- Biographical Fiction (1,521)
- Dystopian (1,996)
Best Sellers
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....
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Fun Fun Fun AND Totally Tasteless
- By Destry Rides on 2019-09-01
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- A Novel
- Written by: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....
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Beautifully written historical love story of words
- By Chantal Plowman on 2023-01-11
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- Written 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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Great insight into the Italian Front
- By Frank on 2018-10-20
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L'adversaire
- Written by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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« Le 9 janvier 1993, Jean-Claude Romand a tué sa femme, ses enfants, ses parents, puis tenté, mais en vain, de se tuer lui-même. L'enquête a révélé...
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Mrs Van Gogh
- Written by: Caroline Cauchi
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind. Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and his unparalleled talent finally recognised. The tireless efforts of one woman gave the world one of its greatest creative minds....
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Written by: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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Dynamic duo
- By Tania A Heinemann on 2023-09-27
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....
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Fun Fun Fun AND Totally Tasteless
- By Destry Rides on 2019-09-01
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- A Novel
- Written by: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....
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Beautifully written historical love story of words
- By Chantal Plowman on 2023-01-11
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- Written 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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Great insight into the Italian Front
- By Frank on 2018-10-20
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L'adversaire
- Written by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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« Le 9 janvier 1993, Jean-Claude Romand a tué sa femme, ses enfants, ses parents, puis tenté, mais en vain, de se tuer lui-même. L'enquête a révélé...
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Mrs Van Gogh
- Written by: Caroline Cauchi
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind. Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and his unparalleled talent finally recognised. The tireless efforts of one woman gave the world one of its greatest creative minds....
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Written by: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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Dynamic duo
- By Tania A Heinemann on 2023-09-27
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The People’s Princess
- Written by: Flora Harding
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Buckingham Palace, 1981. Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer, but marrying the heir to the throne is not all that it seems....
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Le Consentement
- Written by: Vanessa Springora
- Narrated by: Guila Clara Kessous
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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"Depuis tant d'années, je tourne en rond dans ma cage, mes rêves sont peuplés de meurtre et de vengeance. Jusqu'au jour où la solution..."
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Très bien décris
- By JP on 2021-11-08
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The Woman with the Cure
- Written by: Lynn Cullen
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown....
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An American Beauty
- Written by: Shana Abe
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm....
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The Great Passion
- Written by: James Runcie
- Narrated by: Pip Torrens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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From acclaimed best-selling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the 'St Matthew Passion'....
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The Postcard
- Written by: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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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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A memorable novel.
- By Brad Munt on 2023-06-28
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The Last Queen
- A Novel of Courage and Resistance
- Written by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Sharp-eyed, stubborn, and passionate, Jindan was known for her beauty. When she caught the eye of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, she was elevated to royalty, becoming his youngest and last queen—and his favorite....
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story itself. i was not aware of it.
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-02-13
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The First Ladies
- Written by: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—a forbidden friendship that changed the world....
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The First Ladies
- By LK on 2023-07-05
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Benjamin's Crossing
- Written by: Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Edoardo Ballerini, Natasha Soudek, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin - the German-Jewish critic and philosopher - has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee....
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Excellent on all sides.
- By James De Dood on 2023-01-15
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Auschwitz Lullaby
- Written by: Mario Escobar
- Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home....
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A Story About Bravery
- By Jessica on 2022-06-26
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The Lady of the Rivers
- Written by: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight....
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Interesting!
- By CassandraG on 2019-04-17
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L'Amant
- Written by: Marguerite Duras
- Narrated by: Juliette Binoche
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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"Dans "L'Amant", Marguerite Duras reprend sur le ton de la confidence les images et les thèmes qui hantent toute son œuvre. Ses lecteurs vont pouvoir..."
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Rien de plus pire
- By Mohamed on 2023-04-14
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- Written by: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....
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A fascinating story!
- By CherylN on 2023-09-15
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The Only Woman in the Room
- Written by: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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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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One amazing woman
- By L. Fullerton on 2021-06-22
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The Christie Affair
- A Novel
- Written by: Nina de Gramont
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a stunning new novel that reimagines the unexplained 11-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world....
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Tedious
- By K L on 2023-01-29
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Barney's Version
- Written by: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography....
