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Bestsellers
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- By Ximena Enriquez on 08-31-24
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The Things We Cannot Say
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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Don’t Miss This One!
- By Mary Smiroldo on 08-06-19
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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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 melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s 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 JStan on 02-25-24
By: Mitch Albom
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The Safekeep
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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Least favorite of the Booker Longlist
- By love it on 09-23-24
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- By: Georgia Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....
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Love it but...
- By Roz on 07-19-17
By: Georgia Hunter
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- By Ximena Enriquez on 08-31-24
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The Things We Cannot Say
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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Don’t Miss This One!
- By Mary Smiroldo on 08-06-19
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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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 melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s 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 JStan on 02-25-24
By: Mitch Albom
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The Safekeep
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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Least favorite of the Booker Longlist
- By love it on 09-23-24
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- By: Georgia Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....
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Love it but...
- By Roz on 07-19-17
By: Georgia Hunter
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Cilka's Journey
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival....
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YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS BOOK
- By Amazon Customer on 10-08-19
By: Heather Morris
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Three Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From Heather Morris, the New York Times best-selling author of the multimillion-copy best seller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story....
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Excellent and heartwarming story of love and survival
- By Lee H on 11-06-21
By: Heather Morris
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A Place to Hide
- A Novel
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerful and dramatic, National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson’s A Place to Hide explores the deeply-moving actions of an ordinary man who resolves, under perilous circumstances, to make a difference.
By: Ronald H. Balson
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The Golem and the Jinni
- A Novel
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York....
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Enchanting Debut Novel - Delicious!
- By Tango on 04-26-13
By: Helene Wecker
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The Postcard
- By: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling....
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The author’s words deserve a better narrator
- By TK on 05-22-23
By: Anne Berest, and others
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People of the Book
- A Novel
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain....
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Amazing, fabulous, wonderful!!!
- By Yvette on 03-13-09
By: Geraldine Brooks
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The Warsaw Orphan
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer’s most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say....
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Kelly did it again! 🥰
- By Eric Cardoza on 07-21-21
By: Kelly Rimmer
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Exodus
- A Novel of Israel
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 28 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon - the towering novel of the 20th century's most dramatic geopolitical event....
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My favorite book of ALL Time
- By Meaghan Bynum on 08-22-12
By: Leon Uris
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Beyond the Tracks
- A WW2 Novel Based on Harrowing True Events
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Mike Paul
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him....
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Beyond
- By Ellen, Ontario, Canada on 01-16-22
By: Michael Reit
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The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz:
- A totally gripping and absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 novel
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history....
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Very sorrowful book
- By paula wright on 03-30-21
By: Ellie Midwood
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The Matchmaker's Gift
- A Novel
- By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Matchmaker's Gift is a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to realize their unique talent of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places....
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Delightful
- By Little Ms Fun on 04-04-23
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Água Viva (New Directions Books)
- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Liang
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry....
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Occasionally sublime, frequently not her best
- By Robert Lynch on 01-20-23
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The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
- A Novel
- By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy.
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The Marriage of Opposites
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko, Santino Fontana, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris....
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Intoxicating and Complex Journey
- By Mel on 09-02-15
By: Alice Hoffman
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Schindler's List
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II....
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really well done
- By Neil H. Greenberg on 03-09-19
By: Thomas Keneally
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The Botanist's Tracks
- Beyond the Tracks, Book 3
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: John Maddaloni
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felcia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious experiments—one that could tip the war in favor of the Nazis.
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That there may have been compassionate officers in the war
- By becky mcdaniel on 09-19-24
By: Michael Reit
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Sarah's Key
- A Novel
- By: Tatiana de Rosnay
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours....
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Important subject and plot, pedestrian execution
- By Benson on 04-15-10
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Thistlefoot
- A Novel
- By: GennaRose Nethercott
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.
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I can't decide if I liked it
- By Lorraine Cannon on 11-03-22
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The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs - each of a different woman....
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I don’t understand the good reviews
- By Heather on 03-30-19
By: Pam Jenoff
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The Hope
- By: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 24 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in 1948 and reaching its climax during the Six-Day War of 1967, The Hope begins the story of Israel, a country fighting for its life. Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Don Kishote, and Benny Luria are all officers in the Israeli Army, caught up in the sweep of history....
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One of my favorite books along with The Gory!
- By Deborah on 10-26-18
By: Herman Wouk
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Once We Were Brothers
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer....
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5-Star Thriller with History and Heart
- By Ella on 11-22-14
By: Ronald H. Balson
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Daughters of the Occupation
- A Novel of WWII
- By: Shelly Sanders
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan’s comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her second child, a son she and her husband, Max, name Monya, the Soviets invade the Baltic state of Latvia and occupy the capital city of Riga, her home....
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It never ceases to break my heart …
- By Sherry M. Bianchi-Knod on 05-23-22
By: Shelly Sanders
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The Dovekeepers
- A Novel
- By: Alice Hoffman, Heather Lind
- Narrated by: Aya Cash, Jessica Hecht, Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel....
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Grade of B-
- By FanB14 on 06-29-12
By: Alice Hoffman, and others
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Goodbye, Columbus
- And Five Short Stories
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef, Jonathan Davis, Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion comes a novella that illuminates the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora....
By: Philip Roth
New releases
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A Place to Hide
- A Novel
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Teddy’s job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her.
