- World War I (615)
- World War II (3,360)
Bestsellers
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France
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HEARTBREAKINGLY POIGNANT AND INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
- By Anonymous User on 02-17-15
By: Kristin Hannah
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Winter Garden
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....
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I thought I made a mistake
- By A. Musser on 11-29-17
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Rose Code
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping WWII story of three code-breakers and the spy they must root out.
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My Favorite Book!!!
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-21
By: Kate Quinn
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The Diamond Eye
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story....
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Excellent narration!
- By Anonymous User on 04-15-22
By: Kate Quinn
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Anonymous User on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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All the Broken Places
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Helen Lloyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery....
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So good
- By Anonymous User on 05-30-23
By: John Boyne
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France
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HEARTBREAKINGLY POIGNANT AND INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
- By Anonymous User on 02-17-15
By: Kristin Hannah
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Winter Garden
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....
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I thought I made a mistake
- By A. Musser on 11-29-17
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Rose Code
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping WWII story of three code-breakers and the spy they must root out.
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My Favorite Book!!!
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-21
By: Kate Quinn
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The Diamond Eye
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story....
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Excellent narration!
- By Anonymous User on 04-15-22
By: Kate Quinn
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Anonymous User on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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All the Broken Places
- A Novel
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Helen Lloyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery....
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So good
- By Anonymous User on 05-30-23
By: John Boyne
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The Midwife of Berlin
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....
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great
- By Anonymous User on 03-20-24
By: Anna Stuart
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca....
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Mixed Feelings
- By Anonymous User on 02-14-21
By: Ariel Lawhon
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman, Hope Newhouse
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....
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French accent
- By Anonymous User on 10-22-21
By: Barbara Davis
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The Huntress
- A Novel
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
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Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans....
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EVEN BETTER THAN ALICE NETWORK
- By Anonymous User on 03-02-19
By: Kate Quinn
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By Anonymous User on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....
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incredible true story about heddy Lamar
- By Anonymous User on 01-26-19
By: Marie Benedict
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The Goddess of Warsaw
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Barr
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break....
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MUST READ and Jane Oppenheimer is phenomenal
- By Anonymous User on 07-29-24
By: Lisa Barr
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The Book of Lost Names
- By: Kristin Harmel
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Lina Meisel, a retired librarian in Florida, is reading the newspaper one morning when she freezes. Her eyes lock on a photograph of a book she hasn’t seen in 65 years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names....
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Another whiney female "heroine"
- By Anonymous User on 08-15-20
By: Kristin Harmel
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Polostan
- Bomb Light, Book 1
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
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Political Intrigue, Science and Polo in the Cold War
- By Anonymous User on 10-19-24
By: Neal Stephenson
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The Last Green Valley
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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From the author of the number one best seller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph....
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Too Religious
- By Anonymous User on 06-02-21
By: Mark Sullivan
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Daughter of the Reich
- A Novel
- By: Louise Fein
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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She must choose between loyalty to her country or a love that could be her destruction....
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PROFANITY KILLED THE BOOK
- By Anonymous User on 12-16-20
By: Louise Fein
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family.
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Timeliness and timelessness
- By Anonymous User on 02-25-24
By: Mitch Albom
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The Sunflower House
- A Novel
- By: Adriana Allegri
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dallin Bradford, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid's Tale—during World War II.
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More, please
- By Anonymous User on 11-17-24
By: Adriana Allegri
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When We Had Wings
- By: Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, Susan Meissner
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival.
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A sanitized view of the Japanese in WWII.
- By Anonymous User on 04-04-23
By: Ariel Lawhon, and others
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The Rose Arbor
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a haunting novel of suspense by the best-selling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Paris Assignment.
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Liked the ending
- By Ellipooh on 08-30-24
By: Rhys Bowen
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A Sunlit Weapon
- A Novel (Maisie Dobbs, Book 17)
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground....
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Another excellent Maise Dobbs installment
- By Anonymous User on 03-31-22
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The German Wife
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip.