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No Thanks
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-17
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Restless Dolly Maunder
- Written by: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Federay Holmes
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors.
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The King's Pleasure
- A Novel of Henry VIII
- Written by: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of the legendary king Henry VIII and his dramatic and violent reign in this extraordinary historical novel....
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Captivating read
- By Amaia on 2023-10-24
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Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen
- A Novel
- Written by: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A princess of Spain, Catalina is only 16 years old when she sets foot on the shores of England....
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superb
- By Jessica Spragg on 2019-05-26
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Francia
- Written by: Nancy Huston
- Narrated by: Nancy Huston, Naëlle Dariya
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Une transexuelle Colombienne travaille au Bois de Boulogne dans le quartier dit Latinas. Ce livre fait le tableau de l'une de ses journées de travail...
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
- A Novel
- Written by: Hazel Gaynor
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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From The New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past 200 years....
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A perfect storm
- By Patricia Hamilton on 2020-08-28
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Le tatoueur d'Auschwitz
- Written by: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Isabelle Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Sous un ciel de plomb, des prisonniers défilent à l'entrée du camp d'Auschwitz. Bientôt, ils ne seront plus que des numéros tatoués sur...
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Wow!
- By Guillaume on 2018-11-22
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Half Broke Horses
- A True-Life Novel
- Written by: Jeannette Walls
- Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother....
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Like when the author narrates😁
- By Margaret Gibb on 2018-09-13
New Releases
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Victoria Falls
- Written by: James Hornor
- Narrated by: Anne Francis
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic recesses of his complex personality and eventually land him in a hellhole prison in Bombay. His tragedy unfolds into an ending that no one, especially Monroe, could have possibly predicted or imagined.
Written by: James Hornor
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The Bag
- Coffee Talk: A Leader’s Job, Book 1
- Written by: Tim Gibson
- Narrated by: Amy Pandit
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Surviving the job happens one day, one shift, and one call at a time. Having each other's backs sets a team apart from a crew. The Bag takes you on that journey for just one shift.
Written by: Tim Gibson
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Flight of the Wild Swan
- Written by: Melissa Pritchard
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.
Written by: Melissa Pritchard
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Champagne Widows
- First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot (Champagne Widows Novels)
- Written by: Rebecca Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1800 France, twenty-year-old Barbe-Nicole inherits her great-grandfather's uncanny sense of smell and uses it to make great champagne, despite the Code prohibiting women from owning a business. When tragedy strikes and she becomes a Veuve (widow), she must grapple with a domineering partner, the complexities of making champagne, and the aftermath of six Napoleon wars. When she falls in love with her sales manager, Louis Bohne, she must choose between losing her winery to her husband to obey the Napoleon Code, or losing Louis.
Written by: Rebecca Rosenberg
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What the Mountains Remember
- Written by: Joy Callaway
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man she’s only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way.
Written by: Joy Callaway
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American Daughters
- A Novel
- Written by: Piper Huguley
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick, Kristen Sieh
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women—separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen—forged a lifelong friendship. Portia Washington’s father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections. Dedicated to her father’s values, Portia contributed by teaching and performing spirituals and classical music.
Written by: Piper Huguley
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Victoria Falls
- Written by: James Hornor
- Narrated by: Anne Francis
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic recesses of his complex personality and eventually land him in a hellhole prison in Bombay. His tragedy unfolds into an ending that no one, especially Monroe, could have possibly predicted or imagined.
Written by: James Hornor
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The Bag
- Coffee Talk: A Leader’s Job, Book 1
- Written by: Tim Gibson
- Narrated by: Amy Pandit
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Surviving the job happens one day, one shift, and one call at a time. Having each other's backs sets a team apart from a crew. The Bag takes you on that journey for just one shift.
Written by: Tim Gibson
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Flight of the Wild Swan
- Written by: Melissa Pritchard
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.
Written by: Melissa Pritchard
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Champagne Widows
- First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot (Champagne Widows Novels)
- Written by: Rebecca Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1800 France, twenty-year-old Barbe-Nicole inherits her great-grandfather's uncanny sense of smell and uses it to make great champagne, despite the Code prohibiting women from owning a business. When tragedy strikes and she becomes a Veuve (widow), she must grapple with a domineering partner, the complexities of making champagne, and the aftermath of six Napoleon wars. When she falls in love with her sales manager, Louis Bohne, she must choose between losing her winery to her husband to obey the Napoleon Code, or losing Louis.
