikingly similar to her and is also in a state of recovery. But Frida sees her chronic illness as something to overcome and her body as something to control. She adores the pool and pushes the herself toward an active life, relentlessly pursuing the prevailing narrative of illness.
By: Katherine Brabon
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The Windsor Conspiracy
- A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor
- By: Georgie Blalock
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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American Amelia Montague defied her family five years ago to marry the man she loved, but that decision cost her everything. Disowned by her family, and left a penniless widow after her husband’s death, Amelia becomes her cousin Wallis Simpson’s private secretary in France. With no other prospects available, Amelia has no choice but to succeed, and under their Aunt Bessie’s direction, hopes to have a positive influence on Wallis and the Duke of Windsor. During the next two years, Amelia realizes that not everything with the Windsors is glittering happiness.
By: Georgie Blalock
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Hospital
- By: Sanya Rushdi, Arunava Sinha - translator
- Narrated by: Maryanne Fonceca
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. Based on real-life events, translated from Bengali by the award-winning Indian translator Arunava Sinha, Hospital is an extraordinary story that portrays the experience of psychosis and its treatments in an unflinching and understated way, while struggling more broadly with the definition of sanity in our society.
By: Sanya Rushdi, and others
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Captain for Hire
- Dangerous Waters: Adventures of a Boat Delivery Captain as He Struggles to Make an Honest Living in a Sea of Drug Smugglers (Captain for Hire Dangerous Waters, Book 1)
- By: Robert Ramon
- Narrated by: Steven Osarczuk
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
At an early point in his yacht delivery, career, Capt. Bob Ventura had become painfully aware of the dangers and possible pitfalls of pursuing yacht deliveries in the dangerous waters of the Caribbean during the 70s and 80s. He began moving boats to South America at a time when the Columbian cartels had a commanding and very dangerous presence in parts of the Caribbean, but the thrill of danger and adventure overpowered any misgivings he may have had.
By: Robert Ramon
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The Lost Queen
- By: Carol McGrath
- Narrated by: Mary Galloway
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina. There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and, surviving it all, she and Richard marry in Cyprus and continue to the Holy Land.
By: Carol McGrath
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Water Fire Steam
- By: Mitzi Zilka
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The year is 1884. Rolla Alan Jones, an ambitious dreamer fresh out of an East Coast engineering school, is commissioned to design and build the first water system in Spokane Falls, Washington, a booming town of twenty-thousand. He is everyone's golden boy for five years, until the city burns down on August 4, 1889. The once-celebrated engineer is scapegoated for the catastrophe alleging his system yielded inadequate water pressure....
By: Mitzi Zilka
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Body Friend
- By: Katherine Brabon
- Narrated by: India Dupré
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In the wake of a major operation, a twenty-eight-year-old woman with chronic illness has twelve weeks to heal, or rather, to acclimate to her new body and prepare herself to leave the routines, comforts, and interiority of her convalescence. In the hydrotherapy pool, she meets Frida, a young woman who looks strikingly similar to her and is also in a state of recovery. But Frida sees her chronic illness as something to overcome and her body as something to control. She adores the pool and pushes the herself toward an active life, relentlessly pursuing the prevailing narrative of illness.
By: Katherine Brabon
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The Windsor Conspiracy
- A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor
- By: Georgie Blalock
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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American Amelia Montague defied her family five years ago to marry the man she loved, but that decision cost her everything. Disowned by her family, and left a penniless widow after her husband’s death, Amelia becomes her cousin Wallis Simpson’s private secretary in France. With no other prospects available, Amelia has no choice but to succeed, and under their Aunt Bessie’s direction, hopes to have a positive influence on Wallis and the Duke of Windsor. During the next two years, Amelia realizes that not everything with the Windsors is glittering happiness.
By: Georgie Blalock
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The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen’s Champion
- William Marshal, Book 2
- By: Elizabeth Chadwick
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward.
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The Star Child
- By: Unathi Magubeni
- Narrated by: Ameera Conrad
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Nwelezelanga is born with albinism. Convinced by the midwife that an albino child is a curse, her mother places her in a river to drown. However, fate has other plans and the baby is rescued and raised by a traditional healer. She grows into an old soul with mystic abilities and her story unfolds as she lives a rural life, connected to the earth and ancient rituals.
By: Unathi Magubeni
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MacGregor's Final Battle
- By: Joe Clark
- Narrated by: Ariel Royce, Christopher Rourke
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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When Donald (Mac) MacGregor learns that brain cancer is killing him, he sets out in an RV on one last adventure. Along the way he meets Kate Graham, a nurse in an assisted living facility who is looking for an escape from a dead end life.
