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Title: [German] - Pompeji oder Die fünf Reden des Jowna (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Eugen Ruge

Narrator: Ulrich Noethen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Auf dem Monte Somma oberhalb der mondänen, niedergehenden Stadt Pompeji werden tote Vögel gefunden. Während einer Versammlung von Vogelschützern hat der Einwanderer Jowna eine Eingebung: Wenn der Vulkan grollt, soll man das Weite suchen. Ohne Schulbildung, Geld und Einfluss gelingt es ihm, sich an die Spitze einer Aussteigerbewegung zu setzen. Bald fürchtet das Stadtoberhaupt Fabius Rufus, die Vulkangerüchte könnten Pompeji schaden. Als sich sogar der frühere Sklave Polybius dafür interessiert, schaltet sich Rufus' Frau Livia ein, und Jownas Eingebung verkehrt sich in ihr Gegenteil. Das Pompeji von Eugen Ruge ist eine Erfindung, die auf historischer Wahrheit beruht: ein ferner Spiegel, in dem wir uns erstaunt wiedererkennen.

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Title: The Witching Pool: A Justice Belstrang Mystery: Justice Belstrang Mysteries Book 2

Series: #2 of Justice Belstrang Mysteries

Author: John Pilkington

Narrator: Christopher Saul

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Release date: May 11, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

England, 1617 Susanna Cobbett, teenage daughter of a powerful Worcester landowner, is found dead in a gloomy woodland pond which has an evil reputation as the Witching Pool. The girl is said to have drowned herself, driven to madness by a local widow named Agnes Mason, who is arrested on a charge of witchcraft. If found guilty, she will hang at the next Assizes. But Justice Belstrang, shrewd ex-magistrate and sceptic, does not believe a word of it. And when Agnes's family beg him to help, he finds himself caught up in an ever-darkening mystery. Another death follows: that of Susanna's lover, a young shepherd. He too is reported to have drowned himself at the Witching Pool, unable to face life without his beloved. But from local woodsman Ned Berritt, Belstrang learns there's more to it – and when Berritt too is found dead soon after, he becomes even more determined to uncover the truth. The mystery grows murkier, however, as Belstrang is pitted against his old rival Justice Standish. But Belstrang's stubbornness and passion for justice drives him on. With the help of his friend and fellow-sceptic Doctor Boyd, he unravels the terrible crimes that have lain hidden behind the doors of the great manor of Ebbfield. Belstrang must confront and apprehend his suspect - and risk his own life in the attempt. Recommended for fans of Andrew Taylor, CJ Sansom and SJ Parris.

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Title: [German] - Jahre des Aufbruchs - Die Winzerfrauen-Reihe, Band 1 (Ungekürzt)

Author: Elisabeth Marienhagen

Narrator: Nora Jokhosha

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Das Schicksal einer jungen Winzerin in Zeiten des Aufbruchs. Der Auftakt der fesselnden Familiensaga jetzt auch als Hörbuch! 1914, kurz vor Beginn des ersten Weltkrieges: Schon als Mädchen schwärmt die unscheinbare Winzertochter Magdalena für den angehenden Ingenieur Matthias. Aber ihre Zuneigung bleibt unerwidert. Noch bevor er in den Krieg eingezogen wird, feiert er mit einer eleganten Frau aus der Stadt Verlobung. Als Magdalena von ihren Brüdern erfährt, dass Matthias nur selten Feldpost von seiner Verlobten erhält, schreibt sie ihm unverhofft - und ein reger Briefwechsel entsteht, der sie durch die schweren Kriegsjahre begleitet. Im Lauf der Zeit wächst Magdalena zu einer schönen jungen Frau heran und erbt das Weingut ihrer Eltern. Zwischen Matthias und ihr sind längst tiefe Gefühle emporgekeimt, doch er fühlt sich seiner Verlobten verpflichtet ... Wird das Schicksal die beiden Liebenden noch zusammenführen?

