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Title: Rapture

Author: Emily Maguire

Narrator: Rose Akroyd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident. 'Her self is an illusion yet it is one beloved by most everyone who has heard her speak . . . She is thirty-three years old and there is no one else in the world who knows who she used to be.' The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman. So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and wisdom and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful—and deadly—currency. And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known—and loved. Rapture is an astonishing, transformative and audacious novel that confirms Emily Maguire as one of our finest writers. 'Rapture is astonishing – a scorching vision of a book. Drawing on history, legend, speculation and gossip, Maguire's medieval girl-Pope story is made of many things: flesh and earth and blood; ambition and abnegation; rage and transcendence, all pouring into this pagan, biblical, strange and mighty work from an imagination in soaring flight.' - Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard Devotional

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Title: [German] - Die Bibel, Altes Testament, Folge 8: Sodom und Gomorrha II

Author: Aikaterini Maria Schlösser

Narrator: Katharina von Daake, Patrick Schlegel, Derya Flechtner, Inko Hartwiger, Annette Strasser, Mathias Schlung, Konrad Bösherz, Sabine Arnhold, Alexandra Lange, Reinhard Scheunemann, Christian Michalak, Daniela Hoffmann, Jan Langer, Robert Frank

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Nurit stieg auf den Hügelkamm und drehte sich nach Sodom zu. In ihren tränenvollen Augen spiegelten sich die Flammen der brennenden Stadt. Die Mauern brachen ein, wie eine Flutwolke raste eine Aschewolke auf sie zu. Nurit schloss die Augen und breitete die Arme aus. Dann wurde sie von Schwärze überschwemmt.

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Title: [German] - Am Fluss der Zeiten (Gekürzt)

Author: Ulrike Renk

Narrator: Brigitte Carlsen

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

1551: Elze wächst mit ihren Geschwistern als Eigenbehörige auf dem großen Hof Kalmule auf. Die harte Arbeit auf den Feldern ist ihr Alltag. Doch ihr Leben wandelt sich von Grund auf, als sie ihre Familie verlassen muss und ihren Pflichtdienst als Küchenmagd in der Stadt Münster antritt. Eines Tages wird sie jedoch mit einer Magd der Herren von Oer getauscht und muss künftig auf der Wasserburg Kakesbeck leben, auf der ein Fluch liegt. Dort trifft sie auch Jacob wieder. Aber um den Müllerssohn ranken sich geheimnisvolle Gerüchte. Soll sie diesen Glauben schenken? Und wird Elze nun Teil der alten Prophezeiung werden, um den Fluch der Familie von Oer zu brechen? Auftakt eines historischen Mehrteilers von Ulrike Renk vor dem Hintergrund des Spanisch-Niederländischen und des Dreißigjährigen Krieges Dieses eindrucksvolle Hörbuch basiert auf der eigenen Familiengeschichte der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin.

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Title: [German] - Unaufhaltsamer Abstieg ins Chaos: Rosenstrassen-Saga

Series: #1 of Rosenstraßen-Saga

Author: Marion Kummerow

Narrator: Funda Vanroy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 26, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

München, 1923: Deutschland versinkt in den düsteren Tiefen der Wirtschaftskrise, und zwei Paare stehen an der Schwelle ihres Schicksals. Helga und Heinrich Goldmann kämpfen buchstäblich um ihr nacktes Überleben, während Edith und Julius Falkenstein zur Elite Deutschlands gehören. Als die schüchterne Edith Julius zum ersten Mal traf, war es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Die Einheirat in die mächtige Falkenstein-Familie hat sie in die glitzernde Gesellschaft der oberen Zehntausend katapultiert. Doch ihre heile Welt gerät ins Wanken, als die Nazi-Partei immer mehr Macht und Einfluss gewinnt. Da trifft sie auf ihre ehemalige Schulkameradin Helga, mit der sie mehr gemeinsam hat, als es auf den ersten Blick scheint, denn sowohl Julius als auch Heinrich sind jüdischer Abstammung. In einer Zeit, in der die politische und wirtschaftliche Krise das Land zerreißt und der Schrecken des aufkommenden Nationalsozialismus lange Schatten wirft, wird das Leben täglich beschwerlicher. Spätestens nach Hitlers Machtergreifung ist Edith klar, dass sie in Deutschland keine Zukunft haben. Doch Julius weigert sich zu glauben, dass er in Gefahr schwebt. Dann, in einer schrecklichen Novembernacht des Jahres 1938, zerreißt das Klirren von Glas die Stille der Stadt und Ediths schlimmste Befürchtungen werden wahr. Julius ist verschwunden. Kann Edith ihren Mann retten, oder ist es bereits zu spät? „Unaufhaltsamer Abstieg ins Chaos” ist ein packendes Drama über Mut und Entschlossenheit in Zeiten der Dunkelheit. Begleiten Sie die Charaktere auf einer emotionalen Achterbahnfahrt durch die 1920er und 1930er Jahre, in denen Liebe, Freundschaft und Entschlossenheit die einzige Hoffnung auf Rettung vor Hass und Vernichtung sind.

