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Title: Our Island Story, Vol. 2

Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

Narrator: Daniel Philpott, Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2006

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (aged six'twelve) which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria. Antonia Fraser and many other current historians declare that it was this book that opened the delights of history for them. It fell from fashion in the 1960s, but its recent re-release in hardback has seen it become a publishing surprise in the UK, with sales of some 75,000 copies in a few months. Now, Naxos AudioBooks releases it unabridged in three volumes, divided into three clear periods of history. Though slightly edited to take account of historical changes and attitudes, it is presented unabridged.

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Title: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre: A Novel

Author: Dominic Smith

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 7, 2006

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre’s invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year, he creates his “Doomsday List,” ten items he must photograph before the final day. It includes a woman he has always loved but has not seen in half a century. Paris in 1847 was a city of Bohemian excess and social unrest. Into this strange and beguiling world, Louis Daguerre sets off to capture his doomsday images, with the help of the womanizing poet Baudelaire and a beautiful prostitute named Pigeon, in this moving story of ruined love, fame unraveling, and a prodigious mind coming undone.

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Title: The Painted Veil

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.06 of Total 16

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, this beautifully written character study is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane, who marries for money rather than love. When her husband, a quiet doctor, discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic. There, stripped of the British society of her youth and overwhelmed by the desolation around her, Kitty’s conscience begins to awaken. As she takes up work with children at a convent and experiences some of the burden her husband has taken on, she and her husband begin to rediscover each other in a new light. When her husband is tragically killed, Kitty is forced to return to England to raise her unborn child. Though it is too late for her marriage, she has learned humility, independence, and at last, how to love.

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Title: The Hope before Us

Series: #3 of The Women of Valor Series

Author: Elyse Larson

Narrator: Vanessa Benjamin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Contending valiantly against the Nazi threat in war-torn Europe, two sisters unite to thwart a sinister plan, in this third book in Elyse Larson’s Women of Valor series. When Marge Emerson uncovers a diabolical Nazi plot she is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector whose outspoken belief in God challenges her own fragile faith. When David shares his desire to return to Europe after the war and build an orphanage for Germany’s homeless children, Marge is drawn to this selfless, compassionate man. Meanwhile, Marge’s sister, Em, a war correspondent, is recruited for intelligence work by an American secret service agency and quickly becomes involved in an intricate web of espionage. When Marge and Em are unexpectedly reunited in France, they attempt a daring rescue.

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Title: Joan of Arc

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Michael Anthony

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.81 of Total 16

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. Twain spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan’s unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides: the French, for whom she raised an army to return the Dauphin to the throne, and the English, who fought the French in the Hundred Year’s War and were ultimately Joan’s executioners. This is a fascinating and remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country’s greatest storytellers.

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Title: “Shoot, Minnie, Shoot!”: The Story of the 1904 Fort Shaw Indian Girls, Basketball’s First World Champions

Author: Happy Jack Feder

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In 1903, over three hundred Indian children from across America lived at the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School in a remote, isolated valley in Montana. Among the children were a handful of teenage girls, many who had only lived in tepees. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men’s and women’s university teams. After the games, the girls recited Shelley and Longfellow, played mandolins and violins, sang, danced, and pantomimed. Less than one year after first seeing a basketball, they were crowned the first world champions of basketball at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Millions saw them and gained a deeper understanding and love for Indians. This is the story of that team, seen through the eyes of star player Minnie Burton.

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Title: Savannah

Series: #9 of The Civil War Battle Series

Author: James Reasoner

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga, the battered Rebel army, including a bitter Cory Brannon, retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army led by General William Sherman is marching to the coastal city of Savannah, laying waste to the territory through which it passes. Behind enemy lines on the Brannon family farm, Henry has been removed as sheriff, and to everyone’s surprise, Cordelia is courted by a Union officer, a Yankee she finds herself unable to hate. As Cory is trapped in Savannah, surrounded by Sherman’s marauding hordes, despair grips the Confederacy. Fractured and defeated at every turn, the nation asks itself how much longer it can continue to fight.

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Title: Honor & Glory: A Civil War Novel

Series: #2 of The Kim Murphy’s Civil War Trilogy

Author: Kim Murphy

Narrator: Dianna Dorman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this continuation of Kim Murphy's Civil War trilogy, sisters Amanda and Alice struggle to reconcile political and family loyalties. Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for the Confederacy, and she falls in love with Amanda's former beau, Colonel William Jackson. Meanwhile, two opposing armies, devastated by the clash at Fredericksburg, wait for the spring campaign on the banks of the Rappahannock River. As the two sisters are swept up in the maelstrom, they must rely on their hearts and their own resources to navigate treacherous paths to honor and glory.

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Title: A Map of Glass

Author: Jane Urquhart

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, set a century apart. Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by marriage to a doctor whose care has both nourished and imprisoned her. When she meets Andrew Woodman, a historical geographer, her world changes through their devastating and ecstatic affair. A year after Andrew’s death, Sylvia tells this story to Jerome McNaughton, a young artist whose discovery of Andrew’s body unlocks a secret in his own past. At the center of the novel is the tale of Andrew’s grandfather, Branwell, an innkeeper and a painter, whose liaison with an orphaned French-Canadian woman sets the stage for future events. A novel about loss and the transitory nature of place, A Map of Glass is vivid with the evocative prose and haunting imagery for which Jane Urquhart’s writing is celebrated.

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Title: Where Angels Fear To Tread

Author: E.M. Forster

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2006

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.44 of Total 16

Ratings of Narrator: 2.6 of Total 10

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

This is a story of a bourgeois British family and their attempts to contain and control the actions of their relations. The story opens with the widow Lilia Herriton embarking on a trip with her traveling companion Caroline Abbott. In reality Lilias family connived her into going on a trip to distract her from a relationship with a gentleman who does not meet their social scrutiny. But while in Italy a worse disaster befalls the family as Lilia falls in love and marries a younger Italian man. When Lilia dies during child birth the family must somehow retrieve the child, who is but a mere pawn in their charade of control and manipulation.