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No-No Boy
By: John Okada
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian... Read more
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All the Ever Afters
By: Danielle Teller
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s ""evil"" stepmother.We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we?As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows... Read more
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
By: Joanna Goodman
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie... Read more
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Tomorrow
By: Damian Dibben
Narrated by: George Blagden
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A winter’s night, Venice, 1815. A 217-year-old dog is searching for his lost master.
So begins the journey of Tomorrow, a dog who must travel through the courts and battlefields of Europe—and through the centuries—in search of the man who granted him immortality. His adventures take him to the London Frost Fair, the strange court of King Charles... Read more
A Boy in Winter
By: Rachel Seiffert
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process.
Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat... Read more
Bread Givers
By: Anzia Yezierska
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence and self-fulfillment resonates with a passion all... Read more
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The Lightkeeper's Daughters
By: Jean E. Pendziwol
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg, Dawn Harvey & Tom Parks
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
With the haunting atmosphere and emotional power of The Language of Flowers, Orphan Train, and The Light Between Oceans, critically acclaimed children’s author Jean E. Pendziwol’s adult debut is an affecting story of family, identity, and art that involves a decades-old mystery.Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth’s eyes have failed. No... Read more
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No Man's Land
By: Simon Tolkien
Narrated by: Christian Coulson
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme.
Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His... Read more
Four Weddings and a Sixpence
By: Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Stefanie Sloane &...
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings…
“Something Old”
Julia Quinn’s prologue introduces her heroine... Read more
The Tea Planter's Wife
By: Dinah Jefferies
Narrated by: Avita Jay
Length: 15 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1920s Ceylon: A young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences
In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married... Read more
The Last Days of Night
By: Graham Moore
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson
“A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post
From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times... Read more
War and Turpentine
By: Stefan Hertmans
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017
A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s... Read more
Leaving Lucy Pear
By: Anna Solomon
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon’s spell.” —Sue Monk Kidd
From the author of The Book of V., a novel chosen as a must-read book by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPage
Set in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both mothers to the same unforgettable girl—a... Read more
Lady Pirate
By: Lynsay Sands
Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Valoree no longer has to masquerade as her murdered brother and scourge the oceans as Captain Red. She no longer has to command his pirate band in a quest to regain his birthright. She has been named heir to Ainsley Castle. But no executor would ever hand over the estate to an unmarried pirate wench and her infamous crew—no matter to whom she’d... Read more
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Rare Objects
By: Kathleen Tessaro
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector.Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian... Read more
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She Tempts the Duke
By: Lorraine Heath
Narrated by: Faye Adele
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“Heath steals your heart, then takes you on a journey that will leave you torn between tears and joy.”
—Christina DoddNew York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath writes sweet temptations—richly, deliciously passionate, high concept historical romance in the vein of Lisa Kleypas and Liz Carlyle. With She Tempts the Duke, Heath kicks off... Read more
The Longest Night
By: Andria Williams
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Hillary Huber & MacLeod Andrews
Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A scintillating debut novel about a young couple whose marriage is tested when they move to an army base rife with love triangles, life-or-death conflicts, and a dramatic cover-up
In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to... Read more
The Pale Horseman
By: Bernard Cornwell
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.As the last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors.... Read more
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The Bad Miss Bennet
By: Jean Burnett
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Picking up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, The Bad Miss Bennet takes readers on a wild Regency romp with Lydia Wickham, n├®e Bennet, who finds herself in dire need of a new husband.Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and... Read more
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The Given Day
By: Dennis Lehane
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 23 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, comes the paperback edition of The Given Day, an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of... Read more
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The Pale Horseman - Abridged
By: Bernard Cornwell
Narrated by: Jamie Glover
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the... Read more
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