
The Jackal's Mistress
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Marni Penning
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Chris Bohjalian
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Chris Bohjalian
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate soldier discovers a wounded Yankee officer and must decide what she’s willing to risk for the life of a stranger, from the New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical fiction as Hour of the Witch and The Sandcastle Girls.
Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman’s husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the grain they can produce requisitioned by the Confederate Army. It’s an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield.
And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor’s house, the bones of his hand and leg shattered. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy—but he’s also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible decision: Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband?
A vivid and sweeping story of two people navigating the boundaries of love and humanity in a landscape of brutal violence, The Jackal’s Mistress is a heart-stopping new novel, based on a largely unknown piece of American history, from one of our greatest storytellers.
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“Inspired by true events....A moving tale about the difficult choices people must make in dangerous circumstances.”—The Washington Post
“It’s hard not to get pulled in from the first sentence....The Jackal’s Mistress gallops along, sweeping us up in its heart-pounding final pages.”—Minnesota Star Tribune
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- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: An attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. As they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war. Their flight will test both Anna’s and Callum’s love, as well as their friendship with Manfred - assuming any of them even survive.
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Disappointed.
- By Alan on 12-05-13
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Skydivers
- Alibis collection
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Eric Altheide, Soneela Nankani, Pete Simonelli
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Aspiring musician Pete Hamilton has nothing in common with his older brother, Leo, an aerospace engineer. Until their late father leaves them the family farm, a sprawling dairy operation in Vermont. Pete wants to hold on. Leo wants to sell. All the embattled brothers can agree on is to skydive over the fields and sprinkle their father’s ashes—a grand gesture the old man would have loved. But when the plan goes terribly wrong, only one unexpected eyewitness can see what’s really going on.
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Night Strangers
- A Novel
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure.
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...and just in time for Halloween!
- By Pamela Harvey on 10-19-11
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Premonition
- A Short Story Prequel to The Sleepwalker
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Cady McClain
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Lianna Ahlberg is 17 when a thunderstorm snaps a power line to the earth, electrifying the ground, the rain spreading the current like wildfire across the wet grass. Two horses are killed in the nearby field, unnerving the neighbors, upsetting the peculiar boy who has just moved in, and filling Lianna with a deep and abiding sense of dread. This is not the first unusual thing to happen that summer - a summer when Lianna's mother begins to sleepwalk in the smallest hours of morning - and it will not be the last.
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Terrible narration....
- By kelly m. leach on 05-03-18
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Antidote
- A Novel
- By: Karen Russell
- Narrated by: Elena Rey, Sophie Amoss, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell comes a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought, but beneath its own violent histories.
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1935 Nebraska Dustbowl drama with a Supernatural twist.
- By CarolynL on 03-16-25
By: Karen Russell
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Mutual Interest
- By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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At the turn of the 20th century, Vivian Lesperance is determined to flee her origins in Utica, New York, and avoid repeating her parents’ dull, limited life. When she meets Oscar Schmidt, a middle manager at a soap company, Vivian finds a partner she can guide to build the life she wants—not least because, more interested in men himself, Oscar will leave Vivian to tend to her own romances with women.
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Hour of the Witch
- A Novel
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Grace Experience, Saskia Maarleveld, Danny Campbell, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is 24 years old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life.
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Interesting story almost ruined by the Narration
- By Tori on 05-08-21
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Paris Express
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia.
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Outstanding narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 03-19-25
By: Emma Donoghue
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The Flight Attendant
- A Novel
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Grace Experience, Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with.
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Good story but 1 reader got on my nerves
- By Bernadette on 04-15-18
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Buffalo Soldier
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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From the best selling and critically acclaimed author of Trans-Sister Radio comes a hauntingly beautiful story of the ties that bind families - and the strains that pull them apart. "Bohjalian writes honestly and often movingly," says Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal calls it "tender...[written] with poetic skill."
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Touching, and Sincere
- By A.W. Nadine on 05-27-03
By: Chris Bohjalian
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The Café with No Name
- By: Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire - translator
- Narrated by: Rob Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream. Raised in a home for war orphans, Robert has nonetheless grown into a warm-hearted, hard-working, and determined man. When the former owners of the corner café in the Carmelite market square shutter the business, Robert sees that the chance to realize his dream has arrived. The place, dark and dilapidated, is in a poor neighborhood of the Austrian capital, but for some time now a new wind has been blowing, and the air is filled with an inexplicable energy and a desire for renewal.
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The Light in the Ruins
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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It is 1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her days swimming in the pool, playing with her young niece and nephew, and wandering aimlessly amid the estate's gardens and olive groves. But when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis' bucolic tranquility is shattered.
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Breathes new life
- By B. Siemens on 08-16-13
By: Chris Bohjalian
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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
- A Novel
- By: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrated by: Grace Blewer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened?
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Overall a good book, but poorly narrated
- By Cecilia on 09-02-14
By: Chris Bohjalian
Memorable characterizations
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An engrossing story
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Great historical fiction
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The narrator(a) brought this story to its full beautiful life.
Love the characters
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All in all, this one is well worth a credit.
Excellent
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So very good. I loved every character in this book!
Highly recommend. Don't start listening unless you are able to listen from start to finish in one sitting!
The narration was the best!
Such a good book!!
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Real history
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Loved the historical setting
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Absorbing on every level
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Great storytelling. Outstanding performance
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