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Title: Lucien & Olivia

Author: Andre Narbonne

Narrator: Steve Baker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Release date: April 28, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lucien and Olivia by André Narbonne, author of Twelve Miles to Midnight, is a comic statement on the beautiful waywardness of life. Built on scenes of discovery and error, the novel satirizes the transactional view of human relations that has elbowed its way into our lives by way of contemporary political discourse. The novel is set in the 1980s before cell phones, personal computers, and Facebook “likes.” Lucien is a marine engineer on a Canadian tanker. While on one-month leave in Halifax, he meets Olivia, a brilliant philosophy student at Dalhousie University, who takes an immediate dislike to him. What begins as mutual antipathy changes when they discover how compatible their oddities are. Charged by Olivia not to say he loves her, Lucien returns to sea and to a job characterized by its plodding predictability. Here he discovers that not everything in his life is foreseeable, including his feelings for Olivia. This is a fascinating and different work of fiction.

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Title: [Spanish] - M. - Los últimos días de Europa

Author: Antonio Scurati

Narrator: Raúl Rojo, Javier Portugués (portu)

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Release date: April 27, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS DE EUROPA EL PRINCIPIO DEL FIN: HITLER, LAS LEYES RACIALES, LA GUERRA. LA GRAN NOVELA DE NUESTRO TIEMPO LLEGA A SUS AÑOS CRUCIALES Más de medio millón de ejemplares vendidos de los dos primeros volúmenes, publicados en 40 países «Scurati revisa la historia. Como Yourcenar, Gore Vidal, Sebald, Echenoz o Cercas». Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El País Con febril precisión, Antonio Scurati continúa su «novela total» reconstruyendo el delirio de un Mussolini ilusionado con poder influir en las decisiones del Führer, más solo que nunca y por fin consciente de la debilidad italiana cuando declara que ha llegado «la hora de las decisiones irrevocables». Acabada la guerra civil española, el continente se hunde en un nuevo conflicto internacional apenas veinte años después del fin del anterior. Estos son los últimos días de Europa: la culminación del autoengaño de una Italia fascista doblegada ante la infamia de las leyes raciales y el pacto con la Alemania nazi. La crítica ha dicho: «Una novela documental escrita de nuevo con una potencia narrativa arrolladora y absorbente». Alberto Ojeda, El Cultural «Apasionante y monumental. [...] Scurati, igual que sucede con Éric Vuillard, no teme enfrentarse a la historia más reciente y, siempre cuando los lectores lo consideren una novela sobre la historia y no un libro de historia, el relato se vuelve legible, agradable e induce, además, a una necesaria reflexión acerca de nuestra pasado que no deja de llamar a la puerta». Luis M. Alonso, El Periódico - Abril «Scurati arma la novela con elegancia, precisión y rigor histórico, narrando paso a paso el camino hacia la carnicería humana a la que se vio abocada la Italia fascista, una Italia que no tenía ni armamento ni soldados adiestrados, ni provisiones, ni nada para emprender guerra alguna». Javier Feito Blanco, Zenda «Resulta evidente que Antonio Scurati ha dado con la tecla para explicar de un modo ameno, y a la vez riguroso, la Historia». Miguel Ángel Villena, elDiario «Lo que nos narra pertenece al ayer, pero podría escribir el mañana». Rafael Narbona, El Cultural «Formidable e impresionante. [...] Un ejemplo brillante del poder de la literatura y de la capacidad para articular el tiempo histórico y el tiempo humano». Le Monde «En la gigantesca reconstrucción que Antonio Scurati está haciendo de Mussolini y de su régimen, este volumen me ha parecido el más apasionante. [...] Su doble registro [...] le da a la lectura una intensidad inaudita». Corrado Augias, Il Venerdì di Repubblica «Me han gustado muchísimo las novelas de Antonio Scurati sobre Mussolini». Pierre Lemaitre «Una lección histórica de antifascismo disfrazada de novela». The New York Times «Aquí queda revelado el ADN del fascismo». La Repubblica «Tras narrar el ascenso de Mussolini con M1 y los años del régimen con M2, Scurati aborda ahora el corazón de las tinieblas de la Italia fascista». Luca Mastrantonio, Corriere della Sera

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Title: The Plot Against America

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Ron Silver

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Release date: April 27, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an 'understanding' with the Nazis promising peace between the two nations. Growing up in the 'ghetto' of Newark, Philip Roth recounts his childhood caught in the stranglehold of this counterfactual nightmare. As America sinks into its own dark metamorphosis and Jewish families are torn apart, fear and uncertainty spread. Who really is President Lindbergh? And to what end has he hijacked America? 'Many passages in The Plot Against America echo feelings voiced today by vulnerable Americans - immigrants and minorities as alarmed by Trump's election as the Jews of Newark are frightened by Lindbergh's' New Yorker 'He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive' Guardian 'Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything...' **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** ©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Title: Until We Meet: We'll Meet Again Book 2

