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Bestsellers
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The Phoenix Crown
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Katharine Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn comes a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles....
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A Queen of the Night
- By Syd Young on 02-15-24
By: Kate Quinn, and others
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy, Katherine Arden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist....
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WW 1 and the Apocolypse
- By Sam Pakan on 02-27-24
By: Katherine Arden
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Lost Roses
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Best seller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now, Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother and follows three equally indomitable women under the shadow of World War I....
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UGH!
- By Jenny Andrews on 05-07-19
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The 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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Great historical fiction
- By Bird Miller on 10-15-23
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Switchboard Soldiers
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory....
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Having lots of trouble with the narration
- By ohva on 07-20-22
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The 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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Disappointing
- By mary on 08-23-23
By: Pip Williams
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The Phoenix Crown
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Katharine Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn comes a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles....
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A Queen of the Night
- By Syd Young on 02-15-24
By: Kate Quinn, and others
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy, Katherine Arden
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist....
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WW 1 and the Apocolypse
- By Sam Pakan on 02-27-24
By: Katherine Arden
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Lost Roses
- A Novel
- By: Martha Hall Kelly
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Best seller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now, Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother and follows three equally indomitable women under the shadow of World War I....
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UGH!
- By Jenny Andrews on 05-07-19
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The 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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Great historical fiction
- By Bird Miller on 10-15-23
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Switchboard Soldiers
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory....
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Having lots of trouble with the narration
- By ohva on 07-20-22
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The 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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Disappointing
- By mary on 08-23-23
By: Pip Williams
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The Winter Soldier
- By: Daniel Mason
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a 22-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital....
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A Doctor's Story
- By DJE on 09-21-18
By: Daniel Mason
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Scarlet Carnation
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 4)
- By: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies....
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Revisionist history
- By Fuzzy Urchin on 08-03-22
By: Laila Ibrahim
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In Memoriam
- A Novel
- By: Alice Winn
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight....
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Amazing
- By Henry on 03-21-23
By: Alice Winn
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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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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Sometimes Lying is Necessary
- By Ella on 04-09-24
By: Gian Sardar
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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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The Sun Also Rises - Unabridged
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, follows the adventures of a group of young, hard-drinking, American expatriates - which Hemingway refers to as the "Lost Generation" - as they pinball through Europe, from France to Spain and back again....
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Censored with beeps--should be labeled as such
- By Gallila on 02-28-23
By: Ernest Hemingway
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The Queen's Fortune
- A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history....
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Fascinating Heroine
- By HistoryNerd on 04-08-21
By: Allison Pataki
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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 14 mins
- Unabridged
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1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France....
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Masters of Atlantis
- By: Charles Portis
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book. It's the Codex Pappus—the sacred Gnomon text....
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Brilliant book and performance
- By Hear&Now on 05-23-23
By: Charles Portis
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All the Ways We Said Goodbye
- A Novel of the Ritz Paris
- By: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
- Narrated by: Helen Sadler, Nicola Barber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel....
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Too Many Cooks in this Kitchen
- By Eve453 on 02-15-20
By: Beatriz Williams, and others
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The Pull of the Stars
- A Novel
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders....
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A compelling that relates to today’s times
- By Liana Murzak on 07-29-20
By: Emma Donoghue
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The American Adventuress
- A Novel
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Daughter of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie was born into wealth—and scandal. Upon her parents’ separation, her mother took Jennie and her sisters to Paris, where Mrs. Jerome was determined to marry her daughters into the most elite families....
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Not what I expected
- By Megan M. on 10-14-23
By: C. W. Gortner
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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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Unsinkable
- By: Jenni L. Walsh
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Alana Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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After her mother becomes too ill to work, the responsibility to provide for the family falls to Violet as the oldest of nine. When the world enters the Great War, she serves as a nurse, helping men who could very well be her brothers....
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Unsinkable
- By Tiffany on 03-02-24
By: Jenni L. Walsh
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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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Fell apart
- By Ann L on 04-08-23
By: Janie Chang
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The Cliff's Edge
- A Novel (Bess Crawford Mysteries, Book 13)
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery....
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Not What I Expected
- By Something Something on 02-21-23
By: Charles Todd
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The Girls in Navy Blue
- A Novel
- By: Alix Rickloff
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore, Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968....
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Great book!
- By Deborah Hayes on 12-09-22
By: Alix Rickloff
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An Irish Hostage
- A Novel (Bess Crawford Mysteries, Book 12)
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the uneasy peace following World War I, Nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland - in this 12th book in the New York Times best-selling mystery series....
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Better but still disappointing
- By Maine Knitter on 07-17-21
By: Charles Todd
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The President's Wife
- By: Tracey Enerson Wood
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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They called her the First Lady. They should have referred to her as Madame President. Discover the woman who stepped up and saved her husband—and her country....
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Edith Wilson was a remarkable woman!
- By Peggy on 01-20-24
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The 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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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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March 1917
- The Red Wheel: Node III, Book 1
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events....
