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Author: Rita Williams-Garcia
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Author Rita Williams-Garcia
Narrator Machelle Williams
Duration 13h 21m
Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award! 7 starred reviews! "Monumental." —Booklist (starred review) * "A marathon masterpiece."—Kirkus (starred review) * "Necessary."—SLJ (starred review) * "Shocking and dramatic."—Shelf Awareness (starred review) * "Mesmerizing, confounding and vividly rendered."—Book Page (starr...
View BookAuthor: Emma Donaghue
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Author Emma Donaghue
Narrator Kate Lock
Duration 12h 23m
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder – inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century...
View BookJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Author: Susanna Clarke
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Author Susanna Clarke
Narrator Simon Prebble
Duration 32h 29m
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England-until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Soon, another practicing magician comes...
View BookLovely Lane Book 4: Christmas Angels
Author: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Georgina Maguire
SeriesLovely Lane Series, Book 4
Duration 12h 59m
Christmas may be the season of goodwill and festive cheer, but not for the poor of 1950s Liverpool. And for St Angelus Hospital in Lovely Lane, it is frantically busy. There are the old, the dying, the children and the emergencies. The nurses, known locally as the Angels of Lovely Lane, are run off their feet. Dana, Beth, Pammy and Victoria hardly...
View BookAuthor: Heather Redmond
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Author Heather Redmond
Narrator Tim Campbell
Duration 8h 6m
Charles Dickens is one of the most famous and influential writers in English literature and Heather Redmond's delightful series asks what if Dickens had also solved crimes...? Now, the third book in the acclaimed A Dickens of a Crime series reimagines Dickens' most famous story, A Christmas Carol, as a murder mystery with Dickens himself as the sle...
View BookVillage Secrets Book 1: The Christmas Wedding
Author: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
SeriesVillage Secrets, Book 1
Duration 10h 42m
The first book in the dramatic new saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author. The village of Little Creek, the long winter of 1867. The first flakes of snow are falling when Daisy Marshall, secretly engaged to her master's son, finds herself jilted at the altar. Heartbroken, Daisy flees to the small village of Little Creek, nestled on the coast...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Pym
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Author Barbara Pym
Narrator Mary Sarah
Duration 8h 21m
Barbara Pym's early novel takes us into 1950s England, as seen through the funny, engaging, yearning eyes of a restless housewife Wilmet Forsyth is bored. Bored with the everyday routine of her life. Bored with teatimes filled with local gossip. Bored with her husband, Rodney, a civil servant who dotes on her. But on her thirty-third birthday, Wilm...
View BookAuthor: Tania Crosse
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Author Tania Crosse
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 7h 28m
A compelling wartime saga of love, loss and self-discovery at the battlefield's edge. Perfect fans of Nadine Dorries, Rosie Goodwin, Dilly Court, Freda Lightfoot and Catherine Cookson. Originally published as Teardrops in the Moon. A YOUNG WOMAN WHO DOESN'T WANT TO BE TIED DOWN Dartmoor, 1914. Twenty-four-year-old Marianne Warrington is in danger o...
View BookAuthor: Fern Britton
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Author Fern Britton
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 37m
1918. The Great War is over, and Clara Carter has boarded a train bound for Cornwall – to meet a family that would once have been hers. But they must never discover her secret... 2020. Caroline has spent years trying to uncover the lies buried in her family history. And once she arrives in Cornwall, the truth finally seems to be in reach. Exc...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 13h 19m
A priceless Titian masterpiece. A sumptuous French chateau with a deadly secret. And a mystery hidden in a Bordeaux village that will change their lives forever... When elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies unexpectedly, she leaves the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, had no...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Buchan
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Author Elizabeth Buchan
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 18h 6m
For Kay, living on her husband Bror's country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked with protecting an SOE agent, Kay learns the art of subte...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Goodwin
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Author Rosie Goodwin
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 15h 9m
At Treetops Foundling Home in Victorian Nuneaton, one special little girl brings sunshine and joy wherever she goes. A favourite of her foster mother, Kitty grows into a beguiling young woman, but soon attracts the attention of more than one suitor with questionable intentions. She quickly discovers that her beauty is no protection against the peri...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Goodwin
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Author Rosie Goodwin
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 12h 58m
Ginny's drunken father, devastated by the death of her mother and three siblings, ends up imprisoned for murder. Charlie, Ginny's 8-year-old sickly brother, is taken to the workhouse. Ginny is forced to flee her job and the unwanted advances of the baker. Close to breaking point, her beauty leads her to become Lady's Maid to the difficult Miss Dian...
