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Title: Secrets of the Railway Girls

Series: #2 of The railway girls series

Author: Maisie Thomas

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The second novel in the uplifting railway girls series that shows just how important friendship and love is in a time of uncertainty and change. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell. Manchester, November 1940 As the war continues and secrets threaten the railway girls, they will discover the true meaning of friendship. For Dot, her job on the railways is everything. Transporting parcels around the country gives her pride that she is doing her bit for the war effort, but a growing friendship causes problems when home and work collide. Joan loves her boyfriend Bob dearly, but when tragedy strikes, her heart is torn apart, and she is forced to make a decision that could hurt those she loves most. Meanwhile Mabel has finally found a place to call home and her relationship seems to be going from strength to strength. However, the relentless bombing in the Christmas blitz is about to destroy everything she holds dear, and she will need her friends' courage and generosity now more than ever. Brought together by their work on Manchester's railways, the three women find that with the support and encouragement of each other, they can get through even the most challenging of times. © Maisie Thomas 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: Discovery of Destiny

Series: #2 of Stonecroft Saga

Author: B.N. Rundell

Narrator: Scott Miller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Release date: September 15, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The author of the bestselling Buckskin Chronicles takes us on an epic journey in Book 2 of the Stonecroft Saga. Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential, and vindictive, is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er do well troublemaker who surrendered his life in a duel with Stonecroft. After a perilous journey down the Ohio River aboard a flatboat, the two friends now set out to explore the west. But local toughs in the young town of New Madrid pick a fight and earn nothing but wounds and a grudge, a grudge that will be nursed by bounty hunters that seek to collect the sizable reward offered for the head of this young, would-be explorer. But when they find a runaway captive of the Pawnee, and fight alongside the Osage Warriors, the most feared fighters in the new land, the plans of the two friends take a drastic detour. Land-locked pirates team up with bounty hunters and renegade Indians to do their best to permanently change the plans of the two adventuresome friends. And when women enter the picture, everything changes.

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Title: Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick

Author: William Boyd

Narrator: Darren Boyd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Release date: September 10, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the twentieth century - is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war, and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the men and women who shape his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart. Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian 'Full of delights' The Times 'A work of astonishing ventriloquistic virtuosity... brilliant' Sunday Telegraph 'Wise, profound and moving' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'A terrific journey through the 20th century. Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable' Guardian 'Astounding. One of Boyd's greatest achievements... A pleasure' Mail on Sunday 'Generous, witty, sneakily profound' Evening Standard 'The pleasures are endless... Supremely entertaining' Washington Post 'A fabulous book all about life. I think of Any Human Heart often - the sign of a truly great book' Fi Glover, New Statesman © William Boyd 2002 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising

Author: Margarita Morris

Narrator: Samantha Desz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Release date: September 8, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Family and freedom. It's worth fighting for what really matters. Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, Márton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The Secret Police have come to arrest him on charges of subversion. But Katalin knows her father is innocent. In a communist society where ordinary people live in fear of the dreaded Secret Police, suspicion and betrayal are rife. Whilst Márton endures the injustice of being wrongly accused, Katalin must find out who among her friends and acquaintances she can truly trust. But there is a glimmer of hope in the darkness. The death of Stalin is a spark that ignites a fuse. For the first time it seems that change is possible. In October 1956, a student-led demonstration soon turns into a bloody battle to overthrow the hated communist regime. Confronted by Soviet tanks, young and old take to the streets, armed with Molotov cocktails, bravery, and cunning. Katalin and those she loves must fight for freedom. They must fight to survive. Packed with authentic historical details, Goodbye to Budapest is a panoramic novel of courage, sacrifice and the indomitable human quest for freedom.

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Title: The Night of the Flood

Author: Zoe Somerville

Narrator: Bronwen Price

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An atmospheric literary thriller set in north Norfolk in the shadow of the Cold War, in which a love triangle turns murderous. Summer, 1952. Verity Frost, stranded on her family farm on the Norfolk coast, is caught between two worlds: the devotion of her childhood friend Arthur, just returned from National Service, and a strange new desire to escape it all. Arthur longs to escape too, but only with Verity by his side. Into their world steps Jack, a charismatic American pilot flying secret reconnaissance missions off the North Sea coast. But where Verity sees adventure and glamour, Arthur sees only deception. As the water levels rise to breaking point, this tangled web of secrets, lies and passion will bring about a crime that will change all their lives. Taking the epic real-life North Sea flood as its focus, The Night of the Flood is at once a passionate love story, an atmospheric thriller, and a portrait of a distinctive place in a time of radical social change.

