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Adventures of Mary Jane
- By: Hope Jahren
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Robbins
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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This book will show you the real Mary Jane. A girl on her own dangerous, unpredictable journey down the Mississippi River in pre-Civil War America. Equipped with an uncanny ability for mathematics, a talent for sewing, and a bale of beaver skins, Mary Jane navigates deadly illnesses, angry mobs, treacherous landowners, outright thieves and swindlers, and more than a thousand miles of muddy water. What’s more, she thrives in the face of these challenges, thanks to support from strangers who become friends.
By: Hope Jahren
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One Year, One Night (2nd Edition)
- By: S. L. Roman
- Narrated by: Laura Castiel
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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When Annie returns to her home village after a long absence, she rediscovers the diary she kept the year she turned 16, the year that changed her life. We follow Annie as she navigates a blossoming love story with a handsome soldier and her growing affection for an evacuee child. With tender and amusing moments, this story—set in a small English village during World War II—explores love, resilience, and loss with a fresh new voice.
By: S. L. Roman
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The Real Education of TJ Crowley
- Coming of Age on the Redline: An Audio Drama
- By: Grant Overstake, May Wuthrich
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck, Dion Graham, Tavia Gilbert, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Inspired by true events, this adaptation by director/producer May Wuthrich and Grant Overstake, author of the acclaimed novel, recaptures the trials faced by a generation of young teens. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s slaying sparks riots as the bitter divide over civil rights and the Vietnam War wracks the country, and Wichita, Kansas is no exception. There, 13-year-old TJ Crowley, who’s about to face his first year of junior high at a newly integrated school, lives alone with his unstable mother, Kate.
By: Grant Overstake, and others
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If You Can't Take the Heat
- By: Michael Ruhlman
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he’s forced to call an audible on his summer plans and put his college ones on hold. He soon finds himself in the most unlikely of places for a jock on crutches: the kitchen of an upscale French restaurant, where he’ll work as a prep cook while his heart and leg heal. But it’s in the kitchen where Theo finds new purpose and a new romance. As he becomes a trusted employee to Chef and is welcomed into his inner circle, Theo begins to discover the true costs of running a restaurant.
By: Michael Ruhlman
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Finding Strength
- During the Panic of 1893 (Emeline, Book 2)
- By: Kathy J Perry
- Narrated by: Ceci Garcia
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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When the world around you is falling apart, you must find strength within yourself. Three years after her father’s death, Emeline has settled into life in Indianapolis. Then an urgent visit to her childhood farm in Missouri changes everything. Her manager dies, the economy is in recession, and the caretakers are moving back to Wisconsin. Emeline is suddenly responsible for the farm… and she’s out of her depth.
By: Kathy J Perry
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Winter into Spring: Seasons of the Sword #1-2
- Seasons of the Sword
- By: David Kudler
- Narrated by: Julia Kudler, Allison Hiroto, Maura Vaughn, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
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Kano Murasaki, called Risuko, is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Or could she?
By: David Kudler
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Adventures of Mary Jane
- By: Hope Jahren
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Robbins
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This book will show you the real Mary Jane. A girl on her own dangerous, unpredictable journey down the Mississippi River in pre-Civil War America. Equipped with an uncanny ability for mathematics, a talent for sewing, and a bale of beaver skins, Mary Jane navigates deadly illnesses, angry mobs, treacherous landowners, outright thieves and swindlers, and more than a thousand miles of muddy water. What’s more, she thrives in the face of these challenges, thanks to support from strangers who become friends.
By: Hope Jahren
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One Year, One Night (2nd Edition)
- By: S. L. Roman
- Narrated by: Laura Castiel
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When Annie returns to her home village after a long absence, she rediscovers the diary she kept the year she turned 16, the year that changed her life. We follow Annie as she navigates a blossoming love story with a handsome soldier and her growing affection for an evacuee child. With tender and amusing moments, this story—set in a small English village during World War II—explores love, resilience, and loss with a fresh new voice.
By: S. L. Roman
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The Real Education of TJ Crowley
- Coming of Age on the Redline: An Audio Drama
- By: Grant Overstake, May Wuthrich
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck, Dion Graham, Tavia Gilbert, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Inspired by true events, this adaptation by director/producer May Wuthrich and Grant Overstake, author of the acclaimed novel, recaptures the trials faced by a generation of young teens. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s slaying sparks riots as the bitter divide over civil rights and the Vietnam War wracks the country, and Wichita, Kansas is no exception. There, 13-year-old TJ Crowley, who’s about to face his first year of junior high at a newly integrated school, lives alone with his unstable mother, Kate.
By: Grant Overstake, and others
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If You Can't Take the Heat
- By: Michael Ruhlman
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When high school football star Theo Claverback breaks his leg just weeks after a devastating break-up, he’s forced to call an audible on his summer plans and put his college ones on hold. He soon finds himself in the most unlikely of places for a jock on crutches: the kitchen of an upscale French restaurant, where he’ll work as a prep cook while his heart and leg heal. But it’s in the kitchen where Theo finds new purpose and a new romance. As he becomes a trusted employee to Chef and is welcomed into his inner circle, Theo begins to discover the true costs of running a restaurant.
By: Michael Ruhlman
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Finding Strength
- During the Panic of 1893 (Emeline, Book 2)
- By: Kathy J Perry
- Narrated by: Ceci Garcia
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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When the world around you is falling apart, you must find strength within yourself. Three years after her father’s death, Emeline has settled into life in Indianapolis. Then an urgent visit to her childhood farm in Missouri changes everything. Her manager dies, the economy is in recession, and the caretakers are moving back to Wisconsin. Emeline is suddenly responsible for the farm… and she’s out of her depth.
