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Bestsellers
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Things We Cannot Say
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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Don’t Miss This One!
- By Mary Smiroldo on 08-06-19
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family....
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Thank you for bringing out this story. I am first generation of holocaust survivors and never knew about Greece.
- By Red on 11-18-23
By: Mitch Albom
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- By: Georgia Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....
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Love it but...
- By Roz on 07-19-17
By: Georgia Hunter
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The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs - each of a different woman....
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I don’t understand the good reviews
- By Heather on 03-30-19
By: Pam Jenoff
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble....
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity....
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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The Things We Cannot Say
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny...and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century....
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Don’t Miss This One!
- By Mary Smiroldo on 08-06-19
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Little Liar
- A Novel
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family....
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Thank you for bringing out this story. I am first generation of holocaust survivors and never knew about Greece.
- By Red on 11-18-23
By: Mitch Albom
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We Were the Lucky Ones
- By: Georgia Hunter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....
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Love it but...
- By Roz on 07-19-17
By: Georgia Hunter
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The Lost Girls of Paris
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs - each of a different woman....
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I don’t understand the good reviews
- By Heather on 03-30-19
By: Pam Jenoff
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble....
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Three Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From Heather Morris, the New York Times best-selling author of the multimillion-copy best seller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story....
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Excellent and heartwarming story of love and survival
- By Lee H on 11-06-21
By: Heather Morris
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Cilka's Journey
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cilka is just 16-years-old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival....
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YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS BOOK
- By Amazon Customer on 10-08-19
By: Heather Morris
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People of the Book
- A Novel
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain....
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Amazing, fabulous, wonderful!!!
- By Yvette on 03-13-09
By: Geraldine Brooks
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The Warsaw Orphan
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer’s most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say....
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Kelly did it again! 🥰
- By Eric Cardoza on 07-21-21
By: Kelly Rimmer
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Our Darkest Night
- A Novel of Italy and the Second World War
- By: Jennifer Robson
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive....
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Good book overall, but too sappy to be a historical novel
- By Gina Nello on 03-30-21
By: Jennifer Robson
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Armageddon
- A Novel of Berlin
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards Germany....
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Legendary author
- By Robert ONeill on 02-13-19
By: Leon Uris
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The School for German Brides
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth....
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It's ok
- By Donna Grimsley on 06-15-22
By: Aimie K. Runyan
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Beyond the Tracks
- A WW2 Novel Based on Harrowing True Events
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Mike Paul
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him....
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Beyond
- By Ellen, Ontario, Canada on 01-16-22
By: Michael Reit
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The Thread Collectors
- A Novel
- By: Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army....
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Extremely good!
- By Doodle slave on 07-02-23
By: Shaunna J. Edwards, and others
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The Golem and the Jinni
- A Novel
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York....
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Enchanting Debut Novel - Delicious!
- By Tango on 04-26-13
By: Helene Wecker
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The Postcard
- By: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling....
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The author’s words deserve a better narrator
- By TK on 05-22-23
By: Anne Berest, and others
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American Pastoral
- American Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is Philip Roth’s masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school....
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Masterful writing
- By Jennifer Prado on 04-22-24
By: Philip Roth
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Exodus
- A Novel of Israel
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 28 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon - the towering novel of the 20th century's most dramatic geopolitical event....
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My favorite book of ALL Time
- By Meaghan Bynum on 08-22-12
By: Leon Uris
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The Hidden Palace
- A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I, Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world....
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First book was better, but narration is great!
- By Robert on 08-21-21
By: Helene Wecker
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Kantika
- By: Elizabeth Graver
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Exploring identity, place, and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art, and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women....
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Outstanding performance of a beautiful book
- By Elliott Wolfe, M.D. on 07-25-23
By: Elizabeth Graver
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The Puttermesser Papers
- A Novel
- By: Cynthia Ozick
- Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City has ever elected....
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Disjointed, but amusing
- By FD on 06-05-24
By: Cynthia Ozick
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The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz:
- A totally gripping and absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 novel
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history....
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Very sorrowful book
- By paula wright on 03-30-21
By: Ellie Midwood
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Schindler's List
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II....
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really well done
- By Neil H. Greenberg on 03-09-19
By: Thomas Keneally
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From Sand and Ash
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love....
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Such beauty in the darkest of times <3
- By featherlashes on 12-04-16
By: Amy Harmon
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Code Name Sapphire
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels....
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Such a disappointment.
- By V. Temple on 03-29-23
By: Pam Jenoff
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The Marriage of Opposites
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko, Santino Fontana, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris....
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Intoxicating and Complex Journey
- By Mel on 09-02-15
By: Alice Hoffman
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In Another Time
- A Novel
- By: Jillian Cantor
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the US and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II - and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival....
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Underwhelmed
- By Anonymous User on 12-06-19
By: Jillian Cantor
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The Teacher of Warsaw
- By: Mario Escobar
- Narrated by: Zach Hoffman
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably—except for one man’s capacity to love....
