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Bestsellers
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Two sisters, separated by years and experience, each embark on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in WWII France.
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Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction
- By Sara on 08-21-15
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Midwife of Berlin
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....
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great
- By Margaret on 03-20-24
By: Anna Stuart
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Rose Code
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping WWII story of three code-breakers and the spy they must root out.
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My Favorite Book!!!
- By Jan M on 03-09-21
By: Kate Quinn
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The Book of Lost Names
- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Lina Meisel, a retired librarian in Florida, is reading the newspaper one morning when she freezes. Her eyes lock on a photograph of a book she hasn’t seen in 65 years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names....
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Another whiney female "heroine"
- By Patricia on 08-15-20
By: Kristin Harmel
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family....
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Thank you for bringing out this story. I am first generation of holocaust survivors and never knew about Greece.
- By Red on 11-18-23
By: Mitch Albom
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Two sisters, separated by years and experience, each embark on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in WWII France.
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Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction
- By Sara on 08-21-15
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Midwife of Berlin
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....
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great
- By Margaret on 03-20-24
By: Anna Stuart
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Rose Code
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping WWII story of three code-breakers and the spy they must root out.
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My Favorite Book!!!
- By Jan M on 03-09-21
By: Kate Quinn
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The Book of Lost Names
- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Lina Meisel, a retired librarian in Florida, is reading the newspaper one morning when she freezes. Her eyes lock on a photograph of a book she hasn’t seen in 65 years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names....
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Another whiney female "heroine"
- By Patricia on 08-15-20
By: Kristin Harmel
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family....
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Thank you for bringing out this story. I am first generation of holocaust survivors and never knew about Greece.
- By Red on 11-18-23
By: Mitch Albom
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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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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The Diamond Eye
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story....
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Excellent narration!
- By Denise Diener on 04-15-22
By: Kate Quinn
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The Teacher of Warsaw
- By: Mario Escobar
- Narrated by: Zach Hoffman
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably—except for one man’s capacity to love....
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A brilliant audio
- By Kayla Willis on 07-13-22
By: Mario Escobar
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All the Broken Places
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Helen Lloyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery....
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Such A Surprise!!!
- By M. Ryder on 12-06-22
By: John Boyne
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The Librarian Spy
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Madeline Martin
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence....
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Good story, disturbing narration.
- By John on 09-22-22
By: Madeline Martin
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We Must Not Think of Ourselves
- By: Lauren Grodstein
- Narrated by: Brad Griffith, Jesse Vilinsky, Sharon Freedman, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II....
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A beautiful book.
- By Donna Morgan on 12-04-23
By: Lauren Grodstein
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The School for German Brides
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth....
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It's ok
- By Donna Grimsley on 06-15-22
By: Aimie K. Runyan
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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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The Secret Society of Salzburg
- By: Renee Ryan
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection—and strike a dangerous alliance....
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Good story well told
- By Tom Donahue on 06-19-23
By: Renee Ryan
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The Lost Vintage
- A Novel
- By: Ann Mah
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this pause-resisting novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World War II....
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Returned due to narration
- By Yvonne on 12-16-18
By: Ann Mah
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Sisters of the Resistance
- A Novel of Catherine Dior's Paris Spy Network
- By: Christine Wells
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Two sisters join the Paris Resistance in this pause-resisting new novel inspired by the real-life bravery of Catherine Dior, sister of the fashion designer and a heroine of World War II France - perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Jennifer Chiaverini....
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NOT about Catherine Dior
- By Amazoncustomer on 08-09-21
By: Christine Wells
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The Warsaw Orphan
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer’s most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say....
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Kelly did it again! 🥰
- By Eric Cardoza on 07-21-21
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman, Hope Newhouse
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....
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French accent
- By Lilya on 10-22-21
By: Barbara Davis
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The Huntress
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans....
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EVEN BETTER THAN ALICE NETWORK
- By Nina on 03-02-19
By: Kate Quinn
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The Secret Book of Flora Lea
- A Novel
- By: Patti Callahan Henry
- Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo, Patti Callahan Henry
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children’s book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Surviving Savannah....
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My mum was an evacuee…
- By Bettie on 06-09-23
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Cilka's Journey
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival....