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Awkward Narrative
- By Anonymous User on 07-14-22
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Restless Wave
- A Novel of the United States Navy (Scott Bradley James, Book 1)
- By: Admiral James Stavridis USN
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling former NATO commander comes a riveting historical novel that charts the coming-of-age of a gifted but immature young naval officer as he is tested in the crucible of World War II in the Pacific
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The imperfection of the characters
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-24
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The Keeper of Hidden Books
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Martin
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw.
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Audiobook of the year for me, truly exceptional!
- By Anonymous User on 08-02-23
By: Madeline Martin
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The Paris Assignment
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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A courageous wife, mother, and resister confronts the devastation of World War II in a heartbreaking and hopeful novel by the best-selling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child....
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Frustrating
- By Anonymous User on 11-20-23
By: Rhys Bowen
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The Secret War of Julia Child
- A Novel
- By: Diana R. Chambers
- Narrated by: Candace Joice
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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The Secret War of Julia Child traces Julia's transformation from ambitious Pasadena blue blood to Washington, DC file clerk, to head of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's secret File Registry as part of the Office of Strategic Services.
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Julia Child, more amazing than ever
- By Anonymous User on 11-14-24
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From Sand and Ash
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love....
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Such beauty in the darkest of times <3
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-16
By: Amy Harmon
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- A Novel
- By: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met....
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MUCH better than I ever expected! Give it a try!
- By Anonymous User on 10-19-09
By: Mary Ann Shaffer, and others
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The War Orphan
- Women of War
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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1945, Auschwitz: I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now…
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Wonderful.
- By Anonymous User on 05-11-24
By: Anna Stuart
New releases
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The Surviving Remnant
- By: Bret Kissinger
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Surviving Remnant What would you do if your past held the power to destroy your future—or give you a chance to reclaim it? Jakub survived the unthinkable horrors of the Dachau and Sobibor concentration camps, but the scars he carries are more than skin deep. **Two decades later, he’s not living—he’s merely existing**—haunted by memories that refuse to fade. When his cousin Arek, who was as close as a brother, and Alicja, the woman he fell in love with in the camps, re-enter his life, they bring an offer: the chance to track down Ludolf Reichenbach, the sadistic guard who ...
By: Bret Kissinger
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Loytavaara Hill
- (Book VIII in The Winter Sniper Series)
- By: James Mullins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Soviet plan to cut Finland in half failed spectacularly with the destruction of the 163rd and 44th Divisions at Suomassalmi and The Raate Road. Undeterred by the disaster, Soviet High Command crafted a new strategy to bisect Finland, targeting the crucial crossroads in the town of Kuhmo. Learning from their mistakes, they deployed the formidable 54th Mountain Division, seasoned in Arctic warfare, to achieve the objective. When ten thousand Red Army soldiers stormed across the border, the Finnish 9th Division, led by Colonel Siilasvuo, raced to intercept them. After days of fierce combat...
By: James Mullins
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Through the Broken Hours
- A Story of Auschwitz
- By: Jean-Jacques Reibel
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, Jewish watchmaker Jakob is sent to Auschwitz, where he uses his skills to survive while witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust. As the camp strips away his humanity, Jakob risks everything to protect the weak, finding small acts of kindness in a world overcome by cruelty.
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The Sunflower House
- A Novel
- By: Adriana Allegri
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dallin Bradford, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina’s family hides a terrifying secret—her birth mother was Jewish, making her a Mischling. One fateful night after losing everyone she loves, Allina is forced into service as a nurse at a state-run baby factory called Hochland Home. There, she becomes both witness and participant to the horrors of Heinrich Himmler’s ruthless eugenics program.
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More, please
- By Anonymous User on 11-17-24
By: Adriana Allegri
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Star Cross Lovers
- By: Elvo Bucci
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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"Their loves reigns still amid sorrow and loss, A girl with a star, a boy and the cross." This is a love story, as you may have gathered by the foregoing sonnet—what’s romance without poetry? You’ll learn hardships plagued our two young lovers beyond belief. Tragedy befell them in so many ways, some too horrific to describe, not here, not now. Though their torment was shocking and profound, their love was so much more, and so this story—their story—demands to be told. A warning: there is grief in the telling, it’s unavoidable given the truth of what happened. But because they ...
By: Elvo Bucci
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war. At the center of the novel are two young men—Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a colonel, and cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed "Mickey Mouse"), well on his way to becoming America's Number One Flying Ace.
