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Title: Jazzed

Author: Jill Dearman

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Academic geniuses Wilhelmina “Will” Reinhardt and Dorothy “Dolly” Raab become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity. Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother’s death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies. Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their romance ignites. But while Will is obsessed with Dolly, Dolly is obsessed with crime. The power dynamics keep shifting as Will agrees to commit petty crimes with Dolly in exchange for sexual favors. When the University and their rich families unite to split them up, passions escalate. To strike back at those who deny them the right to be together, they plot another crime: murder. A gender-swapped take on the infamous “Leopold and Loeb” case, Jazzed is part historical fiction, part true crime. Juxtaposing the thrilling scientific breakthroughs in quantum physics and artistic explosion of the Harlem Renaissance with the pseudoscience of eugenics and anti-immigration fervor that also defined the era, the novel mirrors today’s polarized world and moves with the fast-paced rhythm of jazz itself.

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Title: The Book Spy

Author: Alan Hlad

Narrator: Walles Hamonde

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this engaging, dramatic historical novel that illuminates a little-known facet of World War II, USA Today bestselling author Alan Hlad explores the real-life librarian spies who hunted down crucial intelligence throughout Europe. 1942: With the war's outcome hanging in the balance, every sliver of intelligence can be critical. Though far from the battlefields, cities like Lisbon, Portugal's neutral capital, become lynchpins in a different kind of warfare, as President Roosevelt sends an unlikely new taskforce on a unique mission. They are librarians and microfilm specialists trained in espionage, working with a special branch of the Office of Strategic Services. By acquiring and scouring Axis newspapers, books, technical manuals, and periodicals, the librarians can gather information about troop location, weaponry, and military plans. Maria Alves, a microfilm expert working at the New York Public Library, is dispatched to Lisbon, where she meticulously photographs publications and sends the film to London to be analyzed. Working in tandem with Tiago Soares, a brave and honorable bookstore owner on a precarious mission of his own—providing Jewish refugees with forged passports and visas—Maria acquires vital information, including a directory of arms factories in Germany. But as she and Tiago grow closer, any future together is jeopardized when Maria's superiors ask her to pose as a double agent, feeding misinformation to Lars Steiger, a wealthy Swiss banker and Nazi sympathizer who launders Hitler's gold. Gaining Lars' trust will bring Maria into the very heart of the Fuhrer's inner circle. And it will provide her with a chance to help steer the course of war, if she is willing to take risks as great as the possible rewards . . .

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Title: Margot: A Novel

Author: Wendell Steavenson

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her—to forego education and marry well—but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up—the expansive world of late-1960s Radcliffe College and the intellectual, cultural, and sexual freedom Margot has been reaching for. Hailed for her 'intelligent and heartfelt fiction' (Kirkus Reviews), Wendell Steavenson writes with grace, precision, and great psychological perception. With Margot, she has crafted a vivid portrayal of the quiet torment of young women of its era, a comically caustic mother-daughter story, and a memorable evocation of one woman's passion for the wonder of science.

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Title: The Fires of Hell

Series: #5 of Jackals

Author: William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch. Freed from the hangman by his gang, Brice has kidnapped the lawman's daughter Cynthia along with other women and make tracks to the Texas Panhandle. Holing up in The Canyon of Weeping Women, the outlaws plan to sell their captives to Comanche raiders. Joined by bounty hunter Jed Breen and retired cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, McCulloch rides hard for Texas, determined to save his daughter from Brice. But Cynthia isn't her father’s little girl anymore. And hell hath no fury like a woman raised by a Ranger who's just as deadly as the trio of Jackals gunning for Brice's comancheros . . .

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Title: The Chinese Groove: A Novel

Author: Kathryn Ma

Narrator: James Chen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders. Upon arrival, Shelley is dismayed to find that his “rich uncle” is in fact his unemployed second cousin once removed and that the grand guest room he’d envisioned is but a scratchy sofa. The indefinite stay he’d planned for? That has a firm two-week expiration date. Even worse, the loving family he hoped would embrace him is in shambles, shattered by a senseless tragedy that has cleaved the family in two. They want nothing to do with this youthful bounder who’s barged into their lives. Ever the optimist, Shelley concocts a plan to resuscitate his American dream by insinuating himself into the family. And, who knows, maybe he’ll even manage to bring them back together in the process.