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YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS BOOK
- By Amazon Customer on 10-08-19
By: Heather Morris
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Enemy Women
- By: Paulette Jiles
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”....
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Might be better to read this one
- By sssnoo on 10-31-20
By: Paulette Jiles
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The War Orphan
- Women of War
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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1945, Auschwitz: I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now…
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Meh
- By K on 04-19-24
By: Anna Stuart
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Daughters of the Occupation
- A Novel of WWII
- By: Shelly Sanders
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan’s comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her second child, a son she and her husband, Max, name Monya, the Soviets invade the Baltic state of Latvia and occupy the capital city of Riga, her home....
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It never ceases to break my heart …
- By Sherry M. Bianchi-Knod on 05-23-22
By: Shelly Sanders
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When We Had Wings
- By: Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, Susan Meissner
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival....
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A sanitized view of the Japanese in WWII.
- By Mary on 04-04-23
By: Ariel Lawhon, and others
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Our Woman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Beatriz Williams
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance....
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Wonderful Listen
- By Terry on 09-29-21
By: Beatriz Williams
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The Italian Ballerina
- A World War II Novel
- By: Kristy Cambron
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events....
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Took me halfway through...
- By Mona-Alisa on 05-26-23
By: Kristy Cambron
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Three Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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From Heather Morris, the New York Times best-selling author of the multimillion-copy best seller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story....
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Excellent and heartwarming story of love and survival
- By Lee H on 11-06-21
By: Heather Morris
New releases
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Time Walker
- In the President's Service, Book 19
- By: Ace Collins
- Narrated by: Ace Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 1943, Helen Meeker’s team reunites to uncover the reason why a man refuses the Medal of Honor he deserves. Unraveling this mystery takes Meeker and her team on a life and death chase. Their original, seemingly simple case quickly explodes into a complex adventure where they must find a man called Horse, uncover why Hitler hired a mobster to contribute to the Nazi cause, face a legendary hit man who wants to add them to his list of victims, and perhaps uncover a treasure once sought by the Spanish Conquistadors.
By: Ace Collins
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The Sower of Black Field
- Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- By: Katherine Koch
- Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule.
By: Katherine Koch
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The Last Boat Home
- By: Rachel Sweasey
- Narrated by: Gloria Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.
By: Rachel Sweasey
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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The Constant Soldier
- By: William Ryan
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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1944. Paul Brandt, a German soldier, returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners. When Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
By: William Ryan
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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Time Walker
- In the President's Service, Book 19
- By: Ace Collins
- Narrated by: Ace Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 1943, Helen Meeker’s team reunites to uncover the reason why a man refuses the Medal of Honor he deserves. Unraveling this mystery takes Meeker and her team on a life and death chase. Their original, seemingly simple case quickly explodes into a complex adventure where they must find a man called Horse, uncover why Hitler hired a mobster to contribute to the Nazi cause, face a legendary hit man who wants to add them to his list of victims, and perhaps uncover a treasure once sought by the Spanish Conquistadors.
By: Ace Collins
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The Sower of Black Field
- Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- By: Katherine Koch
- Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule.
By: Katherine Koch
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The Last Boat Home
- By: Rachel Sweasey
- Narrated by: Gloria Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.
By: Rachel Sweasey
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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The Constant Soldier
- By: William Ryan
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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1944. Paul Brandt, a German soldier, returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners. When Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
By: William Ryan
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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The Girl from the Grand Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Camille Aubray
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Summer 1939. The glittering Côte d’Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world’s wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood’s illustrious movie stars for the first-ever film festival on the French Riviera. Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she’s escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel, where her uncle is the manager.
By: Camille Aubray
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A Child Far from Home
- By: Lizzie Page
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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With the country on the brink of war, single mother Jean embraces her ten-year-old daughter, Valerie, before she puts her on a train to Somerset alongside hundreds of other evacuees. Jean’s heart breaks as she vows they’ll be together again soon, knowing it’s a promise she might not be able to keep. Wrenched away from her mother and everything familiar, Valerie arrives in Somerset and nervously waits in the village hall to find a host family.
