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Bestsellers
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By Any Other Name
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes a novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.
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Shakespeare’s wealth of works penned by a female
- By Brendolynne on 08-27-24
By: Jodi Picoult
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Tell Me Everything
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
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Very disappointed
- By Cheri on 09-11-24
By: Elizabeth Strout
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The Four Winds
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression....
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✫✫ 4.75 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 02-03-21
By: Kristin Hannah
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Mad Honey
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side....
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Good writing but...
- By Suzanna on 10-08-22
By: Jodi Picoult, and others
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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And the hits just keep on coming…
- By Mark T. Vernon on 01-04-23
By: Hanya Yanagihara
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My Brilliant Friend
- The Neapolitan Novels, Book 1
- By: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship....
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Parte Uno Dei Quattro--It's Worth it to Keep Goin'
- By W Perry Hall on 09-14-16
By: Elena Ferrante
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By Any Other Name
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes a novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.
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Shakespeare’s wealth of works penned by a female
- By Brendolynne on 08-27-24
By: Jodi Picoult
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Tell Me Everything
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
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Very disappointed
- By Cheri on 09-11-24
By: Elizabeth Strout
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The Four Winds
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression....
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✫✫ 4.75 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 02-03-21
By: Kristin Hannah
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Mad Honey
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side....
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Good writing but...
- By Suzanna on 10-08-22
By: Jodi Picoult, and others
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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And the hits just keep on coming…
- By Mark T. Vernon on 01-04-23
By: Hanya Yanagihara
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My Brilliant Friend
- The Neapolitan Novels, Book 1
- By: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship....
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Parte Uno Dei Quattro--It's Worth it to Keep Goin'
- By W Perry Hall on 09-14-16
By: Elena Ferrante
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Pachinko
- By: Min Jin Lee
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle)....
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wonderful book
- By erin on 12-11-17
By: Min Jin Lee
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The Witching Hour
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 50 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches - a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful being....
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THANK YOU AUDIBLE!
- By Wendy on 10-22-15
By: Anne Rice
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The Bee Sting
- A Novel
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart....
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Bone Clocks meets Jonathan Franzen
- By Cranson on 10-26-23
By: Paul Murray
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Own Me
- Wolf Hotel, Book 5
- By: K. A. Tucker
- Narrated by: Avery Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Eight months ago, I was a naive, small-town farm girl nursing a shattered heart. Then hotel billionaire Henry Wolf picked me up off the ground (literally), and my entire life changed.
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I have loved this series
- By Kate C on 03-23-24
By: K. A. Tucker
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring, like her mother....
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 04-11-18
By: Madeline Miller
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East of Eden
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 25 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families....
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Why have I avoided this Beautiful Book???
- By Kelly on 03-25-17
By: John Steinbeck
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Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....
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I wanted to love this book...
- By Stine on 03-17-19
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The Berry Pickers
- By: Amanda Peters
- Narrated by: Aaliya Warbus, Jordan Waunch
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years....
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basic
- By CF on 03-04-24
By: Amanda Peters
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Cutting for Stone
- A Novel
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon....
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An Epic Medical Novel
- By Audiophile on 07-11-09
By: Abraham Verghese
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Before We Were Yours
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Wingate
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force....
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I was rivetted, finished in three days.
- By Lin Cloward on 06-26-17
By: Lisa Wingate
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The Pillars of the Earth
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 40 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known....
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Epic story to be read by all!
- By Gina on 07-25-09
By: Ken Follett
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Firefly Lane
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....
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Beachy Fare
- By FanB14 on 04-29-13
By: Kristin Hannah
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Practical Magic
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Alice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic - now a major motion picture from Warner Bros....
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Don't expext the movie story!
- By JEAN9 on 09-25-14
By: Alice Hoffman
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True Colors
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Kristin Hannah's True Colors is a novel about sisters, vengeance, rivalry, betrayal - and ultimately, what it truly means to be a family....
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Well written, POORLY narrated... :(
- By Brenda on 07-14-10
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Vampire Lestat
- The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s....
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Finally unabridged! Excellently read, great listen
- By Patricia on 06-29-11
By: Anne Rice
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Mr Garcia
- Mr Series
- By: T L Swan
- Narrated by: Elena Wolfe, Shane East
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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He was gorgeous, older and guarded. I knew he was trouble from the moment we locked eyes. We met at work, on my first day as a barista. He smiled, I melted...then he tasted my coffee and threw it away. Again, the next day, and the next. He hated the coffee, yet still came back....