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Pertinent
- By G. Hawkins on 11-21-22
By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, and others
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The Women's March
- A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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An enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote....
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Inspiring------and heart breaking.
- By tess pechka on 08-16-21
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Sin novedad en el frente
- Sonido 3D
- By: Erich María Remarque
- Narrated by: Randolfo Barrionuevo
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D, el mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Sin novedad en el frente es una novela...
New releases
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The Soulmate Homecoming
- The Soulmate Call, Book 8
- By: Tiffany Ann
- Narrated by: Kathy Handrock
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war. War changes a man. He'd heard that dozens of times over his life but with every near miss, every new scar, every bullet he feels himself chipping away. Even if he survives to go home to his soulmate, what man would he be? How much of him would she recognize?
By: Tiffany Ann
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William - an Englishman
- By: Cicely Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in a hospital tent to the sound of gunfire and shells falling, Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war. As brutal tragedy strikes, their attitude to both pacifism and patriotism is altered and their lives are changed forever.
By: Cicely Hamilton
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The Paris Peacemakers
- By: Flora Johnston
- Narrated by: Karen Bartke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.
By: Flora Johnston
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Gone the Way of the Dodo Bird
- By: Bret Kissinger
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back into the roaring twenties, where Chicago pulses with life and liquor flows freely despite the grip of Prohibition. In the heart of this bustling city, Johnny De Luca navigates the treacherous underworld of the Beer Wars, haunted by memories of his past and the demons that accompany them. Amidst the chaos, Johnny finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Paris Dawson, whose presence forces him to confront his darkest fears and deepest desires. Together with his loyal friends, Tomato and Hotsy, Johnny treads a dangerous path, collecting debts, guarding shipments, and battling rival gangs...
By: Bret Kissinger
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Wartime on Sanctuary Lane
- Sanctuary Lane, Book 1
- By: Kirsty Dougal
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.
By: Kirsty Dougal
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The Hotel Quadriga
- Berlin Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jenny Glanfield
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a cafe in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers, so too does Karl's business empire, and he rises to become the proprietor of Europe's finest and most luxurious hotel. Situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the Hotel Quadriga is a glorious monument to Imperialist Germany.
By: Jenny Glanfield
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The Soulmate Homecoming
- The Soulmate Call, Book 8
- By: Tiffany Ann
- Narrated by: Kathy Handrock
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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All of his life Benjamin hadn't noticed Sarah as anything other than his best friend's sister. The last thing he expected was to notice her as more than a friend, but he did. No sooner does he realize his love for her, America enters the war. War changes a man. He'd heard that dozens of times over his life but with every near miss, every new scar, every bullet he feels himself chipping away. Even if he survives to go home to his soulmate, what man would he be? How much of him would she recognize?
By: Tiffany Ann
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William - an Englishman
- By: Cicely Hamilton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in a hospital tent to the sound of gunfire and shells falling, Cicely Hamilton drew on her experiences working in France during WW1 to tell the story of William Tully and his new bride Griselda, who are wrenched away from their all-consuming interests – socialism and votes for women – and plunged into the almost dream-like horror of war. As brutal tragedy strikes, their attitude to both pacifism and patriotism is altered and their lives are changed forever.
By: Cicely Hamilton
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The Paris Peacemakers
- By: Flora Johnston
- Narrated by: Karen Bartke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the experience was like for countless men, including her fiancé Rob.
By: Flora Johnston
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Gone the Way of the Dodo Bird
- By: Bret Kissinger
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Step back into the roaring twenties, where Chicago pulses with life and liquor flows freely despite the grip of Prohibition. In the heart of this bustling city, Johnny De Luca navigates the treacherous underworld of the Beer Wars, haunted by memories of his past and the demons that accompany them. Amidst the chaos, Johnny finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Paris Dawson, whose presence forces him to confront his darkest fears and deepest desires. Together with his loyal friends, Tomato and Hotsy, Johnny treads a dangerous path, collecting debts, guarding shipments, and battling rival gangs...
By: Bret Kissinger
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Wartime on Sanctuary Lane
- Sanctuary Lane, Book 1
- By: Kirsty Dougal
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one-year-old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through. As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray kitten, Tess, and takes in an injured terrier Mac, but when all the local cats mysteriously disappear, she knows she needs to do more, and with the help of her friends plans to open a weekly animal clinic.
By: Kirsty Dougal
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The Hotel Quadriga
- Berlin Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jenny Glanfield
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a cafe in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers, so too does Karl's business empire, and he rises to become the proprietor of Europe's finest and most luxurious hotel. Situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the Hotel Quadriga is a glorious monument to Imperialist Germany.
By: Jenny Glanfield
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At the Going Down of the Sun
- By: Mary-Anne O'Connor
- Narrated by: Maddy Withington, Lincoln Elliott, Darius Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Brothers Thom and Archie are the best of friends and never disagree, until the beautiful, young and very headstrong Molly James comes into their life. Molly might be playing a game with the brothers - but when war strikes and they both join up to fight, it isn't a game anymore. Based on the true story of the author's grandfather's wartime experiences, At the Going Down of the Sun explores the intense bond between soldiers and brothers fighting in war, and a love that may tear them apart.
