Best Sellers
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Mila 18
- Written by: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
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It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy - and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris’s blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists....
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A superb rendition of a page from history of Jews
- By Rakesh Bhargava on 08-04-22
Written by: Leon Uris
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Armageddon
- A Novel of Berlin
- Written by: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards Germany....
Written by: Leon Uris
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
- A Novel
- Written by: Weina Dai Randel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers....
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Beautiful Story
- By Deepti Chacko Bangera on 05-07-23
Written by: Weina Dai Randel
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The Big Green Tent
- A Novel
- Written by: Ludmila Ulitskaya, Polly Gannon - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience....
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A must read!
- By A reader on 22-02-20
Written by: Ludmila Ulitskaya,
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People of the Book
- A Novel
- Written by: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain....
Written by: Geraldine Brooks
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Barney's Version
- Written by: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography....
Written by: Mordecai Richler
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Mila 18
- Written by: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy - and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris’s blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists....
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A superb rendition of a page from history of Jews
- By Rakesh Bhargava on 08-04-22
Written by: Leon Uris
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Armageddon
- A Novel of Berlin
- Written by: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards Germany....
Written by: Leon Uris
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
- A Novel
- Written by: Weina Dai Randel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers....
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Beautiful Story
- By Deepti Chacko Bangera on 05-07-23
Written by: Weina Dai Randel
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The Big Green Tent
- A Novel
- Written by: Ludmila Ulitskaya, Polly Gannon - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
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The story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience....
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A must read!
- By A reader on 22-02-20
Written by: Ludmila Ulitskaya,
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People of the Book
- A Novel
- Written by: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain....
Written by: Geraldine Brooks
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Barney's Version
- Written by: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography....
Written by: Mordecai Richler
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Thistlefoot
- A Novel
- Written by: GennaRose Nethercott
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway....
Written by: GennaRose Nethercott
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The Hope
- Written by: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 24 hrs and 37 mins
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Starting in 1948 and reaching its climax during the Six-Day War of 1967, The Hope begins the story of Israel, a country fighting for its life. Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Don Kishote, and Benny Luria are all officers in the Israeli Army, caught up in the sweep of history....
Written by: Herman Wouk
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The Oppermanns
- Written by: Lion Feuchtwanger
- Narrated by: Remy Auberjonois, Joshua Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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Written in real-time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend....
Written by: Lion Feuchtwanger
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The Matchmaker's Gift
- A Novel
- Written by: Lynda Cohen Loigman
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Matchmaker's Gift is a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to realize their unique talent of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places....
Written by: Lynda Cohen Loigman
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Hysteria
- Written by: Jessica Gross
- Narrated by: Kaley Whittemore
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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In Hysteria, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink....
Written by: Jessica Gross
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The Glory
- Written by: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
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The Glory plunges into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967 - and continues the dramatic story of Israel’s struggle for survival. A sprawling, action-packed novel, Wouk takes listeners through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe rescue, and more....
Written by: Herman Wouk
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Disobedience
- Written by: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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In a cramped synagogue in north-west London, the eminent elderly rabbi passes away....
Written by: Naomi Alderman
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Suite Francaise
- Written by: Irene Nemirovsky
- Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes, Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris....
Written by: Irene Nemirovsky
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Judas
- Written by: Amos Oz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald....
Written by: Amos Oz
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From Sand and Ash
- Written by: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love....
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Not too impressive
- By Shalini Aggarwal on 23-08-20
Written by: Amy Harmon
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The Counterlife
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies....
Written by: Philip Roth
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The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz:
- A totally gripping and absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 novel
- Written by: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Millions of people walked through Auschwitz’s gates, but she was the first woman who escaped. This powerful novel tells the inspiring true story of Mala Zimetbaum, whose heroism will never be forgotten, and whose fate altered the course of history....
Written by: Ellie Midwood
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The Paris Architect
- Written by: Charles Belfoure
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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When a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in....