By: Lizzie Page
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For the Children
- By: David Laws
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Helen Fairfax is a ferry pilot and the mother of Peter, aged six. From Monday to Friday, she flies from factories to airfields, then returns to the family farmhouse where her parents look after the boy. She feels torn being away from her son so much, but after her husband died in the Battle of Britain she vowed to live up to his example of courage and strike back at the enemy. Now the Germans are about to launch the V-2 against London, and MI6 is desperate to get its hands on an undamaged prototype of the rocket to discover how it might be defeated.
By: David Laws
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The Two Loves of Sophie Strom
- By: Sam Taylor
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Jot Davies
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In one unforgettable night, Max Spiegelman's life splits in two. As war looms and Nazism continues to rise, Max is forced into choices that place him and his alter ego on opposing sides of a divided world. Tethered by their dreams, the boys watch helplessly, haunted by visions of what could have been. But in each parallel universe, they share a magnetic bond with an enchanting, grey-eyed girl.
By: Sam Taylor
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
- By: Janet Skeslien Charles
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jackie Sanders, Marin Ireland, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women determined to rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen - children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.
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The Winter Tiger & The War Eagle
- By: Bret Kissinger
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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She was the Soviet Union’s greatest sniper. He was Germany’s greatest pilot. The war made them enemies. Destiny entwined them. Journey into the heart of World War II and witness the extraordinary tale of two adversaries whose destinies become inexorably entwined. In The Winter Tiger & The War Eagle, author Bret Kissinger masterfully crafts a story of love, loyalty, and the enduring power of the human spirit amidst the chaos of war. Kira Kovalyova, the Soviet Union's fiercest sniper known as the Winter Tiger, and Reinhardt Friedel, Germany's most skilled pilot dubbed the War Eagle, find ...
By: Bret Kissinger
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Forever Fleeting
- By: Bret Kissinger
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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Step into the tumultuous world of pre-World War II Berlin, where fate intertwines the lives of Wilhelm Schreiber and Hannah Goldschmidt in ways they never could have imagined. As the threat of war looms ever closer, their bond deepens, defying the boundaries set by society and circumstance. When the horrors of war finally descend upon Europe, Wilhelm and Hannah find themselves torn apart, thrust into the chaos and brutality of a world at war. From the depths of Auschwitz to the blood-soaked battlefields of Stalingrad and the shores of Normandy on D-Day, their paths diverge but their love ...
By: Bret Kissinger
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Empire in Silence
- By: Robert Dobbs
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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"Empire in Silence" is a sinister exploration of how Nazi ideologies have insidiously permeated modern American society. After World War II, high-ranking Nazis and their zealous disciples used stolen European riches to seed corporate entities around the world, embedding themselves within America's corporate and political landscape. These entities carried not only advanced technology but also a dark, authoritarian philosophy that the Nazis hoped would eventually dominate the United States, turning it into a contemporary fascist empire. Michael Keller, a former CIA operative turned security ...
By: Robert Dobbs
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War Baby
- Sweet Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...
By: Lizzie Lane
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A Wartime Friend
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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After escaping a train bound for a death camp with a trusty German Shepherd dog, a girl wakes to find that she has no memory of her former life. Lily is fostered by the kind RAF pilot who found her and his wife, Meg. It is not long before their lives are disrupted once again by the war and, with their home in ruins, they are forced to flee to the country. In the Somerset countryside, Lily is reunited with Rudy, the heroic German Shepherd.
By: Lizzie Lane
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The Stars Are Our Witness
- A totally gripping, epic and emotional World War 2 novel
- By: Siobhan Curham
- Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Working in the camp’s munitions factory, Adela Rubenstein discovers the underground network fighting against the devastating cruelty all around them. Imprisoned for teaching Jewish orphans in secret for the resistance, she doesn’t hesitate to join the rebellion. Every night on the way back to her hut, she looks up at the stars, the only witness to their plan to blow up the crematoria buildings.
By: Siobhan Curham
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Wartime Sweethearts
- The Sweet Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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he Sweet family have run the local bakery for as long as anyone can remember. Twins Ruby and Mary Sweet help their widowed father out when they can. Mary loves baking and has no intention of leaving their small Gloucestershire village. while Ruby dreams of life in London. But as war threatens, there will be changes for all of the Sweet family, with brother Charlie off to serve and cousin Frances facing evacuation. But there will be opportunities, too, as the twins' baking talent catches the attention of the Ministry of Food.
By: Lizzie Lane