By: Len Deighton
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The Surviving Remnant
- By: Bret Kissinger
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Surviving Remnant What would you do if your past held the power to destroy your future—or give you a chance to reclaim it? Jakub survived the unthinkable horrors of the Dachau and Sobibor concentration camps, but the scars he carries are more than skin deep. **Two decades later, he’s not living—he’s merely existing**—haunted by memories that refuse to fade. When his cousin Arek, who was as close as a brother, and Alicja, the woman he fell in love with in the camps, re-enter his life, they bring an offer: the chance to track down Ludolf Reichenbach, the sadistic guard who ...
By: Bret Kissinger
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Loytavaara Hill
- (Book VIII in The Winter Sniper Series)
- By: James Mullins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Soviet plan to cut Finland in half failed spectacularly with the destruction of the 163rd and 44th Divisions at Suomassalmi and The Raate Road. Undeterred by the disaster, Soviet High Command crafted a new strategy to bisect Finland, targeting the crucial crossroads in the town of Kuhmo. Learning from their mistakes, they deployed the formidable 54th Mountain Division, seasoned in Arctic warfare, to achieve the objective. When ten thousand Red Army soldiers stormed across the border, the Finnish 9th Division, led by Colonel Siilasvuo, raced to intercept them. After days of fierce combat...
By: James Mullins
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Through the Broken Hours
- A Story of Auschwitz
- By: Jean-Jacques Reibel
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, Jewish watchmaker Jakob is sent to Auschwitz, where he uses his skills to survive while witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust. As the camp strips away his humanity, Jakob risks everything to protect the weak, finding small acts of kindness in a world overcome by cruelty.
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The Sunflower House
- A Novel
- By: Adriana Allegri
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dallin Bradford, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina’s family hides a terrifying secret—her birth mother was Jewish, making her a Mischling. One fateful night after losing everyone she loves, Allina is forced into service as a nurse at a state-run baby factory called Hochland Home. There, she becomes both witness and participant to the horrors of Heinrich Himmler’s ruthless eugenics program.
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More, please
- By Anonymous User on 11-17-24
By: Adriana Allegri
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Star Cross Lovers
- By: Elvo Bucci
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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"Their loves reigns still amid sorrow and loss, A girl with a star, a boy and the cross." This is a love story, as you may have gathered by the foregoing sonnet—what’s romance without poetry? You’ll learn hardships plagued our two young lovers beyond belief. Tragedy befell them in so many ways, some too horrific to describe, not here, not now. Though their torment was shocking and profound, their love was so much more, and so this story—their story—demands to be told. A warning: there is grief in the telling, it’s unavoidable given the truth of what happened. But because they ...
By: Elvo Bucci
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war. At the center of the novel are two young men—Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a colonel, and cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed "Mickey Mouse"), well on his way to becoming America's Number One Flying Ace.
By: Len Deighton
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The French Winemaker’s Daughter
- A Novel
- By: Loretta Ellsworth
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlotte, a commercial airline pilot, attends an auction with her boyfriend Henri at Hotel Drouot, now the oldest auction house in Paris. Successfully bidding on a box of wine saved from the German occupation during the Second World War, Henri gives Charlotte a seemingly inferior bottle he finds inside the box. Cleaning the label, Charlotte makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a quest to find the origins of this unusual—and very valuable—bottle of wine, a quest that will take her back fifty years into the past.
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The Rest Is Memory
- By: Lily Tuck
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.
By: Lily Tuck
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Victoria
- By: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Se enfrentaron al horror y lucharon contra la injusticia. Pero nada reconcilia más que el amor. Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un Berlín arrasado y sin futuro aparente, Victoria sobrevive cantando cada noche en el club Kassandra. Pese a tener una mente prodigiosa, capaz de crear un poderoso sistema de cifrado de mensajes, su hija Hedy y su hermana Rebecca dependen de ese mísero sueldo para sobrevivir. Un chantaje sin escrúpulos por parte de los rusos obligará a Victoria a viajar sola a Estados Unidos, donde, sin embargo, disfrutará del amor incondicional del capitán Norton.
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Como escribe esta mujer!
