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Bestsellers
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age.
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disappointing
- By Gerald Friedman on 09-26-24
By: Robert Harris
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The Phoenix Crown
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Katharine Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn comes a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles....
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A Queen of the Night
- By Syd Young on 02-15-24
By: Kate Quinn, and others
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The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
- A Novel
- By: Kitty Zeldis
- Narrated by: Karen Gundersen
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways....
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Piece of garbage.
- By Deb on 06-18-23
By: Kitty Zeldis
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Band of Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story - a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network....
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Interesting history
- By Ru on 07-13-21
By: Lauren Willig
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The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed....
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A Novel Worth Listening To.
- By Ana Reader on 03-17-24
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Lost Roses
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Best seller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now, Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother and follows three equally indomitable women under the shadow of World War I....
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UGH!
- By Jenny Andrews on 05-07-19
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age.
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disappointing
- By Gerald Friedman on 09-26-24
By: Robert Harris
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The Phoenix Crown
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Katharine Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn comes a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles....
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A Queen of the Night
- By Syd Young on 02-15-24
By: Kate Quinn, and others
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The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
- A Novel
- By: Kitty Zeldis
- Narrated by: Karen Gundersen
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways....
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Piece of garbage.
- By Deb on 06-18-23
By: Kitty Zeldis
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Band of Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story - a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network....
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Interesting history
- By Ru on 07-13-21
By: Lauren Willig
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The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed....
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A Novel Worth Listening To.
- By Ana Reader on 03-17-24
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Lost Roses
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Best seller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now, Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother and follows three equally indomitable women under the shadow of World War I....
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UGH!
- By Jenny Andrews on 05-07-19
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The Winter Soldier
- By: Daniel Mason
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a 22-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital....
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A Doctor's Story
- By DJE on 09-21-18
By: Daniel Mason
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy, Katherine Arden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist....
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WW 1 and the Apocolypse
- By Sam Pakan on 02-27-24
By: Katherine Arden
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Scarlet Carnation
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 4)
- By: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies....
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Revisionist history
- By Fuzzy Urchin on 08-03-22
By: Laila Ibrahim
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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
- A Novel
- By: Janet Skeslien Charles
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Sarah Gadon, Jackie Sanders, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild destroyed French communities just miles from the front.
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This true story is sadly not well known.
- By Ndgrammy on 09-17-24
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Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
- By: Nicholas Meyer
- Narrated by: David Robb, Nicholas Meyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram in this new mystery from the author of The Return of the Pharaoh.
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Interesting new take
- By SarahTee on 10-01-24
By: Nicholas Meyer
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Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses....
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Another great Heathcliff Lennox
- By Katydid65 on 06-04-21
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Switchboard Soldiers
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory....
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Having lots of trouble with the narration
- By ohva on 07-20-22
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The Victory Garden
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War continues to take its toll, 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage....
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Ridiculously bad
- By mary on 03-23-19
By: Rhys Bowen
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry....
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Brilliantly connected every thread of the story
- By JoAnn Ollila on 03-31-24
By: Gian Sardar
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A Beautiful Rival
- A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, but also broken marriages, personal tragedies, and a world that was changing dramatically for women....
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Not even if it were free
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-24
By: Gill Paul
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The Wolf's Eye
- A Novel (The Order of the Seven Stars, Book 2)
- By: Luanne G. Smith
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Under the full moon of World War I, a baleful curse threatens to tear apart a witch’s found family in a novel by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Raven Spell....
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Very interesting
- By Kindle Customer on 06-03-24
By: Luanne G. Smith
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In Memoriam
- A Novel
- By: Alice Winn
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In this virtuosic debut novel—an epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip—two young men fall in love during World War I.
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Amazing
- By Henry on 03-21-23
By: Alice Winn
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All the Ways We Said Goodbye
- A Novel of the Ritz Paris
- By: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
- Narrated by: Helen Sadler, Nicola Barber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel....
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Too Many Cooks in this Kitchen
- By Eve453 on 02-15-20
By: Beatriz Williams, and others
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The Pull of the Stars
- A Novel
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders....
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A compelling that relates to today’s times
- By Liana Murzak on 07-29-20
By: Emma Donoghue
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The Queen's Fortune
- A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history....
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Fascinating Heroine
- By HistoryNerd on 04-08-21
By: Allison Pataki
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The President's Wife
- By: Tracey Enerson Wood
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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They called her the First Lady. They should have referred to her as Madame President. Discover the woman who stepped up and saved her husband—and her country....
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Edith Wilson was a remarkable woman!
- By Peggy on 01-20-24
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The Cliff's Edge
- A Novel (Bess Crawford Mysteries, Book 13)
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery....
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Not What I Expected
- By Something Something on 02-21-23
By: Charles Todd
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The American Adventuress
- A Novel
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie was born into wealth—and scandal. Upon her parents’ separation, her mother took Jennie and her sisters to Paris, where Mrs. Jerome was determined to marry her daughters into the most elite families....
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Not what I expected
- By Megan M. on 10-14-23
By: C. W. Gortner
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An Irish Hostage
- A Novel (Bess Crawford Mysteries, Book 12)
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the uneasy peace following World War I, Nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland - in this 12th book in the New York Times best-selling mystery series....
