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Title: Hidden Fires

Author: Sairish Hussain

Narrator: Krupa Pattani, Raj Ghatak, Amerjit Deu

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Release date: January 18, 2024

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past? ‘A sweeping tale of resilience’ i News 'An ineffably touching novel by a talented young author' Saga Magazine 'Harrowing yet uplifting…A visceral exploration of family, identity and loss' Sunday Post *** Ramadan, 2017. Yusuf wakes in the middle of the night to pray. His routine is always the same, but something tells him that tonight is different. Yellow flames blur Yusuf’s vision, and the laughter of a small child echoes in his ears. But this time, the red, smoke-filled skies aren’t just in his memory. Miles away, Rubi is also awake. On the television, she watches reports of a devastating fire in London. She is already anxious when her parents send her to stay with her Grandpa Yusuf, whose conservative house rules are almost as unbearable as the loneliness she feels at home. Yusuf’s lifestyle does not gel with Rubi’s. But when she finds him scared and confused one night, it becomes clear that there’s more to her grandfather than Rubi ever considered. As Yusuf grapples with the past, Rubi is determined to save him. But the memories that are recovered and spoken of for the first time in years are more painful than she could have imagined. From the Costa Prize-shortlisted author of The Family Tree and Women's Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Finalist, Hidden Fires is a powerful story of grief and loss, the power of family and the long arm of history. Readers love Hidden Fires: ‘A heartbreaking, emotional rollercoaster of a read’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘A must read book’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘An exquisite book exploring the secrets, vulnerabilities and tremendous bonds between three generations of family’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'What a stunning read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'It's profound and humane and loving' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'The style of writing is beautiful, eloquent, as if you are reading Urdu prose' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Such a powerful novel. I could not put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Moved me to tears' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Praise for Hidden Fires: 'A tale of how we can live together yet be so far apart, and of how bridges can be built' Woman's Weekly ‘Hussain captures a thousand untold stories in one’ The New Arab ‘There are not only hidden fires in this novel, but myriad hidden lives … It treats difficult, serious subjects of buried trauma with real care, combined with a lightness of touch that carries the novel with humour, surprise and love’ Ross Raisin, author of A Hunger

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Title: Code Name Butterfly

Author: Embassie Susberry

Narrator: Nerissa Bradley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker's role in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest days of World War II. In the City of Light, one woman will stand against darkness. Paris, 1941. With Nazi occupation imminent, journalist Elodie Mitchell plans to return home to Chicago. But an unexpected invitation to a Josephine Baker show changes everything. Mistaken for the star, Elodie is whisked backstage, where she uncovers an underground resistance movement hidden beneath the glitz and glamour. Drawn into a whisper network of spies, Elodie accepts a perilous mission: to go undercover as Josephine's cousin and gather vital intelligence. In a world on the edge of darkness, Elodie must summon unwavering courage to protect her beloved adopted city and its people – and getting caught is not an option. A wartime epic about love, bravery and fighting against prejudice in all its forms, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Marie Benedict and Pam Jenoff. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Readers adore Code Name Butterfly: ‘A WWII story with a difference…' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The setting and atmosphere is stellar!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I felt like I was in Paris! Susberry’s vivid descriptions were phenomenal.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I’ve read many books with this setting, but none as wonderfully immersive as this one.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Could not recommend it more! Have never read a book so fast!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Draws the reader in from the first page and doesn’t let go. Please pick it up! It won’t disappoint.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An interesting, well researched and well written book. An excellent read.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A complex story about more than just WWII in France or Josephine Baker.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'It's about family, racism, and courage. I loved it.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Title: The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets

