Historical Direction

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    • Storybook ND Series
    • By: Helen DeWitt
    • Narrated by: Lucy Raynor
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation).

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    • A Brief Life
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Alfred Hitchock, the master of suspense....

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    • By: Jenny Erpenbeck
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books", each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist....

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    • New Directions Paperbook
    • By: Jenny Erpenbeck
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Visitation offers the life stories of 12 individuals who seek to make their home in this one magical little house....

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    • A Joe Johnson Thriller
    • By: Andrew Turpin
    • Narrated by: John Pirhalla
    • Series: Joe Johnson Thrillers, Book 3
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A British police chief joins the list of high-profile Northern Ireland sniper victims. Tension rises as the US president prepares to visit. And the 29-year mystery around an IRA killer's gruesome death deepens....

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    • A Joe Johnson Thriller, Book 0
    • By: Andrew Turpin
    • Narrated by: John Pirhalla
    • Series: Joe Johnson Thrillers, Book 0
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A Cold War attack by Soviet helicopters on an Afghan village. A knife-edge CIA operation that goes wrong. And a vengeful mujahideen tribesman, armed with Stinger missiles....

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    • Storybook ND Series
    • By: Osamu Dazai
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII....

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    • A Joe Johnson Thriller
    • By: Andrew Turpin
    • Narrated by: John Pirhalla
    • Series: Joe Johnson Thrillers, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The explosive fallout - with a stunning British twist - from a top CIA man's corruption and a US political leader's racism. The ruins of an iconic 450-year-old bridge. And a family destroyed by civil war....

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