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The Wild Date Palm
- By: Diane Armstrong
- Narrated by: Deirdre Rubenstein
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny. Convinced that her Jewish community in a small outpost of the Ottoman Empire will soon meet a similar fate, she is desperate to save her people. With Turkey and Britain locked in a global conflict, she orchestrates an audacious plan. Enlisting a group of co-conspirators who include her charismatic lover Eli and her impetuous brother Nathan, this young woman forms a clandestine spy ring.
By: Diane Armstrong
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The Wild Date Palm
- By: Diane Armstrong
- Narrated by: Deirdre Rubenstein
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny.
By: Diane Armstrong
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The Pipers Glory
- By: Sam Skinner
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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From Clan MacGregor in Queen Victoria’s Scotland to Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War in Cuba to the 2nd Boer War in South Africa, high adventure and romance abound in this tale of pipers, pipes, and glory. The Great Highland War Pipes, “in the eyes of the law, an instrument of war”, play a leading role as threads of Scottish history, culture, music, literature, and family are tied together in an intricate, complex tapestry.
By: Sam Skinner
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Love's Grand Sweet Song
- Windy City Hearts, Book 3
- By: Jennifer Lamont Leo
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lamont Leo
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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In 1915, waitress Francie Forrester has a voice like an angel, but few people in her small Midwestern town have ever heard it, outside of church. Between working and keeping an eye on her irresponsible mother and younger brother, who has time for music? Her misty daydream of becoming an opera singer must remain exactly that—a dream—until a new friend unexpectedly sets her on a rocky path leading to Chicago’s glittering opera stage. To rise from slinging spaghetti to singing grand opera takes a lot of courage and hard work, but Francie’s up to the challenge. At least, she hopes she is.
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A PRELUDE TO VERSAILLES
- Love and Intrigue at the Paris Peace Conference
- By: Mark Anthony Sullivan
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Nothing had prepared Lieutenant George Murphy for Paris. Before he was wounded all he had seen in France were mud, blood and gunfire in the trenches, but then he is sent to a hospital in the City of Light. After the armistice he is assigned to the American peace conference delegation as one of the few American officers who can speak French. There he faces perils ranging from phony news reports of a crime wave among American troops to being accused of murder himself. Fiona McDermott is the light of the Irish peace delegation, but British disdain for that body blocks it from being officially ...
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
- By: Katherine Arden
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Michael Crouch
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie's death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn't quite make sense. November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out.
By: Katherine Arden
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Moody Riley
- You know... You wouldn't know.
- By: Paul Donnelly
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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"At last, the great American baseball novel…" The lost story of a ballplayer passing in the deadball era. Moody Riley knocks around the major leagues as a solid but mediocre player for more than twenty years. A light-skinned toddler who survived a lynching, Moody spent his childhood under the bleachers of the baseball field where his parents were killed. He’s a catcher, useful as a substitute or for warming up pitchers from 1904 to 1928. Like a hardball Forrest Gump, Riley happens to be in the dugout or on the field when legendary events happen in the early, wild years of 20th century ...
By: Paul Donnelly
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The Street
- By: H. P. Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 14 mins
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The Street is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
By: H. P. Lovecraft
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Promising Meg
- By: Anna Huckabee
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Fall 1918. The Great War is raging in Europe. American soldier, Jack Collins, is burned when he drags a dying friend into a mustard gas-filled trench. He spends the next agonizing weeks in one army hospital after another. As day after painful day passes, he loses hope that he’ll ever lead a normal life. In New England, Meg longs to do her part to help in the war effort, but caring for her elderly grandmother takes up all her time. Then her aunt and uncle make arrangements for her to volunteer in a nearby hospital where she meets Jack. Jack doesn’t think he will ever walk again - but he ...
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Beautiful Story
- By Rachel Miller on 03-09-24
By: Anna Huckabee
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When the World Goes Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Gian Sardar
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was promised: a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions. Until then, Evelien knows to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But life never goes to plan, especially in war. A member of the Resistance approaches Evelien: steal a list of names hidden in her employer’s home.
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Sometimes Lying is Necessary
- By Ella on 04-09-24
By: Gian Sardar
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Poppa's Boy
- Coming of Age in the Great War
- By: Stephen L Harris
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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The year is 1917 and the United States has just declared war on Germany. What is called “The Great War” has been raging for quite a while, but seems to have ground to a stalemate between France, Great Britain and Germany. But now, with the USA joining the fight, the Allies are confident that what they call ‘The Hun” will be defeated once the American “doughboys” arrive in France. Bucky Riley, a Burlington, Vermont, native, is eager to be part of the action—a big reason being that his father, a Rough Rider hero of the Spanish-American War back in 1898, believes Bucky is a “...
By: Stephen L Harris