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Bestsellers
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....
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That's 10 hours of my life I'll never get back
- By Andrea L. Helms on 03-30-22
By: Allison Pataki
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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A Treat For This Academic Librarian!
- By AlTonya on 07-14-21
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca....
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Mixed Feelings
- By carpsmarsh on 02-14-21
By: Ariel Lawhon
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....
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An incredible true story!
- By Leslie Jarrett on 05-12-24
By: Mark Sullivan, and others
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Chip Atkinson on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....
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That's 10 hours of my life I'll never get back
- By Andrea L. Helms on 03-30-22
By: Allison Pataki
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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A Treat For This Academic Librarian!
- By AlTonya on 07-14-21
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca....
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Mixed Feelings
- By carpsmarsh on 02-14-21
By: Ariel Lawhon
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....
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An incredible true story!
- By Leslie Jarrett on 05-12-24
By: Mark Sullivan, and others
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Chip Atkinson on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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Musashi
- By: Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 53 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival....
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Good Historical Novel
- By The Walking Dude on 08-11-19
By: Eiji Yoshikawa, and others
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The First Ladies
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—a forbidden friendship that changed the world....
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A Wake Up Call to history and today
- By JoeKristina Smith on 07-11-23
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....
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incredible true story about heddy Lamar
- By S. Loew on 01-26-19
By: Marie Benedict
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- A Novel
- By: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....
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Enchanted
- By Lulu Can on 04-07-21
By: Pip Williams
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America's First Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph....
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Great Story Great Narration
- By MissSusie66 on 03-30-16
By: Stephanie Dray, and others
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The Possessed
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists....
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Womderful
- By Tad Davis on 12-07-17
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and others
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I Was Anastasia
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Sian Thomas, Ariel Lawhon
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia....
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Even knowing the true story,still enjoyed the book
- By Emily on 04-02-18
By: Ariel Lawhon
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Becoming Madam Secretary
- By: Stephanie Dray
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins....
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Excellent historical novel about an incredible woman!
- By Ally P. on 05-08-24
By: Stephanie Dray
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- By: ReShonda Tate
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars—and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed classic film Gone With the Wind.
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The Story I Never Knew
- By Face To Face With Yolanda on 04-27-24
By: ReShonda Tate
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1580s England, during the Black Plague, a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction....
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A masterpiece
- By Molly-o on 08-03-20
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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An American Beauty
- By: Shana Abe
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm....
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Loved everything about it
- By Leigh H. on 07-10-23
By: Shana Abe
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The Last Green Valley
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the number one best seller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph....
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Too Religious
- By Laurie N. on 06-02-21
By: Mark Sullivan
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The Last Queen
- A Novel of Courage and Resistance
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Sharp-eyed, stubborn, and passionate, Jindan was known for her beauty. When she caught the eye of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, she was elevated to royalty, becoming his youngest and last queen—and his favorite....
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One of the best books on Rani Jinda
- By Kamal Singh on 12-08-22
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The House of Doors
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists comes a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption....
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Great, but no “Garden”
- By Susan on 10-30-23
By: Tan Twan Eng
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The Lioness of Boston
- A Novel
- By: Emily Franklin
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lioness of Boston is a portrait of what society expected a woman's life to be, shattered by a courageous soul who rebelled and was determined to live on her own terms....
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So Boring
- By Cathy S on 10-10-23
By: Emily Franklin
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- By: Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Natiki Hope Pressley
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Freeman, the “spook who sat by the door,” is enlisted in the CIA’s elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Black Chicagoans to combat racism as “Freedom Fighters” in this explosive novel....
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The Book that Threatened the White Establishment
- By Kerr on 06-22-20
By: Sam Greenlee, and others
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The Lady of the Rivers
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight....
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Philippa back on track
- By Bonnie-Ann on 11-26-11
By: Philippa Gregory
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The Invention of Wings
- A Novel
- By: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women....
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If it Weren't True, I Wouldn't Have Believed it
- By FanB14 on 03-04-14
By: Sue Monk Kidd
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post comes an epic imagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central figure of a movement that defined a nation....
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Slow Go for a valuable Woman
- By Alison M. Montemarano on 05-04-24
By: Allison Pataki
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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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The Bootlegger's Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Nadine Nettmann
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Allyson Ryan, Keong Sim
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In Prohibition-era Los Angeles, two women on opposite sides of the law must take control of their lives, make their marks, and try to survive. Even if it means crossing the line....
