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Title: An Extraordinary Lord

Series: #3 of Lords of the Armory

Author: Anna Harrington

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Soldier turned solicitor Lord Merritt Rivers has dedicated his life to upholding the law. He patrols the streets faithfully, hoping to stop crimes before they happen. While hunting an escaped convict, he encounters a woman also hunting thieves. She's a delicious distraction—until he discovers that she’s the criminal he's after. She's smart, challenging, and everything he finds attractive, but he can’t trust her. Veronica Chase has hidden her past as a nobleman's daughter. She confessed to a crime to keep her adopted brother out of prison and now lives in London's underworld, trapped between worlds, belonging nowhere. Forming an uneasy alliance, Veronica and Merritt work together to protect innocent Londoners during the city's riots. Moving between her world and his, they grow closer to each other and to the mob's dangerous leaders. But their newfound trust won't be enough, not unless each faces their demons and asks what's worth saving—the lives they've chosen to lead or the love that leaves them yearning for more.

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Title: [Spanish] - La vida cuando era nuestra

Author: Marian Izaguirre

Narrator: Cristina Sánchez, Carmen Huete

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Release date: June 24, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

La vida cuando era nuestra es un homenaje a la lectura, pero es sobre todo la historia de dos mujeres, una que poco sabe de la vida y otra que quizá sabe demasiado... «Añoro la vida cuando era nuestra», comenta Lola mientras trastea en la cocina de su casa. Esa vida, que era tan suya y tan llena de ilusión, estaba hecha de libros y de charlas de café, de siestas lánguidas y de proyectos para construir un país, España, que aprendía las reglas de la democracia. Pero llegó un día de 1936 en que vivir se convirtió en puro resistir, y ahora, quince años después, solo le queda una pequeña librería de viejo, medio escondida en un barrio de Madrid, donde Lola y su marido Matías acuden cada mañana para vender novelitas románticas, clásicos olvidados y lápices de colores a quien se acerque. Es aquí, en ese lugar modesto, donde una tarde de 1951 Lola conocerá a Alice, una mujer que ha encontrado en los libros su razón de vivir. Siguiendo la mirada de Lola y Alice, viéndolas sentadas detrás del pobre mostrador y leyendo juntas el mismo libro, iremos lejos, hasta Inglaterra, y atrás en el tiempo, hacia principios del siglo XX, para conocer a una niña que creió preguntándose quiénes eran sus padres. La crítica ha dicho... «La vida cuando era nuestra recuerda a una Europa que antes fue algo más que un mercado, todo un símbolo para la cultura, el libro y el humanismo, a pesar de las crueldades de sus guerras.» ABC «Marian Izaguirre [...] hace que el relato de las vidas de unos y otros, situados en tiempos y lugares diferentes, avance sin desmayo mediante un sofisticado engranaje en el que cada historia empuja a las demás. [...] La vida cuando era nuestra es una novela muy atractiva y una declaración de amor a los libros y a los libreros.» elcorreo.com «Izaguirre va navegando por la vida de sus protagonistas jugando con la sencillez de lo cotidiano, como si el mar siempre estuviera en calma, mientras se destejen los grandes conflictos y las miserias y grandezas humanas van tomando su lugar.» elperiodistadigital.com

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Title: The Last Berserker: An action-packed Viking adventure

Series: #1 of Fire Born

Author: Angus Donald

Narrator: Ade Dimberline

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Release date: June 22, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

'Donald is a writer not only at the top of his game, but of the game' Giles Kristian, author of the Raven series 'Donald delivers a masterclass' Theodore Brun, author of A Burning Sea 'A gory, gleeful treat' The Times The greatest warriors are forged in the flames Two pagan fighters 771AD, Northern Europe. Bjarki Bloodhand and Tor Hildarsdottir are journeying south into Saxony. Their destination is the Irminsul, the One Tree that links the Nine Worlds of the Middle-Realm. In this most holy place, they hope to learn how to summon their animal spirits so they can enter the ranks of the legendary berserkir: the elite frenzied fighters of the North. One Christian king Karolus, newly crowned King of the Franks, has a thorn in his side: the warlike Saxon tribes on his northern borders who shun the teachings of the Church, blasphemously continuing to worship their pagan gods. An epic battle for the soul of the North The West's greatest warlord vows to stamp out his neighbours' superstitions and bring the light of the True Faith to the Northmen – at the point of a sword. It will fall to Bjarki, Tor and the men and women of Saxony to resist him in a struggle for the fate of all Europe. Praise for The Last Berserker 'Donald has taken the legendary berserkers, those frothing-at-the-mouth shield-biters, and made them human, which once again proves that Donald is a writer not only at the top of his game, but of the game ... It is a wonderful, rich and violent brew. I welcome Angus Donald to the shield wall of Viking fiction like a thirsty man welcomes a mead-brother to the feast ... A tale worthy of the skalds' Giles Kristian, author of the Raven series 'With The Last Berserker, Donald has given us the first cut of some serious Dark Age beef. By turns heart-racing, intriguing, and touching, this is not a book for the faint-hearted – I can't wait for more' Theodore Brun, author of A Burning Sea 'The Last Berserker strikes with the thundering power of Thor's hammer... rich with the earthy depth, historical detail, intrigue, violence and adventure that we expect from Donald. But it is Bjarki and Tor that make The Last Berserker stand out... Donald's masterful creations will live on in the imagination long after the final page' Matthew Harffy, author of the Bernicia Chronicles 'A wonderful, blood-soaked tale of redemption and revenge, set amidst the eighth century clash of civilisations between Pagan Vikings and Christian Franks, by a master of the genre' Saul David, author of Zulu Hart 'Loved this tale of a berserker facing up against the tidal wave of Charlemagne's expansion. Great characters, brilliantly paced and explosive, gritty battle-scenes. Highly recommended' John Gwynne, author of Malice 'Well researched detail and stunning battle scenes make The Last Berserker a white knuckle ride. A thrilling, up-all-night read' C. R. May, author of The Day of the Wolf 'I loved it. Bjarki and Tor are great characters, instantly relatable. The depth of the immersion in their world and their values gives the book authenticity and weight' Cecelia Holland, author of The Soul Thief

