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Title: [Spanish] - El Hombre Que Sedujo A La Gioconda

Author: Dionigi Cristian Lentini

Narrator: Antonio Alfonso Hernández

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Esta es la historia del hombre que conquistó y sedujo a la mujer que, indescifrablemente inmortalizada por Leonardo de Vinci, sedujo al mundo con su mirada. Es la historia de Tristano, un joven diplomático pontificio con un pasado misterioso y sombrío que, entre estrategias y engaños, entre aventuras y complots, entre intrigas y guerras de la Italia del Renacimiento, cumplió brillantemente sus misiones, una tras otra, utilizando el arte que mejor conocía, el arma más poderosa: la seducción. Pero llegó el momento en que el destino le encargó la tarea más importante... Un investigador independiente del CNR de Pisa, experto en criptografía y blockchain, encuentra por casualidad en el archivo de una abadía toscana un extraño archivo encriptado que contiene una increíble, extraordinaria e inédita historia... de la cual no puede desprenderse: En una fría noche en la que la historia ensayaba el Renacimiento, mientras los señores de Italia se aniquilaban unos a otros por el efímero control de las fugaces fronteras de sus países, un joven diplomático pontificio con un misterioso pasado prefirió probar su mano en el arte de la seducción en lugar de la guerra. ¿Quién era él? No era un príncipe, ni un líder, ni un prelado, no tenía ningún título oficial... y sin embargo hablar con él era como conferir directamente con el Santo Padre, se movía con facilidad en el complejo tablero político de aquel período pero nunca dejaba rastro alguno, escribía la historia todos los días pero nunca aparecía en ninguna de sus páginas... estaba en todas partes y sin embargo era como si no existiera. De un señorío a otro, de un reino a una república, entre estrategias y engaños, entre aventuras y complots, Tristano cumplió con éxito sus misiones... hasta que el destino le encargó la tarea más importante: descubrir quién era realmente. Para ello tuvo que descifrar una carta de su verdadera madre, mantenida durante 42 años oculta por la casta de los poderosos de la época. Para ello, tuvo que cruzar aquel increíble intersticio temporal indemne de una extraordinaria e inaudita concentración de personajes (estadistas, caudillos, artistas, literatos, ingenieros, científicos, navegantes, cortesanos, etc.) que han cambiado de forma significativa, drástica e irreversible el curso de la historia. Para ello, tuvo que seducir a la mujer que, indescifrablemente inmortalizada por Leonardo da Vinci, sedujo al mundo con su mirada. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: [Spanish] - Nos vemos allá arriba (Los hijos del desastre 1)