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ENJOYABLE BUT AT TIMES A LITTLE SCATTERED (3.5 Stars)
- By Bradley on 05-03-24
By: Nadine Nettmann
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My Dear Hamilton
- A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
- By: Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 23 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times best-selling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton - a revolutionary woman....
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Fantastic!
- By Ally-O on 07-10-18
By: Stephanie Dray, and others
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Wolf Hall
- A Novel
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him....
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Superb narration, but keep a character index at hand
- By Oculus on 12-27-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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The Other Einstein
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most 20-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her....
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Re writing history
- By PJ Goetz on 11-08-19
By: Marie Benedict
New releases
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The Education of Joshua Chastain
- A Gay Mormon Memoir
- By: Nicolas Shumway
- Narrated by: Ron Cook
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Education of Joshua Chastain is a fictional memoir about a gay boy who grows up in a small Mormon community in northern Arizona, a kind of Mormon shtetl. The novel describes Josh's journey of self-discovery as he explores his sexuality, engages in various sexual relationships during his teenage years (including one with a Roman Catholic priest), and endures verbal and sometimes physical abuse from teachers and classmates.
By: Nicolas Shumway
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Swimming in Paris
- A Life in Three Stories
- By: Colombe Schneck, Lauren Elkin - translator, Natasha Lehrer - translator
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In Seventeen, Friendship, and Swimming, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the listener into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss.
By: Colombe Schneck, and others
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Mary I: Queen of Sorrows
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Adored only child of King Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon, young Princess Mary grows up as the sole heiress to the English throne. But her father wants a son, and soon Mary's world begins to fall apart. With her parents' marriage - and England - in crisis, Mary is banished from the court and kept apart from the mother she adores. The King promises to restore his daughter to favour, but first Mary must do something for which she will never forgive herself. She seeks solace in her faith.
By: Alison Weir
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Code Name Sanford
- By: George M James
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Code Name Sanford - I often warn in GMJ books about the threat and menace of penetration agents (radicals) inside Western Intelligence Agencies. This is something that will bite the West in the years to come and is being suppressed for political reasons. In the previous book, Code Name Odette, GMJ 8, we took a hard look at cyphers and codes, explaining to you the difference between the two as well as the history of cyphers. More importantly, we warned that according to the Al-Qaeda Manual, found on the laptops of the London Tube bombers (the 2005 attack), that hostile penetration is taking ...
By: George M James
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Rise of the Parent
- Saving the World One Boob at a Time, Book 2:
- By: Shona Reidy
- Narrated by: Shona Reidy
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is based on a true story, a mother who finally gets the man of her dreams, only to find that it comes with a confusing family legacy of abuse and manipulation. Read how this young woman eventually hears the wild woman within trying to save her, and learns how, through the art of self-help and meditation, to overcome it all.
By: Shona Reidy
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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The Education of Joshua Chastain
- A Gay Mormon Memoir
- By: Nicolas Shumway
- Narrated by: Ron Cook
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The Education of Joshua Chastain is a fictional memoir about a gay boy who grows up in a small Mormon community in northern Arizona, a kind of Mormon shtetl. The novel describes Josh's journey of self-discovery as he explores his sexuality, engages in various sexual relationships during his teenage years (including one with a Roman Catholic priest), and endures verbal and sometimes physical abuse from teachers and classmates.
By: Nicolas Shumway
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Swimming in Paris
- A Life in Three Stories
- By: Colombe Schneck, Lauren Elkin - translator, Natasha Lehrer - translator
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In Seventeen, Friendship, and Swimming, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the listener into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss.
By: Colombe Schneck, and others
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Mary I: Queen of Sorrows
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Adored only child of King Henry VIII and his first wife Katherine of Aragon, young Princess Mary grows up as the sole heiress to the English throne. But her father wants a son, and soon Mary's world begins to fall apart. With her parents' marriage - and England - in crisis, Mary is banished from the court and kept apart from the mother she adores. The King promises to restore his daughter to favour, but first Mary must do something for which she will never forgive herself. She seeks solace in her faith.
By: Alison Weir
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Code Name Sanford
- By: George M James
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Code Name Sanford - I often warn in GMJ books about the threat and menace of penetration agents (radicals) inside Western Intelligence Agencies. This is something that will bite the West in the years to come and is being suppressed for political reasons. In the previous book, Code Name Odette, GMJ 8, we took a hard look at cyphers and codes, explaining to you the difference between the two as well as the history of cyphers. More importantly, we warned that according to the Al-Qaeda Manual, found on the laptops of the London Tube bombers (the 2005 attack), that hostile penetration is taking ...