Author: Stefan Hertmans

Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 29, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this revealing and poignant story, Stefan Hertmans uncovers haunting details about the previous owner of his house and the crime he committed as a member of the Nazi police. In 1979 Stefan Hertmans became obsessed with a rundown townhouse in Ghent. The previous owners were mentioned only in passing during the acquisition, and it wasn’t until the new millennium, long after he had sold the house, that he came across a memoir by the owner’s son Adriaan Verhulst, a distinguished history professor and a former teacher of Hertmans’, which revealed that his father was a former SS officer.       Hertmans finds he is profoundly haunted by images of the family as ghostly presences in the rooms he had once known so well, he begins a journey of discovery—not to tell the story of Adriaan’s father, but rather the story of the house and the people who lived in it and passed through it. Archives, interviews with relatives and personal documents help him imagine the world of this house as they reveal not only a marital drama, but also a connection between past visitors to the house and important figures in the culture and politics of Flanders now.       A stunning and immersive reimagining of a family in a historical moment of great upheaval confirms Hertmans’ always brilliant melding of fiction and nonfiction.

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Title: A Bakery in Paris: A Novel

Author: Aimie K. Runyan

Narrator: Caroline Hewitt, Imani Jade Powers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.   1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. Lisette Vigneau—headstrong, willful, and often ignored by her wealthy parents—awaits the outcome of the war from her parents’ grand home in the Place Royale in the very heart of the city. When an excursion throws her into the path of a revolutionary National Guardsman, Théodore Fournier, her destiny is forever changed. She gives up her life of luxury to join in the fight for a Paris of the People. She opens a small bakery with the hopes of being a vital boon to the impoverished neighborhood in its hour of need. When the city falls into famine, and then rebellion, her resolve to give up the comforts of her past life is sorely tested. 1946: Nineteen-year-old Micheline Chartier is coping with the loss of her father and the disappearance of her mother during the war. In their absence, she is charged with the raising of her two younger sisters. At the hand of a well-meaning neighbor, Micheline finds herself enrolled in a prestigious baking academy with her entire life mapped out for her. Feeling trapped and desperately unequal to the task of raising two young girls, she becomes obsessed with finding her mother. Her classmate at the academy, Laurent Tanet, may be the only one capable of helping Micheline move on from the past and begin creating a future for herself.  Both women must grapple with loss, learn to accept love, and face impossible choices armed with little more than their courage and a belief that a bit of flour, yeast, sugar, and love can bring about a revolution of their own.

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Title: The Unladylike Lessons in Love

Series: #1 of The Marleigh Sisters

Author: Amita Murray

Narrator: Krupa Pattani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Release date: July 20, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

‘Sizzling romance with a splash of intrigue’ Julia Quinn, author of Bridgerton 'Loved the witty dialogue … sizzling!' Good Housekeeping, '100 Best Books for Summer Reading' Fast-paced and feisty Regency fiction with a dazzlingly daring heroine who breaks the mould. Praise for the Marleigh sisters series by Amita Murray: ‘Delightfully engrossing with a dash of peril’ Woman’s Weekly ‘Scintillating and scandalous’ Cosmopolitan ‘A dazzling romance…Unladylike Rules of Attraction has it all’ My Weekly Not every Regency lady is looking for a husband… As the daughter of an English earl and his Indian mistress, impulsive Lila Marleigh has already broken the rules of society into tiny pieces. When a face she never thought she would see again appears and begs for help, Lila must court notoriety once more and pit her wits against the annoyingly handsome aristocrat, Ivor Tristram. But does she risk opening her heart to the one person who can break it…?

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Title: [Spanish] - La ciudad que el diablo se llevó

Author: David Toscana

Narrator: Jaime Collepardo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Release date: July 19, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Después de la destrucción, ¿qué queda para volver a empezar?, se pregunta David Toscana en La ciudad que el diablo se llevó, una novela coral que hace de la imaginación un proceso de supervivencia en un país devastado por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde el futuro parece que no llega nunca. Feliks, Kazimierz, Eugeniusz y Ludwick conviven con las heridas de una ciudad que no acaba de resucitar y recorren las ruinas de Varsovia como si recorrieran sus propias vidas despedazadas por la guerra: entre paseos que se adentran en los escombros, borracheras que miran al abismo, libros perdidos y reescritos interminablemente o cementerios donde germinan historias de vivos y muertos. Junto a ellos, Olga, Marianka, las hermanas Kasia y Gosia, un barbero, un escritor y un grupo de presos comprenden que sobrevivir significa reconstruir partiendo de las ruinas y que el sentido de la existencia está en la belleza, donde sea que haya que buscarla. Una novela sobre la supervivencia y las ruinas de nuestro tiempo. 'David Toscana es uno de los más innovadores narradores mexicanos contemporáneos.'—Eduardo Espina, El Observador 'David Toscana es un narrador emblemático de nuestro tiempo.'—Élmer Mendoza, El Universal 'El humor, y en específico el negro, en las novelas de Toscana es legendario (…) logra unir la gran tradición de la picaresca en español con el universo metafísico de otro checo, Franz Kafka, para imponer un nuevo adjetivo atmosférico a la literatura mexicana: toscaniano o toscanesco.'—Juan José de Ávila, El Confabulario, El Universal