By: Kathy J Perry
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Winter into Spring: Seasons of the Sword #1-2
- Seasons of the Sword
- By: David Kudler
- Narrated by: Julia Kudler, Allison Hiroto, Maura Vaughn, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Kano Murasaki, called Risuko, is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Or could she?
By: David Kudler
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First Lady of Jamestown
- A Historical Fiction Novel Based on the Life and Adventures of Anne Burras, the First Englishwoman to Survive the New World
- By: Tracy Smith
- Narrated by: Emmy Coates
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Based on the true life story of Anne Burras, First Lady of Jamestown shares the excitement, sorrow, and grit of 17th Century Jamestown. When tragedy strikes, young Anne is left as the lone woman among hundreds of men in the fledgling Virginia colony, forced to forge a new life for herself despite the confines of her culture and gender. From heartache to love, and from tragic loss to heroic survival in the harshest of conditions, Anne's determination and fortitude through her life's challenges inspires all who learn of her story.
By: Tracy Smith
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Moonstone
- By: Laura Purcell
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Following a scandal at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent to the woods to live with her reclusive godmother and her strange daughter, Lucy. Cast out from polite society, she must learn to live by her godmother’s strict rules. Camille has never met anyone quite like Lucy before, and as they grow closer and cross forbidden boundaries, strange things begin to happen. Mysterious deaths, claw marks raking the doors, and the nights are pierced by the howls of a creature that sounds almost . . . otherworldly.
By: Laura Purcell
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Bright Eyes
- Seasons of the Sword, Book 2
- By: David Kudler
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Two armies have descended on the Full Moon, and the war that has torn Japan apart for over a century threatens to destroy Lady Chiyome's school for young shrine maidens (and assassins). In this thrilling sequel to Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale, Risuko must face warlords, samurai, angry cooks, a monster in the hills, the truth about her father, a spy among the kunoichi...
By: David Kudler
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Worlds of Ink and Shadow
- A Novel of the Brontës
- By: Lena Coakley
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. The Brontë siblings find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue missing from their isolated parsonage home. But at what price?
By: Lena Coakley
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The Brightwood Code
- By: Monica Hesse
- Narrated by: Saydee Dickinson
- Length: 8 hrs
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Seven months ago, Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” female switchboard operators employed by the US Army. She spent her nights memorizing secret connection codes to stay ahead of spying enemies, and her days connecting vital calls between platoons and bases and generals, all trying to survive—and win—a brutal war. Their lives were in Edda’s hands, and one day, in fateful seconds, everything went wrong.
By: Monica Hesse
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Parallel Lines
- By: Ruth Eglash
- Narrated by: Kelly Sloat
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Imagine coming of age surrounded by terror and militancy. Tamar, Nour, and Rivki all live in Jerusalem, and all are on the cusp of adulthood, but in a city of tribal culture and an intractable conflict, it is almost inconceivable they will ever meet, let alone become friends. Then, one night, during yet another cycle of violence, their paths cross just as a terrorist decides to carry out an attack on the light rail train.
By: Ruth Eglash
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Eyes Open
- By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Portugal, 1967. Sonia thinks she knows what her future holds. She'll become a poet, and together she and her artist boyfriend, Ze Miguel, will rise above the government restrictions that shape their lives. The restrictions on what Sonia can do and where she can go without a man's permission. The restrictions on what music she can enjoy, what books she can read, what questions she can ask.
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Dust Spells
- By: Andrea Lynn
- Narrated by: Kelli Tager
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the handsome drifter who works as a hired hand at the boarding house. When the group decides to forage for building materials at an abandoned cider mill, they discover a magical passage that sends them back to the mill in its prime.
By: Andrea Lynn
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Isambard and the Amulets of Ra
- Young Isambard, Book 1
- By: Robert Guidi
- Narrated by: Geoff Dillon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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London, 1820: Isambard is just like any other 16-year-old engineering genius, until he stumbles across a radical plot to kill the Prime Minister. Things get complicated when he discovers that the conspiracy is being led a French revolutionary supposedly executed 25 years earlier.
By: Robert Guidi
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Not My War
- By: Valerie Anne Hudson
- Narrated by: Claire Rooney
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Fresh from her English boarding school, vivacious and carefree Louise Bellingham returns to Paris, only to find it gripped by the iron fist of Nazi rule. As her loved ones are increasingly ensnared in perilous acts of resistance, Louise is yanked from her world of youthful whims into one of dark secrets and perilous duty. But then she meets Hans—a dashing but ruthless Nazi officer whose allure challenges her allegiance to her family and her ethical grounding. A precarious dance of love and war unfolds as Louise battles her internal conflict.
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Poison Priestess
- Lady Slayers, Book 2
- By: Lana Popovic
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mudge
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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With the help of the grifter Marie Bosse, Catherine divines fortunes in the Île de la Cité—home to sorcerers and scoundrels. There she encounters the Marquise de Montespan, a stunning noblewoman. When the Marquise becomes Louis XIV’s royal mistress with Catherine’s help, her ascension catapults Catherine to notoriety. Catherine takes easily to her glittering new life as the Sorceress La Voisin, pitting the depraved noblesse against one another to her advantage. The stakes soar ever higher when her path crosses with that of a young magician.
By: Lana Popovic
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A Summer with the Hermit King
- By: William Todd
- Narrated by: Ginny Lawrence
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Year: 1888. Diminutive sixteen-year-old Auggie Rose decides he can no longer take the physical and mental abuse at the hands of other boys living at the orphanage. He decides to leave and cast his lot living as a recluse on the nearby beautiful Presque Isle, a peninsula on the shores of Lake Erie. After sneaking out in the middle of the night, on his way to the peninsula, he witnesses a murder at the hands of 'the man with a limp'.
By: William Todd