- By Anonymous User on 12-12-24
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The Stolen Sisters
- By: Ann Bennett
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Poland, 1944 When twelve-year-old Martha and her little sister Johanna are snatched while out shopping for food and pushed into an army truck with a swastika on the door, they are heartbroken. Terrified they will never see their mother again, the little girls cling to each other as the truck full of stolen children rumbles through the countryside.
By: Ann Bennett
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La sage-femme d'Auschwitz
- By: Anna Stuart, Maryline Beury
- Narrated by: Cristelle Ledroit
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Au cœur de l'enfer, une femme se bat pour l'espoir. "Rappelle-toi: notre seule arme, c'est de rester en vie, et pour rester en vie, nous devons aimer, nous devons donner, et, malheureusement, nous devons souffrir." Lorsqu'elle arrive à Auschwitz, sous un ciel bas et gris, Ana est persuadée qu'elle ne survivra pas à l'enfer du camp. Mais elle possède une compétence que les nazis recherchent : elle est sage-femme. Son travail sera de donner naissance aux enfants des autres prisonnières.
By: Anna Stuart, and others
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The Last Letters from Villa Clara
- By: Sarah Steele
- Narrated by: Rebecca Norfolk
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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1938. In the turmoil of pre-war Italy, a painting is stowed in the false bottom of a suitcase, ready to be carried across the border. But as the train draws to a violent halt and armed officers lead the passengers onto the platform, the suitcase is taken and the painting never seen again. 1963. London is on the cusp of change in the swinging 60s. Nightclubs and exclusive parties are in their heyday. But when a lowly boarding-house mistress attempts to take on the establishment, and is accused of spying for the Russians, she can save only one thing - her reputation, or the love of her life.
By: Sarah Steele
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Truth and Evil
- A Christian Historical Fiction Novelette Set During WW2
- By: G. Edward Martin
- Narrated by: Aaron Miles
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
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During the height of World War 2, a young German soldier on the Russian front is unexpectedly killed moments after committing a heinous and unforgivable crime. After his soul is hurled through the aether, he finds himself surrounded by blinding light and standing before God to explain his actions and face judgement. In this powerful WW2 Christian historical fiction, instead of condemning the young man’s soul, God mysteriously sends him back to earth to relive the moment until he can change the outcome and come to understand the nature of truth and evil.
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amazing story
- By Anonymous User on 11-25-24
By: G. Edward Martin
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The Bishop's Villa
- By: Sacha Naspini, Clarissa Botsford - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Brusasco
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Le Case is a village far from everything. Seen from there, even the war looks different—mostly waiting, prayers, poverty. As a fierce winter looms, an order is issued to arrest all Jews and detain them in the bishop's villa, awaiting deportation. René is the town's shoemaker. Everyone calls him Settebello, “lucky seven,” a nickname he got at a young age after losing three fingers on a lathe. Now he's fifty years old. Shy, solitary, taciturn. No family or acquaintances—except for Anna, a lifelong friend who could have been something more.
By: Sacha Naspini, and others
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The Orphan’s Secret Library
- By: Glynis Peters
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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For as long as Alice Carmichael can remember, the only thing she’s been able to count on is the written word. The war may have taken everything from her, but the stories she cherishes provide solace and escape into a world that is more hopeful than 1942 England. So when Alice finds herself at the mercy and kindness of strangers, miles from everything she’s ever known, it’s little surprise that books become her purpose. Now, Alice must channel the courage of her favourite heroines to risk everything for her country.
By: Glynis Peters
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A Time for Defiance
- By: James D. Shipman
- Narrated by: Stephanie Einstein
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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May 1940: In the months since the war in Europe began, nineteen-year-old Aafke Cruyssen and her family have tried to carry on as normal—running their modest grocery store in Eindhoven, hoping that Germany will leave Holland alone as it did during the Great War. But this time, Holland will not be spared. The invasion comes, swift and merciless, and Dutch forces are easily overpowered. Aafke's one glimpse of humanity comes from a young German corporal who intervenes when a gang of looters tries to rob her family's shop.
