- Drama & Plays (632)
- Historical Fiction (12,378)
Best Sellers
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- Written 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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Excellent content w an obvious recording flaw
- By Jody on 2019-06-03
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- Written by: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American....
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Am I missing something?
- By Katherine Provost on 2023-07-11
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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Written by: Michelle Good
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention....
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Poor narration,mediocre plot
- By Alan Scheer on 2020-09-16
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From a powerful rising literary voice comes Moon of the Crusted Snow, a daring post-apocalyptic novel blending action and allergory....
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- By TheMer on 2020-01-31
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How to End a Love Story
- A Novel
- Written by: Yulin Kuang
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- Written by: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
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Love the characters and gaming elements!
- By Katy on 2022-12-04
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- Written 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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Excellent content w an obvious recording flaw
- By Jody on 2019-06-03
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- Written by: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American....
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Am I missing something?
- By Katherine Provost on 2023-07-11
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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Written by: Michelle Good
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention....
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Poor narration,mediocre plot
- By Alan Scheer on 2020-09-16
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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From a powerful rising literary voice comes Moon of the Crusted Snow, a daring post-apocalyptic novel blending action and allergory....
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- By TheMer on 2020-01-31
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How to End a Love Story
- A Novel
- Written by: Yulin Kuang
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Andrew Eiden
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- Written by: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
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Love the characters and gaming elements!
- By Katy on 2022-12-04
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Indian Horse
- A Novel
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony....
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- By Anonymous User on 2018-11-11
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- Written 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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I lost track of time and space...
- By JohnNChristina on 2018-09-17
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American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)
- A Novel
- Written by: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist....
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Gut wrenching to listen to...
- By K2012 on 2020-01-27
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Une autre idée du bonheur
- Written by: Marc Levy
- Narrated by: Fabienne Loriaux
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Partez en road-trip avec les héroïnes de Marc Levy. Lues par Fabienne Loriaux, les aventures d'Agatha et Milly à travers les Etats-Unis sont agrémentées...
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Le dénouement
- By Marie Audet on 2024-04-17
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Son of a Trickster
- Written by: Eden Robinson
- Narrated by: Jason Ryll
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon....
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Excellent Story
- By sannna on 2017-12-18
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Cilka's Journey
- Written 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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How could one person possibly endure all that Cilka did?
- By Alison L on 2019-12-22
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
- Written by: Drew Hayden Taylor
- Narrated by: Drew Hayden Taylor
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down....
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Great book
- By Tanya on 2023-11-15
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The Southern Lawyer
- Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller Series, Book 1
- Written by: Peter O'Mahoney
- Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom. Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in Charleston, South Carolina–the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son....
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Keeper'n Me
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Deneh'Cho Thompson, Sam Bob
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city....
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Beautiful
- By Krow Fischer on 2019-04-23
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Pachinko
- Written by: Min Jin Lee
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle)....
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Great story, mismatched narration
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-08-02
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Little Fires Everywhere
- Written by: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives....
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Just drags on and on
- By Morgan Vincent on 2018-03-03
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The Southern Trial
- Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller Series, Book 4
- Written by: Peter O'Mahoney
- Narrated by: Bradford Hastings
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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After twenty years of anguish, after twenty years of pain, defense attorney Joe Hennessy has the chance to confront the man who ordered the murder of his ten-year-old son....
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Great story
- By Haiku_Queen on 2024-05-01
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Moby Dick
- Written by: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: William Hootkins
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....
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unbelievably deep
- By Anonymous User on 2022-04-13
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- Written by: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today....
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Focused on 1 single character. Too long for me.
- By Ivonne Leonel de cervantes on 2024-03-18
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Kukum
- Written by: Michel Jean
- Narrated by: Dominique Pétin
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Ce roman raconte l'histoire d'Almanda Siméon, une orpheline amoureuse qui va partager la vie des Innus de Pekuakami. Elle apprendra l'existence nomade et la langue, et brisera les barrières imposées aux femmes autochtones....
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Apprendre sur les Premières Nations
- By Client d'Amazon on 2021-05-08
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The Island of Sea Women
- A Novel
- Written by: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who begin working with their village’s all-female diving collective. As the girls take up positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger....
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A mesmerizing story.
- By Selena Glover on 2022-03-02
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All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- Written by: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust....
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More Titus Tales Please
- By Michelle MacDonald on 2023-07-19
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Ragged Company
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Monique Mojica, J. D. Nicholsen, Benjamin Blais, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Four chronically homeless people - Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger - seek refuge in a warm movie theater when a severe Arctic front descends on the city....