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Title: Poland, a Green Land: A Novel

Author: Aharon Appelfeld

Narrator: Gilli Messer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents’ Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy—and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine’s practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress shop for a ten-day trip to his family’s ancestral village in Poland. Struggling to emerge from a midlife depression, Yaakov is drawn to Szydowce, intrigued by the stories he'd heard as a child from his parents and their friends, who would wax nostalgic about their pastoral, verdant hometown in the decades before 1939. The horrific years that followed were relegated to the nightmares that shattered sleep and were not discussed during waking hours. When he arrives in Krakow, Yaakov enjoys the charming sidewalk cafes and relaxed European atmosphere, so different from the hurly burly of Tel Aviv. And his landlady in Szydowce—beautiful, sensual Magda, with a tragic past of her own—enchants him with her recollections of his family. But when Yaakov attempts to purchase from the townspeople the desecrated tombstones that had been stolen from Szydowce’s plowed-under Jewish cemetery, a very different Poland emerges, one that shatters Yaakov’s idyllic view of the town and its people, and casts into sharp relief the tragic reality of Jewish life in Poland—past, present, and future. In this novel of revelation and reconciliation, Aharon Appelfeld once again mines lived experience to create fiction of powerful, universal resonance.

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Title: Retrospective: A Novel

Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Narrator: Sheldon Romero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions. The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives: especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.  Growing up in Colombia as the children of famous actors, Sergio and Marianella were privileged and artistic, until their parents became disillusioned with bourgeois conventions and moved the entire family to China. Mao’s Cultural Revolution was underway and the family lived in an entirely ex-pat hotel where they learned Chinese and joined the revolution, became members of the Red Guard, and trained as guerilla fighters. When they returned to Colombia to support the revolution there, they were sent into the countryside to join the guerilla force, were shot at and nearly died. Out of these lives molded by ideology and zealotry, came an artistic second life for Sergio as he escaped the movement and became his country’s most celebrated film director. From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his family to Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Colombia, Sergio and his family's experience is extraordinary by any standards. Equal parts family saga and epic historical novel, Retrospective reveals the story of one man and his family -- based on real people and events -- and a devastating portrait of the forces that shaped their lives, and for half a century turned the world upside down.

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Title: A History of Burning

Author: Janika Oza

Narrator: Kp Upadhyayula, Lipica Shah

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko: one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change At the turn of the twentieth century Pirbhai, a teenage boy, is taken from his village in India and travels perilously across the sea to labour on the East African railroad for the British. There, he is given a ruthless order. Following it will ensure his survival. But it will also torment him and reverberate across his family's future for decades to come. During the waning days of British colonial rule, and as Uganda moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai's children and grandchildren come of age in a divided nation. In 1972, when Idi Amin's brutal regime expels the Ugandan Asians, the family has no choice but to flee. In the chaos, they leave something devastating and unexpected behind. As Pirbhai's grandchildren find their way back to each other in exile in Toronto, a letter arrives that will stoke the flames of the fire that haunts the family. It makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, in order to secure their own place in the world. A History of Burning is an unforgettable tour de force, an intimate family saga of complicity and resistance, about the stories we share, what remains unspoken and the eternal search for home. ©2023 Janika Oza (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish

Author: Morgan Llywelyn

Narrator: Mil Nicholson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 20 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald isle their own.