View BookIsabel's Story Book 1: The Promise
Author: Michelle Vernal
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Author Michelle Vernal
Narrator Catherine Press
SeriesIsabel's Story, Book 1
Duration 10h 16m
From award winning author, Michelle Vernal comes an utterly heartbreaking, historical novel inspired by her birth family's connection with the Isle of Wight - Fans of Susan Sallis, Ella Carey and Fiona Valpy will absolutely love this captivating, unique story. 1944 The Isle of Wight - Sixteen-year-old Constance's life on the island is sheltered unt...
View BookAuthor: Tania Crosse
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Author Tania Crosse
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 8h 44m
Devon, 1887. Life has not been kind to dairymaid Tresca Ladycott. She can't rely on her flighty farmhand father, Emmanuel, so she relies on herself. Then comes a devastating blow. Tresca is sacked from the dairy and the pair lose their home. She and her father seek a new life in bustling Tavistock. More hardship lies ahead. The only work to be foun...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Goodwin
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Author Rosie Goodwin
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 11h 5m
The perfect Christmas gift from Britain's best-loved saga author.1885.Ruby Carter works hard in her parents' bakery. Whilst life isn't easy, she's happy enough - her gentle mother protects young Ruby from her cruel father and loves her unconditionally. So, when her mother falls seriously ill, Ruby is heartbroken. Then, from her deathbed, her mother...
View BookThe Victory Sisters Book 2: A Sister's Song
Author: Molly Green
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Author Molly Green
Narrator Sophie Bentinck
SeriesThe Victory Sisters, Book 2
Duration 13h 34m
Her duty is to keep smiling through.... When World War II breaks out, Suzanne’s dream of attending the Royal Academy of Music crumbles. Determined to do her bit, she joins a swing band that entertains troops in some of the worst-hit cities of Europe. Through singing, Suzanne finds a confidence she never knew she had, and she soon win...
View BookThe Victory Sisters Book 1: A Sister's Courage
Author: Molly Green
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Author Molly Green
Narrator Sophie Bentinck
SeriesThe Victory Sisters, Book 1
Duration 14h 13m
In the midst of war, she knew her place was not at home.... The most ambitious of three sisters, Lorraine ‘Raine’ Linfoot always dreamed of becoming a pilot. As a spirited 17-year-old, she persuades her hero Doug Williams to teach her to fly. When war breaks out in 1939, Raine is determined to put her skills to good use. She enlists i...
View BookAuthor: Alistair Maclean
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
Duration 11h 50m
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically...
View BookJames Marwood & Cat Lovett Book 1: The Ashes of London
Author: Andrew Taylor
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Author Andrew Taylor
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesJames Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1
Duration 12h 59m
From the number one best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand-new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnabl...
View BookThe Victory Sisters Book 3: A Sister's War
Author: Molly Green
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Author Molly Green
Narrator Sophie Bentinck
SeriesThe Victory Sisters, Book 3
Duration 14h 15m
Britain, 1943 Ronnie Linfoot may be the youngest of three sisters, but she’s determined to do her bit.... Against her strict mother’s wishes, Ronnie signs up to join the Grand Union Canal Company, where she’ll be working on a narrowboat taking critical supplies between London and Birmingham. But with no experience o...
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