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Bestsellers
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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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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 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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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 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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Great story and narrator
- By Brad Zerkel on 12-18-22
By: Mario Escobar
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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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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 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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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 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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Great story and narrator
- By Brad Zerkel on 12-18-22
By: Mario Escobar
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The Golem of Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Adam Mansbach
- Narrated by: Danny Hoch
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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From Adam Mansbach, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, the dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five thousand year old clay crisis monster....
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Could not finish
- By unco on 09-28-23
By: Adam Mansbach
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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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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
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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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Hope
- A Novel
- By: Andrew Ridker
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed author of The Altruists comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly perfect family in an era of waning American optimism....
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Not long enough
- By Jess on 09-14-23
By: Andrew Ridker
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Kantika
- By: Elizabeth Graver
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Exploring identity, place, and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art, and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women....
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Outstanding performance of a beautiful book
- By Elliott Wolfe, M.D. on 07-25-23
By: Elizabeth Graver
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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 Marriage of Opposites
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko, Santino Fontana, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris....
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Intoxicating and Complex Journey
- By Mel on 09-02-15
By: Alice Hoffman
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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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Annelies
- A Novel
- By: David R. Gillham
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, David R. Gillham
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Frank is a cultural icon whose diary painted a vivid picture of the Holocaust and made her an image of humanity in one of history’s darkest moments. But she was also a person - a precocious young girl with a rich inner life and tremendous skill as a writer....
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totally ridiculous
- By M. landers on 02-09-23
By: David R. Gillham
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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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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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Live a Little
- A Novel
- By: Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 90-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever....
By: Howard Jacobson
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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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The Thread Collectors
- A Novel
- By: Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army....
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Extremely good!
- By Doodle slave on 07-02-23
By: Shaunna J. Edwards, 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 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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The Last Rose of Shanghai
- A Novel
- By: Weina Dai Randel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers....
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Soapy but fun
- By Padders- Padmini Sankar on 12-14-21
By: Weina Dai Randel
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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....
By: Soraya M. Lane
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The Dovekeepers
- A Novel
- By: Alice Hoffman, Heather Lind
- Narrated by: Aya Cash, Jessica Hecht, Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel....
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Grade of B-
- By FanB14 on 06-29-12
By: Alice Hoffman, and others
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Crossroads of Granite
- Orphans of War, Book 3
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Nora Brouwer, a radar operator, watches as Allied bombers crest the horizon. A cryptic call tempts her—safety or a daring mission? Her brother-in-law, Christiaan Brouwer, ensnared in an SS prison, faces a dire choice: betray his secrets or forfeit his life....
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Character Development was Superb
- By K. Bruins on 05-19-24
By: Michael Reit
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Sarah's Key
- A Novel
- By: Tatiana de Rosnay
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours....
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Important subject and plot, pedestrian execution
- By Benson on 04-15-10
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Florence Adler Swims Forever
- By: Rachel Beanland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Tim Paige, Carly Robins, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery....
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I was grabbed up right away!
- By Stephanie Epps on 07-24-20
By: Rachel Beanland
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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
New releases
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Real Life and Other Fictions
- A Novel
- By: Susan Coll
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In her 50s, Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of two and has never fully understood why her DC-based parents were on a bridge in West Virginia that just so happened to collapse as they drove across it. Her search for answers prompted a failed career in journalism, and now she’s an aspiring novelist teaching at a local community college waiting for her literary dreams to finally come true.
By: Susan Coll
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Bent Towards Justice
- A Novel Inspired By True Stories
- By: Steven R. Feldman
- Narrated by: Ed Asner
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A unifying narrative for divided times, Bent Toward Justice tells the story of Murray Schwartzman, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and escaped to America. But while Schwartzman may have found respite from external conflict in his peaceful and supportive American Jewish community, he faces a new internal upheaval. An encounter with an apparently anti-Semitic doctor forces Schwartzman to confront his beliefs about Palestinians being the enemy of the Jewish people.
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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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Berlin, 1943: Ava Müller is a proud supporter of the German war effort, working for Joseph Goebbels alongside her father, a high-ranking official in the Reich. With her sister Hanna, a nurse, braving bombing raids to save lives, they are a model Nazi family. Until Ava discovers her parents and Hanna are secretly working for the resistance… Returning to their country home, Ava is shocked to find her childhood friend Eliana Goldman and her family hidden in the attic.