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Title: Old Country Surprises - Book Two

Author: Ken Saik

Narrator: Michael Courtneay

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Release date: June 17, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

How important is family to you? Mike, in Old Country Surprises, thinks he highly values family until his grandfather shows him that his job is more important. Determined to correct that impression, Mike agrees to his grandfather’s request. Go to Ukraine, and I find his grandfather’s birthplace. Mike’s research leads him to experience the rich Ukrainian culture. However, finding the requested birthplace hits a dead end, until he meets Natasha, a young, attractive, aristocratic hotel manager. From her, he learns that appreciating family means knowing its roots and a deeper meaning behind some of the cultural practices as well as its history. Rising to Natasha’s standard of valuing family is something he knows his grandfather would support. First, what he needs but attempts to avoid, is a focused reflection on her and what she modeled. What will force him to do it?

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Title: [Spanish] - Ocho millones de dioses

Author: David B. Gil

Narrator: Masumi Mutsuda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 47 minutes

Release date: June 17, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

La novela definitiva de David B. Gil mezcla viajes e investigación criminal con aventuras de batallas y espadas en el Japón feudal. X PREMIO HISLIBRIS DE NOVELA HISTÓRICA MEJOR FICCIÓN HISTÓRICA 2019. 20 Minutos Un hombre de fe obligado a desentrañar los más terribles crímenes, un joven samurái erigido en su protector, un viaje a través de un país castigado por siglos de guerra. Toledo, 1579. El padre Martín Ayala recibe la inesperada encomienda de regresar a Japón -el país donde se formó como sacerdote y misionero- diez años después de ser apartado de la misión por su relación ilícita con una joven japonesa. Alguien está asesinando con ritual crueldad a los padres cristianos en dichas costas. Ayala, considerado el máximo conocedor del idioma y las costumbres niponas en el seno de la Iglesia, deberá desentrañar las razones que se ocultan tras estas muertes. Japón, año 7 de la Era Tenshô. Kudô Kenjirô, hijo de un samurái rural, es elegido para una ingrata labor: proteger a un extranjero llegado con la intención de investigar unos crímenes inciertos. Kenjirô pronto descubrirá que fuerzas extrañas conspiran para que el visitante no lleve a buen puerto sus pesquisas. Juntos recorrerán un Japón devastado por la guerra y emponzoñado por las conspiraciones. A medida que el jesuita se reencuentra con su pasado, el curso de la investigación se desvelará fundamental no solo para la pervivencia de la cristiandad, sino para el propio futuro del país. Reseñas: «La mejor ficción histórica del 2019, para mí, fue Ocho millones de dioses (Suma de Letras), de David B. Gil ». David Yagüe, 20 Minutos «La novela es apasionante y de nuevo está plagada por una colección de personajes increíbles, perfectamente definidos.[...] Sin embargo, lo que hace única esta propuesta es su capacidad de nuevo para atraparnos, por devolvernos la lectura como placer íntimo, como viaje, como sueño». Público «David B. Gil es un claro ejemplo que suelo dejar encima de la mesa cuando alguien me comenta angustiado que no encuentra en la literatura actual nada bueno que leer ». Cuarto poder «Una novela que genera pasión a cada palabra y cada párrafo ». La colina de Raven «Hay novelas bien escritas, novelas muy bien escritas, novelas muy muy bien escritas... y luego está Ocho millones de dioses». Conversando entre libros «Interiorizas de tal modo a los personajes que es como si caminaras con ellos por un Japón tan fascinante como peligroso». El aguijón escarlata «Encontrarme con un novelista tan exquisito como David B. Gil ha sido descubrir un agradable tesoro literario». Serendipia «David B. Gil reinventa la novela histórica aproximándola a técnicas propias de otros géneros literarios». Salvador García, Hislibris «Una ambientación histórica soberbia y un estilo cuidado, de palabras precisas, casi poéticas». Goodreads «Si tienes ganas de una gran historia, no dudes en leer Ocho Millones de Dioses ». Espai WabiSabi «Me decía LJ Salart por Twitter que Ocho millones de dioses es una novela de género sin ser de género. Y la verdad es que esta es una frase que describe a la perfección la historia que hay entre las páginas de este libro: una novela de samuráis, de shoguns, de monjes, todo eso ambientado en un Japón que casi parece de fantasía». A través de otro espejo

