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Title: Mastering the Art of French Murder

Series: #1 of American in Paris Mystery

Author: Colleen Cambridge

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Marie Benedict, Nita Prose, and of course, Julia Child, will adore this magnifique new mystery set in Paris and starring Julia Child's (fictional) best friend, confidant, and fellow American. From the acclaimed author of Murder at Mallowan Hall, this delightful new book provides a fresh perspective on the iconic chef's years in post–WWII Paris. 'Enchanting . . . Cambridge captures Child's distinct voice and energy so perfectly. Expect to leave this vacation hoping for a return trip.' —Publishers Weekly As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Paris isn't just the City of Light; it's the city of history, romance, stunning architecture . . . and food. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who's fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpère and Oncle Rafe. Between tutoring Americans in French, visiting the market, and eagerly sampling the results of Julia's studies at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, Tabitha's sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia's building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar. Tabitha recognizes the victim as a woman she'd met only the night before, at a party given by Julia's sister, Dort. The murder weapon found nearby is recognizable too—a knife from Julia's kitchen. Tabitha is eager to help the investigation, but is shocked when Inspector Merveille reveals that a note, in Tabitha's handwriting, was found in the dead woman's pocket. Is this murder a case of international intrigue, or something far more personal? From the shadows of the Tour Eiffel at midnight, to the tiny third-floor Child kitchen, to the grungy streets of Montmartre, Tabitha navigates through the city hoping to find the real killer before she or one of her friends ends up in prison . . . or worse. 'Part historical fiction, part mystery, Mastering the Art of French Murder is totally delectable entertainment.' —The Washington Post 'Certain to appeal to a broad readership, especially fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Cambridge's own Phyllida Bright series.' —First Clue, STARRED REVIEW

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Title: How to Build a Boat: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS

Author: Elaine Feeney

Narrator: Ciaran O'brien

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating and overwhelming, he finds two people who might just be able to help him. How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone. ©2023 Elaine Feeney (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Go as a River

Author: Shelley Read

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The powerful Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Pick A MESMERIZING READ FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE AND THE PAPER PALACE I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea. On a cool autumn morning, Torie Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a mysterious drifter with grimy thumbs and smudged cheeks and eyes as dark as a raven's wing stops to ask her the way. She could turn left or cross over. But she does not. 'Go as a river,' he whispers. So begins a mezmerising story that unfolds over a tumultuous lifetime as Torie begins to absorb and follow his words. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary life, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever. 'Completely spellbinding, vivid, and luminous' JANE GREEN 'Go As a River delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love, the eternal pangs of loss, the brutality of racism, the sustaining power of nature and the miracle of a mother's love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion, this shattering testimony to life is to be savored, treasured, shared' MEG WAITE CLAYTON, author of The Postmistress of Paris 'Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature. Tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable' BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY ©2023 Shelley Read (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: The Cuban Heiress

Author: Chanel Cleeton

Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs, Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Release date: April 11, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An NPR Books We Love selection for 2023 'An unforgettable read that should be at the top of every TBR list.'—NPR In 1934, a luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival as two women’s pasts collide on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There’s only one problem. It’s a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves port, Catherine’s past returns with a vengeance and threatens her life. Joining forces with a charismatic jewel thief, Catherine must discover who wants her dead—and why. Elena Palacio is a dead woman. Or so everyone thinks. After a devastating betrayal left her penniless and on the run, Elena’s journey on the Morro Castle is her last hope. Steeped in secrecy and a burning desire for revenge, her return to Havana is a chance to right the wrong that has been done to her—and her prey is on the ship. As danger swirls aboard the Morro Castle and their fates intertwine, Elena and Catherine must risk everything to see justice served once and for all.

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Title: [Spanish] - Las lágrimas de la Diosa maorí (Trilogía del árbol Kauri 3)

Series: #3 of Trilogía del árbol Kauri

Author: Sarah Lark

Narrator: Laura Monedero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 28 hours 24 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tras seducir a un millón y medio de lectores en castellano Sarah Lark cierra su magistral Trilogía del árbol Kauri. Ahora, además de las habituales sagas familiares ambientadas en un país exótico, Lark nos habla de las pioneras de las conquistas sociales femeninas: primero el sufragio, después el acceso a la universidad y, por último, la posibilidad de volar, volar, volar... «Echaron a volar sus cometas y sus sueños hacia los dioses. Y aquellas se llevaron consigo la tristeza.» Nueva Zelanda, 1899. El hijo de Lizzie y Michael Drury es enviado como médico a Sudáfrica, donde se libra la guerra de los Bóers. Pero Roberta luchará para estar con él a toda costa. Paralelamente, la joven Atamarie obtiene una importante victoria: ser la primera mujer que cursa estudios de Ingeniería en la Universidad de Nueva Zelanda. Desde niña le fascinaron las cometas maoríes, y ahora esta afición le permite conocer al pionero de la aviación mundial.