Series: #1 of Los hijos del desastre

Author: Pierre Lemaitre

Narrator: Jordi Salas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Galardonada con el Premio Goncourt, ensalzada por los críticos y convertida en un auténtico fenómeno editorial en Francia, esta novela es un fresco y atrevido retrato de una sociedad descompuesta por uno de los más crueles inventos del hombre: la guerra. Un emocionante canto a la capacidad de superación del ser humano. En noviembre de 1918, tan solo unos días antes del armisticio, el teniente d'Aulnay-Pradelle ordena una absurda ofensiva que culminará con los soldados Albert Maillard y Édouard Péricourt gravemente heridos, en un confuso y dramático incidente que ligará sus destinos inexorablemente. Édouard, de familia adinerada y con un talento excepcional para el dibujo, ha sufrido una horrible mutilación y se niega a reencontrarse con su padre y su hermana. Albert, de origen humilde y carácter pusilánime, concilia el sueño abrazado a una cabeza de caballo de cartón y está dispuesto a lo indecible con tal de compensar a Édouard, a quien debe la vida. Y Pradelle, aristócrata venido a menos, cínico y mujeriego, está obsesionado con recuperar su estatus social. De regreso en París, los tres excombatientes se rebelarán contra una realidad que los condena a la miseria y al olvido. Así, Édouard pergeña una ingeniosísima estafa con el fin de vengarse de su progenitor, que siempre lo repudió por su sensibilidad y sus habilidades artísticas. De paso quiere ayudar al fiel Albert, cuyo prurito es huir a las antípodas para olvidar a Cécile, su amor perdido. Aunque tal vez el más ambicioso sea Pradelle, que sacudirá la conciencia de Francia entera mediante una monumental operación delictiva concebida para amasar una rápida fortuna. Los escollos son considerables, pero la voluntad de los tres parece infinita. En una brillante fusión de literatura popular y alta literatura, Pierre Lemaitre ha creado una trepidante historia que progresa al ritmo de una trama detectivesca. Integrando con maestría elementos de géneros tan diversos como el relato de aventuras, el drama psicológico, la crónica social y política y el alegato antibélico, la narración es un derroche de humor, rabia y compasión. La crítica ha dicho... «Nos vemos allá arriba es una novela con grandes cualidades: una trama meticulosamente urdida, unos personajes rebosantes de humanidad, un buen ritmo narrativo y una prosa que fluye sin retórica ni alardes de estilo. Sin caer en el panfleto, Lemaitre formula una profunda condena moral contra la guerra. [...] Nos vemos allá arriba es una elocuente lección de humanidad y un hermoso relato que nos recuerda la vieja máxima paulina: el hombre no es nada sin amor hacia sus semejantes.» El Cultural «Un libro hecho de amistad y locura, de inocencia y patriotismo delictivo, de generosidad y morfina, de clasismo, amor, miseria moral y redención.» La Vanguardia «El amor, la amistad, las relaciones filiales [...] se fusionan y se ponen en crisis en esta ametralladora literaria que parece no dejar nada en pie, confundiendo cualquier categoría moral y dejando a los lectores casi a la intemperie, sedientos de nuevas respuestas para abordar una de las mayores cicatrices del siglo XX.» Radar «Hay una obra maestra en esta temporada literaria. Es el libro que hay que leer este año.» Lire «Este libro, sin ninguna duda, marcará la historia de la literatura. Es magnífico.» Paris-Match «Buenas críticas, ventas aún mejores, jurados literarios seducidos: es el tríptico soñado por cualquier escritor. Pierre Lemaitre lo ha conseguido.» Le Figaro

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Title: [Spanish] - Hacia los mares de la libertad (Trilogía del árbol Kauri 1)

Series: #1 of Trilogía del árbol Kauri

Author: Sarah Lark

Narrator: Laura Monedero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 24 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Lark regresa a Nueva Zelanda con una emocionante saga familiar sobre aquellos irlandeses convictos que colonizaron Australia. Un viaje al fin de la Tierra. Un alma presa de un secreto. El latido del amor se esconde en Nueva Zelanda. Irlanda, 1846. Kathleen y Michael se aman y planean en secreto abandonar su tierra natal, la humilde y hambrienta Irlanda, en busca de una vida mejor en el Nuevo Mundo. Pero todos sus sueños se ven truncados cuando Michael es condenado como rebelde y desterrado a Australia. Kathleen, embarazada, se verá obligada a casarse con un comerciante de ganado y emigrar con él a Nueva Zelanda. Entretanto, Michael, con la ayuda de la audaz Lizzie, intentará escapar de la colonia penal para reencontrarse con su primer amor. Sarah Lark ha seducido a siete millones de lectores en todo el mundo con sus grandes sagas familiares ambientadas en parajes exóticos. Ampliamente imitada, Lark ha sabido crear y consolidar un nuevo género narrativo, el landscape, en que sus heroínas viven unos destinos marcados por la aventura, los viajes, el romanticismo y la historia. Hoy las novelas de Sarah Lark han encontrado a más de un millón y medio de seguidores en castellano, convirtiéndose en un fenómeno global que ya viaja a todos los rincones del planeta.