By: Joe Clark
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Until the Day I Die
- By: Kyle I. Rosenbaum
- Narrated by: Mark Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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Mollitor Longley was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given 30 days to live. He decides not to chase a miracle cure, but embarks on an illuminating journey to find meaning in the human condition. At first, Mollitor, 39, is devastated and regrets that he never took risks, that his life has been safe and uninspiring. After his prognosis, he relinquishes control and acts on every impulse. He succumbs to his anger and recklessly confronts everyday injustices.
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Girls in a World at War
- By: PEGGY MUNRO SCHOLBERG, NANCY EWING MUNRO IN MEMORIAM
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs
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After visiting a friend who returned from World War II confined in a body cast, Kathy Collens felt compelled to enlist in the war effort. In 1944, at the age of 23, she joined the Army. Despite her background as a college-educated dietician from an affluent family, and having attended the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Kathy discovered nothing could fully prepare her for the realities of war. Girls in a World at War offers a firsthand account of Kathy and four other young women who served in the 223rd General Hospital. Stationed in France, they operated out of a converted horse barn situated near ...
By: PEGGY MUNRO SCHOLBERG, and others
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The King’s Mother
- By: Annie Garthwaite
- Narrated by: Amber Anderson
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – eighteen years old and unstoppable. Cecily has piloted his rise to power and stands at his shoulder now, first to claim the title King’s Mother. But to win a throne is not to keep it and war is come again. As brother betrays brother, and trusted cousins turn treacherous, other mothers rise up to fight for other sons. Cecily must focus her will to defeat every challenge. Wherever they come from. Whatever the cost. For there can be only one King, and only one King’s Mother.
By: Annie Garthwaite
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Salome
- The woman behind the dance
- By: Joanna Courtney
- Narrated by: Chloë Sommer
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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At age fourteen, Princess Salome knows she will soon be ready for marriage - one that will satisfy the ambitions of her mother Herodias. But it is Herodias's own sudden remarriage that will change Salome's life in a way she did not expect. Uprooted to Judea, Salome finds herself in a land full of strange people - none more so than the prophet John 'the Baptiser', who condemns her mother and stepfather for their respective divorces. When John is imprisoned for inciting rebellion, Herodias forces Salome to ask for his head as a gift for her dancing.
By: Joanna Courtney
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No Longer Human
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: Ben Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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In the haunting literary masterpiece "No Longer Human," renowned Japanese author Osamu Dazai takes listeners on an emotionally charged journey through the depths of the human psyche. This timeless classic, teeming with raw vulnerability and poetic prose, has captivated millions and continues to resonate across generations.
By: Osamu Dazai
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The Jackson River Bridge
- By: Elliott D. Light
- Narrated by: Dane Petersen
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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I was a sixteen-year-old runaway when I worked my way to the edge of the Jackson River Bridge and peered at the moonlit water swirling below. To be fair, I wasn't an ordinary sixteen-year-old. I had an affliction akin to autism that left me with fragmented memories of my childhood, memories that inspired nightmares filled with demons that tormented me while I slept and awoke me screaming in the dark void of my room. Even I understood that I had few choices, and all were bad.
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Identity development through recovering memory.
- By SS on 07-09-24
By: Elliott D. Light
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A Song of Courage
- By: Rachel Wesson
- Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Connie Fitzwalter never imagined that her passion for music would lead her into a world of danger and intrigue. When her old family friend, Stephen, who works for the foreign office, tells Connie the true scale of the violence against Jewish people in Germany and Austria, she can stand aside no longer. Together, Stephen and Connie devise a daring mission to help families escape the clutches of Nazi persecution. Under their cover as music enthusiasts traveling to high-society concerts in Europe, Connie and her sister Dottie begin by smuggling money and valuables for families over the border.
By: Rachel Wesson
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Caesar's General
- Mark Antony Book 2
- By: Alex Gough
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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In the throes of crisis, Rome braces for change. Caesar, Rome’s greatest general and conqueror of Gaul, now faces being stripped of his command and dragged back to Italy for prosecution by his enemies. His former ally, Pompey, has sided with his opponents in the Senate and frustrates all efforts to find peace. With no alternatives, Caesar crosses the Rubicon and spearheads an invasion of Rome with Mark Antony at his side, throwing the empire into civil war. Will Antony rise to the heights of power or be executed as a traitor?
By: Alex Gough
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The Paris Muse
- By: Louisa Treger
- Narrated by: Amy Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerized by his dark and intense stare. Drawn to his volcanic creativity, it isn't long before she embarks on a passionate relationship with the Spanish artist that sometimes includes sadism and masochism, and ultimately pushes her to the edge. The Paris Muse is the fictionalized retelling of this disturbing love story, as we follow Dora on her journey of self-discovery and expression.
By: Louisa Treger