Series: #2 of We'll Meet Again

Author: Rhonda Forrest

Narrator: Casey Withoos

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: April 27, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A small garrison of Australian soldiers is left to defend a town and its people against the might of the Japanese forces. This is a story of those who were left behind and those who waited for them to return. *** In early 1940, Bud joins the United States Navy, his aim, to become a US Submariner. Less than two years later, Japanese forces bomb Pearl Harbour. Those living on the islands of New Guinea lie directly in the path of the oncoming enemy. In Rabaul, Joanie prepares to depart, leaving behind her fiancée, those who she loves and many who she has become friends with. As the volcano Tavurvur gathers its forces and bursts forth from its crater, the ill-equipped, small Australian defence known as Lark Force is left to secure the small town. Overwhelmed by the large enemy forces, the order is given, ‘every man for themselves.' Although some will survive, 1053 men lose their lives when a US Submarine sinks the POW Japanese ship, Montevideo Maru. The seeds of destiny are sown and the lives of the American submariner, Bud, and those in Rabaul, intrinsically linked. Will Michael return to fulfil his promise of marrying Joanie and what will be the fate of his young daughter, Gracie, who still turns to the evening star for guidance, for her questions to be answered, and above all to be reunited with her father. Until We Meet is an epic saga, based on actual events that continues the story of Elizabeth's Star. A tale of survival, love and family, set amidst the backdrop of World War II.

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Title: [German] - Träume aus Eis (ungekürzt): Roman

Author: Franziska Winkler

Narrator: Barbara Bišický-Ehrlich

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

München, 1929: zwischen Unternehmertum, Wirtschaftskrise und den Fäden des Lebens Erna und Josef Pankofer sind überglücklich, als sie die kleine Eisdiele in der Kaufinger Straße in München eröffnen. Endlich hat das Tingeln mit dem Eiswagen durch die Straßen ein Ende und sie haben ein besseres Zuhause für sich und ihre beiden Töchter. Doch dann bricht die Weltwirtschaftskrise über sie herein, und die älteste Tochter Frieda verliebt sich ausgerechnet in den Sohn eines Konkurrenten. Das Glück der Familie hängt bald am seidenen Faden - kann die Idee, als erster Laden in ganz Bayern Eis am Stiel zu verkaufen, sie retten, oder sind die Träume aus Eis am Ende nur Luftschlösser ...? Inspiriert von einer wahren Begebenheit: hochemotional und atmosphärisch erzählt Franziska Winkler von der Kraft, die wir brauchen, um an uns selbst zu glauben

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Title: [German] - Der treue Spion (ungekürzt): Kriminalroman

Series: #3 of Gryszinski-Reihe

Author: Uta Seeburg

Narrator: Michael Schrodt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Ein französischer Diplomat verschwindet 1896 spurlos aus dem Münchner Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten. Vermutlich hat er Informationen zu einer neuen Erfindung besessen, die es ermöglicht, telegrafische Falschmeldungen zu produzieren. In den unruhigen Zeiten, auf die Europa zusteuert, birgt diese Technik eine zerstörerische Macht. Die Ermittlungen führen Gryszinski auf eine verhängnisvolle Reise mit düsterem Ausgang. Zwanzig Jahre später hält ein grausamer Krieg die Welt im Klammergriff. Gryszinskis Sohn Fritz ist mittlerweile erwachsen und wird als Meldegänger an der Front in Verdun eingesetzt. Unverhofft gerät er an neue Indizien zum Fall des verschwundenen Diplomaten. Fritz begibt sich auf eine geheime Mission durch Europa, in der Hoffnung, zu Ende zu führen, was sein Vater begonnen hat.