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Title: A Duel in Meryton: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

Author: Summer Hanford, Renata Mcmann

Narrator: Ruth Urquhart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

With his young sister Georgiana's reticence a constant reminder that his onetime friend, George Wickham, should not be trusted, Darcy decides a trip to rural Hertfordshire is in order, for both him and Georgiana. Darcy believes the people there are of so little consequence, Georgiana will know no fear in interacting with them. He soon learns he's wrong about both his sister and Hertfordshire, but not about Wickham. Even bearing the brunt of Mr. Darcy's insult doesn't soften Elizabeth to her wife-hunting cousin, Mr. Collins, and her first reaction is to disdain both men. As the two join forces against Meryton's newest militia member, the charming Mr. Wickham, Elizabeth comes to see a different side to Mr. Darcy and Mr. Collins. Their presence in Hertfordshire, along with Mr. Darcy's other companions, will forever alter the lives of Elizabeth and those she cares for most.

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Title: You Were There Before My Eyes: A Novel

Author: Maria Riva

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A woman leaves her Italian village and enters a new world as an immigrant in Detroit in this sweeping novel by a New York Times bestselling author. In a small village in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, Jane chafes at stifling routine and tradition. So when an opportunity presents itself to immigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind. Far away, in Henry Ford's factories in Michigan, a new kind of life is taking shape, and it offers gleaming promise for Jane and her young husband. Determined to survive, and even thrive, she will find herself seeking fulfillment and building a family while navigating not just a new language and country, but a world poised on the edge of economic and social revolution, with the Great War looming on the horizon. From the chaos of Ellis Island to the melting pot of a midwestern industrial city, You Were There Before My Eyes is rich with colorful characters and vivid period details, an authentic portrait of the immigrant experience that poignantly captures the ever-evolving nature of the American dream, and 'a dazzling historical saga of love, adventure, war, hardship, and discovery' (Allan Levine).

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Title: Pale: A Novel

Author: Edward A. Farmer

Narrator: Stephanie Weeks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

“Some things just don’t keep well inside this house …” The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd’s invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encompassed it for so many years suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest and the appearance of Jesse and Fletcher to the plantation as cotton pickers. These two brothers, the sons of the house servant Silva, awaken a vengeful seed within the Missus of the house as she plots to punish not only her husband but Silva’s family as well. When the Missus starts flirting with Jesse, she sets into motion a dangerous game that could get Jesse killed and destroy the lives of the rest of the servants. Bernice walks the fine line between emissary and accomplice, as she tries her best to draw secrets from the Missus’s heart, while using their closeness to protect the lives of the people around her. Once the Missus’s plans are complete, families will be severed, loyalties will be shattered, and no one will come out unscathed. With a dazzling voice and rich emotional tension, Pale explores the ties that bind and how quickly humanity can fade and return us to primal ways.

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Title: Stalingrad

Author: Vasily Grossman

Narrator: Elliot Levey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 37 hours 13 minutes

Release date: May 7, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee; Tolya will enlist in the reserves; Vera, a nurse, will fall in love with a wounded pilot; and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from his doomed mother which will haunt him forever. The war will consume the lives of a huge cast of characters – lives which express Grossman’s grand themes of the nation and the individual, nature’s beauty and war’s cruelty, love and separation. For months, Soviet forces are driven back inexorably by the German advance eastward and eventually Stalingrad is all that remains between the invaders and victory. The city stands on a cliff top by the Volga River. The battle for Stalingrad – a maelstrom of violence and firepower – will reduce it to ruins. But it will also be the cradle of a new sense of hope. Stalingrad is a magnificent novel not only of war but of all human life: its subjects are mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political officers, steelworkers, tractor girls. It is tender, epic, and a testament to the power of the human spirit. ‘You will not only discover that you love his characters and want to stay with them – that you need them in your life as much as you need your own family and loved ones – but that at the end... you will want to read it again’ Daily Telegraph

