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Bestsellers
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The Things We Cannot Say
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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Don’t Miss This One!
- By Mary Smiroldo on 08-06-19
By: Kelly Rimmer
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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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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- By Ximena Enriquez on 08-31-24
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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
- A Novel
- By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy.
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Captivating!
- By lorraine clark on 10-17-24
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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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Timeliness and timelessness
- By JStan on 02-25-24
By: Mitch Albom
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- By: Georgia Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....
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Love it but...
- By Roz on 07-19-17
By: Georgia Hunter
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The Things We Cannot Say
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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Don’t Miss This One!
- By Mary Smiroldo on 08-06-19
By: Kelly Rimmer
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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- By Ximena Enriquez on 08-31-24
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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
- A Novel
- By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy.
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Captivating!
- By lorraine clark on 10-17-24
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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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Overall
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Performance
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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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Timeliness and timelessness
- By JStan on 02-25-24
By: Mitch Albom
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- By: Georgia Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....
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Love it but...
- By Roz on 07-19-17
By: Georgia Hunter
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Code Name Sapphire
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels....
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Such a disappointment.
- By V. Temple on 03-29-23
By: Pam Jenoff
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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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The Warsaw Orphan
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Safekeep
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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This One Should Win
- By K. Bella Bestia on 10-13-24
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The Woman with the Blue Star
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Emily Lawrence, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II - now a New York Times best seller....
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A Story of Love, Friendship and Courage
- By Patrick Walters on 06-24-21
By: Pam Jenoff
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Three Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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
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People of the Book
- A Novel
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain....
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Amazing, fabulous, wonderful!!!
- By Yvette on 03-13-09
By: Geraldine Brooks
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The Postcard
- By: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling....
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The author’s words deserve a better narrator
- By TK on 05-22-23
By: Anne Berest, and others
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Beyond the Tracks
- A WW2 Novel Based on Harrowing True Events
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Mike Paul
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him....
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Beyond
- By Ellen, Ontario, Canada on 01-16-22
By: Michael Reit
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The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs - each of a different woman....
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I don’t understand the good reviews
- By Heather on 03-30-19
By: Pam Jenoff
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The Hidden Palace
- A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I, Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world....
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First book was better, but narration is great!
- By Robert on 08-21-21
By: Helene Wecker
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Exodus
- A Novel of Israel
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 28 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon - the towering novel of the 20th century's most dramatic geopolitical event....
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My favorite book of ALL Time
- By Meaghan Bynum on 08-22-12
By: Leon Uris
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Who Loves You Best
- A Novel
- By: Marilyn Simon Rothstein
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A woman drops everything to spend more time with her grandchild, only to discover new truths about herself. A humorous, heartfelt, feel-good novel from the author of Crazy to Leave You.
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The Berlin Sisters
- By: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife comes a story of bravery, sacrifice and resilience in war-torn Berlin—and two sisters who will risk it all to make a difference....
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Another great Story
- By Bria Wright on 07-13-24
By: Soraya M. Lane
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Schindler's List
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II....
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really well done
- By Neil H. Greenberg on 03-09-19
By: Thomas Keneally
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Thistlefoot
- A Novel
- By: GennaRose Nethercott
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.
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I can't decide if I liked it
- By Lorraine Cannon on 11-03-22
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The Golem and the Jinni
- A Novel
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York....
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Enchanting Debut Novel - Delicious!
- By Tango on 04-26-13
By: Helene Wecker
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A Place to Hide
- A Novel
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerful and dramatic, National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson’s A Place to Hide explores the deeply-moving actions of an ordinary man who resolves, under perilous circumstances, to make a difference.
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Another Masterpiece
- By Claudia on 10-17-24
By: Ronald H. Balson
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The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz:
- A totally gripping and absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 novel
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history....
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Very sorrowful book
- By paula wright on 03-30-21
By: Ellie Midwood
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Once We Were Brothers
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer....
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5-Star Thriller with History and Heart
- By Ella on 11-22-14
By: Ronald H. Balson
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Other People's Houses
- A Novel
- By: Lore Segal
- Narrated by: Stephanie Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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This semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survival....
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Childs view was wonderful and accurate
- By Roberta on 10-06-24
By: Lore Segal
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From Sand and Ash
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love....
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Such beauty in the darkest of times <3
- By featherlashes on 12-04-16
By: Amy Harmon
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The Orphan's Tale
- A Novel
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wydra, Kyla Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans....
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Sappy and tedious
- By Churchill on 03-23-17
By: Pam Jenoff
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Saving Sophie
- A Novel
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago - that is until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became an embezzlement suspect....