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T L Swan is Amazing!
- By KRISTEN on 11-11-21
By: T L Swan
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Olive Kitteridge
- Fiction
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her....
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Depressing! Watse of a credit!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-28-19
By: Elizabeth Strout
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The Godfather
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola - introduction, Anthony Puzo - note, and others
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna, Anthony Puzo, Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld....
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Huge fan of the movie, loved this audiobook!
- By Dana on 10-04-13
By: Mario Puzo, and others
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The Fraud
- A Novel
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years....
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Very disappointing
- By Happy purchaser on 09-10-23
By: Zadie Smith
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Home Front
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war....
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Very Disappointed
- By Elizabeth on 03-17-12
By: Kristin Hannah
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Peace Like a River
- By: Leif Enger
- Narrated by: Chad Lowe
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell....
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Poetic Coming Of Age Story
- By Menno on 06-11-08
By: Leif Enger
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Small Great Things
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than 20 years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists....
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Must Read
- By Sabrina on 11-01-16
By: Jodi Picoult
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Wish You Were Here
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world....
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Amazing Jodi + excellent narration = 5+++
- By Susie Q on 12-03-21
By: Jodi Picoult
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Bel Canto
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ann Patchett’s award winning, New York Times best-selling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. The author’s lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance....
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Opera Has Charms to Soothe the Savage Guerillas
- By Mel on 03-01-13
By: Ann Patchett
New releases
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Tell Me Everything
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
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Very disappointed
- By Cheri on 09-11-24
By: Elizabeth Strout
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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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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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A Kid from Marlboro Road
- By: Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Edward Burns
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk. Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman, yet out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.
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Easy to listen to funny as well!
- By Mary Reed on 09-17-24
By: Edward Burns
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The Launch
- Stardust Beach Book One
- By: Stephanie Taylor
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Florida’s Space Coast—1963. People flock south to make the Sunshine State their winter playground, moving to the brand new beach towns and neighborhoods to live their lives in the sun. But the families moving to Stardust Beach near Cape Kennedy aren’t there for canasta and cocktails; the men aren’t going to spend their days on the golf courses, and the women aren’t there for fashion shows and shuffleboard. These couples are young, driven, and there to make history. These are the First Families of NASA’s new space program, and they’re ready to aim for the moon… Josephine ...
By: Stephanie Taylor
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Mademoiselle Eiffel
- A Novel
- By: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Claire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect Gustave Eiffel, is doted upon with an education envied by many sons of the upper classes, and entirely out of the reach of most daughters. Claire’s idyllic childhood ends abruptly when, at fourteen, her mother passes away. It’s soon made clear that Gustave expects Claire to fill her mother’s place as caregiver to the younger children and as manager of their home.
By: Aimie K. Runyan
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The Sky Beneath Us
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price, Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she’s left behind in Scotland.
By: Fiona Valpy
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Tell Me Everything
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”
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Very disappointed
- By Cheri on 09-11-24
By: Elizabeth Strout
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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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A Kid from Marlboro Road
- By: Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Edward Burns
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In A Kid from Marlboro Road, past and present intermingle as family stories are told and retold. The narrative careens between the prior generation’s colorful sojourns in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen and the softer world of Gibson, the town on Long Island where they live now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont racetrack, and in Montauk. Edward Burns’s buoyant first novel is a bildungsroman, yet out of one boy’s story a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American tale, raucous and joyous.
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Easy to listen to funny as well!
- By Mary Reed on 09-17-24
By: Edward Burns
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The Launch
- Stardust Beach Book One
- By: Stephanie Taylor
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Florida’s Space Coast—1963. People flock south to make the Sunshine State their winter playground, moving to the brand new beach towns and neighborhoods to live their lives in the sun. But the families moving to Stardust Beach near Cape Kennedy aren’t there for canasta and cocktails; the men aren’t going to spend their days on the golf courses, and the women aren’t there for fashion shows and shuffleboard. These couples are young, driven, and there to make history. These are the First Families of NASA’s new space program, and they’re ready to aim for the moon… Josephine ...
By: Stephanie Taylor
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Mademoiselle Eiffel
- A Novel
- By: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Claire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect Gustave Eiffel, is doted upon with an education envied by many sons of the upper classes, and entirely out of the reach of most daughters. Claire’s idyllic childhood ends abruptly when, at fourteen, her mother passes away. It’s soon made clear that Gustave expects Claire to fill her mother’s place as caregiver to the younger children and as manager of their home.
