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Dream When You're Feeling Blue
Author: Elizabeth Berg
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Author Elizabeth Berg
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Duration 9h 59m
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love.As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front, meat i...
View BookAuthor: Isabella Hammad
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Author Isabella Hammad
Narrator Nadia Albina
Duration 11h 42m
Brought to you by Penguin.Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024.After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn't be...
View BookAuthor: C. E. McGill
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Author C. E. McGill
Narrator Florence Howard
Duration 12h 30m
Brought to you by Penguin.'It is not the monster you have to fear, but the monster it makes of men.'Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn't know why or how. She and her husband are trying to make a name for themselves as paleontologists but, in 1850s'...
View BookAuthor: Kristin Hannah
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Author Kristin Hannah
Narrator Julia Whelan
Duration 14h 55m
Featuring an exclusive appearance by the author, Kristin Hannah.'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' – Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'Powerful' – Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight LibraryAn instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture!'Women can be heroes, too'. Whe...
View BookAuthor: Yangsze Choo
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Author Yangsze Choo
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Duration 14h 37m
Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods,...
View BookAuthor: Daisy Goodwin
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Author Daisy Goodwin
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 13h 57m
From the author of the best-selling My Last Duchess - and for any fans of Downton Abbey In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic, and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexcit...
View BookAuthor: Simon Scarrow
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Author Simon Scarrow
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 14h 12m
The fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times best seller Simon Scarrow's powerful new novel of World War II. It's 1938. A perfect summer on the Greek island of Lefkas for three young people untroubled by the simmering politics of Europe. Peter, visiting from Germany while his father leads...
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Author Simon Scarrow
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
SeriesEagles of the Empire, Book 12
Duration 13h 55m
The Blood Crows is the enthralling twelfth novel in Simon Scarrow's best-selling Eagles of the Empire series. A must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Britannia, AD 51. For nearly a decade, the Roman Empire has fought to assert its hold over Britannia. But relentless opposition from native tribes led by the fanatical King Caratacus threatens to de...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Mutch
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Author Barbara Mutch
Narrator Lisa Dillon
Duration 10h 57m
Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiancé she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and the friendship of her housemaid's daughter, Ada. Under Cathleen's tutelage, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist, and a reader...
View BookAuthor: Simon Scarrow
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Author Simon Scarrow
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
SeriesEagles of the Empire, Book 11
Duration 12h 26m
Praetorian is the gripping eleventh novel in Simon Scarrow's best-selling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. AD 51. Legionaries Cato and Macro have forged a bond that has survived war, rebellion and torture. Yet nothing has prepared them for a daunting mission on the deadliest battlefield...
View BookAuthor: Penny Vincenzi
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Author Penny Vincenzi
Narrator Sandra Duncan
Duration 22h 19m
A Question of Trust is vintage Penny Vincenzi: rich with characters, life-changing decisions, glamour, love, desire and conflict. London, 1950s. Tom Knelston is charismatic, working class and driven by ambition, ideals and passion. He is a man to watch. His wife, Alice, shares his vision. It seems they are the perfect match. Then, out of the blue,...
View BookAuthor: Sara Sheridan
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Author Sara Sheridan
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron
Duration 13h 36m
When newly widowed Elizabeth arrives in Edinburgh to live with her late husband's aunt, Clementina, she's determined to put her unhappy past in London behind her. As she settles into her new home, she becomes fascinated by the beautiful Botanic Garden which borders the grand house and offers her services as an artist to record the rare plant's impe...
View BookAuthor: Tracy Borman
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Author Tracy Borman
Narrator Esther Wane
Duration 13h 57m
Frances Gorges seems destined to be happy at last. King James has apparently lost his appetite for hunting witches, so the medical skills and herbal knowledge that saw Frances accused of witchcraft no longer seem to hang over her like a death sentence. The king would rather be hunting stag and boar - and Frances' beloved husband, Thomas, is firmly...
View BookAuthor: Antonia Hodgson
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Author Antonia Hodgson
Narrator Joseph Kloska
Duration 11h 7m
Autumn, 1728. Life is good for Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks. The Cocked Pistol, Kitty's wickedly disreputable bookshop, is a roaring success. Tom's celebrity as 'Half-Hanged Hawkins', the man who survived the gallows, is also proving useful. Their happiness proves short-lived. When Tom is set upon by a street gang, he discovers there's a price o...
View BookAuthor: Annie Lyons
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Author Annie Lyons
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 9h 30m
As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive... London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is prepar...
View BookDaniel Pursglove Book 2: Traitor in the Ice
Author: K. J. Maitland
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Author K. J. Maitland
Narrator Nathan Turner
SeriesDaniel Pursglove, Book 2
Duration 16h 55m
Winter, 1607. A man is struck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn breaks, he is dead. Home to the Montagues, Battle has caught the paranoid eye of King James. The Catholic household is rumoured to shelter those loyal to the Pope, disguising them as servants within the abbey walls. And the last man sent to expose them was silenc...
View BookAuthor: Isabel Ibañez
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Author Isabel Ibañez
Narrator Ana Osorio, Ahmed Hamad
Duration 16h 37m
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that's been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns for the most: her globetrotting parents - who fr...
View BookDaniel Pursglove Book 3: Rivers of Treason
Author: K. J. Maitland
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Author K. J. Maitland
Narrator Matt Addis
SeriesDaniel Pursglove, Book 3
Duration 14h 15m
From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him fall prey to a ruthless copycat killer... London, 1607. As dawn breaks, Daniel Pursglove rides north, away from the watchful eye of the King and his spies. He returns, disguised, to his childhood home in Yorkshire - with his own sco...
View BookAuthor: J. J. McAvoy
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Author J. J. McAvoy
Narrator Drew Rodgers, Grace Gray, Kwame Augustine, Rachel Reshma
SeriesThe DuBells, Book 1
Duration 10h 25m
Aphrodite wishes to escape the marriage mart but will a second chance with the elusive Duke of Everely change her mind? Aphrodite Du Bell is a diamond of the first water and a favourite of the queen. But her renowned loveliness didn't stop the love of her life, Evander Eagleman, from jilting her and marrying another woman four years ago. Aphrodite...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
Duration 11h 17m
Saturnalia, the Romans' mid-December feast, nominally to celebrate the sun's rebirth but invariably a drunken riot. Flavia Albia needs a case to investigate, but all work is paused. The Aventine is full of fracturing families. Wives plot to leave their husbands; husbands plot to spend more time with their mistresses. But no one wants to hire an inv...
View BookAuthor: Julie Brooks
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Author Julie Brooks
Narrator Helen Duff
Duration 13h 55m
The Keepsake is a thrilling dual-time novel, with a fascinating, complex woman at its heart. Saturday: Pot-au-feu for luncheon. Father willed away inheritance. Betrayed by Edward.1832. The morning after her father's funeral, Prudence Merryfield wakes to the liberating thought that this is the first day of her new life. At thirty-five and unmarried,...
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