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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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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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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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Katherine
- A Novel
- By: Anya Seton
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who rule despotically over a court rotten with intrigue....
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my favorite novel brought to life
- By Heather on 10-04-23
By: Anya Seton
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Katherine
- A Novel
- By: Anya Seton
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who rule despotically over a court rotten with intrigue....
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my favorite novel brought to life
- By Heather on 10-04-23
By: Anya Seton
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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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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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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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This should be required reading
- By Antonia Chimonidou on 04-05-24
By: Stephanie Dray
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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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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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Absolutely the best!
- By Katherine Dunigan on 06-29-24
By: Mark Sullivan, and others
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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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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 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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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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The Passionate Tudor
- A Novel of Queen Mary I
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII’s daughter—infamously known as Bloody Mary—who ruled England for five violent years....
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Overall great, one narration nit.
- By Rebecca on 06-08-24
By: Alison Weir
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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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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 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....
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Ben Miles
- By Mark Irwin on 09-17-24
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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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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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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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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When We Cease to Understand the World
- By: Benjamin Labatut, Adrian West - translator
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction....
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the true heir w.g. sebald
- By Thomas on 12-23-21
By: Benjamin Labatut, and others
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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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Another fabulous book by Alison Pataki
- By Marcie A. Thoma on 05-03-24
By: Allison Pataki
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Crow Mary
- A Novel
- By: Kathleen Grissom
- Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House and the Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary—an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America....
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One of the best Native American Novels I’ve read.
- By Mizclaire on 07-16-23
By: Kathleen Grissom
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Finding Dorothy
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Letts
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee, Elizabeth Letts
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud....
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Simple
- By Douglas A. Saunders on 04-02-19
By: Elizabeth Letts
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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
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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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The Wildes
- A Novel in Five Acts
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.
By: Louis Bayard
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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 Mirror & the Light
- A Novel
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 38 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors....
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Ben Miles is not as good a reader...
- By EllenP on 03-13-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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The Wildes
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- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, a stellar reputation as an advocate for progressive causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father, who is perhaps the most famous man in England. But as an assortment of houseguests arrive, including an aristocratic young wannabe poet named Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually—and then all at once—comes to see that her husband's heart is elsewhere.
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The Last Dream
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Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction.
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Girl Braiding Her Hair
- Inspired by the True Story of a Revolutionary Female Artist History Forgot
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Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, shed been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.
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Women under- estimated in history
- By Anonymous User on 09-09-24
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Katharine, the Wright Sister
- A Novel
- By: Tracey Enerson Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Jim Frangione, Pete Bradbury
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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From international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.
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Elaine
- By: Will Self
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Will Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril.
By: Will Self
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An Ordinary Youth
- By: Walter Kempowski, Michael Lipkin - translator
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and his mother's ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view—dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans—tell a different story.
By: Walter Kempowski, and others
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The Wildes
- A Novel in Five Acts
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan, and others
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In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, a stellar reputation as an advocate for progressive causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father, who is perhaps the most famous man in England. But as an assortment of houseguests arrive, including an aristocratic young wannabe poet named Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually—and then all at once—comes to see that her husband's heart is elsewhere.
By: Louis Bayard
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The Last Dream
- By: Pedro Almodóvar
- Narrated by: Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, Juan Diego Botto, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction.
By: Pedro Almodóvar
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Girl Braiding Her Hair
- Inspired by the True Story of a Revolutionary Female Artist History Forgot
- By: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrated by: Leah Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, shed been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.
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Women under- estimated in history
- By Anonymous User on 09-09-24
By: Marta Molnar, and others
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Katharine, the Wright Sister
- A Novel
- By: Tracey Enerson Wood
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan, Jim Frangione, Pete Bradbury
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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From international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.
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Elaine
- By: Will Self
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Will Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril.
By: Will Self
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An Ordinary Youth
- By: Walter Kempowski, Michael Lipkin - translator
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and his mother's ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view—dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans—tell a different story.