By: Aimie K. Runyan
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The Sky Beneath Us
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price, Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she’s left behind in Scotland.
By: Fiona Valpy
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Scout's Honor
- By: John McNellis
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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After losing everything but his life, a young man forges a new identity for himself in the jungles of Vietnam and on the gritty streets of New York in this epic and riveting tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.
By: John McNellis
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The Essential Elizabeth Stone
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Banash
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than thirty years, Elizabeth Stone has been an irreplaceable fixture in homes around the world, a food and lifestyle icon with a brand as warm and inviting as New England brown bread. Until, after her sudden passing, she leaves her legacy and her multimillion-dollar empire to her daughter, Juliet, who is expected to step seamlessly into her shoes.
By: Jennifer Banash
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Operation Tulip
- WW2 Secret Agent Series
- By: Deborah Swift
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Holland, 1944: Undercover British agent Nancy Callaghan has been given her toughest case yet. A key member of the Dutch resistance has been captured, and Nancy must play the role of a wealthy Nazi to win over a notorious SS officer, Detlef Keller, and gain crucial information. But as Nancy infiltrates the Dutch SS, she finds herself catching the eye of an even more senior member of the Party. Is Nancy in too deep, or can Tom reach her before she gets caught?
By: Deborah Swift
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Beneath the Scarlet Frost
- Fallen Reign, Book 1
- By: Marissa Miller
- Narrated by: Cheryl-Annette Parker
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
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The empire of Eisa once stood as a symbol of hope for purging the wicked magic that had plagued its lands. But when Wielders are spotted within those borders, the sanctity that once acted as an unshakable foundation crumbles beneath Sorrel Zdraevit's feet. With the resurgence of Wielders on Eisan soil, protests are increasing in the streets, citizens are suffering, and everywhere she turns tragedy fractures the facade of peace that had sheltered her.
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Intense!
- By Pippin on 09-17-24
By: Marissa Miller
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Bournville
- By: Jonathan Coe
- Narrated by: Peter Caulfield, Cara Horgan
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bournville is a rich and poignant new novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author of Middle England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation's love affair with chocolate, of Britain itself.
By: Jonathan Coe
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Pineapple Street (German edition)
- By: Jenny Jackson, Barbara Schaden
- Narrated by: Nora Schulte
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Das ist der Roman, den Jane Austen geschrieben hätte... wenn sie im 21. Jahrhundert in Brooklyn Heights leben würde. Die Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights ist eine der begehrtesten Wohngegenden in New York City und Heimat der glamourösen und gut vernetzten Familie Stockton. Obwohl sie alles haben, was sie sich wünschen, suchen die Töchter Darley und Georgiana und die angeheiratete Sasha nach Erfüllung in ihrem Leben. Darley, die älteste Tochter, musste sich nie um Geld Sorgen machen. Sie folgte ihrem Herzen und tauschte ihren Job und ihr Erbe gegen die Mutterrolle.
By: Jenny Jackson, and others
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Train to Oblivion
- A Novel
- By: Moira Millán, Charlotte Whittle - translator
- Narrated by: Nadia Verde
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Llankaray’s grandmother left a rich inheritance: her medicine, an undefeatable spirit, and the stories of her Mapuche ancestors. These tales are forever etched in Llankaray’s memory—and the soil of their beloved Patagonia. She begins with Fresia, a gifted Mapuche medicine woman who communicates with plants. She raises her granddaughter, Pirenrayen, to be a strong healer and leader for her people. And then there’s Chekeken, a Tehuelche woman who was once kidnapped and sold but escaped.
By: Moira Millán, and others
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La cartera
- By: Francesca Giannone
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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La novela ganadora del premio de los libreros independientes italianos. El libro revelación del año en Italia con más de 450.000 ejemplares vendidos. Una saga familiar con una protagonista inolvidable: una mujer fuerte e independiente que se enfrenta a una realidad hostil. Una apasionante historia de coraje y emancipación femenina. En Lizzanello, un pueblecito de unos pocos miles de almas, un autobús de línea se detiene en la plaza mayor y baja una pareja: él, Carlo, es hijo del sur y está contento de regresar a casa; ella, Anna, su esposa, nacida en el norte, está triste y preocupada.
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Historia de familias italianas en tiempos de guerras luchando contra los valores o por ellos.