By: James D. Shipman
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The Soundtrack of Their Lives
- A True Dysfunctional Family Saga (The Bell Family Series, Book 2)
- By: Debbie Wastling
- Narrated by: Debbie Wastling
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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What happens to a young couple when the first flush of love fades? Alice and Amos Bell marry in 1925, when flappers and jazz prosper. Alice and her sister are ardent suffragists who live by their own rules, while their world overflows with parties, music, and dancing. But their struggle increases with the Depression years, followed by the World War II. Amos Bell does not deal with the stormy relationships with his children or his wife. As Alice’s health declines Amos’ infidelity dramas explode, with the German bombs dropping on Yorkshire being the least of their troubles.
By: Debbie Wastling
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Daughter of Hong Kong
- By: Siobhan Daiko
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Chan
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Spring 1939 - Dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will’s talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to help him with his new job — a cadet in the colonial service. But once in Hong Kong, Connie is constrained by filial duty towards her Eurasian parents, and their wish for her to marry someone from her own background.
By: Siobhan Daiko
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Two Necklaces
- By: Paulette Mahurin
- Narrated by: Deborah Kosnett
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Two Necklaces is the story of a German girl's coming of age who dares to think for herself at a time when that very act was dangerous, even life-threatening. It delves into the very nature of the human condition with its frailty, strength, and the struggle of mind and heart.
By: Paulette Mahurin
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The Secret Soldier
- The Maureen Ritter Series, Book 3
- By: Eoin Dempsey
- Narrated by: Holly Elspeth
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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France, 1943. Having left Christophe, her lover, and fellow freedom fighter, behind in Marseilles, Maureen travels to England to undergo a grueling training course to join the Special Operations Executive and become a secret soldier to counter the Nazis in her beloved France. Her first mission is to take control of a ragtag band of outlaws in the forest and mold them into a fighting force worthy of taking on the German invaders
By: Eoin Dempsey
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L’électron libre [The Free Electron]
- Un vent d'orage, Tome 1 [A Storm Wind, Book 1]
- By: Josée Ouimet
- Narrated by: Frédérique Dufort
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.
By: Josée Ouimet
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Through Bitter Seas
- By: Phillip Parotti
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Assigned to US Navy Rescue Tug, the ATR-3X, not long after the German surrender in North Africa, Ensign Hal Goff and four other officers must support the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy, shepherding navy ships to and from the bitter fighting. With the Allied advance finally stopped cold along the Winter Line beneath Monte Cassino, Hal and his ship become part of the grueling invasion of Anzio and the seemingly endless stalemate across Anzio's bloody beaches. Phillip Parotti's thrilling novel treats his listeners to gripping World War II naval action in the Mediterranean Sea.
By: Phillip Parotti
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Mutige Herzen unterm Hakenkreuz [Brave Hearts Under the Swastika]
- Rosenstrassen-Saga
- By: Marion Kummerow, Tora von Collani - translator
- Narrated by: Funda Vanroy
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Berlin 1943. Nachdem es den vielen mutigen Frauen in der Rosenstraße gelungen ist, ihre jüdischen Verwandten, vor der Deportation in die Lager zu bewahren, trifft David eine mutige Entscheidung: Nach seiner Freilassung will er nicht länger tatenlos zusehen, wie die Nazis seine Freunde ermorden. An der Seite seiner Freundin Roxi, beschließt er, in den Widerstand zu gehen. Unter Lebensgefahr helfen sie anderen Verfolgten und schließen sich einem geheimen Untergrundnetzwerk an.
By: Marion Kummerow, and others
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Letters to a Stranger
- By: Sarah Mitchell
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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"England, 1940. Dearest Ruby, you must have heard the news by now. The very worst has happened. Our countries are at war. What can I do? How can I stop this nightmare from happening? One day soon we’ll be together again. I swear. I love you. E. x". Ruby Summers is a tapestry of memories, her ninety-six years laced with both love and loss. The echoes of a wartime Norfolk summer, where young Ruby's heart entwined with Edmondo's under orchard skies, are as vivid as ever. Yet a single, haunting secret - born from a love tested by war and a betrayal that shattered her - remains locked within her.