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Great story and narrator
- By Brad Zerkel on 12-18-22
By: Mario Escobar
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Crossroads of Granite
- Orphans of War, Book 3
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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Nora Brouwer, a radar operator, watches as Allied bombers crest the horizon. A cryptic call tempts her—safety or a daring mission? Her brother-in-law, Christiaan Brouwer, ensnared in an SS prison, faces a dire choice: betray his secrets or forfeit his life....
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The richness of the characters
- By Lesa B Crockett on 06-23-24
By: Michael Reit
New releases
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The Girl with the Violin
- By: Shelley Davidow
- Narrated by: Shelley Davidow
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a scholarship to Berlin is the chance of a lifetime. Germany is on the verge of change as the wall is torn down, and Susanna is swept along by the tumultuous event. Under the careful guidance of Stefan Heinemeyer, her renowned violin teacher and the grandson of a Nazi, she begins a composition in memory of her grandmother, Mirla, who died in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War, and Susanna is inspired to retrace Mirla's final footsteps.
By: Shelley Davidow
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Joubert Park
- By: Joel Pollak
- Narrated by: Joel B. Pollak
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Johannesburg in the 1940s is an optimistic, thriving metropolis—one about to be torn apart by racial segregation. For South African Jews, it was a time of exhilaration, as the State of Israel was about to be born. But it was also a time of trepidation, as the National Party, which had opposed South Africa's entry into the Second World War, campaigned on an apartheid platform. One Jewish family, having found refuge in South Africa from Lithuania, launches a successful building enterprise. But the death of a sister sets two brothers against one another.
By: Joel Pollak
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The Goldie Standard
- By: Simi Monheit
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Hilarious and surprising, this unapologetically Jewish story delivers a present-day take on a highly creative grandmother trying to find her PhD granddaughter a husband who is a doctor-with a yarmulke, of course.
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Great narrator!!
- By Sheila Monheit on 06-29-24
By: Simi Monheit
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Weinstock Among the Dying
- By: Michael Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Jack Estes
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Weinstock is a Harvard Lecturer in Poetry who has lost his way. He doesn't feel that he belongs on the esteemed Faculty ("the best in the world"). He sees his position to be a type of death sentence. Meanwhile, is love life is dying and his parents are dying. He feels as though he's surrounded by death wherever he turns. This is his story. (Winner of Hadassah Magazine's 1994 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Best Work of Jewish Fiction.)
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The Scrolls of Deborah
- The Desert Songs Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Esther Goldenberg
- Narrated by: Dara Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Scrolls of Deborah transports us to the awe-inspiring landscapes of the past and uncovers the intertwined lives of Rebekah, a revered matriarch in Judaism, and her devoted handmaiden Deborah. In this mesmerizing tale, their strength, wisdom, and love take center stage, shaping their destinies amid a world steeped in tribal tradition.
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Klara's Truth
- A Novel
- By: Susan Weissbach Friedman
- Narrated by: Justine Reiss
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long been desperate for information—is dead. Has been for many years, in fact, which Bessie clearly knew.
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The Girl with the Violin
- By: Shelley Davidow
- Narrated by: Shelley Davidow
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a scholarship to Berlin is the chance of a lifetime. Germany is on the verge of change as the wall is torn down, and Susanna is swept along by the tumultuous event. Under the careful guidance of Stefan Heinemeyer, her renowned violin teacher and the grandson of a Nazi, she begins a composition in memory of her grandmother, Mirla, who died in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Second World War, and Susanna is inspired to retrace Mirla's final footsteps.
By: Shelley Davidow
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Joubert Park
- By: Joel Pollak
- Narrated by: Joel B. Pollak
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Johannesburg in the 1940s is an optimistic, thriving metropolis—one about to be torn apart by racial segregation. For South African Jews, it was a time of exhilaration, as the State of Israel was about to be born. But it was also a time of trepidation, as the National Party, which had opposed South Africa's entry into the Second World War, campaigned on an apartheid platform. One Jewish family, having found refuge in South Africa from Lithuania, launches a successful building enterprise. But the death of a sister sets two brothers against one another.
By: Joel Pollak
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The Goldie Standard
- By: Simi Monheit
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Hilarious and surprising, this unapologetically Jewish story delivers a present-day take on a highly creative grandmother trying to find her PhD granddaughter a husband who is a doctor-with a yarmulke, of course.
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Great narrator!!
- By Sheila Monheit on 06-29-24
By: Simi Monheit
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Weinstock Among the Dying
- By: Michael Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Jack Estes
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Weinstock is a Harvard Lecturer in Poetry who has lost his way. He doesn't feel that he belongs on the esteemed Faculty ("the best in the world"). He sees his position to be a type of death sentence. Meanwhile, is love life is dying and his parents are dying. He feels as though he's surrounded by death wherever he turns. This is his story. (Winner of Hadassah Magazine's 1994 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Best Work of Jewish Fiction.)
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The Scrolls of Deborah
- The Desert Songs Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Esther Goldenberg
- Narrated by: Dara Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Scrolls of Deborah transports us to the awe-inspiring landscapes of the past and uncovers the intertwined lives of Rebekah, a revered matriarch in Judaism, and her devoted handmaiden Deborah. In this mesmerizing tale, their strength, wisdom, and love take center stage, shaping their destinies amid a world steeped in tribal tradition.
