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Titanic
- The Long Night
- By: Diane Hoh
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Elizabeth Farr never wanted to return to America. During her family’s vacation abroad, she has fallen in love with England, and is despondent when her father refuses to let her stay. Returning to New York means having her debut into society, and that means a swiftly arranged marriage. Elizabeth will never go to college, never learn to be a reporter - as she sees it, her life is over as soon as the Titanic reaches port. Of course, if she’s unlucky, her life will be over far sooner than that.
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The class system
- By Julie scott on 31-03-2024
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Titanic
- The Long Night
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Power of One
- Young Readers' Edition
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, little six-year-old Peekay learns that small can beat big. Armed with this knowledge, he resolves to take on the injustices of his country, and sets his heart on becoming the welterweight champion of the world. Peekay starts to take boxing lessons, makes new friends, collects cacti, and plays the piano. Above all, he learns to think with his head and then with his heart. Peekay discovers that nothing can defeat the determination to be true to yourself: This is the power of one.
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A truley inspirational book for young adults.
- By Anonymous User on 03-06-2020
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The Power of One
- Young Readers' Edition
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2012
- Language: English
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Prisoner B-3087
- By: Alan Gratz
- Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis, who have taken over. Everything he has and everyone he loves have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner - his arm tattooed with the words Prisoner B-3087.
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The blend of fiction and fact
- By Anonymous User on 30-12-2023
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Prisoner B-3087
- Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2015
- Language: English
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Spearhead (Adapted for Young Adults)
- An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
- By: Adam Makos
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Shut the hatches. It's time to roll out. You'll find yourself behind enemy lines with Clarence Smoyer and the 3rd Armored Division, the workhorse unit know as "Spearhead", the best in the tank armor ranks. You'll feel as if you are right beside Clarence and his fellow crew members - all formerly strangers from across America who have now become family to each other. You will be jarred by enemy fire, and then explore the other side, stepping into the boots of German tanker soldier, Gustav Schaefer, and his crew.
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loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 17-01-2024
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Spearhead (Adapted for Young Adults)
- An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 15-02-2022
- Language: English
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The Deep Enders
- By: Dave Reardon
- Narrated by: Dave Reardon
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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His home destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Murph Turner stumbles into the exotic town of Broome, hoping for safe harbor. Instead, the troubled teen discovers a wild and lawless place brimming with espionage, treachery, and romance. An outsider in a bewildering land of red dust and paranoia, Murph is quickly taken under wing by Banjo, a cheeky aboriginal scamp with a passion for pyrotechnics, and Micki, a beautiful teenager on the run from authorities.
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Awesome Aussie Story
- By Anonymous User on 04-06-2024
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The Deep Enders
- Narrated by: Dave Reardon
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2020
- Language: English
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中华上下五千年 1 - 中華上下五千年 1 [Five Thousand Years of the Chinese Nation 1]
- By: 贾仁江 - 賈仁江 - Jia Renjiang, 员晓博 - 員曉博 - Yuan Xiaobo
- Narrated by: 任杰 - 任杰 - Ren Jie
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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中华上下五千年是一套专为少年创作的简明中国通史。本有声书讲述了上至传说中的三皇五帝,下至新中国建立近五千年的中国历史。…… 中華上下五千年是一套專為少年創作的簡明中國通史。本有聲書講述了上至傳說中的三皇五帝,下至新中國建立近五千年的中國歷史。
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中华上下五千年 1 - 中華上下五千年 1 [Five Thousand Years of the Chinese Nation 1]
- Narrated by: 任杰 - 任杰 - Ren Jie
- Series: 中华上下五千年 - 中華上下五千年 [Five Thousand Years of Chinese Nation], Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2017
- Language: Mandarin Chinese
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Every Falling Star
- The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
- By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers".
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Love every bit of this book -
- By Anonymous User on 14-06-2023
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Every Falling Star
- The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-09-2016
- Language: English
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Lovely War
- By: Julie Berry
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect turned soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the US Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though war is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of love.
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incredible
- By Kindle Customer on 11-10-2023
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Lovely War
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, Dion Graham, Fiona Hardingham, John Lee, Nathaniel Parker, Steve West
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2019
- Language: English
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A Daring Sacrifice
- By: Jody Hedlund
- Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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For three years, the Cloaked Bandit has terrorized Wessex, robbing the nobility by knifepoint and a well-placed arrow. But little does anyone know, this bandit is in fact Juliana Wessex, the rightful ruler of the land, and a girl her tyrannical uncle - the current Lord Wessex - believes was killed along with father.
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ok
- By JKE20_20 JasminEreads on 21-07-2023
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A Daring Sacrifice
- Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
- Series: An Uncertain Choice, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2016
- Language: English
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
- By: Mackenzi Lee
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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A year after a grand tour with her brother, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals - avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect will never be enough in the eyes of the sexist administrators. But then a window of opportunity opens - a doctor she idolizes is marrying an old friend of hers in Germany. Felicity believes this man can help her, but she has no money of her own to make the trip. Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity’s way, so long as she’s allowed to travel with Felicity.