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Better but still disappointing
- By Maine Knitter on 07-17-21
By: Charles Todd
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The Chanel Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Judithe Little
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers....
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Straining Against Convention
- By Dan Collins on 05-15-21
By: Judithe Little
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The Sun Also Rises - Unabridged
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again....
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Censored with beeps--should be labeled as such
- By Gallila on 02-28-23
By: Ernest Hemingway
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The Woman in the Green Dress
- By: Tea Cooper
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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After a whirlwind romance, London teashop waitress Fleur Richards can’t wait for her new husband, Hugh, to return from the Great War. But when word of his death arrives on Armistice Day, Fleur learns he has left her a sizable family fortune....
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A Haunting 6- Star Review
- By Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe on 06-09-21
By: Tea Cooper
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The Forgotten Cottage
- By: Courtney Ellis
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett, Helen Laser
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history in this new historical novel from the acclaimed author of At Summer’s End....
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horrible narration
- By expaxar on 10-06-22
By: Courtney Ellis
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A Game of Fear
- A Novel
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost....
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I miss Simon Prebble.
- By Ray Worley on 02-05-22
By: Charles Todd
New releases
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
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disappointing
- By Gerald Friedman on 09-26-24
By: Robert Harris
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No Graves as Yet
- World War I, Book 1
- By: Anne Perry
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that Joseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now it has vanished.
By: Anne Perry
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El Misterio Del Tren Azul [The Mystery of the Blue Train]
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Natanael Echegaray
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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En un París sombrío, un americano recibe un misterioso paquete de manos de una pareja rusa, solo para ser atacado poco después por delincuentes. Mientras tanto, en un lujoso tren que recorre Europa, las vidas de una heredera en crisis, un detective enigmático y una serie de personajes intrigantes se entrelazan. Entre rubíes legendarios, secretos peligrosos y pasiones ocultas, Hércules Poirot deberá desentrañar un crimen que se convierte en un laberinto de sospechas.
By: Agatha Christie
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The Girls Who Dared to Love
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared. Will David even live to see their baby born? Mabel Oakley, once a maid for the McFarlanes, has inherited Thomas Clarke’s printing works, but an unexpected turn of events leaves her at the mercy of her father’s old enemy, solicitor John Sheridan, just as she is beginning to fall for his son. What can she do?
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Delightful
- By Katie L on 09-26-24
By: Diney Costeloe
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Blasted Things
- By: Lesley Glaister
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor’s wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them. As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster.
By: Lesley Glaister
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Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
- By: Franz Werfel
- Narrated by: Dirk Waanders
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Wien, Oktober 1936: Ein Brief bringt das Leben des Sektionschefs Leonidas ins Wanken. Ein geerbter Frack und die Hochzeit mit der reichen Unternehmertochter Amelie Paradini hatte Leonidas einst zu einer angesehenen Größe im Ministerium für Kultus und Unterricht verholfen. Doch plötzlich zieht ihm eine Bittschrift der einstigen Geliebten Vera Wormser privat und beruflich buchstäblich den Boden unter den Füßen weg.
By: Franz Werfel
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.
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disappointing
- By Gerald Friedman on 09-26-24
By: Robert Harris
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No Graves as Yet
- World War I, Book 1
- By: Anne Perry
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph’s brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document—allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that Joseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now it has vanished.
By: Anne Perry
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El Misterio Del Tren Azul [The Mystery of the Blue Train]
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Natanael Echegaray
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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En un París sombrío, un americano recibe un misterioso paquete de manos de una pareja rusa, solo para ser atacado poco después por delincuentes. Mientras tanto, en un lujoso tren que recorre Europa, las vidas de una heredera en crisis, un detective enigmático y una serie de personajes intrigantes se entrelazan. Entre rubíes legendarios, secretos peligrosos y pasiones ocultas, Hércules Poirot deberá desentrañar un crimen que se convierte en un laberinto de sospechas.
By: Agatha Christie
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The Girls Who Dared to Love
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared. Will David even live to see their baby born? Mabel Oakley, once a maid for the McFarlanes, has inherited Thomas Clarke’s printing works, but an unexpected turn of events leaves her at the mercy of her father’s old enemy, solicitor John Sheridan, just as she is beginning to fall for his son. What can she do?
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Delightful
- By Katie L on 09-26-24
By: Diney Costeloe
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Blasted Things
- By: Lesley Glaister
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor’s wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them. As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster.
By: Lesley Glaister
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Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
- By: Franz Werfel
- Narrated by: Dirk Waanders
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Wien, Oktober 1936: Ein Brief bringt das Leben des Sektionschefs Leonidas ins Wanken. Ein geerbter Frack und die Hochzeit mit der reichen Unternehmertochter Amelie Paradini hatte Leonidas einst zu einer angesehenen Größe im Ministerium für Kultus und Unterricht verholfen. Doch plötzlich zieht ihm eine Bittschrift der einstigen Geliebten Vera Wormser privat und beruflich buchstäblich den Boden unter den Füßen weg.
By: Franz Werfel