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Title: The War Prayer (Unabridged)

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 9 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The War Prayer by Mark Twain a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up. The people call upon God to grant them victory and protect their troops. Suddenly, an #039;aged stranger#039; appears and announces that he is God#039;s messenger. He explains to them that he is there to speak aloud the second part of their prayer for victory, the part which they have implicitly wished for but have not spoken aloud themselves: the prayer for the suffering and destruction of their enemies. What follows is a grisly depiction of hardships inflicted on war-torn nations by their conquerors. The story ends with the man being ignored. History: #039;The War Prayer#039; was written in 1905, and is believed to be a response to both the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War. It was left unpublished by Mark Twain at his death in April 1910, largely due to pressure from his family, who feared that the story would be considered sacrilegious. Twain#039;s publisher and other friends also discouraged him from publishing it. According to one account, his illustrator Dan Beard asked him if he would publish it anyway, and Twain replied, #039;No, I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead.#039; Mindful of public reaction, he considered that he had a family to support and did not want to be seen as a lunatic or fanatic. #039;The War Prayer#039; was first published in Harper#039;s Magazine in November 1916, and was included in Europe and Elsewhere, a collection of Twain#039;s essays edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, Twain#039;s literary estate agent and biographer.

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Title: The Kiss (Unabridged)

Author: Kate Chopin

Narrator: Carolyn Frances

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 7 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Kiss by Kate Chopin Audiobook This short story is about a girl, Nathalie who has an affair with her brother#039;s friend, Mr. Harvy and at the same time she is with a wealthly man, Mr. Brantain who is #039;rather insignificant and unattractive#039;. One day when Nathalie and Mr. Brantain are together, Mr. Harvy comes and kisses her. Mr. Brantain leaves her place and she gets angry with Mr. Harvy for kissing her in front of him. After the day, she convinces Mr. Brantain with a lie that that was nothing but the fact Mr. Harvy, being a close friend of her brother, considers her a sibling. That#039;s why he did so. He accepts this (that#039;s pretty foolish of him in my opinion). And on their wedding, he gives permission to Mr. Harvy to keep his sibling-like relationship with Nathalie and he may kisses her. When Mr. Harvy approaches Nathalie and tells her about it and also says he will not do that because he has decided to stop kissing women and considers it #039;dangerous#039;. At that moment, she realises she can#039;t have everything in life. She gets wealth but loses the romantic love of Mr. Harvy. Kate Chopin was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her startling 1899 novel, The Awakening. Born in St. Louis, she moved to New Orleans after marrying Oscar Chopin in 1870. Less than a decade later Oscar#039;s cotton business fell on hard times and they moved to his family#039;s plantation in the Natchitoches Parish of northwestern Louisiana. Oscar died in 1882 and Kate was suddenly a young widow with six children. She turned to writing and published her first poem in 1889. The Awakening, considered Chopin#039;s masterpiece, was subject to harsh criticism at the time for its frank approach to sexual themes. It was rediscovered in the 1960s and has since become a standard of American literature, appreciated for its sophistication and artistry. Chopin#039;s short stories of Cajun and Creole life are collected in Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), and include #039;Desiree#039;s Baby,#039; #039;The Story of an Hour#039; and #039;The Storm.#039;

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Title: Rip Van Winkle (Unabridged)

Author: Washington Irving

Narrator: Weir Done30

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 37 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Audiobook is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Plot: Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American man with a habit of avoiding useful work, lives in a village at the foot of New York#039;s Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolution. One autumn day, he goes squirrel hunting in the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife#039;s nagging. As evening falls, he hears a voice calling his name and finds a man dressed in antiquated Dutch clothing and carrying a keg. Rip helps the man carry his burden to a cleft in the rocks from which thunderous noises are emanating; the source proves to be a group of ornately dressed and bearded men playing nine-pins. Not asking who these men are or how they know his name, Rip joins them in drinking from the keg he has helped carry and soon becomes so intoxicated that he falls asleep. Rip awakens on a sunny morning, at the spot where he first saw the keg-carrier, and finds that many drastic changes have occurred; his beard is a foot long and has turned gray, his musket is badly deteriorated, and Wolf is nowhere to be found. Returning to his village, he discovers it to be larger than he remembers and filled with people in unfamiliar clothing, none of whom recognize him. When asked how he voted in the election that has just been held, he declares himself a loyal subject of King George III, unaware that the American Revolution has taken place in his absence. He learns that many of his old friends were either killed in the war or have left the village, and is disturbed to find a young man who shares his name, mannerisms, and younger appearance. A young woman states that her father is Rip Van Winkle, who has been missing for 20 years, and an old woman recognizes him as Rip. The young woman and the young Rip are his children, and the former has named her infant son after him as well.