- By Katia Patron y Patron on 08-31-24
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La veterinaria [The Veterinarian]
- Vientos de esperanza (La veterinaria 2) [Winds of Hope (The Veterinarian 2)]
- By: Sarah Lark, Susana Andrés Font - translator
- Narrated by: Nuria Samsó
- Length: 19 hrs
- Unabridged
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Sarah Lark vuelve a deslumbrar con la continuación de la cautivadora saga protagonizada por dos amigas veterinarias cuyas vidas atraviesan el siglo XX. Tras huir de Alemania, Nellie y Maria por fin encuentran en Nueva Zelanda un lugar seguro en el que establecerse con sus familias y abren una consulta veterinaria en un criadero de caballos. Pero su buena fortuna no dura mucho. Las consecuencias de la crisis económica mundial también afectan a su país de acogida y las dos amigas pronto deben emprender caminos separados.
By: Sarah Lark, and others
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The Orphan with No Name
- By: Shirley Dickson
- Narrated by: Gemma Stroyan
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Waking up in a rickety hospital bed, the sweet ten-year-old girl with soft blonde hair and flushed cheeks is lucky to be alive. But all she can remember is the screech of the air raid siren. The nurses call her ‘Rosie’, and hope someone will save her. But no one does, and without a family, she is taken to Blakely Orphanage in Scotland under the supervision of the strict Miss Black.
By: Shirley Dickson
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Woher wir kamen
- By: Ulrike Schweikert
- Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Als sie bei der Testamentseröffnung ihres Vaters erfährt, dass sie ein Haus auf Cape Cod geerbt hat, fällt Jane aus allen Wolken. Was hat es mit diesem Haus auf sich und mit dem Stapel Briefe – auf Deutsch verfasst – aus dem Nachlass ihrer Mutter? Seit ihrem traumatischen Einsatz als Sanitäterin im Irakkrieg wird Jane von Albträumen geplagt. Selbst die Musik, die ihr einst alles bedeutete, hat sie aufgegeben. Die Tochter eines schwarzen US Marines und einer weißen Krankenschwester mit deutschen Wurzeln fühlte sich immer zerrissen, nirgends zugehörig.
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Mater 2-10
- By: Hwang Sok-Yong
- Narrated by: Yong Kim
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a powerful account that captures a nation's longing for a rail line to reconnect North and South, a magical-realist novel that manages to reflect the lives of modern industrial workers, and a culmination of Hwang's career—a masterpiece thirty years in the making.
By: Hwang Sok-Yong
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Saffron Skies and New Beginnings
- Making Peace with Her Past
- By: Rita Bradshaw
- Narrated by: Kate Okello
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Bella is born into a life of comfort and privilege, with parents who adore her. They encourage her to travel and to speak her mind. But when she falls in love it reveals a long-buried secret at the very centre of her family. The layers of deception lead to tragedy, destroying all she holds so dear. However, change beckons for everyone as the threat of war looms. Bella and all around her must face a new beginning.
By: Rita Bradshaw
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Luckpenny Land
- Lakeland Sagas, Book 1
- By: Freda Lightfoot
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is her bully of a father and her brother, who resents her. They want to keep her at home, but Meg is desperate for more. She finds comfort in her best friend, Kath, and Lanky Lawson, who is more of a father figure to her than her own. Her true source of hope though, is Lanky’s son, Jack, who she loves and hopes to marry one day. However, as war looms on the horizon and the world is thrown into chaos, Meg realises that the only thing she can really count on is the land she loves.
By: Freda Lightfoot
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Ain’t No Grave
- By: Mary Glickman
- Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one-not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906-wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
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Lovely!
- By Anna on 09-11-24
By: Mary Glickman
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The Tea Planter's Daughter
- The India Tea Series, Book 1
- By: Janet MacLeod Trotter
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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1904 INDIA: beautiful and headstrong Clarissa Belhaven and her delicate sister Olive find their carefree life on their widowed father's tea plantation threatened by his drinking and debts. Wesley Robson, a brash young rival businessman, offers to help save the plantation in exchange for Clarrie's hand in marriage, but her father flatly refuses. When Jock Belhaven dies suddenly, his daughters are forced to return to their father’s cousin in Tyneside and work long hours in his pub.
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The Gilded Cage
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerful, hard-hearted Leonard Mears ruthlessly presides over his wife and children, exiling them from the outside world and brutally punishing any disobedience. But he is also a man with a dark secret – an illegitimate daughter that he forced his sister to bring up. The girl is now a young woman who, unbeknownst to him, is determined to find the father that abandoned her.
