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  What Girls Are Good For - A...

  David Blixt

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  From International Bestselling Author David Blixt: Nellie Bly has the story of a lifetime. But will she survive to tell it? 
  Enraged by a sexist article in the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Elizabeth Cochrane pens a furious letter to the editor that ends in a job offer! Taking the name Nellie Bly, she fights the male-dominated newspaper industry to report what no one else will—stories of women. 
  Chased out of Mexico for revealing government corruption, Bly can break into New York’s Newspaper Row if she can nab a major scoop—life inside a madhouse! Feigning madness, she is committed to the dreaded Insane Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, where matters are far worse than she dreamed. Stripped, drugged, beaten, she must endure a week of terror, reliving the darkest days of her childhood. She knows she must escape to tell the world her story. But when the week ends and no rescue comes, she fears she may be trapped in the madhouse forever... 
  Ripped from the true events of Nellie Bly’s life and reporting comes a novel of rage, determination, and triumph, all in the frame of a tiny Pennsylvania spitfire who refused to let the world change her, and changed the world instead.  
  ★★★★★ - "With rich imagination and meticulous research, David Blixt has brought the hectic, exciting world of nineteenth-century journalism vividly to life. His Nellie Bly is determined, independent, crafty, irresistible—a heroine any reader would be delighted to get to know." - Matthew Goodman, Eighty Days 
  ★★★★★ - "David Blixt pens a heroine for the ages in "What Girls Are Good For," which follows the extraordinary career of pioneer newspaperwoman Nellie Bly. This real-life Lois Lane had me cheering aloud as I turned the pages—simply a delight!" - Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

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  Memoirs of Louis XIV

  Duc de Saint-Simon

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  Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, offers a captivating and scandalous glimpse into the inner workings of the French court during the reign of Louis XIV and the subsequent regency. 
  Through Saint-Simon's vivid and often acerbic prose, readers are transported to the opulent and intrigue-filled world of Versailles. The memoir provides a detailed account of the king's reign, from his rise to absolute power to the decline of the monarchy. Saint-Simon spares no detail, offering insights into the personal lives of the royal family, the machinations of the court, and the political landscape of the time. 
  The memoir also chronicles the Regency period, which followed Louis XIV's death. Saint-Simon provides a firsthand account of the tumultuous years that led to the accession of Louis XV, offering a revealing portrait of the regent, Philippe d'Orléans, and the power struggles that characterized this era. 
  With its scandalous revelations, witty observations, and vivid descriptions, Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency remains a fascinating and essential work for anyone interested in French history and the intricacies of courtly life.

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  Tiny Americans - A Novel

  Devin Murphy

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  Tiny Americans has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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  Amphitrite

  Dov Silverman

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  Dockside in Woolwich, England on August 24th 1833. A terrified group of women, some pregnant, and their children are crammed into the hull of the prison ship, the Amphitrite. Their destination is Australia for a future life of hardship and endless toil. They were destined to never make it. History tells us no one made it out alive. In this historical fiction, the author may have found another story altogether. 
  Joel Daffurn's narration brings Dov Silverman's historical fiction to life in this well-researched account.

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  Queen of the Sun Coast

  Gaurav Garg

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Born in the crushing poverty of Valparaíso, Isabella "La Víbora" Velasco clawed her way to the bloody pinnacle of the international cocaine trade. From the violent streets of Nueva Esperanza to the sun-drenched, bullet-riddled avenues of Costa del Sol, she built an empire on innovation, ruthlessness, and a mountain of corpses. They called her La Madrina, the Godmother, a woman who commanded loyalty through fear and eliminated rivals with chilling precision, pioneering terrifying tactics like the motorcycle assassin and the infamous "Sol Marina Mall Mayhem." 
  But as her power grew, so did her paranoia, her cruelty touching even her own family, turning her sons into reluctant heirs of a cursed dynasty. Hunted by Colombian cartels, pursued by relentless US federal agents like Frank Miller, and betrayed from within, Isabella's reign of terror could not last forever. "Queen of the Sun Coast" is a shocking, fictionalized saga of ambition, power, and the devastating price of a life steeped in violence, inspired by one of history's most notorious female crime lords.

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  The Mill on the Floss

  George Eliot

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  The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s semiautobiographical masterpiece—a deeply moving portrait of family, intellect, and the impossible choices that shape a woman’s life. 
  Set in the rural English countryside of the 1820s–1830s, the novel follows Maggie Tulliver, a passionate, fiercely intelligent young woman trapped between her devotion to family and her longing for freedom. Her brother Tom, rigid and unforgiving, embodies the strict moral codes of their provincial world—codes that condemn Maggie’s every transgression. Between them stands the Dorlcote Mill, the family home on the River Floss, whose fate mirrors their own. 
  As Maggie grows, she is torn between two men: Philip Wakem, the gentle, crippled son of her father’s enemy, who offers her intellectual kinship and quiet devotion; and Stephen Guest, the handsome, charming heir to a local fortune, who awakens a dangerous passion that threatens to destroy everything. Caught between brother and suitors, between duty and desire, between the world’s judgment and her own heart, Maggie’s struggle for self-acceptance ends in one of the most unforgettable climaxes in English literature. 
  First published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss shocked Victorian readers with its frank psychological realism and its unflinching critique of how society crushes women of intelligence and spirit. Today, it stands as George Eliot’s most emotionally devastating novel—a timeless tragedy of love, pride, and the painful cost of being born ahead of one’s time. 
  This audiobook is based on the 1860 public domain text. Produced and narrated by Doushu, with AI assistance.

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