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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Vanessa and Virginia Author: Susan Sellers Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 12-17-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic collaborators. As children, they fight for attention from their overextended mother, their brilliant but difficult father, and their adored brother, Thoby. As young women, they support each other through a series of devastating deaths, then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury, bent on creating new lives and groundbreaking works of art. Through everything - marriage, lovers, loss, madness, children, success and failure - the sisters remain the closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other. In this lyrical, impressionistic account, written as a love letter and elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Sellers imagines her way into the heart of the lifelong relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity, imagination, and fidelity to what it known of both lives, Sellers has created a powerful portrait of sibling rivalry.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Treachery Subtitle: Thomas Kydd, Book 9 Author: Julian Stockwin Narrator: Christian Rodska Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 82 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Then Kydd is given an extraordinary opportunity to salvage his fortunes and return to the sea as captain of a privateer. But privateers are hated by the French and the Royal Navy.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Calligrapher's Daughter Subtitle: A Novel Author: Eugenia Kim Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 09-11-09 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 71 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Spanning 30 years, The Calligrapher's Daughter is a richly drawn novel in the tradition of Lisa See and Amy Tan about a country torn between ancient customs and modern possibilities, a family ultimately united by love, and a woman who never gives up her search for freedom. Editorial Reviews: Najin's father, a calligrapher, clings to tradition as the Japanese occupation threatens Korean culture in the early twentieth century. He continually slights his daughter, the curious Najin, who holds back her questions and hides the hurt that comes from her father's insensitivity. If Lorna Raver's mature voice seems a curious choice for the young heroine, her throaty richness becomes more appropriate as the production proceeds. It fits the royalty of the Korean court, where Najin's mother sends her to escape an arranged marriage. Raver's resonance also makes sense as young Najin faces threats beyond her level of maturity. With devotion and strength, Najin works to maintain her family's well-being during times of war and poverty, ignoring her own desires for scholarship and love. Critic Reviews: "A beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Korean history." ( Publishers Weekly Starred Review)

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Sacred Hearts Subtitle: A Novel Author: Sarah Dunant Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs Language: English Release date: 08-03-09 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 165 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, 16-year-old Serafina is willful, emotional, sharp, and defiant - young enough to have a life to look forward to and old enough to know when that life is being cut short. Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl's cell to sedate her. Thus begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal between the young rebel and the clever, scholarly nun, for whom the girl becomes the daughter she will never have. As Serafina rails against her incarceration, others are drawn into the drama: the ancient, mysterious Suora Magdalena - with her history of visions and ecstasies - locked in her cell; the ferociously devout novice mistress Suora Umiliana, who comes to see in the postulant a way to extend her influence; and, watching it all, the abbess, Madonna Chiara, a woman as fluent in politics as she is in prayer. As disorder and rebellion mount, it is the abbess's job to keep the convent stable while, outside its walls, the dictates of the Counter-Reformation begin to purge the Catholic Church and impose on the nunneries a regime of terrible oppression. Sarah Dunant, the best-selling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan, brings this intricate Renaissance world compellingly to life. Amid Sacred Hearts is a rich, engrossing, multifaceted love story, encompassing the passions of the flesh, the exultation of the spirit, and the deep, enduring power of friendship. Critic Reviews: "A cast of complex characters breathe new life into the classic star-crossed lovers trope while affording readers a look at a facet of Renaissance life beyond the far more common viscounts and courtesans. Dunant's an accomplished storyteller, and this is a rich and rewarding novel." (Publishers Weekly) "Her painstaking portrait of this world, both its delights and its privations, is part of the pleasure of her story. ... Dunant's masterful portrait of both a time and a troubled adolescent's struggles builds the tension, as both the fate of Serafina and of the convent's way of life hangs in the balance." (Seattle Times) "The story becomes a gripping thriller played out against a political battle between rival factions among the nuns. ... Dunant, wisely opting for modern dialogue rather than cod-Renaissance, heartbreakingly imparts the dread claustrophobia of a life sentence for girls who've barely begun to live." (Daily Mail, UK)

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Heir to the Glimmering World Author: Cynthia Ozick Narrator: Julie Dretzin Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 02-25-09 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Heir to the Glimmering World is a highly atmospheric novel set in New York in the 1930s. When a young woman becomes assistant to a German professor living in the Bronx, she must find her place in his chaotic household and learn to navigate the eccentric generosity of his benefactor, an aging Christopher Robin.

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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Eleventh Man Author: Ivan Doig Narrator: Tom Stechschulte Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 10-30-08 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 39 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup made Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's various lonely and dangerous theaters. The 11th man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. Man by man, he is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates for small-town newspapers across the country, like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, little dreaming that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and put to the test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed. A deeply American story, The Eleventh Man is Ivan Doig's most powerful novel to date. ©2008 Ivan Doing; (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1577 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Casca the Phoenix: Casca Series #14 Author: Barry Sadler Narrator: Gene Engene Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 10-27-08 Publisher: Books in Motion Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Viet Cong Commander Ho Van Tiuyen has a hit list, and Casca is on it. Using his supposedly invincible Ke' Sat Nhan assassins to spread death and terror among American ranks, Ho is certain he can take out any man at any time of his own choosing. Yet, Casey Romain (Casca) has powerful friends of his own, including a fierce tribe of Kamserai warriors and their unusual allies. Throughout his battles in the Asian jungles, the ancient warrior fights on under the curse of the Christ at Calvary, condemning Casca to outlive the ages as an eternal soldier.

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