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Title: Coulson's Lessons

Series: #3 of Coulson Family Saga

Author: Anna J. McIntyre

Narrator: Reagan West

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

After losing her beloved husband in a car accident, Alexandra is left to raise her teenage son alone. Coming to terms with life as a single mother is difficult enough, yet now she must face the sins of her past when Garret Coulson returns to town. Grandson of the town's founder, the wealthy and powerful Garret Coulson fell in love with another man's wife, resulting in a self-imposed exile. With that man dead, Garret can return to claim what should have been his. For ten years, Alexandra has kept the secret of her infidelity. The fact that she is now a widow does not make that secret any less painful to reveal.

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Title: Chateau of Secrets

Author: Melanie Dobson

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family’s medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler’s army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France. But when German soldiers take over the family’s chateau, Gisèle is forced to host them as well—while harboring the resistance fighters right below their feet. Taking in a Jewish friend’s baby, she convinces the Nazis that it is her child, ultimately risking everything for the future of the child. When the German officers begin to suspect her deception, an unlikely hero rescues both her and the child. A present-day story weaves through the past one as Chloe Sauver, Gisèle’s granddaughter, arrives in Normandy. After calling off her engagement with a political candidate, Chloe pays a visit to the chateau to escape publicity and work with a documentary filmmaker, Riley, who has uncovered a fascinating story about Jews serving in Hitler’s army. Riley wants to research Chloe’s family history and the lives that were saved in the tunnels under their house in Normandy. Chloe is floored—her family isn’t Jewish, for one thing, and she doesn’t know anything about tunnels or the history of the house. But as she begins to explore the dark and winding passageways beneath the chateau, nothing can prepare her for the shock of what she and Riley discover…

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Title: The Last Refuge of the Knights Templar: The Ultimate Secret of the Pike Letters

Author: William F. Mann

Narrator: Binary Studios

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A modern-day thriller centered on authentic historical letters encoded with Templar and Rosicrucian secrets • Includes the actual text of recently discovered correspondence between two famous 19th-century Masonic leaders, Albert Pike and Colonel J. W. B. MacLeod Moore • Follows the protagonists, Thomas and Janet, as they seek to protect the Pike letters’ secret from the Vatican and its fanatical Jesuit hitman as well as others who desire to use the letters’ secret for world domination • Also includes a short biography of controversial Masonic icon Albert Pike Centered on recently discovered, authenticated correspondence between two famous 19th-century Masonic leaders, Confederate General Albert Pike and British Colonel James Wilson Bury MacLeod Moore, this modern-day thriller follows Thomas, a direct descendant of Col. Moore, and Janet Rose, a direct descendant of the Merovingian Kings and House of David, as they risk their lives to protect the letters and the Templar and Rosicrucian secrets encoded within them. As Thomas and Janet discover, everyone--from the Church to the White House to Confederate sympathizers and the KKK--seeks the ancient knowledge contained within the letters, knowledge that would allow a singular entity to control the world and bring all of the great religions to their knees. Pitted against a psychotic and sexually perverted Jesuit priest, tasked by the Vatican’s inner circle to retrieve the Pike letters, the couple is aided by two Templar guardians and a modern-day practicing alchemist, Janet’s grandfather. As Thomas and Janet’s love for one another grows, the couple transcends to a higher level of understanding, unaware that they are following the same ancient morals and dogma found within the 33 degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, as defined by none other than Albert Pike himself. Part fact, part fiction, the novel, with its 33 initiatory chapters, provides a rare glimpse into the inner circles of modern-day Freemasonry, along with revelations of ancient alliances between Native Americans and the Templars. Set in Georgetown, in the heart of Washington, D.C., the story ends with a dramatic unveiling of the ultimate New World secret sought by so many factions: the location of the last Knights Templar refuge in the New World, where the lost treasure of the Templars, including sacred knowledge of the Holy Family--the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene--remains to this day.