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Great book!
- By Yaz on 18-09-2024
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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Series: Montague Siblings, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2018
- Language: English
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Carols and Chaos
- By: Cindy Anstey
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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It's 1817. The happy chaos of the Yuletide season has descended upon the country estate of Shackleford Park in full force, but lady's maid Kate Darby barely has the time to notice. Matt Harlow is also rather busy. Falling in love would be a disaster for either of them. But staving off their feelings for each other becomes the least of their problems when a devious counterfeiting scheme reaches the gates of Shackleford Park, and Kate and Matt are unwittingly swept up in the intrigue.
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Carols and Chaos
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2018
- Language: English
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- By: Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong - contributor
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2015
- Language: English
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- By: Candace Fleming
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Eugene Alper, Mark Deakins, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs - at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns) deftly maneuvers between the imperial family’s extravagant lives and the plight of Russia's poor masses, making this an utterly mesmerizing listen as well as a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards.
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The Family Romanov
- By Fiona on 18-02-2016
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Eugene Alper, Mark Deakins, Julia Emelin, Gleb Kaminer, Rustam Kasymov, Paul Michael, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2014
- Language: English
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Represent
- The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
- By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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One of the most important and least understood true stories of our nation, the fight for representation is an ongoing and epic quest to build the democracy sketched out in the Constitution but unfinished in the twenty-first century. With impeccable research and exhilarating prose, Represent tells the story of voting rights in the United States from the American Revolution up to the present day.
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Represent
- The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2024
- Language: English
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When the World Was Ours
- By: Liz Kessler
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence, Willow Nash
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Elsa, Leo and Max have always been best friends, a special team of three. Then the Nazis come. As a growing darkness descends around them, Leo and Elsa run for their lives, taking two very different paths across Europe. And Max, once their closest friend, now becomes the enemy as he is drawn into the Hitler Youth. Will the friends ever find their way back to each other? Will they want to?
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When the World Was Ours
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence, Willow Nash
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-01-2021
- Language: English
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Dangerous Remedy
- By: Kat Dunn
- Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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The first in a dazzling, commercial, historical adventure series set in the extravagant and deadly world of the French Revolution. A whirlwind of action, science and magic reveals, with a diverse cast of fearless heroines, a band of rebels like no other. Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts - a runaway girl, a deserter, an aristocrat in hiding. As the Battalion des Morts they cheat death, saving those about to meet a bloody end at the blade of Madame La Guillotine. But their latest rescue is not what she seems.
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Dangerous Remedy
- Narrated by: Flora Montgomery
- Series: Dangerous Remedy, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2020
- Language: English
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Guts
- The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Here are the real events that inspired Gary Paulsen to write Brian Robeson’s story in Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s Return, and Brian's Hunt: a stint as a volunteer emergency worker; the death that became the pilot’s death in Hatchet; plane crashes he’s seen; and his own near misses. He takes listeners on his first hunting trips, showing the wonder and solace of nature along with his hilarious mishaps and mistakes. He shares special memories, such as the night he attracted every mosquito in the county, and how he met the moose who made it personal.
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Amazing.
- By Larry Ellis on 20-05-2021
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Guts
- The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Series: Hatchet
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2012
- Language: English
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They Went Left
- By: Monica Hesse
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to 18-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else—her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja—they went left.
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They Went Left
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2020
- Language: English
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Beautiful Days
- A Bright Young Things Novel
- By: Anna Godbersen
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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For the bright young things of 1929, the beautiful days seem endless, filled with romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, friendship and rivalry. After a month in New York, Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are small-town girls no longer. They spend their afternoons with Astrid Donal at the Greys’ lush Long Island estate and their nights in Manhattan’s bustling metropolis. But Letty's not content to be a mere socialite. She is ready at last to chase her Broadway dreams - no matter the cost. Cordelia is still reeling from the death of her father at the hands of Thom Hale, the man she thought she loved....
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Beautiful Days
- A Bright Young Things Novel
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Series: Bright Young Things, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2011
- Language: English
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The Captive Maiden
- By: Melanie Dickerson
- Narrated by: Jude Mason
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Gisela's childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. But since her father's death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. So when Gisela learns the duke's son, Valten - the boy she has daydreamed about for years - is throwing a ball in hopes of finding a wife, she vows to find a way to attend, even if it's only for a taste of a life she'll never have. To her surprise, she catches Valten's eye.
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Lovely book
- By Amazon Customer on 25-06-2023
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The Captive Maiden
- Narrated by: Jude Mason
- Series: Hagenheim, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2015
- Language: English
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