By: Sarah Mitchell
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Danziger Trilogie - Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre
- By: Günter Grass
- Narrated by: Günter Grass
- Length: 38 hrs and 26 mins
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Die Danziger Trilogie umfasst die Werke Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Maus und Hundejahre. In der Blechtrommel erweist sich Oskar Matzerath, der im Alter von drei Jahren beschließt, nicht mehr zu wachsen, als ein scharfsinniger Beobachter des Danziger Kleinbürgertums vor und während des Nationalsozialismus. In Katz und Maus erzählt Pilenz aus der Rückschau des Jahres 1959 vom bewunderten und verachteten Klassenkameraden Mahlke im Danzig der Kriegszeit, den sein übergroßer Adamsapfel zum Außenseiter macht.
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intense stories however, hundejahre only in exerts
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-24
By: Günter Grass
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Flüchtlingskind
- Ein Junge zwischen zwei Müttern
- By: Marion Kummerow
- Narrated by: Ulrike Hallas
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Im eisigen Winter 1945, als das Deutsche Reich kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch steht, flieht Emma mit ihren beiden Kindern vor der Roten Armee in den Westen. Doch der kleine Jakob wird auf der Flucht krank und seine einzige Rettung ist ein Krankenhaus. Kaum hat Emma ihren geliebten Sohn einer Krankenschwester anvertraut, werden sie von den sowjetischen Truppen eingeholt und die dramatische Schlacht um Posen beginnt. Emma muss eine herzzerreißende Entscheidung treffen: Soll sie weiter nach Ihrem verschwundenen Sohn suchen oder ihre Tochter in Sicherheit bringen.
By: Marion Kummerow
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El hombre que casi mató a Hitler
- By: Jorge Carrasco
- Narrated by: Borja Peña
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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El 8 de noviembre de 1939, apenas comenzada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Adolf Hitler dio un discurso inusualmente corto en una cervecería de Múnich. Once minutos después de que abandonara el lugar, estalló una bomba que alguien había instalado bajo el estrado. La explosión derrumbó parte del edificio y dejó ocho muertos. De haber seguido allí, con toda seguridad Hitler habría sido asesinado. Jorge Carrasco nos sumerge en un momento crucial del siglo XX y nos descubre la vida de este héroe discreto que se atrevió a hacer frente al horror.
By: Jorge Carrasco
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Walk the Earth as Brothers: A Novel
- By: Henry Rozycki
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Ian is thrown west to Paris. There, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alicia, a mysterious Frenchwoman, but then must leave her to race across France to safety in Casablanca. Daniel ends up in the Siberian Gulag, where he faces endless blizzards, starvation, and the often-lethal cruelties of guards and fellow prisoners. He too finds someone, an exiled poet named Nadhya, until he must choose: stay with her or cross all of Russia to return to the future he'd envisioned.
By: Henry Rozycki
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Jeep Show: A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge
- By: ROBERT O'CONNOR
- Narrated by: Zack Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Jeep Show chronicles the astonishing journey of Jim Tanzer, a thirty-year-old dance instructor who enlists in the Army in 1943 to fight the Nazis. Jim’s showbiz background lands him in the Morale Corps as an Entertainment Specialist. Shipped to Europe and tasked with performing in Jeep shows - small variety acts put on for combat infantry just behind the front lines - Jim travels throughout the Combat Zone with squad leader Mickey Rooney, the Hollywood superstar, also in the Morale Corps (as he was in real life).
By: ROBERT O'CONNOR
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Gefährliche Betrachtungen
- Der Fall Thomas Mann
- By: Tilo Eckardt
- Narrated by: Julian Mehne
- Length: 9 hrs
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Zum 150. Geburtstag des großen Autors und Literatur-Nobelpreisträgers: Ein historischer Kriminalroman, der Thomas Mann auf noch nie gelesene Weise lebendig werden lässt. "Der Dichter hatte sich vom Strandkorb erhoben und die Jagdszenen beobachtet. Als ich im bescheidenen Triumph die Arme mit den aufgefangenen, zerknitterten Blättern hob, schlug er sich auf die Oberschenkel und klatschte dann in die Hände. "Ganz vortrefflich!", rief er, und mir ging das Herz auf." Eine schillernde Hommage an Thomas Mann und eine spannende Erzählung über Mut, Freundschaft und die Kraft der Literatur, die Welt zu verändern.
By: Tilo Eckardt