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Klara's Truth
- A Novel
- By: Susan Weissbach Friedman
- Narrated by: Justine Reiss
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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It is May 2014, and Dr. Klara Lieberman—forty-nine, single, professor of archaeology at a small liberal arts college in Maine, a contained person living a contained life—has just received a letter from her estranged mother, Bessie, that will dramatically change her life. Her father, she learns—the man who has been absent from her life for the last forty-three years, and about whom she has long been desperate for information—is dead. Has been for many years, in fact, which Bessie clearly knew.
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When Forever Ends
- The Blood Sisters, Book 3
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna has found solace and love in the colorful Romany camp. How long will this last under the watchful eye of a spurned and obsessed Nazi? In the unrelenting grimness of Ravensbrück, Moriah is caught in the web of Dagna's deadly ambition and schemes. Her chances for survival diminish with every passing moment. Shunned by society for the telling scar on her face, Elica struggles to live with the consequences of her selfish choices. Will she ever find love, redemption, or her son Theo, again?
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PREDICTABLE, SOME CHARACTERS WERE TOTALLY RIDICULOUS, THE NARRATOR WAS AWFUL!
- By Marie G. on 06-21-24
By: Roberta Kagan
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My Life as a Man
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Philip Roth’s most blistering novel. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still trying—and failing—to write his way free of it.
By: Philip Roth
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The Star on the Grave
- By: Linda Margolin Royal
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismissed and disappears into obscurity. Three decades later, in Australia, Rachael Margolin, her father and her grandmother live disconnected from one another and haunted by unspoken tragedies. When Rachel announces her engagement to a Greek Orthodox man, it detonates a long-held secret.
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The Botanist's Tracks
- Beyond the Tracks, Book 3
- By: Michael Reit
- Narrated by: John Maddaloni
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felcia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious experiments—one that could tip the war in favor of the Nazis. When Sabina Kupka discovers the horrifying nature of her father's job at a coal mine run by Nazis, she agrees to work with an increasingly defiant resistance. What starts small but significant soon propels her into a frontline role—dangerous enough to cost her her life if caught.
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Very authentic
- By Kathy H. on 07-01-24
By: Michael Reit
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The Safekeep
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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Wow! This is a wonderful listen!
- By Madeline S Weed on 06-24-24
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Lolita at Leonard's of Great Neck and Other Stories from the Before Times
- By: Shira Dicker
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Rich with authentic detail and insight, these compelling stories sweep the listener along on an intimate, uniquely Jewish journey from 1974 through the first decade of the new millennium as the characters wrestle with identity, independence, ambition, sexuality, faith, and love.
By: Shira Dicker
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Bent Towards Justice
- A Novel Inspired By True Stories
- By: Steven R. Feldman
- Narrated by: Ed Asner
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A unifying narrative for divided times, Bent Toward Justice tells the story of Murray Schwartzman, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and escaped to America. But while Schwartzman may have found respite from external conflict in his peaceful and supportive American Jewish community, he faces a new internal upheaval. An encounter with an apparently anti-Semitic doctor forces Schwartzman to confront his beliefs about Palestinians being the enemy of the Jewish people.
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Real Life and Other Fictions
- A Novel
- By: Susan Coll
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In her 50s, Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of two and has never fully understood why her DC-based parents were on a bridge in West Virginia that just so happened to collapse as they drove across it. Her search for answers prompted a failed career in journalism, and now she’s an aspiring novelist teaching at a local community college waiting for her literary dreams to finally come true.
By: Susan Coll
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The Berlin Sisters
- By: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Berlin, 1943: Ava Müller is a proud supporter of the German war effort, working for Joseph Goebbels alongside her father, a high-ranking official in the Reich. With her sister Hanna, a nurse, braving bombing raids to save lives, they are a model Nazi family. Until Ava discovers her parents and Hanna are secretly working for the resistance… Returning to their country home, Ava is shocked to find her childhood friend Eliana Goldman and her family hidden in the attic.
By: Soraya M. Lane
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My Sister's Betrayal
- Book 2
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Desperate to be reunited with her husband, Daniel, Elica walks into the dreaded den of the ruthless Gestapo. She's ready to sacrifice anything for their love. Anna and her family find themselves at the mercy of Anna's heart-throb, Ulf. Ulf's obsession with Anna puts him in a quandary—between his loyalty to the Fuhrer and his burning desire for the forbidden fruit.
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Another cliff hanger!
- By Alyson on 05-19-24
By: Roberta Kagan
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The Hebrew Teacher
- By: Maya Arad, Jessica Cohen - translator
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises.
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A mixed reaction
- By Margaret Moers Wenig on 06-26-24
By: Maya Arad, and others
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All the Lives We Could Have Led
- A Novel
- By: Eshed Dagan
- Narrated by: Linda Graves
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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As Avia and her son, Lavi, get off the plane in San Francisco, the first stop of their trip across the Golden State, she cannot help but feel just a little hopeful. Maybe their time together will bring them closer and even bridge the emotional chasm separating them – filled with silences and volatile, intense confrontation.
By: Eshed Dagan