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I LOVED this book! Amazing story.
- By Memememe on 2021-01-04
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
- Written by: Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Vera Wong is a lonely little lady of a certain age who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to....
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Jesse Suntanto gives us yet another LOL-worthy hit
- By Shamim on 2023-03-21
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Scarborough
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them....
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Overrated
- By A B on 2019-09-19
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- Written 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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A horrible story told in a sensitive way.
- By Faith on 2023-12-27
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Tender Is the Flesh
- Written by: Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living....
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Wow
- By Selina Boëtius on 2023-11-22
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Harmony
- Written by: Whitney Hanson
- Narrated by: Whitney Hanson
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this exquisite poetry collection, Whitney Hanson chronicles the loss of a loved one, tracing the progression of grief and healing through the lens of music....
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I Wish More People Knew
- By Dana Thompson on 2023-12-07
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The Things We Cannot Say
- Written 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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A well written, beautiful story about love, sacrifice and family
- By BriM on 2019-07-10
New Releases
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.
Written by: Mark Sullivan, and others
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The Library Thief
- A Novel
- Written by: Kuchenga Shenjé
- Narrated by: Cora Kirk
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame—and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester. Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Lord Francis Belfield's library is old and full of secrets—but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife.
Written by: Kuchenga Shenjé
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The Sins on Their Bones
- Written by: Laura R. Samotin
- Narrated by: Aaron Willis, Daniel Chichagov, Robin Wilcock
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing in exile after losing a devastating civil war instigated by his estranged husband, Alexey Balakin. In hiding with what remains of his court, Dimitri and his spymaster, Vasily Sokolov, engineer a dangerous ruse. Vasily will sneak into Alexey’s court under a false identity to gather information, paving the way for the usurper’s downfall, while Dimitri finds a way to kill him for good. But stopping Alexey is not so easy as plotting to kill an ordinary man.
Written by: Laura R. Samotin
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Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie
- A Novel
- Written by: Jackie Lau
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents’ friends. You’d think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But in reality, he’s just a boring, sweater-vest-wearing engineer, and when they’re forced together at Emily’s sister’s wedding, it’s obvious he thinks he’s too good for her. But now that Emily is her family’s last single daughter, her mother is fixated on getting her married and she has her sights on Mark.
Written by: Jackie Lau
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Juja
- Written by: Nino Haratischvili, Ruth Martin - translator
- Narrated by: Helen Day
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about.
Written by: Nino Haratischvili, and others
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See Loss See Also Love
- A Novel
- Written by: Yukiko Tominaga
- Narrated by: Jensen Olaya
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortly after her husband Levi’s untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to celebrate her now husbandless life. Always beside her is Alex, who lives confidently, no matter the circumstance. Four sections of vignettes reflect Kyoko’s fluctuating emotional states—sometimes ugly, other times funny, but always uniquely hers.
Written by: Yukiko Tominaga
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.
Written by: Mark Sullivan, and others
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The Library Thief
- A Novel
- Written by: Kuchenga Shenjé
- Narrated by: Cora Kirk
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame—and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester. Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Lord Francis Belfield's library is old and full of secrets—but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife.
Written by: Kuchenga Shenjé
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The Sins on Their Bones
- Written by: Laura R. Samotin
- Narrated by: Aaron Willis, Daniel Chichagov, Robin Wilcock
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing in exile after losing a devastating civil war instigated by his estranged husband, Alexey Balakin. In hiding with what remains of his court, Dimitri and his spymaster, Vasily Sokolov, engineer a dangerous ruse. Vasily will sneak into Alexey’s court under a false identity to gather information, paving the way for the usurper’s downfall, while Dimitri finds a way to kill him for good. But stopping Alexey is not so easy as plotting to kill an ordinary man.
Written by: Laura R. Samotin
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Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie
- A Novel
- Written by: Jackie Lau
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho, Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents’ friends. You’d think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But in reality, he’s just a boring, sweater-vest-wearing engineer, and when they’re forced together at Emily’s sister’s wedding, it’s obvious he thinks he’s too good for her. But now that Emily is her family’s last single daughter, her mother is fixated on getting her married and she has her sights on Mark.
Written by: Jackie Lau
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Juja
- Written by: Nino Haratischvili, Ruth Martin - translator
- Narrated by: Helen Day
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about.
