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The Yellow Duster Sisters
- A Wartime Childhood
- By: Susan Kennaway
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1939. As war breaks out across Europe, nine-year-old Susie and her older sister Gyll are dispatched to Africa by their mother. Alone on the dusty continent, the sisters find little sympathy in their new guardians, and little to like about their new way of life: patched-up clothes, a 6 o'clock bedtime (a particular indignity), and regular obsessive cleanliness rituals. Their continued presence a nuisance, and overwhelmed by fear of doing the wrong thing, Susie and Gyll seek an ally in Mavis.
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The Yellow Duster Sisters
- A Wartime Childhood
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-26-13
- Language: English
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One Day in Oradour
- By: Helen Watts
- Narrated by: Jean Brassard
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably tense, this book weaves the truth about what happened to the people in Oradour into a powerful fictional story centred on two characters: the plucky, inspirational seven-year-old Alfred Fournier, refugee and resident of Oradour, and the hot-headed, power-hungry SS commander who shattered his world and changed his life for ever, Major Gustav Dietrich. As their two worlds collide, we gain a fascinating insight into the extremes and contradictions of human behaviour and emotion. With a twist in the tale, this is a story which leaves the reader surprised, inspired and profoundly moved.
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One Day in Oradour
- Narrated by: Jean Brassard
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-23-14
- Language: English
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Elizabeth's Bedfellows
- An Intimate History of the Queen's Court
- By: Anna Whitelock
- Narrated by: Susannah Tyrrell
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeth’s private life was of public, political concern. Her bedfellows were witnesses to the face and body beneath the make-up and elaborate clothes, as well as to rumoured illicit dalliances with such figures as Robert Dudley. Their presence was for security as well as propriety, as the kingdom was haunted by fears of assassination plots and other Catholic subterfuge.
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Elizabeth's Bedfellows
- An Intimate History of the Queen's Court
- Narrated by: Susannah Tyrrell
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-16-14
- Language: English
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Island Cup
- Two Teams, Twelve Miles of Ocean, and Fifty Years of Football Rivalry
- By: James Sullivan
- Narrated by: T. David Rutherford
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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To most of us "mainlanders," the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are resort destinations, summer homes for the Kennedys, the Obamas, and Patriots coach Bill Belichick. But after the tourists and jetsetters leave, the cold weather descends, and the local shop owners, carpenters, and fishermen ready themselves for the main event: high school football. For over 50 years, the local teams have been locking horns every November. They play for pride, a coveted trophy, and, very often, a shot at the league championship.
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Island Cup
- Two Teams, Twelve Miles of Ocean, and Fifty Years of Football Rivalry
- Narrated by: T. David Rutherford
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-02-13
- Language: English
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Newcomers' Lives
- The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
- By: Peter Unwin - editor
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent British history and have been indispensable for the way we live now.
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Newcomers' Lives
- The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-20-14
- Language: English
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Long Way Home
- On the Trail of Steinbeck's America
- By: Bill Barich
- Narrated by: JJ Write
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us," John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic, Travels with Charley. In the summer of 2008, Bill Barich stumbled upon a used copy of Travels in Ireland, where he has lived for the past eight years, and it inspired him to explore the mood of the United States as Steinbeck had done almost a half century before. With a hotly contested election looming, and in the shadow of an economic meltdown, Barich set off on a 5,943-mile cross-country drive from New York to his old hometown in San Francisco via Route 50....
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Long Way Home
- On the Trail of Steinbeck's America
- Narrated by: JJ Write
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-09-13
- Language: English
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The North
- (And Almost Everything In It)
- By: Paul Morley
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
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Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven, old enough to form an identity but too young to be aware that 'southern' was a category, Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he wasn't entirely sure. It was for him, as it is for millions of others in England, an absolute, indisputable truth.
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The North
- (And Almost Everything In It)
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-07-14
- Language: English
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