Written by: Charles Belfoure
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Black Foam
- A Novel
- Written by: Haji Jabir, Sawad Hussain - translator, Marcia Lynx Qualey - translator
- Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From award-winning Eritrean author Haji Jabir comes a profoundly intimate novel about one man’s tireless attempt to find his place in the world....
Written by: Haji Jabir,
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The Sugar Men
- Written by: Ray Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away. For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession....
Written by: Ray Kingfisher
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On Turpentine Lane
- A Novel
- Written by: Elinor Lipman
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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At 32, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater....
Written by: Elinor Lipman
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The Prague Orgy
- The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 4
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s....
Written by: Philip Roth
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The Plum Tree
- Written by: Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village....
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An excellent story written in a different perspective
- By Anitha Das on 03-12-23
Written by: Ellen Marie Wiseman
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Inside, Outside
- Written by: Herman Wouk
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 25 hrs and 55 mins
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Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family....
Written by: Herman Wouk
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Broken Angels
- Written by: Gemma Liviero
- Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell, Emily Foster
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother's desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation....
Written by: Gemma Liviero
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The Anatomy Lesson
- The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 3
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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At 40, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit....
Written by: Philip Roth
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The Viagra Diaries
- Written by: Barbara Rose Brooker
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Anny Applebaum is seventy and writes The Viagra Diaries, a San Francisco weekly column researching 60-plus boomers looking for love....
Written by: Barbara Rose Brooker
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Hannah's War
- Written by: Jan Eliasberg
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery....
Written by: Jan Eliasberg
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Shadows on the Hudson
- Written by: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
- Length: 24 hrs and 17 mins
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From gloomy Upper West Side apartments to the Yiddish resorts of Miami, Shadows on the Hudson covers the territory of American Jewry in the aftermath of the Holocaust, providing insight into the contradictory impulses that motivate us all....
Written by: Isaac Bashevis Singer
New Releases
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The Pact
- The Blood Sisters, Book 1
- Written by: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before their bond of friendship gets severely tested.
Written by: Roberta Kagan
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Sacrifice
- The Hebraica Trilogy, Volume 1
- Written by: Christine Jordan
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Zev, a humble butcher’s son, has always loved Arlette but she is promised to another. When the death of a Christian boy is blamed on the local Jews, Arlette is caught up in the ensuing chaos and mob violence leading her betrothed to reject her. Throughout the ordeal, Zev remains steadfast and refuses to abandon Arlette while she struggles to overcome her trauma. But their troubles are far from over as they endure continuing harassment and are drawn into intrigue involving the Irish king.
Written by: Christine Jordan
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Dr. Josef's Little Beauty
- Written by: Zyta Rudzka, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In the middle of summer, omnipresent heat radiates as a group of elderly people are remembering their youth. The story focuses on two sisters, Leokadia and Helena, who live together in a retirement home not far from Warsaw. These are not ordinary stories they are sharing, because both of them were imprisoned as children in Auschwitz during World War II.
Written by: Zyta Rudzka,
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It Could Be Worse
- Written by: Dara Levan
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Mired in self-doubt and blind loyalty, Allegra Gil suspects her charmed life may be a gilded cage. She has a devoted husband, Benito, two loving children, a thriving therapy practice, and lifelong friends. But when a surprising discovery in a piano bench reveals a shocking family secret, Allegra questions everything she thought she knew about the two people who raised her. Was it true? Did her father, a respected pediatric neurosurgeon, harm instead of heal? And Allegra's mother—how much did she know?
Written by: Dara Levan
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Portnoy's Complaint
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Ron Silver
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist. As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the listener on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.