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Title: [German] - Der Mörder am Half Moon Gate - Ein Fall für Wrexford and Sloane, Band 2 (Ungekürzt)

Author: Andrea Penrose

Narrator: Omid-Paul Eftekhari

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Release date: September 26, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In den dunklen Gassen Londons wartet ein Mörder ... Ein neuer, spannender Fall für Wrexford und Sloane im historischen England. Als der angesehene Wissenschaftler Lord Wrexford die Leiche eines begabten Erfinders in einer dunklen Londoner Gasse entdeckt, alarmiert er sofort die Behörden. Doch schon bald wird Wrexford in die Mordermittlungen hineingezogen, denn die Witwe des Erfinders teilt ihm mit, dass das Verbrechen kein zufälliger Raubüberfall war. Die Entwürfe ihres Mannes für eine neue dampfgetriebene Maschine sind in der Nacht seines Todes verschwunden. Die Pläne sind ein Vermögen wert ... und könnten in den falschen Händen sehr gefährlich sein. Bei seinen Ermittlungen wird Lord Wrexford von Charlotte Sloane unterstützt, die unter dem Pseudonym A. J. Quill bissige politische Karikaturen veröffentlicht. Ihr umfangreiches Netzwerk von Informanten ist entscheidend für ihre Arbeit - und für das Aufspüren des Mörders. Als ein weiteres Opfer fällt, wissen Wrexford und Sloane, dass sie einem gerissenen und tödlichen Feind auf der Spur sind, der ihnen selbst zum Verhängnis werden könnte.

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Title: The Madstone

Author: Elizabeth Crook

Narrator: Will Collier

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Release date: September 26, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he sees a stagecoach leave a passenger stranded. The man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the coach, drawing him into a drama he could never have imagined. On reaching the coach they discover that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her four-year-old son, Tot, who are fleeing Nell’s brutal husband and his murderous brothers. Nell is in grave danger. If her husband catches her, he will kill her and take their son. Benjamin offers to deliver Nell and Tot to a distant port on the Gulf of Mexico, where they can board a ship to safety. He is joined in this chivalrous act by two companions: the treasure hunter whose stranding began this endeavour and a restless Black Seminole who has an escape plan of his own. Fraught with jeopardy from the outset, the trek across Texas becomes still more dangerous as buried secrets emerge. And even as Benjamin falls in love with Nell and begins to imagine a life as Tot’s father, vengeful pursuers are never far behind.

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Title: Blasted Things

Author: Lesley Glaister

Narrator: Danielle Cohen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Release date: September 25, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this “sensitive, unsettling tale” by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent). Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills… It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own losses, is trying to settle back into her comfortable middle-class life as a doctor’s wife. But when she meets Vincent, a man so battered he must wear a mask to hide his scars, a perilous and magnetic attraction develops between them. As their passion erupts and takes a darker turn, it threatens to spell disaster. Will either of them ever recover from the lingering horrors of war? And can both of them walk away from their affair unscathed?

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Title: Rebekah: A Novel

Series: #2 of Wives of the Patriarchs

Author: Jill Eileen Smith

Narrator: Vanessa Daniels

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

When her father dies and she is left in the care of her conniving brother Laban, Rebekah knows her life has changed forever. Her hope for the future is restored when she falls in love with her cousin Isaac, and their relationship starts strong. But marital bliss cannot last forever, and the birth of their twin sons marks the beginning of years of misunderstanding, disagreement, and betrayal. The rift between them grows wider and wider until it is surely too deep to be mended. And yet, with God all things are possible. Join bestselling author Jill Eileen Smith as she fills in the blanks around the biblical women behind the men we know well. Her in-depth research and creative storytelling bring Rebekah's unique story alive with romance, heartache, and the power of forgiveness.

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Title: The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolph

Author: Kate Braithwaite

Narrator: Sarah Welborn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2024

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A compelling historical retelling of the first great scandal to shake America. Victim? Temptress? Murderer? October 1792. At Glentivar Plantation, Virginia, enslaved workers find the body of a white baby hidden amongst logs. Judy and Richard Randolph along with Nancy, Judy's eighteen year old sister, are staying at the plantation. The Randolphs are one of America's most wealthy and influential families. Screams were heard coming from Nancy's room during the night. Gossip quickly spreads throughout Virginia society: Nancy Randolph had given birth to a child by Richard, people whisper. Together they murdered the child to protect their reputation. Richard is tried for murder and the sensational trial shakes the new American nation to its core. The events of that night ripple down the years. Who was Nancy Randolph? A calculating seductress and murderer? Or an unwilling victim, groomed and manipulated by her devious brother-in-law?

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Title: Hamlet's Children

Author: Richard Kluger

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 10 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

When grave misfortune leaves thirteen-year-old Terry Sayre without relatives to care for him in the summer of 1939, his only option to elude foster care is to accept asylum abroad with his mother's Danish kin, people he met only briefly as a child. Terry begins life anew in his grandparents' home, but within months of his arrival, the Second World War breaks out. Terry's older self recounts his precarious coming of age as an alien marooned in a disconcerting new land throughout its long national nightmare. Spared the savage treatment Nazi Germany dealt other countries it conquered, Denmark was allowed to remain nominally self-governing. Good fortune, though, did not allow the proud, peaceloving little kingdom to escape the toll the war took on its people's collective soul. Hamlet's Children by Richard Kluger is the story of a young American's wrenching assimilation with his Danish relatives and of how he is pinioned in the same cruel vise with his adopted countrymen as they cunningly attempt to subvert the Germans' iron grip on their kingdom. Paramount on this agenda of defiance is the Danes' persistent effort to keep their Jewish neighbors out of the Nazis' murderous hands. Vibrant with memorable characters and fraught with tension, this artfully crafted narrative, both heartbreaking and uplifting, is a testament to the human spirit in its bleakest hours.