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A fascinating mystery with an irritating victim
- By Chip Atkinson on 03-15-16
By: Ronald H. Balson
New releases
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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
- A Novel
- By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier.
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Captivating!
- By lorraine clark on 10-17-24
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A Reason to See You Again
- A Novel
- By: Jami Attenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
By: Jami Attenberg
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Who Loves You Best
- A Novel
- By: Marilyn Simon Rothstein
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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For Jodi Wexler, a Florida doctor with a flourishing practice, only one thing’s missing: the chance to spend more time getting to know her eight-year-old granddaughter, Macallan. When Jodi’s restauranteur daughter asks her to watch Macallan in the Berkshires while she takes care of some business out of town, Jodi can’t say yes fast enough. Neither Jodi’s podiatric patients nor her just-fired, suddenly retired husband can keep her away. But when Jodi arrives, she discovers she’s not the only grandma at Lisa’s house.
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The Sound of a Thousand Stars
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Robbins
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country’s call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.
By: Rachel Robbins
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Dear Eliza
- By: Andrea J. Stein
- Narrated by: Dani Cochrane
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Eliza’s world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer. Now, years later, she has rebuilt her life to include a director-of-development job at a nonprofit, a Manhattan apartment, and an easy-on-the-eyes bedroom buddy—just the kind of no-strings relationship she wants, even if it’s less than her best friend, Mo, thinks she deserves. But when Eliza’s dad dies unexpectedly, her beloved aunt Claude arrives at the shiva with a letter from her mom—to be opened only after her father’s death. Inside the letter? A bombshell.
By: Andrea J. Stein
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Giuda
- By: Amos Oz
- Narrated by: Riccardo Riccobello
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Gerusalemme, l’inverno tra la fine del 1959 e l’inizio del 1960. Shemuel Asch decide di rinunciare agli studi universitari – e in particolare alla sua ricerca intitolata Gesù visto dagli ebrei – a causa dell’improvviso dissesto economico che colpisce la sua famiglia e del contemporaneo abbandono da parte della sua ragazza, Yardena. Shemuel è sul punto di lasciare Gerusalemme quando vede un annuncio nella caffetteria dell’università. Vengono offerti alloggio gratis e un modesto stipendio a uno studente di materie umanistiche che sia disposto a tenere compagnia, il pomeriggio, a un anziano disabile di grande cultura.
By: Amos Oz
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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
- A Novel
- By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty years earlier.
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Captivating!
- By lorraine clark on 10-17-24
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A Reason to See You Again
- A Novel
- By: Jami Attenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
By: Jami Attenberg
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Who Loves You Best
- A Novel
- By: Marilyn Simon Rothstein
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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For Jodi Wexler, a Florida doctor with a flourishing practice, only one thing’s missing: the chance to spend more time getting to know her eight-year-old granddaughter, Macallan. When Jodi’s restauranteur daughter asks her to watch Macallan in the Berkshires while she takes care of some business out of town, Jodi can’t say yes fast enough. Neither Jodi’s podiatric patients nor her just-fired, suddenly retired husband can keep her away. But when Jodi arrives, she discovers she’s not the only grandma at Lisa’s house.
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The Sound of a Thousand Stars
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Robbins
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country’s call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.
By: Rachel Robbins
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Dear Eliza
- By: Andrea J. Stein
- Narrated by: Dani Cochrane
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Eliza’s world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer. Now, years later, she has rebuilt her life to include a director-of-development job at a nonprofit, a Manhattan apartment, and an easy-on-the-eyes bedroom buddy—just the kind of no-strings relationship she wants, even if it’s less than her best friend, Mo, thinks she deserves. But when Eliza’s dad dies unexpectedly, her beloved aunt Claude arrives at the shiva with a letter from her mom—to be opened only after her father’s death. Inside the letter? A bombshell.
By: Andrea J. Stein
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Giuda
- By: Amos Oz
- Narrated by: Riccardo Riccobello
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Gerusalemme, l’inverno tra la fine del 1959 e l’inizio del 1960. Shemuel Asch decide di rinunciare agli studi universitari – e in particolare alla sua ricerca intitolata Gesù visto dagli ebrei – a causa dell’improvviso dissesto economico che colpisce la sua famiglia e del contemporaneo abbandono da parte della sua ragazza, Yardena. Shemuel è sul punto di lasciare Gerusalemme quando vede un annuncio nella caffetteria dell’università. Vengono offerti alloggio gratis e un modesto stipendio a uno studente di materie umanistiche che sia disposto a tenere compagnia, il pomeriggio, a un anziano disabile di grande cultura.
By: Amos Oz