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Title: [French] - Scènes de la vie privée

Author: Honore de Balzac

Narrator: Françoise Gillard, Vanessa Bile-Audouard, Pierre-François Garel, Michel Vuillermoz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Release date: July 29, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

La Comédie humaine est le titre sous lequel Honoré de Balzac a regroupé un ensemble de plus de quatre-vingt-dix ouvrages — romans, nouvelles, contes et essais — de genres réaliste, romantique, fantastique ou philosophique, et dont l’écriture s’échelonne de 1829 à 1850. Par cette œuvre, Balzac veut faire une « histoire naturelle de la société », explorant de façon systématique les groupes sociaux et les rouages de la société, afin de brosser une vaste fresque de son époque susceptible de servir de référence aux générations futures.

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Title: [German] - Die Bibel, Altes Testament, Folge 5: Der Turmbau zu Babel

Author: Aikaterini Maria Schlösser

Narrator: Samina König, Konrad Bösherz, Anja Stadlober, Jürgen Thormann, Dirc Simpson, Alexandra Lange, Engelbert Von Nordhausen, Uschi Hugo, Wolfgang Bahro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Release date: July 28, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Vom ersten Tag an wollte Jaika die Wolken erreichen. Sie hatte sie sich weiß vorgestellt. Unendlich weich und strahlend. Jetzt war Jaika in den Wolken. Doch es war ganz anders als in ihrer Vorstellung. Graue Massen belagerten sie zu allen Seiten, die brummten und zischten wie hungrige Bestien.

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Title: [German] - Schwarze Tränen - Die Perlenprinzessin, Teil 5 (Gekürzt)

Author: Iny Lorentz

Narrator: Anne Moll

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Release date: July 28, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Während Ruth und ihr Segelschiff Poerava auf der monatelangen Seereise nach Hamburg immer neuen Gefahren ausgesetzt sind, spitzt sich die Fehde zwischen den Familien Mensing und Simonsen dramatisch zu: Mathias Mensing verkauft Ruths Schwestern an einen tunesischen Sklavenhändler. Zwar gelingt es James Hutten mithilfe eines alten Freundes schließlich, Mensing verhaften zu lassen, doch die Mädchen bleiben verschwunden. In England erkennt derweil Jamesʼ Todfeind Zechariah Bartlett, dass er das Spiel um Huttonsfield Castle verloren hat. Heimlich verkauft er seinen Besitz und flieht außer Landes - nachdem er James und Ruth noch eine letzte tödliche Falle gestellt hat ...

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Title: Beloved Poison: Jem Flockhart, Book 1

Series: #1 of Jem Flockhart Mysteries

Author: E S Thomson

Narrator: Rachel Atkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Release date: July 27, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A dark and richly atmospheric thriller, perfect for fans of Laura Purcell and Sarah Perry. London, 1846. Ramshackle and crumbling, St Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors the doctors bicker and fight. Ambition, jealousy and hatred seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything, but says nothing. And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden inside the infirmary's old chapel, her quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten past - with fatal consequences . . . “It's rare that a book is Gothic enough for me, but Beloved Poison is killing it. The blood, the bones...” - Laura Purcell

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Title: The Emerald Necklace

Author: Linda Rosen

Narrator: Traci Odom

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Release date: July 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Three months after her husband's death in 1969, Rosalee Linoff is determined to jump back into life. She desperately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again—and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, bestselling author Fran Barish. But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret—and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace. As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality—which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran. When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?

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Title: The Art of Breaking Ice

Author: Rachael Mead

Narrator: Jessica Douglas-Henry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would make history by becoming the first Australian woman to set foot on the icy continent, but it was her art that would change everything. Though a talented artist, Nel has always been defined by her role as ‘the explorer's wife', but in the clear expanse of the Southern Ocean, her true self is finally allowed to emerge. Despite misogyny from the all-male crew and increasing resentment from her mercurial husband, Nel's art begins to flourish. Her new friend, a gentle ornithologist, encourages her to explore, but as the ship ploughs on towards Antarctica, rumours swirl, threatening her marriage and the tenuous peace between the controlling Phillip and his crew. In the clear, white light of the south, Nel will be forced to confront the truth of herself and the man to whom she has dedicated her life. This stunning reimagining of Nel Law's life reveals a ground-breaking artist searching for freedom in a world where women's lives were still defined by their husbands.

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Title: [German] - Die Bibel, Altes Testament, Folge 4: Arche Noah II

Author: Aikaterini Maria Schlösser

Narrator: Saskia Haisch, Rieke Werner, Julia Biedermann, Horst Kurth, Sven Brieger, Christoph Jablonka, Konrad Bösherz, Alexandra Lange, Felix Strüven, Sebastian Fitzner, Engelbert Von Nordhausen, Martin Sabel, Marco Rosenberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tag um Tag verging. Doch ließ sich der Tag nicht mehr von der Nacht unterscheiden. Immerdar war es dunkler. Und immerdar war es still. So trieben sie dahin auf dem kalten Grab der Menschheit.

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Title: The Lie

Author: Mary Chamberlain

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Release date: July 20, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

TWO SISTERS, ONE DANGEROUS LIE, AND A DEVASTATING TRUTH. Joan, once a singing star of the 1940s and 1950s, now ekes out a lonely, impoverished existence – until a chance encounter promises a comeback concert and an album. Her sister Kathleen is a successful medical researcher who has been offered the directorship of a prestigious institute in Los Angeles as she contemplates the recent break-up with the love of her life. Over the years, Joan and Kathleen draw closer together until a figure from Joan's past threatens everything they've built. As the sisters excavate the lies that bind them, a more profound truth threatens to drive them apart.

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Title: The Castilian Pomegranate

Series: #2 of The Castilian Saga

Author: Anna Belfrage

Narrator: Greg Patmore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Release date: July 18, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An enraged and grieving queen commands them to retrieve her exquisite jewel and abandon their foundling brat overseas—or never return. Robert FitzStephan and his wife, Noor, have been temporarily exiled. Officially, they are to travel to the courts of Aragon and Castile as emissaries of Queen Eleanor of England. Unofficially, the queen demands two things: that they abandon Lionel, their foster son, in foreign lands and that they bring back a precious jewel—the Castilian Pomegranate. Noor would rather chop off a foot than leave Lionel in a foreign land—especially as he’s been entrusted to her by his dead father, the last true prince of Wales. And as to the jewel, stealing it would mean immediate execution … Spain in 1285 is a complicated place. France has launched a crusade against Aragon and soon enough Robert is embroiled in the conflict, standing side by side with their Aragonese hosts. Once in Castile, it is the fearsome Moors that must be fought, with Robert facing weeks separated from his young wife, a wife who is enthralled by the Castilian court—and a particular Castilian gallant. Jealousy, betrayal, and a thirst for revenge plunge Noor and Robert into life-threatening danger. Will they emerge unscathed or will savage but beautiful Castile leave them permanently scarred and damaged?

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Title: [German] - Die Bibel, Neues Testament, Folge 3: Johannes der Täufer

Author: Aikaterini Maria Schlösser

Narrator: Sven Brieger, Bettina Weiß, Marc Schülert, Alexandra Lange, Matthias Keller, Arianne Borbach

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Release date: July 14, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nachdem Johannes jahrelang als Heimatloser in der Wüste umhergeirrt war, hatte er nun ein festes Ziel. Er konnte nicht mehr die Tage zählen, die er schweigend in Einsamkeit verbracht hatte. Nun suchte er gezielt die Menschen auf. Und er würde so lange Gottes Wort verkünden, bis ihm die Stimme genommen wurde.