By: Soraya M. Lane
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My Sister's Betrayal
- Book 2
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Desperate to be reunited with her husband, Daniel, Elica walks into the dreaded den of the ruthless Gestapo. She's ready to sacrifice anything for their love. Anna and her family find themselves at the mercy of Anna's heart-throb, Ulf. Ulf's obsession with Anna puts him in a quandary—between his loyalty to the Fuhrer and his burning desire for the forbidden fruit.
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Another cliff hanger!
- By Alyson on 05-19-24
By: Roberta Kagan
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The Hebrew Teacher
- By: Maya Arad, Jessica Cohen - translator
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises.
By: Maya Arad, and others
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All the Lives We Could Have Led
- A Novel
- By: Eshed Dagan
- Narrated by: Linda Graves
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As Avia and her son, Lavi, get off the plane in San Francisco, the first stop of their trip across the Golden State, she cannot help but feel just a little hopeful. Maybe their time together will bring them closer and even bridge the emotional chasm separating them – filled with silences and volatile, intense confrontation.
By: Eshed Dagan
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Real Life and Other Fictions
- A Novel
- By: Susan Coll
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In her 50s, Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of two and has never fully understood why her DC-based parents were on a bridge in West Virginia that just so happened to collapse as they drove across it. Her search for answers prompted a failed career in journalism, and now she’s an aspiring novelist teaching at a local community college waiting for her literary dreams to finally come true.
By: Susan Coll
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Bent Towards Justice
- A Novel Inspired By True Stories
- By: Steven R. Feldman
- Narrated by: Ed Asner
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A unifying narrative for divided times, Bent Toward Justice tells the story of Murray Schwartzman, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and escaped to America. But while Schwartzman may have found respite from external conflict in his peaceful and supportive American Jewish community, he faces a new internal upheaval. An encounter with an apparently anti-Semitic doctor forces Schwartzman to confront his beliefs about Palestinians being the enemy of the Jewish people.
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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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Berlin, 1943: Ava Müller is a proud supporter of the German war effort, working for Joseph Goebbels alongside her father, a high-ranking official in the Reich. With her sister Hanna, a nurse, braving bombing raids to save lives, they are a model Nazi family. Until Ava discovers her parents and Hanna are secretly working for the resistance… Returning to their country home, Ava is shocked to find her childhood friend Eliana Goldman and her family hidden in the attic.
By: Soraya M. Lane
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My Sister's Betrayal
- Book 2
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Desperate to be reunited with her husband, Daniel, Elica walks into the dreaded den of the ruthless Gestapo. She's ready to sacrifice anything for their love. Anna and her family find themselves at the mercy of Anna's heart-throb, Ulf. Ulf's obsession with Anna puts him in a quandary—between his loyalty to the Fuhrer and his burning desire for the forbidden fruit.
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Another cliff hanger!
- By Alyson on 05-19-24
By: Roberta Kagan
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The Hebrew Teacher
- By: Maya Arad, Jessica Cohen - translator
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises.
By: Maya Arad, and others
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All the Lives We Could Have Led
- A Novel
- By: Eshed Dagan
- Narrated by: Linda Graves
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As Avia and her son, Lavi, get off the plane in San Francisco, the first stop of their trip across the Golden State, she cannot help but feel just a little hopeful. Maybe their time together will bring them closer and even bridge the emotional chasm separating them – filled with silences and volatile, intense confrontation.
By: Eshed Dagan
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The Sins on Their Bones
- By: Laura R. Samotin
- Narrated by: Aaron Willis, Daniel Chichagov, Robin Wilcock
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing in exile after losing a devastating civil war instigated by his estranged husband, Alexey Balakin. In hiding with what remains of his court, Dimitri and his spymaster, Vasily Sokolov, engineer a dangerous ruse. Vasily will sneak into Alexey’s court under a false identity to gather information, paving the way for the usurper’s downfall, while Dimitri finds a way to kill him for good. But stopping Alexey is not so easy as plotting to kill an ordinary man.
By: Laura R. Samotin
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Massacre
- The Hebraica Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Christine Jordan
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Abraham accompanies his father and his friends to London to attend the coronation of Richard I. But after the king accepts the valuable gifts they have brought for him, he angrily demands the small group be ejected immediately, forcing them to face a bloodthirsty anti-Semitic crowd.