By: Walter Kempowski, and others
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El sueño en el que me sumergí [The Dream I Immersed Myself In]
- By: Alex Toledo
- Narrated by: Alex Toledo
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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El 3 de octubre de 2022 inició un viaje inesperado. Algunos dirán que fue un largo sueño, pero yo estoy convencido de que en verdad estuve muy lejos de aquí. Durante 22 días, mientras mi cuerpo permaneció en una cama de hospital, otra parte de mí viajó a un sitio donde me enfrenté a verdades ineludibles que todavía sigo descifrando. Pero ahora entiendo que, si volví, fue para compartir contigo la experiencia de convertirme en sobreviviente.
By: Alex Toledo
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Occupy a Job on Wall Street
- By: Derek Wallis
- Narrated by: Conor McGee
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.
By: Derek Wallis
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The Golden Age of Red
- A Novel of Red Grange, The Galloping Ghost
- By: Doug Villhard
- Narrated by: Jack Villhard
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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The Golden Age of Red is a fast, entertaining work of immersive biographical historical fiction that will resonate with sports enthusiasts of all ages, and especially those following today’s almost daily changes regarding the compensation of student-athletes.
By: Doug Villhard
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Yoruba Boy Running
- A Novel
- By: Biyi Bandele
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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When Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life is split in two. Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and water, earth and sky. When Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life is split in two. Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and water, earth and sky.
By: Biyi Bandele
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A Revolver to Carry at Night
- A Novel
- By: Monika Zgustova, Julie Jones - translator
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 4 hrs
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In this rich, sweeping novel, Monika Zgustova immerses us in the daily life of this remarkable couple, offering insights into their complex personal and professional relationships, as well as the real people behind characters such as Lolita. Vera considered herself an independent woman, but was she really, when her husband took up so much space? And without Vera, could Nabokov have become one of the twentieth century's greatest writers?
By: Monika Zgustova, and others
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Luciérnaga [Firefly]
- By: Natalia Litvinova
- Narrated by: Natalia Litvinova, Soledad García de Quirós
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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En la tierra de los «niños radiactivos», las frutas monstruosas de la Zona, los cielos rojos y los hombres alcohólicos, enfermos o desorientados, las mujeres resisten haciendo de la cotidianidad un refugio. Desde la Buenos Aires a la que emigró con su familia, Natalia Litvinova rompe el silencio de su madre para reconstruir en Luciérnaga toda una estirpe acallada.
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Paul's Journal
- By: Keith Dixon
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Far from the untouchable images of heaven-gazing saints, the apostle Paul ruthlessly focused on his earthly duty to build God’s Church. Before his dramatic conversion he had violently tried to stamp out a heretical sect of Jews–the first Christians. But Paul’s encounter with Christ turned his boundless energy to building the young and fragile Church into an established and enduring body.
By: Keith Dixon
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Presentes [Presents]
- By: Paco Cerdà
- Narrated by: Javier Portugués
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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La guerra ha terminado. España está en ruinas. En el cementerio de Alicante exhuman los restos de José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Sus camaradas falangistas van a llevarlo a hombros hasta enterrarlo en El Escorial, morada de reyes, sepulcro imperial. Durante once días y diez noches, el cortejo fantasmagórico avanzará por pueblos y ciudades entre hogueras, escarcha, brazos enhiestos y propaganda: una epopeya fascista de 467 kilómetros para demostrar quién manda en la nueva España.
By: Paco Cerdà
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Wilma
- By: Silvia Cassioli
- Narrated by: Viola Graziosi
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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Wilma è il romanzo del "caso Montesi": il fatto di cronaca nera che fece tremare i palazzi del potere nell’Italia del dopoguerra. L’11 aprile 1953, sulla spiaggia di Torvajanica, a circa quaranta chilometri da Roma, il corpo di una giovane donna viene trovato riverso sulla battigia. Il suo nome era Wilma Montesi, una ragazza di ventun anni "con qualche vaga aspirazione cinematografica". In apparenza sembra essersi trattato di uno sfortunato incidente, ma molti particolari non tornano.