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Title: Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder

Author: Ashis Gupta

Narrator: Timothy Howard Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Release date: June 11, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

This is the true story of Hans Schroeder, a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself with a SS Panzer division on the Russian front where he is captured and taken prisoner. Years later, he is released from a Siberian prisoner-of-war camp and returns to Wiesbaden, his beautiful German hometown. Those were years of great hardship in postwar Germany. Hans is lucky to find a job in Hans Wiegel's toy shop, falls in love with Eva, and eventually decides to emigrate to the USA. Hans's mother had earlier moved to America and her glowing letters fire up the young couple's dreams. Hans settles down to an exemplary family life in Massachusetts, USA until one day something happens. Hans snaps, suddenly, and commits a horrific double-murder. During the course of his trial his past experiences are exposed under psychiatric investigations, experiences that shed light on the dramatic events Hans was a part of while a prisoner of the Russians. Hans comes across as a conflicted, confused personality. If the narrative appears confused at times, it is partly because of the confusion that reigns in Hans's mind. His imagination often suppresses one identity to allow another to take shape and bubble to he surface. As the story opens in the early 1970s, Hans is sitting in a Massachusetts courthouse watching the jury selection for his second trial on two counts of murder. The harrowing details of what follows remind us that the scars inflicted by the torments and excesses of authoritarian regimes never fade away. Seldom do the demons from one's past completely disappear.

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Title: Ben Hur A Tale Of The Christ

Author: Lew Wallace

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Ensemble

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 4 minutes

Release date: June 10, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir. With Roman training, Ben-Hur distinguishes himself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command. With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his estate. That rival is crippled, financially and bodily, in a no-holds-barred race (memorable from the 1959 movie with Charlton Heston). Ben-Hur turns his attention to the prophesied King of the Jews, when through the sheik he meets Balthasar, one of the Three Wise Men, and hears of the child born years ago. Will Ben-Hur be the general who brings victories to the King, and finally liberates Israel from the oppressive Roman yoke? In his quest for the answer, Ben-Hur seeks out the Nazarene, now rumored to be The Messiah. THAT hero needs no introduction. Curious about the lack of kingly trappings and ambitions about this man, Ben-Hur begins to suspect that his kingdom is not of this world. And with him, we receive a gut-wrenching eye-witness view of Jesus’ arrest, humiliation, and crucifixion. Produced by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Garret Giuliano ©2021 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) 2021 Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller 'Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney' and 'Dark Horse:

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Title: Requiem for the Last Indian

Author: Ashis Gupta

Narrator: Pat Towne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

An unlikely love story of a Cree maiden from Canada's James Bay and a descendant of the first settlers of Northern Canada who came from the Orkneys of Scotland to work for the Hudson Bay Company three hundred years ago. A bittersweet tale of love, redemption, wisdom, racist attitudes, and marginalization of Canada's First Nations women spanning three hundred years into the present days of missing and murdered aboriginal women. While tracing a family's history, the novel also records the land's metamorphosis from a simple, nature-centred life to a complex world of trade, politics, intrigue, and the exploitation and degradation of the earth's resources. The novel weaves a delicate fabric on interconnections between legends, fantasy, and cultural dislocation inspired by the nautical disaster of the 'Braer', an oil tanker which perished off the coast of Shetland Island, Scotland, in 1995.

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Title: Thoughts On Art and Life

Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Ensemble

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

'Thoughts On Art and Life' by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissance. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art, and science. The translator, Maurice Baring trawled the available manuscripts to distil da Vinci's writings on these subjects into a single, accessible tome, which will be of interest to students of da Vinci, the Renaissance, and the history of both art and science. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal Produced by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Garret Giuliano ©2021 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) 2021 Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller 'Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney' and 'Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison'. Giuliano can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well-known movie actor.

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Title: [Spanish] - La hija del Capitán

Author: Aleksandr Pushkin

Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Release date: May 7, 2021

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Piotr Andréyevich llega con su fiel criado Savélich a la fortaleza Belogórskaya. Allí se enamora de María Ivánovna, la hija del capitán. Por culpa de la interpretación de un poema, Piotr se bate en duelo con Alexéi Ivánich Shvabrin, del que sale mal parado. Ante la amenaza de la posible incursión de Pugachov, la fortaleza se prepara militarmente, tras el asalto, Piotr se libra por suerte de la horca y Pugachov queda en la fortaleza. El joven Andréyevich recibe un aviso de ir a servir militarmente a Oremburgo. Una vez allí se entera de que María ha sido hecha prisionera y van a obligarla a casarse con Shvabrin. Piotr va a liberarla. Después le juzgarán por abandonar su puesto y apoyar supuestamente al traidor. María, la hija del capitán, interviene ante la propia emperatriz.