By: Christine Jordan
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The Land of Eighteen Dreams
- By: Lawrence J. Epstein
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Land of Eighteen Dreams is an episodic novel made up of chronologically-connected stories, each of which is self-contained. All are in the form of a narrative by Lily Siegel, who uses each incident to describe her relationship with her grandfather, Benjamin Kagan. Benjamin describes his life and, in doing so, simultaneously offers the wider story of American Jews over the last century, and distills the inherited folk wisdom of Eastern European Jews.
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Not Today
- A Dora Ellison Mystery, Book 1
- By: David E Feldman
- Narrated by: Laura Sherwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When tragedy strikes her police officer lover, Dora Ellison is forced to become a reluctant investigator and what an investigator she is! Childhood trauma has left her with a violent streak she turns toward bullies and criminals. Her investigation of a murder that wasn't a murder reveals a multi-layered dark web of local corruption that leads to danger & violence she is uniquely equipped to battle.
By: David E Feldman
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The Tuscan Daughter
- By: Tessa Harris
- Narrated by: Lucy Walker-Evans
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Tuscany, 1942: having moved from England to the beautiful city of Lucca before the outbreak of war, Lizzie Thornton adores her job as tutor to eight-year-old Cristo – despite the fact that his father, Count Antonio de Falco, is a notable fascist and supporter of Mussolini. Then war is declared, and Lizzie is suddenly regarded as an enemy in the country she loves so much. When new tutor Vincenzo Baldini arrives, Lizzie is exposed to a new secret world; Vincenzo is actually a member of the Italian resistance, running an anti-fascist propaganda magazine.
By: Tessa Harris
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Father, Son, Stone
- By: Allan H. Goodman
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Father, Son, Stone blends history and mystery to reveal the secret of the most controversial religious site in Jerusalem — known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. When the Western Wall collapses from excavations to enlarge al-Aqsa Mosque, Justice Meir Bar- Aben of the Supreme Court of Israel presides over a secret hearing, initiated by the Israeli Prime Minister, to take back control of the Temple Mount from the Muslim Authority. What is revealed during the hearing changes Jerusalem, and the people who live there, forever.
By: Allan H. Goodman
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The Lives Left Behind
- A Heartbreaking Historical Novel Based on a True Story
- By: Tova Aviram-Zylberg
- Narrated by: Bill Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Yosseleh Karlinski was born to a family of great Jewish rabbis. Gifted with a keen mind and unique talent for chess, he earned the respect and admiration of those around him–especially his childhood friend, Christina. But everything changes when the Germans conquer Lublin, forcing Yosseleh into a new reality in the cramped Lublin Ghetto.
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The Pact
- The Blood Sisters, Book 1
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before their bond of friendship gets severely tested.
By: Roberta Kagan
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Woman of Stones
- A Novella
- By: Meredith Allard
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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For fans of The Red Tent. She is from a poor Jewish settlement in a powerful Greco-Roman world. When Othniel bar-Ismael, a textile merchant from Jerusalem, arrives in her village, he is determined to take her for his wife. But the reality of living as a fine lady is not as grand as she thought it would be. When she meets the man of her dreams, an acquaintance of her husband's, her life is forever changed. Caught with her lover, she is dragged and kicked to the Temple Court. In the end, she must make sense of the second chance she has been granted.
By: Meredith Allard
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Dear Mary
- By: Miriam Steiner Aviezer
- Narrated by: Sienna Johnston
- Length: 8 mins
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The story is essentially a thank you letter from a former refugee child, for an aid package that was sent from America in the aftermath of the Second World War. Though the letter is addressed to Mary, it is also addressed to all those who belong to the generation of Mary. The story exudes messages of human love, kindness, compassion and the power of goodness.
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The Wild Date Palm
- By: Diane Armstrong
- Narrated by: Deirdre Rubenstein
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny.
By: Diane Armstrong
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The Wild Date Palm
- By: Diane Armstrong
- Narrated by: Deirdre Rubenstein
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny. Convinced that her Jewish community in a small outpost of the Ottoman Empire will soon meet a similar fate, she is desperate to save her people. With Turkey and Britain locked in a global conflict, she orchestrates an audacious plan. Enlisting a group of co-conspirators who include her charismatic lover Eli and her impetuous brother Nathan, this young woman forms a clandestine spy ring.
By: Diane Armstrong