By: Silvia Cassioli
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Melusine
- La favorita del Re
- By: Sibyl von der Schulenburg
- Narrated by: Valentina Pollani
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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La baronessa Melusine von der Schulenburg è giovane, indipendente e ribelle: refrattaria a ogni obbligo, pretende di avere gli stessi diritti dei maschi, vuole studiare, rifiuta sia di prendere marito che di farsi monaca, e sostiene di riuscire a parlare con i morti. Accetta di fare da dama di compagnia alla corte di Hannover solo per incontrare Leibniz, che lì studia. Ma a corte non è facile inserirsi: tutti iniziano a chiamarla, con astio, la Pertica, perché alta e slanciata com’è non è certo una bellezza, e le regole imposte dall’etichetta le tolgono la libertà che andava cercando.
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A Passion for Tom
- By: Sandra Salinas Newton
- Narrated by: Jon McNally
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Narrated by the talented Jon McNally and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, "A Passion for Tom" offers a deeply immersive journey into the life of Thomas Stearns Eliot ("Tom")—a young American poet navigating the complexities of 1920s London. As he struggles with mental instability and the pursuit of literary greatness, Tom finds himself entwined in relationships that both inspire and torment him.
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Private Duty C.N.A.
- By: Sherre Still
- Narrated by: Trei Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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Maxine Gamble's journey seems to be full of unexpected twists and turns. As she navigates through family life, a career in healthcare, intimacy issues betrayal, and losses, her path seems clearer day after day. Along the way, she encounters a lot she didn't expect. After experiencing a devastating fall-out in her childhood home, Maxine is determined to keep her own family from being torn apart. The challenges of being a medical caregiver continue to fuel this single mom's drive to push past politics, prejudice, and career advancement issues.
By: Sherre Still
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Ropa de casa
- By: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
- Narrated by: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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El retrato de formación de uno de los escritores más sólidos de la narrativa española. Ignacio Martínez de Pisón fue niño en el Logroño de los sesenta, muchacho en la Zaragoza de los setenta y aprendiz de novelista en la Barcelona de los ochenta. La primera parte de su vida es la de un chico cualquiera, nacido en el seno de una familia feliz hasta la temprana muerte de su padre; años cruciales de los que se nutre su mundo literario.
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If Someday Comes
- A Slave's Story of Freedom
- By: David Calloway
- Narrated by: M. P. MacDougall
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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This is the true story of my Great-Grandfather George Calloway, a slave in Cleveland, Tennessee, before and during the Civil War. It is written as historical fiction, based on George’s life, and stories I heard growing up. It is a tale of determination, perseverance, and achievement. George protected his family through war, famine, and plague; he risked his life repeatedly to protect his owner’s family, and thus his own wife and children. More fact than fiction, George’s story has also been my journey, grappling with the humiliation of slavery.
By: David Calloway
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Das Mädchen mit der goldenen Schere
- Starke Frauen erobern die Freiheit 3
- By: Julia Drosten
- Narrated by: Hergard Engert
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Sie sucht ihre Vergangenheit und findet ihre Zukunft Am Weihnachtsmorgen 1889 wird Fanny im Allgemeinen Wiener Krankenhaus geboren. Ihre Mutter besteht auf einer anonymen Geburt und verlässt das Krankenhaus kurz danach ohne ihr Kind. Fanny wächst im Findelhaus auf, wo sie von der Oberpflegerin Josepha mit liebevoller Strenge erzogen wird. Sie muss früh lernen, sich durchzusetzen und wird eine erfolgreiche Maßschneiderin, deren Entwürfe in der Modewelt Trends setzen. Das ungelöste Rätsel ihrer Herkunft lässt sie nie los, aber alle Spuren zu ihren Wurzeln führen ins Nichts.
By: Julia Drosten
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La hija del relojero
- By: Larry Loftis
- Narrated by: Leonardo Cureño
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Lo sacrificó todo para salvar a los que más la necesitaban. Descubre una de las historias de valor y sacrificio más inspiradoras y poco conocidas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Corrie ten Boom, una relojera holandesa, transformó desinteresadamente su hogar en un escondite para albergar a judíos durante las feroces redadas de la Gestapo. Aunque los nazis sospechaban lo que Corrie y su familia hacían, nunca pudieron encontrar a quienes se ocultaban en la casa.
