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OBD Audiobooks - Historical Fiction
OBD Award Winning Historical Fiction (2021)
SGD Adult Fiction "Don't Walk Away From These Great Books"
OBD Audiobooks - Historical Fiction
OBD Award Winning Historical Fiction (2021)
SGD Adult Fiction "Don't Walk Away From These Great Books"
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"Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937,...
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Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die.
At the heart of Horn's funny and compassionate novel is a 2,000-year-old Jewish mother seeking reasons for living, some way of dying, and help for her 56-year-old son who lives in her basement. Rachel's story...
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"Gabriel Callahan has lost everything that mattered. All he wants is solitude on an isolated mountain estate. Instead, he gets a neighbor. Vibrant, no-nonsense Nic Sullivan is Eternity Springs' veterinarian, and she has an uncanny plan to lure this talented architect back to the world of the living. First with a dog, next with a renovation project, and, finally, with a night of passion that ends with a surprise. Now a man still raw from tragedy must...
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Dark, brooding Jack Davenport hides his secrets well, never telling his wife about the dangers of his job, never sharing his thoughts or worries, never sharing himself. After tragedy strikes, their marriage shatters. Now a threat to Catherine Blackburn's life brings her back into his and gives them a second chance. A reporter whose most recent investigation has ignited a national controversy and put her in harm's way, Cat thinks she can handle herself....
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Eternity Springs novels volume 9
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"Town physician Rose Anderson has given up on dreams of a family until she meets artist Hunt Cicero, who has just become guardian to his sister's children and needs Rose and her warm maternal instincts to complete his patchwork family"--
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Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. He?s the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover?for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times More ... when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him. Mary Luce, a survivor of many hardships, is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world...
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From one of Britain’s foremost fantasy writers comes this Tolkienesque series opener about destiny, war, betrayal—and the return of a long-dead hero
John Daker dreams of other worlds, and a name: Erekosë. He finds the strength to answer the call, travelling to a strange land ruled by the aging King Rigenos of Necranal.
Humanity is united in a desperate fight against the inhuman Eldren, and John
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The Eternal Champion née John Daker embarks on another journey throughout the multiverse, seeking his freedom and his love, in this final installment of Moorcock’s epic fantasy trilogy
Trapped in a timeless existence, doomed to fight forever, John Daker is the Eternal Champion.
Haunted by memories of too many battles waged during infinite lifetimes, he has taken Fate into his own hands. He...
Trapped in a timeless existence, doomed to fight forever, John Daker is the Eternal Champion.
Haunted by memories of too many battles waged during infinite lifetimes, he has taken Fate into his own hands. He...
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"The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love. Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother,...
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When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel's soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own.
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Artemis Fowl (Graphic novels) volume 3
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After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. But they have not forgotten about him. Once again, he must stop the human and fairy worlds from colliding – only this time, Artemis faces an enemy who may have finally outsmarted him.
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"From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves-and the limits of what we can understand about life itself. In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father...
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The sister of acclaimed author Terry McMillan, national best-selling author Rosalyn McMillan crafts sweeping tales of African-American family life that evoke entire eras. In this book she captures the turbulence of the civil rights movement in Tennessee. When Anne Russell's father dies in a work accident, the family must fight to survive amid such volatile issues as labor strikes and racial tension. Anne is inspired by her feeling that the world is...
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Artemis Fowl volume 3
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Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's only hope of saving his loyal bodyguard, Butler, is to employ fairy magic and contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short, to help him pull off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career.
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"Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination and in her quest for understanding nearly gets killed doing it"--
16) Lover's leap
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Eternity Springs novels volume 4
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Readers have fallen in love with Eternity Springs, the magical town in Emily March’s beloved series where something wonderful happens to hearts in need of healing.
Twenty years ago the town bad boy, Cam Murphy, left Eternity Springs in handcuffs, riding in the back of a sheriff’s van . . . and breaking young Sarah Reese’s heart. The defiant teenager vowed never to return.
In Australia, Cam makes a new beginning....
Twenty years ago the town bad boy, Cam Murphy, left Eternity Springs in handcuffs, riding in the back of a sheriff’s van . . . and breaking young Sarah Reese’s heart. The defiant teenager vowed never to return.
In Australia, Cam makes a new beginning....
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""I don't know if this is a confession or a purge, a scream or a lullaby," begins twenty-seven-year-old Owen Kilroy's journal, in which he writes about the remarkable women-friends and lovers-who've come and gone and who have shaped his life, as well as the many varieties of heartbreak he's experienced. Owen revisits himself as a seventeen-year-old guitar player, songwriter, and drug dealer in a small, fictional California desert town. He relives...
18) Miracle Road
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Eternity Springs novels volume 7
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As their lives come together in Eternity Springs, Colorado, ex-college basketball coach Lucca Romano and schoolteacher Hope Montgomery seek to find peace from their own personal demons.
19) Hummingbird lake
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"Haunted by painful memories, pediatric surgeon Sage Anderson gives up medicine and moves to Eternity Springs. There she finds a place to call home, but even her newfound success as a gifted artist isn't enough to keep her nightmares at bay. Colt Rafferty is about to change all that"--Publisher.
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Eternity Springs novels volume 12
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Claire Branham moves to Eternity Springs after a devastating betrayal and opens Forever Christmas, a specialty shop. There she meets ex-Navy submariner Jax Lancaster, the town's new handyman, who has moved himself and his young son there after his ex-wife's death. Can Jax protect their newfound happiness and prove to Claire that the spirit of Christmas is real when her past catches up to her?