By: George M James
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Rise of the Parent
- Saving the World One Boob at a Time, Book 2:
- By: Shona Reidy
- Narrated by: Shona Reidy
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is based on a true story, a mother who finally gets the man of her dreams, only to find that it comes with a confusing family legacy of abuse and manipulation. Read how this young woman eventually hears the wild woman within trying to save her, and learns how, through the art of self-help and meditation, to overcome it all.
By: Shona Reidy
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.
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An incredible true story!
- By Leslie Jarrett on 05-12-24
By: Mark Sullivan, and others
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Ella
- A Novel
- By: Diane Richards
- Narrated by: Alexandra Grey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.
By: Diane Richards
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The Dove upon Her Branch
- By: DM Denton
- Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Christina Georgina Rossetti is the youngest of four siblings in a close-knit, creative Anglo-Italian family. A spirited child like her brother, Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in adolescence she struggles with being sickly and depressed. She emerges "a dove on a solitary branch," realizing her voice through writing, most exceptionally poetry.
By: DM Denton
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Soldier, Citizen, Settler
- Lineage Series, Book Two
- By: Michael Paul Hurd
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This book follows the fictitious Harris family through the American Revolution and migration westward to the shores of Lake Ontario. Thomas Harris was the soldier’s soldier and was awarded a battlefield commission by General George Washington just before the Battle of Yorktown. Following release from his military obligations and suffering severe hardships, Harris and his family moved westward from Connecticut, across New York State. As in the first book of the "Lineage" series, the author laid down his own family tree against events in history, as if family members of the period could ...
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The Other Side of the Wind
- A Novel
- By: William John Rostron
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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"Incredibly, this book is a tale told of relationships, politics, history, geography, crime, racial conflict, travel, music...all surrounding a story of enduring love and loyalty.". After personal disaster ends all her hopes and dreams in New York, Maria Romano sets out alone in search of a new life in the tumultuous world of 1960s America. Her quest for meaning takes her through numerous adventures and misadventures that create a lifetime of both beautiful and haunting memories. It is a journey that takes her from the blues clubs and political turmoil of 1968 Chicago to the music scene of ...
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Polyamorous Love Song
- By: Jacob Wren
- Narrated by: Alex MacDonald
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, listeners will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
By: Jacob Wren
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Naked Girl
- By: Janna Brooke Wallack
- Narrated by: Janna Brooke Wallack
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up residence in Jackson's utopia, Sienna and Siddhartha strive to protect their unconventional family.
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My Sister, My Protector
- By: S.O. Strenuo
- Narrated by: Alyssa Boaldin
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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My Sister, My Protector is based on the true story of one family. It covers three generations of abuse, starting with seventeen-year-old Mary. If you or anyone you know can relate to this story, there is help. Please talk to someone.
By: S.O. Strenuo
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Involuntary Bliss
- By: Devon Code
- Narrated by: Hugh Gunz
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.
By: Devon Code
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The Bootlegger's Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Nadine Nettmann
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Allyson Ryan, Keong Sim
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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It’s 1927. Letty Hart’s father is long gone, but his old winery provides a meager wage and a legal livelihood for selling sacramental wine. But when that contract goes bust, Letty stumbles upon a desperate option: her father’s hidden cellar—and enough liquor to tempt Letty to bootleg the secret stash. In an underworld dominated by merciless men, Letty is building an empire.
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ENJOYABLE BUT AT TIMES A LITTLE SCATTERED (3.5 Stars)
- By Bradley on 05-03-24
By: Nadine Nettmann
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Mercy of Hell Hollow
- Her Lost Journal 1883-1887
- By: Marnie Reynolds-Bourque
- Narrated by: Margaret Stockton-Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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In 1883, a young, newly married Mercy Reynolds begins a personal journal, filling it with thoughts of her young family. She records her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also be documenting incredible loss as well. Her writings remind us of how America's pioneers lived in a world now largely forgotten.
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The Jacobite's Wife
- By: Morag Edwards
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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18th century, Scotland. Jacobite sympathies stir powerful emotions, especially in a titled young man with little to occupy him. But strong-willed Lady Winifred Nithsdale has already seen her mother, father, and brother imprisoned for their support of England's Catholic king. While she wants to be loyal, Winifred tries to protect her husband from imprisonment, or worse, the scaffold. But will she escape with her own life intact?
By: Morag Edwards