By: Larry Loftis
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Ocean Stirrings
- A Work of Fiction in Tribute to Louise Langdon Norton Little, Working Mother and Activist, Mother of Malcolm X and Seven Siblings
- By: Merle Collins
- Narrated by: Merle Collins
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She emigrated to Canada and then the USA, where she became involved in the struggle for Black civil rights led by Marcus Garvey.
By: Merle Collins
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Joseph Fouché
- By: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Schrader
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Nicht wenige halten diese Biographie Stefan Zweigs für sein Meisterwerk. Frankreich zwischen 1792 und 1815 wird unter der Zweigschen Wortgewalt zu einem atemberaubenden Monument. Die einzelnen Figuren von Robespierre über Napoleon bis Ludwig XVIII lässt Stefan Zweig für uns in brillanter Schärfe lebendig werden. Der eigentliche Gegenstand seiner Biographie – Joseph Fouché – bettet sich ein in das gewaltige historische Drama dieser Zeit. Und von Seite zu Seite nötigt uns dieser amoralische Verräter aus Leidenschaft für seine Überlebensfähigkeit mehr Respekt ab.
By: Stefan Zweig
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Blues Men I Have Buried
- By: Damian Darkness
- Narrated by: Bill Allender
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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A work of fiction inspired by the real life impersonation of Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac, and a commentary on blues music and the people who made it. Featuring the original songs 'Slow Train' and 'I Like Leonard Cohen.'
By: Damian Darkness
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Easy Does It The Story of Mac
- By: Doctor Silkworth
- Narrated by: A. Bill Friend, Bill Wilson
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Easy Does It, the Story of Mac is a biographical novel written by the late Doctor William D. Silkworth MD about an alcoholic named Mac who recovers from alcoholism in Alcoholics Anonymous. Mac seeks help from a church pastor know throughout the text as the Padre. Together they learn all about Mac’s alcoholism and the Padre helps Mac along as Mac finds sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. In the course of the novel the listener learns in depth about alcoholism and alcoholics anonymous in altogether human terms.
By: Doctor Silkworth
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Fire in the Springs
- A Tale of Star-Crossed Immigrants
- By: Lisa Schliff
- Narrated by: Melissa Wood
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Somehow they find themselves in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but why? At thirteen, Rosalia suffers a sexual assault and her reputation is damaged in her hometown of Gliewitz, Germany. She must choose between a life of rejection or a sojourn into the wild, unknown land of Arkansas, where a young man awaits who will marry her. Her journey during the mid-1800s takes the listener across the Atlantic Ocean where she is almost kidnapped by a gentleman who conceals his true career: sex trafficking of hapless immigrant women in transit to America.
By: Lisa Schliff
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Die geteilten Jahre
- By: Matthias Lisse
- Narrated by: Peter Lontzek
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Der Roman über eine abenteuerliche Flucht, der auf der wahren Geschichte des Autors Matthias Lisse - bekannt als Autor spannender und erfolgreicher historischer Romane unter dem Pseudonym Mac P. Lorne - basiert, und gleichermaßen eine anrührende Familiengeschichte: Berlin 13. August 1961. Der Traum vom "Arbeiter- und Bauernparadies" ist ausgeträumt, und wie viele andere haben Wolfgang Leipold und seine Frau nur ein Ziel: die DDR, zusammen mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Marcus, so schnell wie möglich zu verlassen.
By: Matthias Lisse
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Great Depression on the High Seas
- By: David Hilinski
- Narrated by: Tony Scheinman
- Length: 3 hrs
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Captain Scott Williams was a fisherman by birth, a devoted husband and became a hero to many during the Great Depression. During the fall of the stock market, millions were left with nothing, millions had lost hope. After losing his wife, Williams set out on his last fishing trip only to find comfort, not only on the open waters of the Atlantic, but in those he helped along the way. This is his story.
By: David Hilinski
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Brian Court
- By: Arel Herbrand
- Narrated by: R. L. Herbrand
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Comedic memoir of growing up in 1960's Whittier, CA. Part magical realism, but mostly exaggerated realism for adults and young people alike.
By: Arel Herbrand