By: Josephine Cox
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Christmas Wishes for the Bletchley Park Girls
- Lily Baker, Book 6
- By: Patricia McBride
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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For the courageous Bletchley Park girls, the fourth Christmas of the war is approaching fast. It should be a happy time, yet life throws them challenges they could never have imagined. Lily's heart is torn in two when her boyfriend, Grant, is badly injured in an air raid. As he spirals into despair, she must find a way to give him hope again. Bronwyn has a new romance on the horizon. But will the widower's young daughter accept her, or will she jeopardise Bronwyn's hopes for love?
By: Patricia McBride
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Рим — это я
- By: Сантьяго Постегильо
- Narrated by: Станислав Федорчук
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Порой один человек меняет ход истории, при жизни становится легендой, а после смерти — недосягаемым образцом для подражания. Порой на свете рождаются подлинно эпические персонажи, и один из них — Юлий Цезарь, фигура многогранная и сложная, защитник народа и борец с элитами, который превратился в диктатора и за свое стремление к власти поплатился жизнью. Впрочем, в 77 году до н. э. Рим еще не знает, до чего важен окажется этот юноша для государства.
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Государи Московские. Бремя власти
- By: Дмитрий Балашов
- Narrated by: Иван Литвинов
- Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
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Государи Московские — монументальный цикл романов, созданный писателем, филологом-русистом, фольклористом и историком Дмитрием Балашовым. Эта эпическая хроника, своего рода один грандиозный роман-эпопея, уместившийся в многотомное издание, охватывает период русской истории с 1263 до 1425 года и уже многие десятилетия не перестает поражать читателей глубиной, масштабностью, яркостью образов и мастерской стилизацией языка.
By: Дмитрий Балашов
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Il silenzio del mondo
- By: Tommaso Avati
- Narrated by: Luca Della Bianca
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Questo romanzo narra una saga familiare che si svolge in un periodo di tempo che va dall’avvento del fascismo fino ai giorni nostri. È la storia di tre donne: nonna, madre e figlia, tutte non udenti. Rosa viene dal tempo antico e contadino. Impara una lingua simile a quel che vede e tocca: forte e sanguigna. Quella lingua è come una madre, se la porta con sé fino alla fine, e per essa si scontra col mondo civilizzato che non la capisce, e che lei non può comprendere. Da Rosa nasce Laura, che cresce nella grande città, conosce la lingua della gente, la governa, la padroneggia. Ma quella lingua che tutti parlano in realtà non le appartiene.
By: Tommaso Avati
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Zeitlang
- By: Claudia Klischat, Donata Rigg
- Narrated by: Thomas Loibl
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Der Journalist Benedikt bekommt nach dem Studium keinen Fuß in die Tür und wird schließlich Kommunikationsberater eines populistischen Politikers. Diese neue Aufgabe führt ihn so stark in die Nähe eines reaktionären Lagers, dass er sich von den Frauen in seinem Leben, seiner Partnerin Marianne, seiner Schwester Agnes und seiner Mutter Edith, fragen lassen muss, wo er eigentlich steht.
By: Claudia Klischat, and others
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The House on Calle Sombra
- By: Marga Ortigas
- Narrated by: EESHA
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The House on Calle Sombra follows the fates and fortunes of the esteemed Castillo de Montijo family over three generations. Set in the Philippines – a tropical island nation where truth blends with fiction – none of the Castillos is quite as perceived. Successful patriarch Don Federico arrived from Spain a penniless orphan. Formidable matriarch Doña Fatimah is a native Muslim fugitive. And their brood of privileged descendants is struggling to live up to their famed and crested motto: FAMILY FIRST.
By: Marga Ortigas
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Antigua vida mía [Antigua and My Life Before]
- By: Marcela Serrano
- Narrated by: Vanesa Silva
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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De la noche a la mañana, Violeta Dasinsky se vuelve noticia a causa de una tragedia y Josefa Ferrer, su amiga de la infancia, con los diarios de Violeta en la mano, empieza a contar su historia. Es decir, la de ambas. Aunque Josefa, una exitosa y angustiada cantante chilena, es la narradora, a su voz y a la de Violeta se agrega la de «nosotras, las otras», suerte de coro griego y testigo de la experiencia femenina a través de las generaciones.
By: Marcela Serrano