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Auschwitz Lullaby
- Written by: Mario Escobar
- Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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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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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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The Last Queen
- A Novel of Courage and Resistance
- Written by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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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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Motherhood
- A Novel
- Written by: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Sheila Heti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with candor, originality, and humor....
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The best Sheila Heti book so far
- By Emerset Farquharson on 2018-12-18
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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 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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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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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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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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Motherhood
- A Novel
- Written by: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Sheila Heti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with candor, originality, and humor....
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The best Sheila Heti book so far
- By Emerset Farquharson on 2018-12-18
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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 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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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
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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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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 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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The Executioner's Song
- Written by: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
- Length: 42 hrs and 37 mins
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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore. The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood....
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Try it
- By Ryan Ford on 2021-05-07
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....
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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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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
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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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Le sabotage amoureux
- Written by: Amélie Nothomb
- Narrated by: Pauline Huruguen
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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"Aucun journal, aucune agence de presse, aucune historiographie n'a jamais mentionné la guerre mondiale du ghetto de San Li Tun"...
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City of Incurable Women
- Written by: Maud Casey
- Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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In a fusion of fact and fiction, 19th-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored....
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- Written 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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Excellent story
- By Allen Chocorlan on 2020-07-24
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That Churchill Woman
- A Novel
- Written by: Stephanie Barron
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome....
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The House of Doors
- Written by: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists comes a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption....
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Superb!
- By PWL on 2024-03-25
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Fabriquer une femme
- Written by: Marie Darrieussecq
- Narrated by: Virginie Ledoyen
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Fabriquer une femme raconte l'entrée dans la vie adulte de deux amies adolescentes, Solange et Rose. Ce sont les années 80 du siècle précédent, en province...
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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
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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
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Memoirs and Misinformation
- A Novel
- Written by: Jim Carrey, Dana Vachon
- Narrated by: Jeff Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege — but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs....
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A wild ride through the wilds of Jim Carrey’s mind
- By Dean O 1965 on 2020-07-20
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The Postcard
- Written 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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A memorable novel.
- By Brad Munt on 2023-06-28
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The Only Woman in the Room
- Written 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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One amazing woman
- By L. Fullerton on 2021-06-22
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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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Anna of Kleve, the Princess in the Portrait
- Written by: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 18 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The surprising and dramatic life of the least known of King Henry VIII's wives is illuminated in the fourth volume in the Six Tudor Queens series - for fans of Philippa Gregory, Hilary Mantel, and The Crown....
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The Invention of Wings
- A Novel
- Written by: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women....
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A Great Story and Listen
- By carlee on 2018-09-19
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The Other Einstein
- Written by: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most 20-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her....
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A magnificent story
- By Anne on 2020-11-27
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Sigmund Freud
- Life and Work
- Written by: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Dan Mellins-Cohen
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Stefan Zweig dedicated this largely biographical work to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Zweig acknowledges Freud's scientific...
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The Last Green Valley
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Poorly written and honestly pretty offensive
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-06-09
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The Dharma Bums
- Written by: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans whose quest for Truth leads them on an odyssey....
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Simply mad:
- By Anonymous User on 2023-06-11
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It Is Never Too Late: Short Stories
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This book is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family’s harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It details his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life after that with a great engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company.
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It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she's completely broke. But she’s just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons—famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars—and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better. From the bright beaches of Acapulco to glitzy parties in New York, Margo is thrown headfirst into the glamorous jet-set world she so covets, observing its ways from behind the camera as Slim’s sidekick.
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Simon Zane is an average guy that sometimes finds himself in extraordinary situations as he stumbles through life from one venture to the next. He navigates a dysfunctional childhood that drives him to run an ultramarathon. As he moves through life, he defends his country, spies for love, takes risks in business, and much more, all while keeping his ordinary day job.
Written by: Stuart de Jong
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K9 Odin
- The Redemptive Autobiography of a Patrol Tracking Canine that Transformed a Community and Inspired the World
- Written by: Lisa Slater
- Narrated by: Brandon Essig
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Rescued from being euthanized, Odin becomes a Patrol Tracking Canine, partnered with Adam Slater. As only Odin can narrate, he and Adam journey through mountainous challenges and ferocious fights with inhospitable terrain, remorseless subjects, and potentially spirit-shattering injuries. K9 ODIN is a redemptive story which demonstrates that anyone, or any dog, is capable of employing their courage and heart to transform a community and inspire the world.
Written by: Lisa Slater
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The Marlborough Diamond
- A Lawyer's Memoir
- Written by: Gregory Ellis
- Narrated by: Trevor O'hare
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Greg Ellis had a fascinating legal career. He grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Law School in Chicago in 1980. He defended Chicago mobsters and later prosecuted the worst mob murderers as a State’s Attorney. His first case out of Law School was a life changer. While working for a prominent criminal defense lawyer, Greg represented the two Marlborough Diamond Thieves. It is a 45-carat diamond in a necklace, stolen from a London jewelry store in 1980. It has never been recovered. This book follows its trail for the past 42 years. Where it has been and where it is now.
Written by: Gregory Ellis
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What the Mountains Remember
- Written by: Joy Callaway
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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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
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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 Foxhunter
- To Die with Dignity
- Written by: Dr Andrew Rynne
- Narrated by: Scott Morgan
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating consequences.
Written by: Dr Andrew Rynne