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Title: Back to School

Author: Jack Sheffield

Narrator: Jack Sheffield

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The year is 1969 and Jack Sheffield is a young teacher in need of a job. In a room full of twenty-nine other newly qualified teachers, he's overjoyed when he's appointed to Heather View Primary. Jack is excited to start his first year there and to begin shaping young minds in a beautiful new location on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. But Heather View isn't as idyllic as it first sounds. In fact, it looks more like a prison than a primary school. With less than adequate funding and a head teacher who doesn't seem to care, it's no easy task to give the kids the education they deserve. But Jack's determined to do just that. Full of warmth and good humour, Back to School is like taking a nostalgic walk through the past to a simpler time... Praise for Jack Sheffield 'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' Alan Titchmarsh 'Overflowing with amusing anecdotes' Daily Express 'Amusing adventures at the North Yorkshire village school' Choice 'Jack Sheffield's in a class of his own' York Press © Jack Sheffield 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: The Wreck: Rebel. Radical. Stowaway. Survivor.

Author: Meg Keneally

Narrator: Lucy Dixon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A warm, intelligent and powerful novel, rich in history but deeply relevant to today's world, perfect for fans of Kate Grenville and Hannah Kent. I will go with the men when they rise. Women hunger, and women die, so women must also fight. 1820, London. Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, finds herself alone and on the run. She boards the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales - and when the captain's reckless actions lead the ship to be dashed onto Sydney's notorious rocks, Sarah is the only survivor. Adopting a false identity, Sarah determines to make a new life for herself. She takes the first work she can find, under the formidable Molly Thistle, who runs a sprawling trade empire. Sarah begins to see that there is more than one way of changing the world, but her new life is thrown into chaos when her past follows her across the seas.

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Title: Fifty Words for Rain: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

Author: Asha Lemmie

Narrator: Sarah Skaer, Louis Ozawa, Siho Ellsmore, Jeena Yi, Katharine Lee Mcewan, Robin Eller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 49

Ratings of Narrator: 4.07 of Total 15

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!   From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond—a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it—a battle that just might cost her everything. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.

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Title: The Girl From Ballymor

Author: Kathleen Mcgurl

Narrator: Avena Wallace

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

What would you sacrifice for your children? Ballymor, Ireland, 1847 As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will go to save her family. Present day Arriving in Ballymor, Maria is researching her ancestor, Victorian artist Michael McCarthy – and his beloved mother, the mysterious Kitty who disappeared without a trace. Running from her future, it’s not only answers about the past that Maria hopes to find in Ireland. As her search brings her closer to the truth about Kitty’s fate, Maria must make the biggest decision of her life. What readers are saying about The Girl from Ballymor: ‘Spellbinding!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved this book.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wonderful… Was hard to put it down.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Swept me away… I was totally engaged… Highly recommended.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Fantastic!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An excellent read… Compelling.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Title: The Daughters Of Red Hill Hall

Author: Kathleen Mcgurl

Narrator: Imogen Wilde

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Release date: August 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

‘The Daughters of Red Hill Hall …[has] all the intrigue, mystery, relationship drama and edge of your seat secret reveals any reader could want.’ – Books and Boardies When Gemma discovers a pair of ancient duelling pistols encrusted with rubies in the basement of the local museum, she is immediately intrigued… On a fateful night in 1838 two sisters were found shot in the cellars of Red Hill Hall. And when Gemma begins to delve deeper into their history she begins to realise that the secrets of that night are darker than anyone had ever imagined. As the shocking events of the past begin to unravel, Gemma’s own life starts to fall apart. Loyalties are tested and suddenly it seems as if history is repeating itself, as Gemma learns that female friendships can be deadly… Perfect for fans of The Emerald Comb, The Pearl Locket, Rachel Hore and Kate Morton. What reviewers are saying about Kathleen McGurl’s The Daughters of Red Hill Hall ‘Mystery, danger, intrigue and heart-pounding drama are deliciously interwoven’ – Julie (Goodreads) ‘I devoured The Daughters of Red Hill Hall in two sittings…it showed off the many talents of Kathleen McGurl to perfection.’ – Emma Crowley on Shaz’s Book Blog ‘This book grabbed me from its opening pages’ – Being Anne… ‘a great summer read!’ – A Home in the Country ‘if you like historical mysteries, murder and romance, this is a must read for you.’ – Violet Fields (NetGalley) ‘This is the first of Kathleen McGurl's books that I have read but it certainly won't be the last’ – Karen O’Hare (Goodreads) ‘For fans of Katherine Webb or Kate Riordan’ – Sheila’s Review (Goodreads) ‘McGurl focuses on the relationships and emotional turmoil… As always a spirited read.’ – Cheryl M-M