By: Ronald H. Balson
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Magical Meet Cute
- By: Jean Meltzer
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as a potter in Woodstock, New York. The only thing missing is the perfect guy. Not that she needs one. She’s definitely happy alone. That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers after yet another failed singles event at the synagogue. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to the only thing guaranteed to soothe her—pottery. A golem protector is just what her town needs…and adding all the little details to make him her ideal man can’t hurt, right?
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a pretty great Jewish romance
- By Melissa Schmidt on 09-07-24
By: Jean Meltzer
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A Reason to See You Again
- A Novel
- By: Jami Attenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
By: Jami Attenberg
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Next Stop
- By: Benjamin Resnick
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth? Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents.
By: Benjamin Resnick
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Letting Go
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother’s recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul’s moody, intense wife. Gabe’s desire to be connected to the ordered “world of feeling” that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes’ struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs.
By: Philip Roth
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Ain’t No Grave
- By: Mary Glickman
- Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one-not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906-wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
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Lovely!
- By Anna on 09-11-24
By: Mary Glickman
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A Place to Hide
- A Novel
- By: Ronald H. Balson
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Teddy’s job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her.
By: Ronald H. Balson
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Magical Meet Cute
- By: Jean Meltzer
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Faye Kaplan used to be engaged. She also used to have a successful legal practice. But she much prefers her new life as a potter in Woodstock, New York. The only thing missing is the perfect guy. Not that she needs one. She’s definitely happy alone. That is, until she finds her town papered with anti-Semitic flyers after yet another failed singles event at the synagogue. Desperate for comfort, Faye drunkenly turns to the only thing guaranteed to soothe her—pottery. A golem protector is just what her town needs…and adding all the little details to make him her ideal man can’t hurt, right?
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a pretty great Jewish romance
- By Melissa Schmidt on 09-07-24
By: Jean Meltzer
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A Reason to See You Again
- A Novel
- By: Jami Attenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
By: Jami Attenberg
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Next Stop
- By: Benjamin Resnick
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth? Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents.
By: Benjamin Resnick
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Letting Go
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother’s recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul’s moody, intense wife. Gabe’s desire to be connected to the ordered “world of feeling” that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes’ struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs.
By: Philip Roth
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Ain’t No Grave
- By: Mary Glickman
- Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one-not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906-wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
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Lovely!
- By Anna on 09-11-24
By: Mary Glickman
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In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist
- A Novel
- By: Ruchama Feuerman
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout man to spend her life with. And Mustafa, a devoted Muslim, works as a janitor at the Temple Mount, also known as al-Aqsa, a site holy to both faiths.
By: Ruchama Feuerman
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Trust Me
- By: Scott Nadelson
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Trust Me tells the story of a turbulent year in the life of Lewis Nelson and his daughter Skye, who spend their time together at the edge of a fragile wilderness in Western Oregon.
By: Scott Nadelson
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Fervore
- By: Toby Lloyd, Silvia Albesano - traduttore
- Narrated by: Mauro Santopietro
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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I Rosenthal non sono una famiglia come le altre. Eric e Hannah sono ebrei osservanti e vivono con i tre figli – Gideon, Elsie e Tovyah – e nonno Yosef, sopravvissuto alla Shoah, in una villa nella zona nord di Londra. Avvocato mite e dai modi cortesi lui, giornalista oltremodo ambiziosa lei, entrambi credono profondamente nella verità, parola per parola, dell’Antico Testamento, dunque in una vita dove Dio (e il demonio) sono presenti in ogni istante. Vita densa di fede e di precetti in cui i tre ragazzi, ciascuno per sé, crescono faticosamente in cerca di uno spazio proprio.
By: Toby Lloyd, and others
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The Secret Jewish Soldier
- By: Irit Keynan
- Narrated by: Cathy Doolan Marmolejo
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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At the height of World War II, Yaakov-Jacques Kalderon is a Jewish soldier in the Yugoslavian army, fighting against the German forces. When he falls captive at the hands of the enemy Yaakov knows that in order to survive, he will have no choice but to hide his identity from everyone – even the closest of allies.
By: Irit Keynan
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Sarah and Zari After the War
- By: Adele Mendelson
- Narrated by: Aminah Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Sarah Jacobs meets Zari Heller when Zari arrives in Cleveland, Ohio, after three years in a German displaced persons camp. It is 1948 and Sarah is twelve years old. When Zari moves into Sarah’s family house, they begin a friendship which lasts throughout their lives. Zari opens Sarah to the world beyond her neighborhood, and Sarah helps Zari survive her life after the war. Together, they bear witness to the Jewish Experience in Europe during the Second World War.
By: Adele Mendelson
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La ballata delle anime inutili
- By: Tommaso Avati
- Narrated by: Erica Laiolo
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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È il 1938 e la tredicenne Sofia vive in una masseria nel Gargano insieme alla sua grande famiglia, affollata di fratelli, cognate, nonni e nipoti. In quella casa ci sono tante stanze da letto quante le dita di una mano, e tutte ruotano attorno a quella centrale, che è bianchissima, misteriosa e nessuno vi può accedere. È la stanza del Santo: lì accadono i prodigi, ci si va solo per fare i figli. Sofia sa che lei non varcherà mai quella soglia. Suo padre, con "parole che hanno i denti", le ha spiegato che un marito vuole una donna utile, e che lei non lo è.
By: Tommaso Avati