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Title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Unabridged)

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Narrator: Elise Sauer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 25 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as #039;one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature#039;, it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce#039;s book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierce#039;s abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream of consciousness narrative mode. Plot: Peyton Farquhar, a civilian who is also a wealthy planter and slave owner, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Alabama railroad bridge during the American Civil War. Six military men and a company of infantrymen are present, guarding the bridge and carrying out the sentence. Farquhar thinks of his wife and children and is then distracted by a noise that, to him, sounds like an unbearably loud clanging; it is actually the ticking of his watch. He considers the possibility of jumping off the bridge and swimming to safety if he can free his tied hands, but the soldiers drop him from the bridge before he can act on the idea. In a flashback, Farquhar and his wife are relaxing at home one evening when a soldier dressed in Confederate gray rides up to the gate. Farquhar, a supporter of the Confederacy, learns from him that Union troops have seized the Owl Creek railroad bridge and repaired it. The soldier suggests that Farquhar might be able to burn the bridge down if he can slip past its guards. He then leaves, but doubles back after nightfall to return north the way he came. The soldier is actually a disguised Union scout who has lured Farquhar into a trap, as any civilian caught interfering with the railroads will be hanged. The story returns to the present, and the rope around Farquhar#039;s neck breaks when he falls from the bridge into the creek. He frees his hands, pulls the noose away, and rises to the surface to begin his escape. His senses now greatly sharpened, he dives and swims downstream to avoid rifle and cannon fire. Once he is out of range, he leaves the creek to begin the journey to his home, 30 miles (48 km) away. Farquhar walks all day long through a seemingly endless forest, and that night he begins to hallucinate, seeing strange constellations and hearing whispered voices in an unknown language. He travels on, urged by the thought of his wife and children despite the pains caused by his ordeal. The next morning, after having apparently fallen asleep while walking, he finds himself at the gate to his plantation.

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Title: [German] - Viking Kingdom: Der Sohn des Fjords (Vikings Kingdom 2)

Series: #2 of [German Edition] Viking Kingdom

Author: Heidrun Hurst

Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Eine unmögliche Liebe ... Der bildgewaltige historische Roman 'Viking Kingdom – Der Sohn des Fjords'Die weiten Fjordlandschaften Norwegens im 9. Jahrhundert: Als Junge brach er mit den Drachenbooten auf, um in die Heldensagen seines Volkes einzugehen – nun kehrt Leif Svensson als Mann zurück, der gelernt hat, dass Ruhm und Schätze nicht das sind, wofür es zu kämpfen lohnt. Viel kostbarer ist für ihn die Frau an seiner Seite, die alles aufgegeben hat für seine Liebe. Aber wird die britannische Adelstochter Aryana in dem für sie so fremden, rauen Nordland einen Weg finden, um die tiefe Kluft zwischen ihren beiden Völkern zu überwinden? Schon bald entfacht ihre besondere Gabe für das Heilen Neid und Missgunst, während Leif sich den hasserfüllten Verdächtigungen seines Onkels stellen muss, dem Jarl des Clans: Wird er ihn herausfordern müssen, um das Volk in eine neue Ära zu führen?-

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Title: Raider: Combined Operations Book 2

Series: #2 of Combined Operations

Author: Griff Hosker

Narrator: Nicholas Camm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1940 and Britain is fighting alone against the Germans. With the RAF fighting above the skies of England it is down to the Commandos to go back to France and cause as much trouble to the Germans as possible. When the Italians join in alongside the Germans it seems that Britain is about to sink beneath a sea of Fascists. A fast moving novel which follows one section of Commandos as they fight in France and North Africa.

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Title: [German] - Goldsommer

Author: Elisabeth Büchle

Narrator: Tanja Lipinski

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Release date: May 4, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Schwarzwald, 1940: Amrei ist gerade erst 14 Jahre alt, als Vater und Bruder in den Zweiten Weltkrieg ziehen und sie zurücklassen. Notgedrungen kümmert sie sich um Haus und Hof, ihren kleinen Neffen und eine demenzkranke Frau. Unbemerkt beherbergt sie auch einen entflohenen britischen Kriegsgefangenen, der ihr das Leben rettet und dem sie anschließend zur Flucht verhilft. Nach Kriegsende beschließt Amrei, eine Reitpension zu eröffnen. Unter den ersten Gästen ist Tom, der sich stark zu der burschikosen und doch so reizvollen Frau hingezogen fühlt. Und dann taucht ein weiterer, unverhoffter Besucher auf. Während Amrei eine Entscheidung treffen muss, trachtet jemand nach dem Leben ihres Neffen …