Written by: Nino Haratischvili, and others
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See Loss See Also Love
- A Novel
- Written by: Yukiko Tominaga
- Narrated by: Jensen Olaya
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortly after her husband Levi’s untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to celebrate her now husbandless life. Always beside her is Alex, who lives confidently, no matter the circumstance. Four sections of vignettes reflect Kyoko’s fluctuating emotional states—sometimes ugly, other times funny, but always uniquely hers.
Written by: Yukiko Tominaga
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Staging America
- The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players
- Written by: Jeffery Kennedy
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Provincetown Players created a revolution in American theatre, making room for truly modern approaches to playwriting, stage production, and performance. In Staging America, Jeffery Kennedy gives the unabridged story in a meticulously researched and comprehensive narrative that sheds new light on the history of the Provincetown Players. At the center of the study is an extensive account of the career of George Cram Cook, the Players' leader and artistic conscience, as well as one of the most significant facilitators of modernist writing in early twentieth-century American literature.
Written by: Jeffery Kennedy
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América del Norte
- Written by: Nicolás Medina Mora
- Narrated by: Andre Bellido
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa's MFA program. But Sebastián's life is shaken by the Trump administration's restrictions on immigrants, his mother's terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his father's forced resignation at the hands of Mexico's new president. As he struggles through the Trump and Lopez Obrador years, Sebastián must confront his father's role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts.
Written by: Nicolás Medina Mora
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When Cicadas Cry
- Written by: Caroline Cleveland
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins, a Black man, is found covered in blood, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension, this is not just a murder case: it's a powder keg. Two young women are murdered on quiet Edisto Beach, an hour southeast of Walterboro, and the killer disappears without a trace. Thirty-four years later, the mystery remains unsolved. Could there be a connection to Stander's case?
Written by: Caroline Cleveland
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Cinema Love
- A Novel
- Written by: Jiaming Tang
- Narrated by: Samantha Tan
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found intimacy in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men, guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But when Old Second’s passion for his male lover is revealed, a series of haunting events unfold, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America.
Written by: Jiaming Tang
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Their Divine Fires
- A Novel
- Written by: Wendy Chen
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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For listeners of Pachinko and The Mountains Sing, a gorgeously poetic family saga that begins at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution and spans 100 years to trace the intricate lives of four generations of Chinese and Chinese American women grappling with history, obligations, betrayal, and love in order to come into their own power and learn not just how to survive but flourish.
Written by: Wendy Chen
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Troubled Waters
- Written by: Mary Annaïse Heglar
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is burning—and Corrine will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother died aboard an oil boat on the Mississippi River in 2013, Corrine awakened to the realities of climate change and its perpetrators. Now, a year later, she finds herself trapped in a lonely cycle of mourning both her brother and the very planet she stands on. She’s convinced that in order to save her future, she has to make sure that her brother’s life meant something.
Written by: Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Only Through Love Can You Understand
- Written by: Durlston School
- Narrated by: Colette Redgrave
- Length: 44 mins
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"Your judging eyes interpret quickly with assurance upon the view, Yet what they tell you is not always true, Below our outer shield with structure and mind beats a heart honest and true, You cannot judge a person by view, Only through love can you understand."
Written by: Durlston School
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Coconut Dreams
- Written by: Derek Mascarenhas
- Narrated by: Rishma Malik, Raoul Bhaneja
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto. These siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.
Written by: Derek Mascarenhas
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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
- Written by: Sheung-King
- Narrated by: Kenny Wong
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances.
Written by: Sheung-King
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Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues: A Selection
- Written by: Robert Browning
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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A selection of Robert Browning's dramatic monologues.
Written by: Robert Browning
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The Garsaspname
- Written by: Asadi Tusi
- Narrated by: Cie Siyavash Sharp
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
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Composed in 1066 but only now translated into English, the Garšāspnāme by ʿAlī ben Aḥmad Asadī Ṭūsī is a Persian epic that interprets Avestan and earlier Indo-European myths for the Islamic peoples of Mediaeval Iran and Afghanistan. The “Book of Garšāsp” is a story taking listeners on a picaresque adventure throughout the known world.
Written by: Asadi Tusi
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A Place of Broken Dreams
- Written by: Rick Savage
- Narrated by: Rick Savage
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Rick Savage (Richard) was born in Manhattan, New York, in a year well before now. He was supposed to be a Jewish doctor, but life took him in other directions. He has been a cinematographer, director of special effects, engineer, and poet. He pleads the Fifth on anything else you may have heard.
Written by: Rick Savage