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    • A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising
    • By: Margarita Morris
    • Narrated by: Samantha Desz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, Márton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The Secret Police have come to arrest him on charges of subversion. But Katalin knows her father is innocent....

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    • By: Francis Spufford
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale....

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    • By: Arthur Phillips
    • Narrated by: Andy Paris
    • Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In the 1990s, five young American expatriates meet in Budapest....

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    • A Novel (Samson Kolechko Investigates, Book 1)
    • By: Andrey Kurkov
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Series: The Kyiv Mysteries, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political turmoil, young Samson Kolechko is forced to place his engineering career on hold.

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    • By: Jack Grimwood
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: Tom Fox Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin, frozen solid - like marble to the touch - missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong 15-year-old daughter of the British ambassador, disappears....

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    • By: Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Narrated by: David Case
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Christina Lynch
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • The 1950s: Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America, and each other....

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    • A Foul Thing; This Foul Murder
    • By: Chloe Gong
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Foul Lady Fortune, Book 1.5
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life....

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    • By: Jeffrey Archer
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and best-selling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kateřina Tučková, Véronique Firkusny - translator
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • The award-winning novel by Czech author Kateřina Tučková - her first to be translated into English - about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world....

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    • By: Chloe Gong
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Foul Lady Fortune, Book 1
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound....

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    • Eidel's Story, Book 2
    • By: Roberta Kagan
    • Narrated by: Juliet Jones
    • Series: Eidel's Story, Book 2
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Hitler has surrendered. The Nazi flags, which once hung throughout the city, striking terror in the hearts of Polish citizens, have been torn down. It seems that Warsaw should be rejoicing in its new-found freedom....

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    • By: Ana Menendez
    • Narrated by: Adriana Sananes, Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-04
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In her brilliant debut novel, Ana Menendez uses her gift for storytelling to paint a sweet but sad, hopeful but despairing, serene and sometimes terror-filled portrait of Cuba....

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    • Inspector Chen Series, Book 3
    • By: Qiu Xiaolong
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Series: Inspector Chen Series, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book....

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    • By: William F. Buckley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A singular romance navigates the political fault line that would change American history....

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    • A Mitford Murders Mystery, Book 5
    • By: Jessica Fellowes
    • Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
    • Series: The Mitford Murders, Book 5
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • 1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already raging in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband Guy Sullivan....

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    • By: Diana Rosie
    • Narrated by: Bert Seymour, Emily Bruni
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Clara and Pippo are just children: quiet, thoughtful Clara is the older sister; Pippo, the younger brother, is forever chatting....

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    • The Restless Years, Book 3
    • By: Deborah Challinor
    • Narrated by: Pania Mowat
    • Series: The Restless Years, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour of duty. She supports the war and is committed to caring for wounded New Zealand and Australian troops....

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    • By: Lina Maslo
    • Narrated by: Natalia Payne
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Threads is an inspiring picture book, adapted for audio, about a girl’s survival of the 1930s Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, messaging hope, pride for one's heritage, and context for today's War in Ukraine....

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    • By: Gavin McCrea
    • Narrated by: Annie Farr
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In September 1870 a train leaves Manchester bound for London. Onboard is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums who is embarking on the journey that will change her forever....

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