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Title: [Spanish] - La esperanza de Sophia (Los colores de la belleza 1)

Series: #1 of Los colores de la belleza

Author: Corina Bomann

Narrator: Estela Benita

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Release date: January 12, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Con el telón de fondo de la legendaria rivalidad entre dos pioneras del mundo de la belleza, Helena Rubinstein y Elizabeth Arden, una novela llena de glamour y romanticismo de la autora best seller alemana Corina Bomann. Berlín, 1926. Sophia solo tiene veinte años pero su vida ya parece haberse hecho pedazos: su primer amor ha terminado en escándalo, su familia no quiere verla y ella ha tenido que abandonar sus estudios de química en la universidad. Tras viajar a París para empezar de cero, un día se encuentra frente al deslumbrante escaparate del nuevo salón de Helena Rubinstein, una ambiciosa empresaria cuyo nombre está en boca de todas las damas parisinas. Sophia tiene entonces una revelación: intentará crear una crema prodigiosa que deslumbre a madame Rubinstein y la convenza de admitirla en su imperio de la belleza. Impresionada por el talento de Sophia, Helena decide ofrecerle un empleo, siempre que esté dispuesta a seguirla a su oficina de Nueva York y a volcarse totalmente en el trabajo. Sophia se verá así envuelta en el gran proyecto de crear nuevos y revolucionarios cosméticos para Helena Rubinstein en su feroz competencia con su rival Elizabeth Arden. Pero Nueva York también está llena de tentaciones y Sophia, que creía haber terminado con los hombres, se encontrará trabajando con Darren O'Connor, un diseñador de mirada magnética que podría hacer tambalear el solemne pacto de fidelidad hecho con Helena...

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Title: Swann's War

Author: Michael B. Oren

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Release date: December 27, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A thrilling literary fiction whodunit for fans of Delia Owens and Jacqueline Winspear World War II is raging overseas, but life remains painfully quiet on the rugged New England fishing island of Fourth Cliff. With most of its able-bodied male inhabitants away in the service, the island is now home only to aged fishermen, concerned women and children, and second-rate soldiers guarding a low-priority military emplacement and camp for Italian POWs. With her husband Archie, Fourth Cliff's beloved police captain, off fighting in the Marines, Mary Beth Swann steps into his role. Though a cop herself, she has to fight for the respect of Fourth Cliff's hardscrabble residents. And that's before a murdered POW surfaces in a fisherman's net, followed by more bodies. Determined to find the killer, Swann must rely only on the help of a simple-minded deputy, a disgraced doctor, and a mob-connected mainlander to prove her worth to Fourth Cliff—and to herself. In the tradition of Where the Crawdads Sing and the BBC's Foyle's War, Michael Oren's novel seizes the listener and doesn't let go until the very end.

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Title: Wedded by Scandal Bundle, Books 1–4

Series: Part of Wedded by Scandal

Author: Stacy Reid

Narrator: Madeleine Leslay

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 37 hours 0 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This bundle includes four Wedded by Scandal standalone romances that can be read in any order. Book 1, Accidentally Compromising the Duke: Determined to escape her impending marriage to a repugnant earl, Adeline is willing to do anything—even get caught in a compromising position with another man. Book 2, Wicked in His Arms: When an unconventional woman tempts Earl Tobias Walcott, he must do everything not to succumb, lest their relationship leads to disastrous consequences. Book 3, How to Marry a Marquess: When Lady Evie is forced into marriage, she chooses a marquess who has sworn off love. Will her plans for seduction be thwarted or will he make an impossible choice? Book 4, When the Earl Met His Match: When the future Earl of Albury put out an advertisement for a wife, he never expected an anonymous response from a woman who matches him wit for wit.

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Title: Love and War in the Jewish Quarter

Author: Dora Levy Mossanen

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: December 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter. Against the tumultuous background of World War II, Dr. Yaran will find himself caught in the thrall of the anti-Semitic Governor General, the most powerful man in the country. Dr. Yaran falls in love with the Governor General's defiant wife, Velvet, upending not only the life of the doctor's beloved daughter, but the entire community. In his quest to save everything and everyone he loves, Dr. Yaran will navigate the intersections of magic, science, lust, and treachery. His sole ally is the Governor General's servant, an exotic eunuch, who will do anything to aid his mistress in her dangerous quest to attain forbidden love.

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Title: Wife to Order: An Australian Outback Romance

Author: Lucy Walker

Narrator: Casey Withoos

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Release date: December 8, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide. Carey is immediately attracted to the handsome yet reserved cattle station owner. But Oliver seems more interested in a practical business arrangement than a true love match. Oliver's bossy sister, Millicent, doesn't help matters. She soon makes it clear that the young new bride doesn't match up to her expectations. Glamorous Jane Newbold adds to Carey's insecurities. Jane and Oliver have a history. But does she still have a place in Oliver's heart? Carey and Oliver are strangers on their wedding day. As Carey slowly starts to fall in love with her husband, she regrets that marriage doesn't bring them closer. What does Oliver think about his pretty new wife behind those steel-grey eyes? And will the arrival of Carey's good-looking friend, Harry Martin, force the couple to examine their true feelings? Lucy Walker's gentle, clean romances give readers a fascinating insight into the landscape, people and customs of rural Australian in the mid-twentieth century.