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Bestsellers
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age.
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Superb!
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-24
By: Robert Harris
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The Story of the Forest
- By: Linda Grant
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks—an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come.
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Beautiful story connecting to Jewish History.
- By kathy lipchutz on 11-17-24
By: Linda Grant
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Switchboard Soldiers
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory....
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Having lots of trouble with the narration
- By Anonymous User on 07-20-22
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The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed....
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A Novel Worth Listening To.
- By Ana Reader on 03-17-24
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The Victory Garden
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War continues to take its toll, 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage....
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Ridiculously bad
- By mary on 03-23-19
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy, Katherine Arden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist....
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WW 1 and the Apocolypse
- By Anonymous User on 02-27-24
By: Katherine Arden
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Precipice
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley—aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless—is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as “The Coterie.” She’s also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age.
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Superb!
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-24
By: Robert Harris
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The Story of the Forest
- By: Linda Grant
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1913 when Mina, the young and carefree daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks—an adventure that will become the stuff of familial lore for generations to come.
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Beautiful story connecting to Jewish History.
- By kathy lipchutz on 11-17-24
By: Linda Grant
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Switchboard Soldiers
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory....
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Having lots of trouble with the narration
- By Anonymous User on 07-20-22
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The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed....
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A Novel Worth Listening To.
- By Ana Reader on 03-17-24
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The Victory Garden
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War continues to take its toll, 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage....
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Ridiculously bad
- By mary on 03-23-19
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy, Katherine Arden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist....
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WW 1 and the Apocolypse
- By Anonymous User on 02-27-24
By: Katherine Arden
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Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses....
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Another great Heathcliff Lennox
- By Katydid65 on 06-04-21
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Scarlet Carnation
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 4)
- By: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies....
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Revisionist history
- By Anonymous User on 08-03-22
By: Laila Ibrahim
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The Sun Also Rises - Unabridged
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again....
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Censored with beeps--should be labeled as such
- By Anonymous User on 02-28-23
By: Ernest Hemingway
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In Memoriam
- A Novel
- By: Alice Winn
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In this virtuosic debut novel—an epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip—two young men fall in love during World War I.
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 03-21-23
By: Alice Winn
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The American Adventuress
- A Novel
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie was born into wealth—and scandal. Upon her parents’ separation, her mother took Jennie and her sisters to Paris, where Mrs. Jerome was determined to marry her daughters into the most elite families....
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Cw Gortner is amazing
- By Ris Gray on 02-13-23
By: C. W. Gortner
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A Beautiful Rival
- A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, but also broken marriages, personal tragedies, and a world that was changing dramatically for women....
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Not even if it were free
- By Amazon Customer on 07-06-24
By: Gill Paul
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The Bookbinder of Jericho
- A Novel
- By: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life—an exquisite novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words....
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A superbly narrated insight into women's life on the home front during WW I.
- By Anonymous User on 01-03-24
By: Pip Williams
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The Wolf's Eye
- A Novel (The Order of the Seven Stars, Book 2)
- By: Luanne G. Smith
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Under the full moon of World War I, a baleful curse threatens to tear apart a witch’s found family in a novel by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Raven Spell....
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Very interesting
- By Kindle Customer on 06-03-24
By: Luanne G. Smith
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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
- A Novel
- By: Janet Skeslien Charles
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Sarah Gadon, Jackie Sanders, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild destroyed French communities just miles from the front.
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This true story is sadly not well known.
- By Ndgrammy on 09-17-24
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Lost Roses
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Best seller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now, Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother and follows three equally indomitable women under the shadow of World War I....
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UGH!
- By Anonymous User on 05-07-19
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Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
- By: Nicholas Meyer
- Narrated by: David Robb, Nicholas Meyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram in this new mystery from the author of The Return of the Pharaoh.
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Interesting new take
- By SarahTee on 10-01-24
By: Nicholas Meyer
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All the Ways We Said Goodbye
- A Novel of the Ritz Paris
- By: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
- Narrated by: Helen Sadler, Nicola Barber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel....
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Too Many Cooks in this Kitchen
- By Eve453 on 02-15-20
By: Beatriz Williams, and others
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry....
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Brilliantly connected every thread of the story
- By JoAnn Ollila on 03-31-24
By: Gian Sardar
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The President's Wife
- By: Tracey Enerson Wood
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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They called her the First Lady. They should have referred to her as Madame President. Discover the woman who stepped up and saved her husband—and her country....
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Edith Wilson was a remarkable woman!
- By Peggy on 01-20-24
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Band of Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story - a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network....
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Interesting history
- By Ru on 07-13-21
By: Lauren Willig
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The Chanel Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Judithe Little
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers....
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Straining Against Convention
- By Dan Collins on 05-15-21
By: Judithe Little
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The Forgotten Cottage
- By: Courtney Ellis
- Narrated by: Lorna Bennett, Helen Laser
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history in this new historical novel from the acclaimed author of At Summer’s End....
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horrible narration
- By Anonymous User on 10-06-22
By: Courtney Ellis
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The Woman in the Green Dress
- By: Tea Cooper
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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After a whirlwind romance, London teashop waitress Fleur Richards can’t wait for her new husband, Hugh, to return from the Great War. But when word of his death arrives on Armistice Day, Fleur learns he has left her a sizable family fortune....
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A Haunting 6- Star Review
- By Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe on 06-09-21
By: Tea Cooper
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The Last Grand Duchess
- A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
- By: Bryn Turnbull
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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This sweeping novel takes listeners behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the first daughter of the last tsar....
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Crying like a baby
- By Amazon Customer on 07-11-23
By: Bryn Turnbull
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A Good Woman
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed when the sinking of the Titanic changed her family and her world forever....
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A good read I thoroughly enjoyed
- By Cindi R on 12-16-08
By: Danielle Steel
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The Lost Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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1918: Pretty, vivacious Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, the 19-year-old daughter of the fallen Tsar Nicholas II, lives with her family in suffocating isolation, a far cry from their once-glittering royal household....
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Slow....Very Slow....
- By D. Fields on 04-10-20
By: Gill Paul
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Half in Shadow
- A Novel
- By: Gemma Liviero
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Alex Wyndham
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of In a Field of Blue comes an unforgettable novel about courage, love, and consequences at the dawn of World War I....
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Outstanding!
- By H. Painter on 02-13-22
By: Gemma Liviero
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The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
- A Novel
- By: Kitty Zeldis
- Narrated by: Karen Gundersen
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways....
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Piece of garbage.
- By Deb on 06-18-23
By: Kitty Zeldis
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The Porcelain Moon
- A Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love
- By: Janie Chang
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Saskia Maarleveld, James Chen
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo....
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Very enthralling story
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-23
By: Janie Chang