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  The Colony of Lost Souls

  Kelsey James

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  Born a year apart, May and June Anderson were once as close as twins. Time and a loveless marriage changed the once vibrant May into June's timid counterpart. Now, two years after June abruptly disappeared, May receives a letter from her sister, inviting her to visit a mysterious colony in southern California. Eager to match June's boldness for once, May doesn't hesitate. 
   
   
   
  The Colony is located in a magnificent Spanish Revival-style mansion perched on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, and is presided over by the group's charismatic leader, Rex. Colony members believe in an afterlife where departed souls mingle, and that the truly enlightened can even summon back the spirits of lost loved ones. May is told that June has recently left on a mission, and she's intrigued enough to accept Rex's invitation to stay until her sister's return. 
   
   
   
  Drawn deeper into the group, and under Rex's seductive spell, May undergoes their initiation ceremony. Yet her questions grow more urgent with June's continued absence—and the warnings of a presumptuous but charming undercover investigator. May has longed for the daring, adventurous life her sister pursued, but her arrival has sparked a dangerous unraveling within the Colony, where nothing and no one is quite as it seems.

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  Alabaster Box An

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

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  Set in the village of Brookville, the novel follows young minister Wesley Elliot as he struggles with poverty, ambition, and emotional uncertainty. As a church fair is organized to fund his salary, Wesley faces romantic tension with Fanny Dodge and growing unease over his place in the community. The sudden arrival of the enigmatic Lydia Orr, who buys the entire fair, disrupts village life and signals deeper conflicts ahead.

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  3 Stories - Early 20th Century...

  Luigi Pirandello, S. Mukerji, E...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  A Slash of Emerald - A Dr Julia...

  Patrice McDonough

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  London, 1867: Among the genteel young ladies of London society, painting is a perfectly acceptable pastime—but a woman who dares to pursue art as a profession is another prospect, indeed. Dr. Julia Lewis, familiar with the disrespect afforded women in untraditional careers, is hardly surprised when Scotland Yard shows little interest in complaints made by her friend, Mary Allingham, about a break-in at her art studio. Mary is just one of many "lady painters" being targeted by vandals. 
   
   
   
  Painters' sitters are vanishing, too—women viewed by some as dispensable outcasts. Inspector Richard Tennant, however, takes the attacks seriously, suspecting they're linked to the poison-pen letters received by other members of the Allingham family. For Julia, the issue is complicated by Tennant's previous relationship with Mary's sister-in-law, Louisa, and by her own surprising reaction to that entanglement. 
   
   
   
  But when someone close to them commits suicide and a woman turns up dead, the case can no longer be so easily ignored by "respectable" society. Layer after layer, Julia and Tennant scrape away the facts of the case like paint from a canvas. What emerges is a somber picture of vice, depravity, and deception stretching from London's East End to the Far East—with a killer at its center, determined to get away with one last, grisly murder . . .

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  A Tale of Two Cities

  Charles Dickens

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  What if the darkest hour of history could reveal the highest form of love? 
   
  In *A Tale of Two Cities*, Charles Dickens creates one of his most dramatic and unforgettable novels: a story of London and Paris, secrecy and revolution, vengeance and mercy, despair and resurrection. First published in 1859, the novel unfolds before and during the French Revolution, when private lives are swept into the violence of history. 
   
  At the heart of the story are Dr. Manette, released from long imprisonment; Lucie Manette, whose compassion becomes a force of restoration; Charles Darnay, a man trying to escape the sins of his lineage; and Sydney Carton, whose wasted life hides the possibility of extraordinary redemption. Around them, Dickens builds a world of courts, prisons, coded messages, aristocratic cruelty, revolutionary fury, and moral transformation. 
   
  The power of *A Tale of Two Cities* lies in its contrast: two cities, two men, two destinies, and two visions of justice. Dickens exposes both the brutality of oppression and the danger of vengeance when suffering becomes hatred. Yet within the storm, he creates one of literature’s most moving portraits of self-sacrifice. 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, bringing Dickens’s suspense, irony, tenderness, and historical grandeur to life with vivid clarity. 
   
  Enter the age of revolution, follow the secret thread from London to Paris, and discover the classic where love, memory, and sacrifice become stronger than terror.

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  Dead Men Tell No Tales

  E.W. Hornung

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  Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung is a gripping tale of high-seas adventure, treachery, and mystery. The novel follows a young man, Duncan, who finds himself entangled in a perilous voyage aboard a doomed ship. When disaster strikes and the vessel is wrecked, Duncan becomes the sole survivor, only to discover that escaping the sea is just the beginning of his troubles. A sinister conspiracy, hidden enemies, and a dangerous quest for truth unfold as he struggles to clear his name and uncover the dark secrets that threaten his life. 
  Narrated by Greg Blumhagen, this audiobook brings the suspense and tension of Hornung’s classic adventure to life, immersing listeners in a world of stormy seas, treachery, and shadowy figures. Combining elements of mystery, action, and survival, Dead Men Tell No Tales is a thrilling story that will captivate fans of classic adventure fiction and nautical intrigue. 
  Originally published in 1897, this novel remains a masterful blend of suspense and storytelling, cementing E.W. Hornung’s place among the great writers of adventure literature.

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