Written by: Rebecca Rosenberg
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What the Mountains Remember
- Written by: Joy Callaway
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man she’s only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way.
Written by: Joy Callaway
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American Daughters
- A Novel
- Written by: Piper Huguley
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick, Kristen Sieh
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women—separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen—forged a lifelong friendship. Portia Washington’s father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections. Dedicated to her father’s values, Portia contributed by teaching and performing spirituals and classical music.
Written by: Piper Huguley
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The Beauties
- Written by: Lauren Chater
- Narrated by: Blazey Best
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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When Emilia Lennox loses everything after her husband’s lands and title are confiscated, her beauty is her best bargaining chip with the only man who can restore their fortunes: King Charles II himself. But the king’s favour comes at a price. He will pardon Emilia’s husband only if she agrees to be his mistress. Torn, Emilia comes up with a condition of her own: she will consent, but not until her portrait hangs among the famed Windsor Beauties, a series commissioned by the Duchess of York to showcase the fairest women in the royal retinue.
Written by: Lauren Chater
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Tarnished Glory
- A Novel Inspired by True Events
- Written by: Russell Brown
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Jim Nolan, a would-be hero, becomes a truck driver in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Despite the unglamorous role, he finds mobility that leads to exciting, sometimes funny, and often sad situations. Jim's changing attitudes about himself and the world around him affect the American soldiers he interacts with. He struggles internally between good and evil, trying to comprehend the difference.
Written by: Russell Brown
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The Almost True Memoirs of a Quirky Cat Burglar
- Written by: Nikki Eskow
- Narrated by: David Warner II
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The Almost True Memoirs of a Quirky Cat Burglar follows the adventures of Henry Sears O'Connor, a quick-witted and resourceful protagonist, and his accomplice, Antonio Rossi, during the Great Depression era. Henry, a skilled cat burglar teams up with Antonio, a handsome Italian getaway man, to pull off daring heists targeting the wealthy elite in upstate New York.
Written by: Nikki Eskow
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To Slip the Bonds of Earth
- A Katharine Wright Mystery, Book 1
- Written by: Amanda Flower
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthing . . .
Written by: Amanda Flower
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- Written by: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama.
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omg it's a painful book
- By JKM on 2024-04-15
Written by: Allison Pataki
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Self-Portraits
- Stories
- Written by: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing.
Written by: Osamu Dazai
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Becoming Madam Secretary
- Written by: Stephanie Dray
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists.
Written by: Stephanie Dray
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The Romanov Brides
- A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters
- Written by: Clare McHugh
- Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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They were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and two of the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Princesses Alix and Ella were destined to wed well and wisely. But while their grandmother wants to join them to the English and German royal families, the sisters fall in love with Russia—and the Romanovs.
Written by: Clare McHugh
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- A Novel
- Written by: Édouard Louis
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown-so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial "Eddy" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug—dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else.
Written by: Édouard Louis
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Madame Pommery: Creator of Brut Champagne
- Champagne Widows Novels
- Written by: Rebecca Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Madame Pommery is a story of a woman's indomitable spirit in the face of insurmountable odds. Set in Champagne, France in 1860, Madame Pommery is a forty-year-old widow and etiquette teacher whose husband has passed away. Now, she must find a way to support her family.
Written by: Rebecca Rosenberg
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Sisters of Fortune
- A Novel of the Titanic
- Written by: Anna Lee Huber
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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April, 1912: It's the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe—sailing home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they've seen and contemplate the futures that await them. For Alice, there's foreboding mixed with her excitement. A fortune teller in Egypt gave her a dire warning about traveling at sea. And the freedom she has enjoyed on her travels contrasts with her fiance's plans for her return—a cossetted existence she's no longer sure she wants.
Written by: Anna Lee Huber
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Henry and Clara
- Written by: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history. In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter with history profoundly affects the remainder of their lives.
Written by: Thomas Mallon