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Title: Chickamauga: A Novel of the American Civil War

Series: #2 of The O'Sullivan Chronicles

Author: Blair Howard

Narrator: M. G. Willis, Laura Willis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Release date: April 25, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Chickamauga: A Novel of the American Civil War is the story of a great battle of the Civil War and the people who fought it, many of them real and some of them the product of the author’s imagination. Chickamauga is a story of the heroism, selflessness, and frailty of the men whose deeds are etched forever on the fields and forests at Chickamauga, the River of Death. Chickamauga is the story of the generals who planned the grand strategies that would be played out by lesser but braver men. And it’s the story of heroism, desperate deeds, and death and destruction on a scale the likes of which had never been seen before. Chickamauga is the story of Jesse Dixon and Patrick McCann, two boys in blue uniforms who must grow up before their time, and of Billy Cobb, a Confederate soldier who found himself at war, not only with the Union enemy, but also with his conscience. And it’s the story of Sarah Bradley, the daughter of a Southern farmer, and Blake Winter, the Yankee colonel who fell in love with her. Chickamauga is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

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Title: [Basque] - Gilles de Rais

Series: #138 of Narrazioa

Author: Anjel Lertxundi

Narrator: Iñigo Arretxe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Release date: April 24, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Vincent antzerkilariak bizitza aldatuko dion bisita bat jaso du. Goi mailako bi militar dira. Karlistak omen. Arrotz egiten zaizkio aktore eta zuzendari frantsesari haien operetako uniformeak, are arrotzagoa haien gerra, iletratu basatien eta letratu usteen arteko kontutzat baitauka Pirinioen hegoaldean su eta gar dabilen liskar dinastikoa. Urrez erosiko diote borondatea militarrek, eta izenez ere apenas ezagutzen dituen nafar lurraldeetan barrena ibiliko da Vincent, antzerki-lan berariazko batez soldaduak gudurako adoretzen. Urrez erosiko diote duintasun artistikoa ere, militarren esanetara itxuraldatuko baititu Arc-eko Juanaren ibilerak, Karlos VII.aren kausaren alde. Baina Gilles de Rais mariskal pedofiloak Juanaren begietan bezala, Vincentek errai propioetan ezagutuko du –gutxien komeni zaion unean ezagutu ere– pasioaren sua, ez dakien arren zerutik ala infernutik ote datorkion. Eta ezagutuko du, une berean, antzerkiaren eta bizitzaren arteko mugaren lausoa.

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Title: [Basque] - Susmaezinak

Series: #134 of Narrazioa

Author: Itxaro Borda

Narrator: Monika Erdozia

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Release date: April 24, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Aurreko mendeko laurogeiko hamarkadan gaude. Hemerotekan-eta berunezko urtetzat ezagutzen diren haietan. Iparraldean, ETAko iheslari errefuxiatuek aterpe bilatzen dute, eta hori baino gehiago ere bai. Hegoaldetik ihesi joandakoez gain, Iparraldeko militanteak ere badira erakundearen sareetan, baita hainbat komando aktibotan ere. Horien artean, luzaroan ibiltari aritutako komando bateko kideak dira eleberriaren protagonista nagusiak. Ez bakarrak, ordea. Protagonista baitira, halaber, komandoaren ekintzek sorturiko biktima ugariak. Protagonista dira sarraskiek eragindako erreakzio askotarikoak, gorrotoa, etsipena, dolua, tristura, sufrimendua… Protagonista dira, halaber, batzuen eta besteen argudio eta kontrargudioak, gezur itxurako egiak, egia itxurako gezurrak. Protagonista da, funtsean, giza kondizioa, bere loriak eta miseriak agerian. Fikzioa baita, maiz, kronika modurik zintzoena.

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Title: [Basque] - Haize-lekuak

Series: #139 of Narrazioa

Author: Amaia Telleria

Narrator: Amaia Telleria

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Release date: April 24, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Mikelak supituki utzi beharko du atzean baserriko haurtzaroa, ama alargunak Altsasun entregatzen duen unean. Han, gerra zibilaren itzal eta ilinti bizi-bizien artean, neskame arituko da hamahiru urte apenas dituen neskatoa. Hala egin dute bere aurretik ahizpa zaharrek, hala egingo du berak ere, txandan-txandan etxeko mahaia arintzea tokatzen zaionean, eta, bide batez, akaso gerora baliagarria izango zaion ofizioan trebatzea helburu. Reparaztarren etxean ezagutuko du jende dirudunaren bizimodua, baina baita txanponaren ifrentzua ere. Ez baita giro galtzaileentzat. Menderatu beharko du etxemina, oroitzapenak bridatuz eta bizimodu berrian bidaide egokituko zaizkionei tokia eginez bizitzaren aro berrira irekitzen hasi den bihotz nerabean. Ikasiko du, haragi propioan, alferrik dela haize guztietatik babesean egoten saiatzea, noiznahi heldu daiteke-eta, auskaloko zirrikitutik, menderatu beharreko haize bolada ezezaguna. Beti erne, beti prest dagoena dela haizete bortitzen jostailu baldar izan nahi ez duenaren patua. Heziketa sentimental gogor bezain premiazkoa.