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Title: The Secrets of Hartwood Hall: The mysterious and atmospheric gothic novel for fans of Stacey Hall

Author: Katie Lumsden

Narrator: Olivia Vinall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Release date: March 30, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. It's 1852 and Margaret Lennox, a young widow, is offered a position as governess at Hartwood Hall. She quickly accepts, hoping this isolated country house will allow her to leave her past behind. Cut off from the village, Margaret soon starts to feel there's something odd about her new home, despite her growing fondness for her bright, affectionate pupil, Louis. There are strange figures in the dark, tensions between servants and an abandoned east wing. Even stranger is the local gossip surrounding Mrs Eversham, Louis's widowed mother, who is deeply distrusted in the village. Margaret finds distraction in a forbidden relationship with the gardener, Paul. But despite his efforts to reassure her, Margaret is certain that everyone here has something hide. And as Margaret's own past threatens to catch up with her, she must learn to trust her instincts before it's too late... The Secrets of Hartwood Hall is a chilling gothic mystery, and an authentic and atmospheric love letter to Victorian fiction. 'I loved this fresh take on the gothic genre. Vivid, haunting, surprising' STACEY HALLS, author of Sunday Times bestsellers The Familiars, The Foundling and Mrs England 'A full-blooded gothic mystery with bite, great characterisation and heaps of atmosphere' EMMA STONEX, author of Sunday Times bestseller The Lamplighters ©2023 Katie Lumsden (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Künstlers in Paradise

Author: Cathleen Schine

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her inscrutable housekeeper and her gigantic St. Bernard dog. Their tranquility is upended when Mamie’s grandson, Julian, arrives from New York City. Like many a twenty-something, he has come to seek his fortune in Hollywood. But it is 2020, the global pandemic sweeps in, and Julian’s short visit suddenly has no end in sight. Mamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her early years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann. Oh, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows, Mamie’s tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future. Cathleen Schine’s captivating and comedic twelfth novel explores exile, émigrés, movie stars, musicians, family bonds and the power of stories—both those we hand down and the ones held secretly in the heart. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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Title: Before the Storm

Author: James D. Shipman

Narrator: Rebecca Gibel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Berlin, 1948: World War II may be over, but a new era of conflict has begun. The Russians have cut off all access to the western part of Berlin in an attempt to seize it from the Allies. The thirst for power, dominance, and revenge is as strong as ever, and anti-Semitism is still rampant. When a store in West Berlin is vandalized with Swastikas, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the US Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate, and meets Max and Karl Portnoy, two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Sharing their stories of loss, Sara and Max form a bond. Max and his family were sent to a concentration camp during the war, where his parents and sister perished. The man who betrayed them, Nazi nuclear scientist Heinz Hoffman, is now a wanted criminal. Sara agrees to accompany them to Hoffman's last known whereabouts, hoping they will finally be able to bring him to justice. But tracking the elusive Hoffman is not just difficult, it's perilous. From the mountainous backroads of Bavaria to the Soviet border, Sara and Max race to evade assassins sent by the top-secret Odessa organization. And then there are other adversaries, hidden but no less lethal, determined to gain control of Hoffman and the knowledge he possesses—knowledge that may determine the course of countless wars to come.

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Title: If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love

Author: Mary Calvi

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published―If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy. Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and when they meet, unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever. If a Poem Could Live and Breathe is an indelible portrait of the authenticity of first love, the heartache of loss, and how overcoming the worst of life’s obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined.

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Title: The Vienna Writers Circle

Author: J. C. Maetis

Narrator: Michael Crouch, Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A gripping and powerful tale of resilience and courage set in Vienna on the brink of WWII, as two members of Freud’s Circle try to keep themselves and their loved ones safe as the SS closes in. Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna is beloved by its clientele, including cousins Mathias Kraemer and Johannes Namal. The two writers are as close as brothers. They are also members of Freud’s Circle—a unique group of the famed psychiatrist’s friends and acquaintances who once gathered regularly at the bright and airy café to talk about books and ideas over coffee and pastries. But dark days are looming. With Hitler’s annexation of Austria, Nazi edicts governing daily life become stricter and more punitive. Now Hitler has demanded that the “hidden Jews” of Vienna be tracked down, and Freud’s Circle has been targeted. The SS aims to use old group photos to identify Jewish intellectuals and subversives. With the vise tightening around them, Mathias and Johannes’s only option appears to be hiding in plain sight, using assumed names and identities to evade detection, aware that discovery would mean consignment to a camp or execution. Faced with stark and desperate choices, Mathias, Johannes, their families and friends all find their loyalties and courage tested in unimaginable ways. But despite betrayal, heartache and imprisonment, hope remains, and with it, the determination to keep those they love alive, and Mathias and Johannes at the same time discovering that what originally condemned them—their writing—might also be their salvation.