Written by: Philip Roth
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The Human Stain
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America – a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
Written by: Philip Roth
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The Pact
- The Blood Sisters, Book 1
- Written by: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When three little girls—Anna, Bernie, and Elica—make a pact to be blood sisters for life, they believe nothing can come between them. Anna is from an affluent Jewish family, while Bernie and Elica are from poor Austrian families who barely make ends meet. As they get older, their social differences become all too real. With infectious Jew-hate-laden rhetoric from Nazi Germany spreading into Austria, it is only a matter of time before their bond of friendship gets severely tested.
Written by: Roberta Kagan
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Sacrifice
- The Hebraica Trilogy, Volume 1
- Written by: Christine Jordan
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Zev, a humble butcher’s son, has always loved Arlette but she is promised to another. When the death of a Christian boy is blamed on the local Jews, Arlette is caught up in the ensuing chaos and mob violence leading her betrothed to reject her. Throughout the ordeal, Zev remains steadfast and refuses to abandon Arlette while she struggles to overcome her trauma. But their troubles are far from over as they endure continuing harassment and are drawn into intrigue involving the Irish king.
Written by: Christine Jordan
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Dr. Josef's Little Beauty
- Written by: Zyta Rudzka, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In the middle of summer, omnipresent heat radiates as a group of elderly people are remembering their youth. The story focuses on two sisters, Leokadia and Helena, who live together in a retirement home not far from Warsaw. These are not ordinary stories they are sharing, because both of them were imprisoned as children in Auschwitz during World War II.
Written by: Zyta Rudzka,
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It Could Be Worse
- Written by: Dara Levan
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Mired in self-doubt and blind loyalty, Allegra Gil suspects her charmed life may be a gilded cage. She has a devoted husband, Benito, two loving children, a thriving therapy practice, and lifelong friends. But when a surprising discovery in a piano bench reveals a shocking family secret, Allegra questions everything she thought she knew about the two people who raised her. Was it true? Did her father, a respected pediatric neurosurgeon, harm instead of heal? And Allegra's mother—how much did she know?
Written by: Dara Levan
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Portnoy's Complaint
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Ron Silver
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist. As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the listener on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.
Written by: Philip Roth
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The Human Stain
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America – a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
Written by: Philip Roth
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Nemesis
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.
Written by: Philip Roth
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In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
- Written by: Emily Matchar
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of the Zelner family must grapple with their place in its shadow . . . and within their own family.
Written by: Emily Matchar
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I Married a Communist
- Written by: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'.
Written by: Philip Roth
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Death Flight
- The Jonny Murphy Files, Book 2
- Written by: Sarah Sultoon
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Argentina, 1988. Human remains are found on a beach - a gruesome echo of when the tide brought home dozens of bodies thrown from planes during Argentina's Dirty War. Flights of death, their passengers known as the Disappeared. International Tribune reporter Jonny Murphy is in Buenos Aires interviewing families of the missing, desperate to keep their memory alive, when the corpse turns up. His investigations with his companion, freelance photographer Paloma, have barely started when Argentina's simmering financial crisis explodes around them.
Written by: Sarah Sultoon
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The Last Israelite
- A Novel
- Written by: Allen Childs
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the 10th century, The Last Israelite tells the true story of Eldad the Danite who came from Africa and claimed to be from one of the the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.
Written by: Allen Childs
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Das Mädchen mit dem blauen Stern [The Woman with the Blue Star]
- Written by: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Ursula Berlinghof
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Krakau, 1942: Als die Nazis im jüdischen Ghetto eine Razzia durchführen, bleibt Sadie und ihrer Familie nur die Flucht in die Kanalisation. In der Finsternis unterhalb der Stadt sehnt sich Sadie nach Licht und den glücklichen Tagen ihrer Kindheit. Auf einem ihrer Streifzüge in den Tunneln schaut sie durch ein Gitter hinauf nach draußen und entdeckt ein Mädchen, das auf dem Markt Blumen kauft. Eine Freundschaft scheint nahezu unmöglich, doch allen Gefahren zum Trotz beschließt die 18-jährige Ella, Sadie zu helfen.
Written by: Pam Jenoff